Written on 2021.08.01
After thinking it over, I'm still angry, so I replied to the negative review I had pinned.
Written on 2021.07.22
First of all, I want to apologize to everyone. Although this story is labeled feel-good, I wrote it when I had only just started learning about feminism. Given what I understood at the time, this was all I could write. I also wasn't very good at writing face-slapping scenes back then, which led to readers complaining about the female lead.
I don't want to lock the story, because then another withered sapling would appear in my author page. I'm writing this to urge readers not to read it. The character Shuyan carries a lot of my own feelings, and people can keep growing in their ideas, but the footprints they leave behind, deep or shallow, remain. To be honest, seeing Shuyan get scolded hurts. This book hasn't made me much money since I started writing it, and it really isn't worth doing all this just to earn a few coins. Let's treat this book as my embarrassing past and seal it away.
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Please add "Cooking Up a Storm in an Escape Game" to your reading list~ (You can find it on my author page.)
Completed. Blurb:
Shuyan was bound to a System called [Big Sister Is Here]. She is transported into one world after another, each with a younger sister who has been wronged. Taking over the sister's body, she helps her stand tall and get even.
[First World]: Xu Zhaodi comes from a poor mountain village. Her parents make her quit school in ninth grade and work to pay for her spoiled younger brother's tuition.
Shuyan: "Pah!" Then she sends the spoiled younger brother to the juvenile detention center where he belongs, passes the county high school entrance exam, and leaves for a brighter future.
[Second World]: New employee Liu Wang is groped on an international flight. The creep's sister doxes her and calls to say, "He just touched you. Was it really that big a deal? Did you have to ruin his future?"
Shuyan: "Ha! Of course it was a big deal!" Then she follows the law and gets the creep sent to prison.
[Third World]: The homeroom teacher looks at Su Zhou scornfully and says, "Girls aren't smart. They have poor spatial reasoning, so they can't keep up with boys in high school."
Shuyan gives a cold laugh and takes the top spot in her grade.
[Fourth World]: After entering university, Wen Lan devotes herself to academia. Meanwhile, her boyfriend, the student union president, is secretly a serial dater, going through a new partner every month. His casual partners could hold hands and circle the track.
Shuyan: "Ha! So, you model student with excellent grades and morals, I hear you've been recommended for graduate school?"
[Fifth World]: (An ancient world with an alternate history) The son of the Marquis of Zhenbei is framed and dies on the frontier. His young daughter is soon made a princess and sent away to marry for political reasons. With the words "the emperor's grace is boundless," the court justifies trading her happiness for peace throughout Great Qi.
Shuyan: "You dog of an emperor, if marrying for peace is such a meritorious deed, why don't you go yourself?"
[Sixth World]: After second-tier actress Pei Kelan rejects sexual favors, rumors paint the chaste actress as a homewrecker, and the whole internet turns against her.
Shuyan: "The weather's turning cold. It's time for my former employer to go bankrupt."
Content warning, written after the ending:
This is not a completely feel-good story, and there is no golden finger. Shuyan helps the younger sisters in each world in ways that are realistic, and Shuyan herself also grows over time, moving from hopeful idealism to fierce decisiveness. While writing, I felt more that the story was about finding hope in despair, rather than one person reshaping the whole world. Some readers may feel it isn't satisfying enough, so here's your warning.
Here's the blurb for my upcoming story: "Cooking Up a Storm in an Escape Game"
[Other people's escape games]:
Strength, agility, defense...
How should you allocate your limited skill points to get the most out of them?
[Lin Sheng's escape game]:
Waaah! I accidentally put all my points into cooking! What do I do?!
(This is bad.)
This is a full-dive game you can't leave once you enter. Players who have gone astray are confined to a space called the Platform, then transported into a game instance at regular intervals.
Castles, mountain villages, psychiatric hospitals, Doll Island...
Just seeing the names of these instance locations makes Lin Sheng feel doomed. As a weak newbie, he has neither overpowered items to keep him alive nor strong teammates to back him up. And he accidentally put all his skill points into cooking...
There's no way to play this game.
Just as he lies flat like a salted fish and prepares to give up, an NPC brings out a basin of foul-smelling red mush and tells the players that's dinner...
Everyone feels sick. People are iron, food is steel; skip a meal and you'll feel weak. So what if this is a horror game? Are people not allowed to eat properly?
And so Lin Sheng gets a second chance at life.
The lone-wolf powerhouse who keeps to himself:
Cook me a private meal, and you can cling to my coattails all you want!
The guild leader who can summon a crowd with a single call:
Chef wanted. Room and board included, and we'll get you through the game!
But the powerhouses never expected that teaming up with Lin Sheng would not only cause them no trouble, but would actually make clearing the game feel much easier.
The powerhouses: Confused
The game AI smiles without a word.
[A horror mystery-solving infinite-flow novel with food elements.] Watch how a disastrous start turns into a comeback against the odds. (I promise he only uses normal ingredients! No weird stuff to gross you out.)
And also, the male lead is a regular player who cooks in his spare time.
Still no CP. If you like it, you can add it to your favorites on my author page. You'll get a notification when it starts updating.
Theme: Little sister, don't be afraid.
Come on Mrs. Hhh! But I always feel like the progress is a bit fast
I want to see my full order
I want to see my full order
The heroine's IQ has evolved so quickly
Is this an expansion of the worldview?
Woohoo, finished reading! Great!!!
Finished reading, great article
Press the claw, come on (???_??)?
You finally updated (╥ω╥`)
Finally got fat! Refill!