Synopsis
Cuan Yan is a wage slave at the bottom of society. Her greatest desire in this life is to die a violent death.
Just as the name suggests, she wants someone to chop her to death.
Life is too boring and tedious for her.
She's sick of her boss's psychological manipulation and her coworkers' resentment. She wants to take everyone out on equal terms, yet still has to bow to the demands of food, rice, oil, and salt.
Damn it! She wants to see a ghost so badly!!!
At last, after she angered another therapist to death, a System descended.
[System notification: Player detected with an intense desire to survive... thrive... die??? Hmm... a desire to die. You are about to enter a dungeon.]
Cuan Yan's dull, lifeless eyes lit up instantly. So there really was such a wonderful thing in this world?
While other players ran for their lives from monsters, she raced toward one with shining eyes and open arms. "Holy crap! I actually found a real ghost!!!"
Everyone thought she was going to get herself killed.
They were right. That's exactly what she was doing.
[Ding! Player Cuan Yan has used her personal Spirit Gift: Bring on all your vital essence!]
[Rule: Any NPC or player selected by this skill will lose all their vital essence within one minute.]
Cuan Yan: A nine-nine is a rare treasure!!!
NPC: Don't come any closer!
A player she had accidentally rescued tried to strike up a conversation and latch onto her. "Lord Cuan, did you also enter the dungeon after getting a terminal illness, hoping to be reborn?"
"I wish I had a skill like yours. You could climb to the top of the rankings and leave the dungeon sooner."
Cuan Yan looked at the player with a puzzled expression. "No. I've had enough of living. I'm here to experience an exciting life."
Player: "???"
Cuan Yan noticed something. She stared at the incredibly fit, stunningly handsome man in front of her, whose voice was timid and meek, and gave him a sly smile. "Little brother, let big sister have a taste, won't you?~"
Player: ...
Shi Huashui protected himself and retreated eight hundred li from Cuan Yan.
He just wanted to slack off. He never wanted to be drained of his vital essence!!!
Reading guide:
Older woman-younger man romance, one-on-one, both leads have no past partners.
1. The heroine has a rough time early on, with some mild mistreatment of the female lead. The heroine herself is quite unhinged, though, and most of the suffering comes from hurting herself. (For example, when she wants to kill someone, she cuts herself.) She's very unstable, constantly doesn't want to live, and goes wild without regard for her own safety. She is not kindhearted: she's written as a villain and an antagonist.
2. There will be a dog-training dynamic, including humiliating and hurting the male lead. He becomes a loyal dog later, and the leads' relationship develops toward mutual salvation. The leads are endgame.
3. This book and the author's other work, Eyes Blinded by the Gods, share a universe. They are companion novels. This book takes place earlier, with a different heroine and a different story. They can be read independently.
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Eyes Blinded by the Gods (now updating)
An Zhiruo was born with a visual impairment. For someone whose eyesight cannot be corrected, people and animals are indistinguishable from ten meters away, and at five meters, everyone looks genderless. The world comes with a level-ten beauty filter, and everything is pixelated.
Sure enough, she died not long after entering the dungeon.
She mistook a monster for a teammate and died by feeding it a kill.
Then something unexpected happened: she was reborn.
Looking at the blurred, gray world around her, she went completely mad. If Heaven refused to spare her, then no one else deserved an easy time either!
Thanks to her memories from her previous life, An Zhiruo knew almost every strategy for clearing the dungeons.
But she refused to get a perfect ending and leave.
She chose to sing, dance, and rap inside the dungeon, sell products with suggestive marketing, perform as an intellectual ape, and take out players who tried to rob her!
The players couldn't take it anymore, and the NPCs stopped pretending too. They joined forces to hunt her down, only to find that she could always dodge every attack with pinpoint accuracy.
[System notification: Player An Zhiruo has used her personal Spirit Gift: Prediction]
[This Spirit Gift can instantly predict what will happen in the next second. The future has millions of possibilities; as long as the player can make a change, causality will be established.]
[Duration/number of uses: Unlimited]
NPCs: ??? Who the hell assigned her this Spirit Gift? Who did it?!
Just as the NPCs and players were at their wits' end, the god-tier player ranked No. 1, Lord Wuming, entered the fray.
Everyone knew that the Spirit Gift of the No. 1 player countered all other players. Just as they thought rookie An Zhiruo was done for...
The lofty Lord Wuming opened his shirt. "Want to feel my abs?"
An Zhiruo swallowed back the drool at the corner of her mouth and eyed him warily. "You're not going to kill me?"
Wuming pulled her into his arms. The force of it sent a little red marriage booklet tumbling out of his pocket. "I couldn't wait to dote on you."
Anyone who looked closely would see that the red booklet contained An Zhiruo's wedding photo.
And the date was the very year An Zhiruo died.
She hadn't been reborn. She had come back.
And the highest-ranked player in the world was welcoming his god home...
Theme: Live well
