Playing a God, Starting With Livestreaming Ocean Wonders

By day, Ruan Xi is a gentle, quiet owner of a dog cafe. By night, she is the mastermind behind the scenes, bringing gods from around the world onstage according to her script. “Ding! A powerful obsession detected. Host, please make a choice.”

[Mission One: Save an orca being hunted.]

[Mission Two: Answer the desperate prayer of a polar researcher.]

[Mission Three: Conceal your human identity.]

She brought legends of the sea back to life, hoping to gently persuade people to protect the ocean.

But Xi sank an ironclad battleship into the deep sea in front of tens of millions of viewers. “Those who steal the ocean’s authority shall find their graves in the abyss.”

She created the doll Palo, hoping to secretly protect abused animals.

But Palo showed up at the door clutching a teddy bear with button eyes, making those who hurt animals suffer the consequences of their own deeds.

She awakened orcas and stray animals, hoping to build an ecological intelligence network.

Instead, the orcas formed a deep-sea guard, cats and dogs established a clandestine clinic, and even a frail hacker appointed himself “Recorder of Divine Oracles.”

The authorities: “This is a tightly organized mythology that has endured for at least ten thousand years!”

Ruan Xi fell silent. “Could it possibly have been around for less than a month?”

Worse still, the higher the role-playing score, the more autonomy each secret identity gained. They were all getting better and better at embellishing her script.

One by one, the people she had saved came to her side, yet none of them knew that the god they served, revered, and were willing to die for was none other than Ruan Xi.