I Beat the Infinite World by Respecting the Original

[Main story complete!]

[The next book, The Goddess Who Runs a Farmstay with a System, is now underway. Its blurb is at the bottom!]

---Blurb---

Yu Hua, a Chinese literature student at A University, had a photographic memory from childhood. Just before graduation, she was inexplicably pulled into a horror game.

In the beginner level, water monsters surged through a raging river, living corpses darted around a dazzling peach blossom grove, and strange villagers who could turn into monsters wandered the streets at night...

Yu Hua: Is it just me, or does this process feel really familiar...

After escaping death time and again, the final mission to clear the game turned out to be writing a review?!

As the others listened to the countdown to their answers with pale faces, waiting to die, Yu Hua calmly recounted the course of the game and began to speak.

A moment later, the game announced that they had cleared it.

She propped her chin on her hand. While everyone else looked completely baffled, she said nonchalantly, "I'm familiar with this game."

As the levels of the game instances rose, clearing them became harder and harder. Everyone trembled with fear, but there was nothing they could do.

Big Shot A: "No good. This level is practically a death trap."

Big Shot B: "Let's take our chances. Maybe one or two of us will make it."

Yu Hua calmly stepped out from the crowd. "Maybe we can turn this around."

Yan Ya had spent years running wild in the game world. At last, even the game couldn't stand his arrogance and introduced a new rule:

Players from different organizations could not team up to enter the same instance unless they used an item.

Yan Ya: ...

Then, after a beginner-level run, the notorious Yan "Terror of Ghosts" Ya finally had a new player tagging along beside him.

The newbie looked obedient and shy, following close at his heels.

Yan Ya thought so too. He said coolly, "Don't wander too far from me." That way, he could protect her.

His little follower nodded obediently, stars in her eyes.

Until...

Yu Hua sweet-talked an NPC into forming an alliance, gaining free labor in the process...

No one knew what Yan Ya was thinking as he watched the sword flashes without lifting a finger. His stern face gave nothing away. After it was over, he said something unprecedented: "Stay closer to me. In a brawl, bystanders can easily get caught in the crossfire."

"Okay!" Yu Hua replied sweetly and obediently.

NPC: Do you two have any manners?

Yan Ya looked at the girl who barely reached his chest. As if bewitched, he gathered her long hair and laid it back over her waist, staring fixedly at it. He felt like he could snap it with one hand.

Following his gaze, Yu Hua looked down. Huh? (It seems like he's got some ideas about my waist...)

Yan Ya met her amber eyes, then abruptly looked away. His breathing faltered for a moment, and a blush spread behind his ears.

The heroine appears obedient and sensible, but is actually devious and loves exploiting loopholes in the game.

The hero seems like a cool, powerful big shot, but is actually a sly, lovesick sweetheart who blushes at the ears.

---Blurb for The Goddess Who Runs a Farmstay with a System---

On the day Jun Xiao graduated and became unemployed, she had just walked out of the school gates when lightning struck her. At the same time, she was bound to a talking fish that no one else could see.

When Jun Xiao came to, she found herself the owner of a farmstay in the middle of nowhere, with a mission to assist an emperor in another world.

Jun Xiao: "Or could you pick someone else?"

The fish replied earnestly, "Then would you rather die?"

With no other choice, Jun Xiao packed up all her belongings that very day and went up the mountain to find her farmstay. She found the courtyard, but something that very clearly didn't look human was chasing after her.

Luckily, the System notified her that she could hire employees. Thirty seconds later, the fish and Jun Xiao stared in astonishment as a man suddenly appeared and coolly slapped the monster's head off.

Fish: The Qilin Deity?!

Qilin Deity: Thanks for asking. I was just back at Lihen Heaven when someone sent word that they were waiting for a fellow cultivator to undergo tribulation. I took a casual glance, and that scoundrel Bai Ze shoved me down here.

The next day, just as Jun Xiao had accepted that her materialist worldview was gone for good, she opened the door and realized she seemed to be somewhere else.

Famine and war ravaged the land. People everywhere were starving, and some even resorted to exchanging children for food.

At some point, rumors began to spread that a deity had descended upon a mountain.

They said the goddess was beautiful, graceful, and kind, while the god was handsome, noble, and untouched by worldly concerns. Beasts bowed in submission, and fish gathered to form a bridge. The mountain was called Kunlun.

One day, the goddess went out and saw the suffering of the people. Moved with compassion, she opened the sacred mountain and her divine residence to the public, provided relief throughout the land, and raised a generation's empress who would bring an end to the chaos.

Jun Xiao, whose mood grew more complicated as the rumors became increasingly outlandish.

Bonus scene:

One day, Jun Xiao's farmstay hired some new employees. She excitedly opened the door, then fell silent when she saw twin children standing only waist-high at the entrance.

The elder sister had a red cinnabar mark between her brows, and the ends of her ink-black hair were the blue of the sea. Her younger brother was shy and adorable, with a pair of wings on his back that he hadn't had time to tuck away.

So here's the question: If you hire child laborers in ancient times, will you get arrested...?

One day, the twin sister casually offered some suggestions to a farmer working the fields. Jun Xiao stared at her in confusion. How do you know so much?

Twin sister: "This is about all I know. My grandpa's the one who's good at farming."

Jun Xiao: "If you don't mind me asking, which deity is good at farming?"

Twin sister replied calmly, "Oh, my grandpa's pretty famous. By rights, you're my sworn younger sister, boss. Don't you all like to say you're his descendants?"

Jun Xiao was silent for a few seconds. "He's... ?"

The twins chorused, "The Yan Emperor!"

Not daring to actually make the Yan Emperor's grandchildren raise chickens, and since they didn't know how to raise them anyway, Jun Xiao had no choice but to ask one of the new employees.

The new guy was cheerful and outgoing. Within a few days, he'd gotten along with everyone. Aside from the three white hairs sticking up on his head, which were a bit unconventional, he was great.

After hearing Jun Xiao out, the young man scratched his head, looking a little troubled. "Boss, I don't really know how to raise chickens either. How about I ask my old boss?"

Jun Xiao asked cautiously, "Your old boss... who is that?"

The young man pointed to the hairs on his head. "Oh, these are his hairs. He told me to call him if I ever needed anything."

Jun Xiao choked a little. "If you don't mind me asking, is your old boss's original form also a monkey?"

The young man looked surprised, but shook his head. "Why would you think that, boss? My old boss's original form is a tiger!"

"I'm one of the Seven Mansions of the White Tiger in the West, the last one, to be precise. And I'm an ape, which is a little different from a monkey."

He scratched his head, a little embarrassed. "Besides, we of the Seven Mansions of the West aren't exactly good at farming or raising chickens..."

"Then what are you good at...?"

"Fighting wars!"

Jun Xiao: ... I should just find an ordinary person to raise the chicks...

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