My Cheat Is a Life Restart Simulator

(Currently revising)

1. After ten years and more than three thousand days and nights, hardcore gamer Mu Zheng finally finished playing all ten thousand-plus characters in Life Restart Simulator. She completed 116,974 wish quests and earned the one-and-only ultimate player title: "God of Gaming."

Then she dropped dead.

She died in front of her computer, just after opening a certain erotic-fiction page.

To avoid tomorrow's trending headline, "Famous Gamer Dies Suddenly, Page Left Open on Porn Site," she resolutely accepted the olive branch offered by the "God of Gaming" and stepped into the gods' version of a game simulator.

To boost her beauty stat, she opted for liposuction, a facelift, plastic surgery, and beauty treatments. She swallowed defective beauty pills and gulped down unknown potions.

[You died of a fat embolism, massive blood loss, and a failed operation...]

[You died after taking the wrong pills and being consumed by a violent poison...]

To trick the gods into granting her gifts, today she confessed to her unattainable first love, tomorrow she told a tragic heartthrob, "I'll wait for you all my life," and the day after that she tried to win over a domineering hero...

[Your first love discovered your deception and came to hate you...]

[The tragic heartthrob discovered your deception, lost all faith in people, and came to hate you...]

[The domineering hero discovered your deception and came to hate you...]

The day she officially entered the gods' game arena, she logged into The Second World.

[You are the only human among the 100 chosen followers of the gods. Your race ranks dead last. Your xxxx...]

[Wait! Why do you have so many traits?! Why have you received so many divine gifts?!]

Mu Zheng calmly replied, "That's just how humans are. One person can grind as hard as a whole team, and a whole team can grind as hard as one person."

When talent falls short, skill makes up the difference.

I am, after all

The God of Gaming!

2. At first, Mu Zheng thought The Second World was just an ordinary full-dive game. Later, she discovered it wasn't an ordinary full-dive game at all. Simply playing by the rules and grinding through quests wouldn't work.

The vast gap in stats made her understand just how disadvantaged she was. She had to grind, lie low, compete, fight for every opportunity, and resort to every possible means to catch up with the other "players" who were just as unusual as she was.

The Second World is real. It holds every possibility and opens the door to countless more. It is also an illusion. To her, it can only ever be a game.

She doesn't belong among The Second World's players, and she doesn't fit in with the others who bear the title of divine follower. She can only be a lone wolf, walking her path alone.

Life is a game, and a game is life. In this arena of the gods, she will eventually reach the summit.

Theme: If you could start over, could you live without regrets?