After Quitting the Game, I Became the Hope of Another World

[Two powerful leads] [A female lead who thinks she’s a laid-back nobody x a sweet-faced, secretly ruthless zombie male lead]

The real heiress Qin Mu, who just wanted to lie flat, accidentally entered a full-dive zombie apocalypse survival game.

Zombies ran rampant in the game, and the safe zones were controlled by major guilds. Ordinary players could only struggle to escape.

The possible outcomes for a laid-back player in this game included, but were not limited to, failing to get supplies, failing to find someone powerful to cling to, and being slower than the zombies.

The other players looked at Qin Mu with pity. Such a beautiful waste of space, and she’d come here to get herself killed.

Qin Mu (lets out a weary sigh.jpg): Fine. I’ll put up a token struggle.

Recently, two rumors had spread like wildfire through the game.

The first: [Dying in the game causes mental abnormalities in real life. The game cannot be uninstalled, and players are forced to log in.]

The second: [A mysterious big shot snatched a precious medical pod from dozens of high-level zombies.

The mysterious big shot charged alone into a zombie nest and razed it to the ground.

The mysterious big shot went on vacation in a sports car through zombie territory, with fine wine in one hand and a handsome man in the other, surrounded by company on both sides and having the time of their life.]

Looking at the pretty little zombie she’d happened to pick up, Qin Mu denied everything three times over: “That wasn’t me! I didn’t do it! They’re making it up!”

The game world merged with reality, and the apocalypse descended upon this backward planet on the edge of the interstellar frontier.

Magnetic disturbances wrecked all the mechs. Zombies lurked in the contaminated zones, and the cities were short on resources.

People were gripped by panic and despair

Interstellar Citizen A: The mysterious big shot developed a drug that prevents zombie infection!

Interstellar Citizen B: The mysterious big shot charged in and out of the zombie horde seven times!

Interstellar Citizen C: The mysterious big shot is vacationing in a sports car with a pretty boy!

Players and citizens: Wait, are we all talking about the same mysterious big shot?!

Qin Mu had thought the little zombie she picked up in the game was a sweet, pretty kid.

He would only hide behind her and depend on her, calling her “Big Sister.”

But she watched with her own eyes as the little zombie, now in the real world, twisted a zombie’s head off with one hand, then scattered the zombie horde that had knelt before him and called him “King.” Yet the moment he saw her, his eyes reddened with sudden panic.

“Big Sister, I’m so scared!”

Qin Mu: “...”

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Blurb

Devoted to one another, a wife-chasing inferno, and a fake death for the female lead.

Xuan Xunyan, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Pingyuan, had bright eyes, pearly teeth, and peerless beauty. She had practiced martial arts from childhood and won great acclaim for her military exploits before she came of age.

“A girl who spends all day fighting and knows nothing of needlework, music, calligraphy, or painting. Which noble family’s son would marry her?”

During the two years after Xuan Xunyan returned to the capital, rumors like these never stopped. Then an imperial edict granted her in marriage to the current Seventh Prince, Zhao Junhuan.

Rumor had it that Zhao Junhuan was mercurial, sinister, and violent, and that the bodies of servants from his manor were often thrown into mass graves.

On their wedding night, the prince, said to be cruel and violent, appeared in splendid robes, tall and straight as jade.

Xuan Xunyan watched him bend toward her. His handsome face held a dark look of cherished, feverish devotion, like a ferocious beast sheathing its claws and bowing in submission.

He said, “Yan’er, I’ve finally married you.”

No one knew they had met as children and grown up together. Only Xuan Xunyan knew that Zhao Junhuan would never be content to live as an idle prince.

When rebellion broke out in Miaojiang, Xuan Xunyan followed her father on an expedition. On the day the rebellion was put down, news reached the army that the old emperor had died and the new emperor, Zhao Junhuan, had ascended the throne.

There was also an imperial edict appointing consorts: Zhao Junhuan made the daughter of a duke whom he had recently married his empress, while naming Xuan Xunyan a consort.

Xuan Xunyan defied the edict appointing her a consort and stayed in the southern borderlands to guard the frontier.

She should have known. In Zhao Junhuan’s eyes, power mattered ten thousand times more than she did.

Less than half a year after the new emperor ascended the throne, a bloody battle broke out in the southern borderlands. Xuan Xunyan died defending the city.

When the battle report reached the capital, the tyrant, who had always kept his emotions hidden, vomited blood in front of his court officials.

After that, every palace chamber where Xuan Xunyan had lived became forbidden ground.

Zhao Junhuan had thought that the cool, stubborn girl in his memories would always stand behind him.

But in the end, all he held in his hands was a set of old clothes and headwear, incomplete and abandoned.

On the Lantern Festival, fireworks filled the capital all night. In a corner of the city, he saw a woman who looked just like Xuan Xunyan.

Overjoyed, he rushed toward her. But there was no sign of him in her eyes. She simply brushed past his shoulder and walked on, calm and indifferent.

Theme: Grow wildly, even in the most desperate circumstances.