[Horror Missions + Horror Game Development + Eerie Livestreams, Smart, Satisfying Read with No Female Lead]
Chen Xie was the horror game designer with the most negative reviews on the entire internet.
Eight thousand comments had torn into him. He took the blame, and on the night he was kicked out, he heard a soft chime:
[Horror Game Designer System, binding complete]
Overworked wage slave Chen Xie was moved to tears: Give me money!
[This System does not provide any funding.]
[You must complete missions yourself to earn development funds.]
[Available mission: Go to the old ferry at Qingtang Village before midnight, crouch on the stone steps, and listen to the water with your eyes closed.]
Chen Xie: ?
Other people's Systems: Give them money, make games, and win without lifting a finger.
Chen Xie's System: Take missions, risk your life, then pay your employees to make games.
It's just... you get it, right?
Fortunately, he was tough, bold, and quick to learn.
And the games he made belonged to a whole different species from everyone else's.
Other people made paper effigies and ghost weddings, pressure-cooker schools, and psychiatric hospitals where patients were electrocuted and forced to take medication.
He made the ghosts of Jingchu, childhood dreamcore, and patients transmigrating into the strange, supernatural world of Water Margin.
Years later, the Xiejian logo stood atop the global gaming industry.
Reporter: From the most hated man on the internet to the king of horror entertainment, what's the secret?
Chen Xie lifted his coffee and smiled gently:
"It's just been a little hardship, that's all."
