Why Do We Still Have to Work After Falling to Darkness?

My name is Shen Yuan. I'm twenty-five, an opening-day player of the PPT game. These days, I'm living the ultimate wage-slave life: mandatory social insurance but no housing fund, a 996 schedule, and only one day off each week.

One day, I dreamed that I was working overtime for my company while also grinding in a dungeon. After eighty runs, I still hadn't found a single chest. Enraged, I fell to corruption, charged into the dungeon, and slaughtered every Time Retrograde Army soldier with a shovel right in front of the blade spirits, then frantically dug up delicious Koban coins.

Later, I realized it hadn't been a dream.

Because when I got home from work, there really were blade spirits in my house, lying on my bed with Koban coins in their arms and looking at me expectantly.

"..."

But I'm just a corporate drone who can't even take care of myself.

In the year xxxx, the Time Retrograde Army grew increasingly powerful, and the Government of Time could no longer match its strength. In a desperate move, it summoned Saniwa from every worldline, including those who had previously only served as proxy supervisors of their citadels and knew nothing about this world.

Government of Time Inspectorate: The Saniwa candidate most likely to save the world has arrived!

Government of Time Inspectorate: Oh! Such rich and powerful emotional energy!

Boss: Really? Where?

Government of Time Inspectorate: ...She's fallen to corruption.

Boss: ?

As the war grew more dire, the Government of Time opened a live channel for the citadels to ease the pressure and give everyone hope.

The livestream [One Like and I'll Quit], which had topped the charts since its debut, was handpicked by the Government of Time as the future savior Saniwa. Viewers from countless worlds flocked to the channel.

First there were the little wild dogs, then the not-so-scientific town and the Hunters, and many, many other worlds besides. After all, the world was about to end. Who wouldn't keep an eye on the savior?

Chrollo had been unusually quiet lately. When the Phantom Troupe noticed that their leader had spent the past two days sitting alone by the window, lost in thought, they discovered that the streamer had called him a pretentious country bumpkin.

Dazai Osamu cheerfully comforted him by saying he'd been insulted too. He'd been called a hick.

That's right. Everyone clicked in full of anticipation, only to find a corrupted Saniwa whose resentment was practically visible to the naked eye. In the middle of the night, while writing reports, she would cackle, scream, howl like a wolf, then jump up and curse out the Government of Time's leaders at the empty air for a full ten minutes.

Viewers: ...

Viewers: ?

This can't be right. Is the world really about to end?

My name is Shen Yuan. I'm twenty-five, an opening-day player of the PPT game. At the age when life has worn me down and I believe in fairy tales the least, I transmigrated into my own citadel.

And then they told me that this corporate drone, who only wants her company to explode, has to keep going to work and save the world too?

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Damn it, I've finally lost it!

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[Reader Advisory / Content Warnings]

· The main story is told in third person.

· All Saniwa pairing. There is no fixed pairing in the main story, but there will be individual ending routes in the bonus chapters.

The confirmed male love interests include the Genji brothers, the Hakata brothers, Anata Kir, Hasebe, Jisshu, Yamanotori, Nijinsuhi, and more... There will probably be more later. Everyone gets a part to play, and they'll all be fighting over her.

· A mature older-sister type Saniwa who is, in truth, just a bored adult.

A corporate drone who can't even take care of herself × a loser blade spirit who tries his hardest to please his master and fails

· To avoid unnecessary trouble, the heroine is set in Shanghai, the same place as my IP, simply because I know this place best and can portray a heroine from this IP most vividly and realistically. Creating an authentic Chinese Saniwa is essential for a story on this subject. This is not an attempt to insert personal opinions. The heroine's life has nothing at all in common with mine.

· The heroine's life is not a wish-fulfillment story. There are some mental health elements. She is ill but doesn't show it to others and even seems perfectly normal. In the main story, this mostly shows in the fact that she has gone crazy from working so much, so she attacks everyone equally. She also chops vegetables in the morning while laughing maniacally and saying, "Grapes, grapes, delicious grapes" (Is that really normal?).

She's actually a very strong girl. The meaning of "Shen Yuan": a deep and tranquil river. Water may be soft, but its power is boundless: it can wear through stone and carry boats.

· There are elements of both mutual and one-sided salvation, as well as a harem of admirers. The Saniwa also has her own character growth arc. Everyone loves her because of her personal charm.

· There are crossover elements, but the story mainly focuses on Touken Ranbu.

· The author only got 3,200 after eighteen dungeon runs... and started writing this in a fit of rage (crossed out).

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I'm putting up the blurb in a hurry for now. I'll probably revise it later, but the central premise above won't change.

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Theme: Love brings hope.