This Instance Needs Someone Like Me

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Qiao Yuan is a famous pretty face in the entertainment industry. She sways after three steps and gets winded after a few more. In everyone’s eyes, she’s a brainless, delicate little white flower, the perfect embodiment of beauty and uselessness.

That is, until she enters an infinite-flow game and is told that if she dies in the game, she’ll die in real life too.

Qiao Yuan, who just wants to stay alive: ?

It’s time to show off her real skills.

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At first, when viewers in the livestream saw Qiao Yuan, they were already betting on when this useless pretty face would die.

Then they saw

Scene One:

At midnight, a long-haired female ghost drifts toward the door, only to find someone already standing there, dressed up to look just like her.

Qiao Yuan smiles shyly. “I’m borrowing your look to play a ghost and trick my ill-intentioned teammates.”

The female ghost: ?

Scene Two:

In a game instance, she’s pulled into a mysterious group chat where failing to complete a task means death. Qiao Yuan simply adds the group owner. “Sorry, I added the wrong person. Since we’re so fated to meet, let’s get to know each other.”

That day, the group owner, a vicious ghost, learned what it meant to get swindled out of tens of millions in an online romance. From then on, he closed his heart and swore off love.

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The viewers: ???

Her unexpected moves left people figuratively prostrate in admiration, and ghosts physically prostrate on the floor.

The livestream viewers went wild: Sis, please stop showing off! Are you sure you’re not a special forces soldier?!

What happened to her being a pretty face?!

Qiao Yuan: “Have you considered that there’s something in the entertainment industry called a public persona?”

After that, Qiao Yuan’s teammates and the game’s bosses all came to understand that “ghosts can’t be as wicked as people.”

Qiao Yuan was the standard for wickedness.

The cannon fodder everyone initially thought was doomed went on to rise to the top, becoming the most legendary player in the game.

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Netizens in the real world also noticed that something seemed different about pretty-face Qiao Yuan. The fans whose identities were revealed turned out to be prominent figures.

The defiant, rebellious top-tier star not only stuck close to Qiao Yuan on variety shows, but also posted a furious essay on Weibo to battle Qiao Yuan’s haters, declaring that Sister Qiao was the GOAT: “I want to be Sister Qiao’s dog.”

A self-made CEO who had built a business empire from scratch publicly declared his love and showed off his room full of Qiao Yuan merchandise in a business interview. “Just seeing her makes me feel at ease.”

A mixed-race princess said to be descended from nobility and carrying royal blood donated a rare gemstone just to take a photo with Qiao Yuan at a charity gala. “Qiao Yuan is my faith.”

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Netizens: ??? What kind of relationship do these people have with Qiao Yuan???

Qiao Yuan: They’re just teammates I met in the game.

Content warnings:

1. Modern alternate setting, comedic infinite flow, one-on-one romance, happy ending.

2. The characters’ opinions and positions in this story serve the plot and do not represent the author’s views.

3. The male lead appears fairly late and is little more than a background character. The story is mainly plot-driven.

[Coming soon: “A Delicate Beauty, Yet Speedrunning Her Way Through Apocalyptic Disaster Instances”

Qiao Jin is a famous actress in the entertainment industry. She often plays delicate, soft-hearted heroines whose hearts, livers, lungs, and kidneys are cut out by CEOs, masters, or male idols and offered to their beloved first loves, and who cough up blood and develop terminal illnesses at the drop of a hat. Her performances are so convincing that audiences take her for a brainless, delicate little white flower.

Before she can change the audience’s impression of her, she is bound to the System and sent into an apocalyptic world. As the team leader, she must struggle to survive alongside her teammates through all kinds of doomsday scenarios.

And her teammates are all old acquaintances.

Qiao Jin is deeply moved. “What a wonderful team! We’ve got this in the bag!”

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The apocalypse livestream begins. Viewers fall silent when they see Qiao Jin, and feel sorry for her team:

A seemingly cunning, scheming actress who specializes in playing vicious supporting characters; a narcissistic, calculating CEO who wants to be the center of the team; a wild, untamed brawler; and a gloomy, taciturn genius music producer.

Everyone is already betting on when the team will fall apart, when they see

The actress who specializes in playing brainless, delicate heroines is more crafty than the stars in the sky;

The actress who specializes in playing vicious supporting characters is gentle and kind, has a natural lucky buff, and loves sticking close to Qiao Jin;

The narcissistic CEO rebuilds the business system in the apocalypse, making the whole team fabulously rich;

The brawler can build a survival shelter in three hours and take on an entire army by himself;

The gloomy genius music producer can communicate with animals...

The viewers: ???

Something seems off here?

In the end, the team doesn’t die as everyone predicted. Instead, under Qiao Jin’s leadership, they go farther and farther.

Theme: Cherish the people around you