They Promised a Casual Game, but the Snow Mountain Dungeon Made the Whole Internet Weep

This is a parallel world with little weight of history behind it, where the market is flooded with reskinned pay-to-win power fantasies.

Lu Chen, an independent game developer on the verge of bankruptcy, awakens the True History Recreation System.

To awaken the iron will of this era, he makes a decision that would horrify his ancestors: he packages the blood and tears of China’s forebears as “casual games” and sells them to players across the internet!

In "Scenic Views of Snow Mountain", players intend to go skiing, only to be bombed by enemy planes in the freezing wilderness until they lose all sense of direction, forced to watch the “Ice Sculpture Company” become a monument.

In "Pastoral Paradise", players intend to farm and enjoy retirement, only to face locusts and enemy invaders. They breathe their last alongside an NPC over half a piece of tree bark.

In "A Journey Among the Stars", players intend to fly a spaceship in outer space, but instead smash more than a dozen abacuses in the desert sandstorms, all to calculate a set of nuclear detonation figures.

At first, players across the internet curse him out: “Lu Chen, you lying cheat! You call this a casual game? This is a living hell!”

But when a mushroom cloud rises over the desert, and an honor guard carries the Ice Sculpture Company’s urns of ashes onto a special plane...

Millions of top gamers, top-tier star streamers, outlaws, and overseas gaming pros all break down in tears on their livestreams.

The players curse Lu Chen as a heartless game planner while pouring money into the game: “Please, give us a DLC! I want to buy the soldiers of Seventh Company a padded coat!”

Lu Chen replies coolly, “History doesn’t have DLC, and there are no paid revives. The only thing you can do is see this flourishing age on their behalf!”