In the near-apocalyptic era, resources are running out and the environment is harsh. The gap between rich and poor has become an unbridgeable chasm.
Thanks to advances in full-dive technology, humanity has moved most of its activities into all kinds of virtual reality games to escape its suffocating reality.
Tang Yu died in despair in a cramped, squalid room. Then she opened her eyes again.
She had returned to ten years earlier, the first day of the world’s first full-dive game’s public beta.
It was also the game later hailed as humanity’s true “home” in the near-apocalyptic era: [The Great Wilderness Era]!
The sky outside was still gray, and the air still carried the familiar smell of pollutants...
The gaming giants who would later monopolize the game’s resources had yet to get started.
The enemies who would one day trample her underfoot and steal every opportunity from her were still overjoyed to have gotten their hands on a game headset.
Tang Yu looked at the cheap old-fashioned game headset beside her and laughed scornfully.
She logged into the game with practiced ease, created a character, and headed straight for the hidden beginner village that would only be open on the first day of the public beta.
Along the way, she happened to save a future powerhouse who couldn’t even beat a low-level monster yet, the head of a guild. He was so grateful that he asked to add her as a friend. Tang Yu gladly accepted.
She’d have to be an idiot to turn down the richest player on the wealth rankings, who was generous with his money.
With her absolute knowledge of future updates and hidden quests, Tang Yu swept up hidden treasures across the game world as if she were strolling through her own garden.
Combat power!
Fame and prestige!
And endless wealth: she wanted it all!
In this life,
she would reach the top of the “world” before anyone else.
Then she would look at those who had once looked down on her with contempt and say softly,
“Welcome to my version!”
[Blurb written in December 2025. Chat records available.]
Theme: I am my own, the finest under heaven.
