Lu Jiuzhou, a veteran management-game player, awakens the Business Tycoon System just as raft survival becomes a global phenomenon. Hoping to open a supermarket while everyone else is digging for dirt, she eagerly spins the wheel to open her very first shop.
[Congratulations! You've won a nail salon.]
[Current mission: Successfully serve three nail salon customers within 24 hours. Failure means death.]
Lu Jiuzhou looks down at four shoddy wooden planks, then up at the endless ocean.
"Fine, fine, I get it, I get it. That's how you want to play? Then don't blame me for using cheats!"
Motherland, please save me!
Later, three burly men appear in front of Lu Jiuzhou, their gazes determined. "Hello, boss. I'd like to get my nails done."
As they leave, the burly men raise their hands, decorated in colorful glitter, and shout with utter conviction and exaggerated enthusiasm, "The boss gives the best manicures in the world! Five-star review, we'll be back!"
Later still, while other factions struggle to survive and turn on each other, the Jiuzhou Mall, which started from four bare planks, stretches for tens of millions of miles. The locals live on this new continent with food, drink, entertainment, and hope.
Lu Jiuzhou, Business Tycoon, number one on the survival leaderboard, and everyone's darling, proudly lifts her chin when asked how she got where she is today.
"A child with a mother is a treasure!"
Coming soon: In Character as a Top Aristocrat: You Want It, I Get It
After impoverished Gu Mingzhu is exceptionally admitted to the Imperial Royal Academy, malicious rumors make her out to be the daughter of a top aristocratic family before she has even started school. When classes begin, she is inevitably mocked and becomes the lowest-ranking person in the academy, trampled on by everyone. In the end, she dies horribly in a "purge" targeting commoners.
When she opens her eyes again, Gu Mingzhu finds herself back on the day she reported for enrollment. A strange System called Born a Rich Young Lady has appeared with her. As long as she plays her role well and inspires intense jealousy and malice in others, she can get anything she wants.
Once she understands the rules, a playful smile and blazing ambition appear on Gu Mingzhu's still-young, innocent face.
"My former classmates who looked down on me, are you ready to kneel and welcome the most honored queen in the empire?"
Coming soon: Road Survival, but I'm a Gluttonous Snake
On the 444,440,000th day after Le Youyou became a three-segment, pale-cyan pixel snake, she lies with her eyes closed, letting her long, narrow body fill a 7400-by-4000 screen. Then she slowly opens her eyes and calmly rams her head into her own 29,600,000th segment.
Familiar death comes again. Le Youyou is shattered to pieces, but instead of the familiar loop back to her starting three pixel segments, she sees:
[The global road survival world has been activated. Player "Le Youyou," please select your starting vehicle.]
[Beep beep beep! Warning! Warning! Vehicle selection unavailable! Loading special vehicle: Gluttonous Snake!]
Later, while other players scream in despair and fight over their companions' supplies, Le Youyou turns at a perfect ninety-degree angle and chomps her way along
[Ding! Absorbed "seamless steel pipe." Length +1. Acquired "Hard" carriage!]
[Ding! Absorbed "spicy snack strips." Length +1. Acquired "Spicy Mist" carriage!]
[Ding! Absorbed "megaphone." Length +1. Acquired "Square Dancing" carriage!]
A teammate climbs onto the roof and waves frantically. "Hey, Youyou, eat this! I found a packet of luosifen. Let's make a super-stinky, super-spicy bioweapon carriage!"
[Road Monster]: You people have no honor!
Theme: Unity is strength