On the worst day of her life, Nie Shuangshuang found a glowing stone.
That day, she'd just finished cursing out her boss and been dragged out of the company by security. Then, right outside the civil affairs bureau, she had reduced her cheating ex-husband to speechlessness. Her mother's emotionally manipulative phone call was still going when her car slammed into the curb. Her blood dripped onto the stone, and a “ding” rang in her mind: the Ancestor-Raising System had activated.
Starting with driving a taxi, she upgraded to an RV, then took over a wild villa she'd initially despised. The flower waterfall on the mountain behind the villa went viral by chance, and the scenic area kept growing. One hundred and eight NPCs fell from the sky. A painless experience let a terminal cancer patient sleep soundly for the first time in three years. The space museum sent a man with a fear of heights into low Earth orbit to see the planet. Retired workers had white smoke rising from their heads in the cultivation grounds, programmers swung hammers bare-chested in the blacksmith's shop, and five people entered the insectoid simulation battlefield, only for a whole squad to come out.
She offered a wild-man weight-loss package with aftercare for customers, arranged NPC hair-washing services for people starved of affection, and customized lifelike robot companions for the lonely. She hated waiting, so she covered the place with teleportation arrays, letting people see whoever they wanted in an instant. Little by little, she turned all the suffering she'd endured in her rental room and all the grievances she'd swallowed in her cubicle into a place without pain.
But she always kept her cards close to her chest, making sure no one learned the full extent of what she could do.
When her birth mother came, she used the rules to send her packing. She locked her scumbag ex and former boss up together, with good food and drink and round-the-clock care to ensure they lived to a ripe old age. After all, life was so beautiful that it needed a little darkness for contrast.
The greatest thing I've ever done is kill off every grievance I've ever suffered.
