The Socially Anxious Shut-In Trapped in a Romance Game Only Wants to Build a Career

[A preview of my upcoming novel, The Only Ordinary Person at a Mary Sue Academy. Add it to your favorites if you're interested! The blurb is at the bottom.] [Blurb] To treat her social anxiety, she takes a job in Human Resources, where she has to interact with people frequently. Yan Shuanghui enters a game designed to treat social anxiety: [Career Advancement Game]. She discovers that working with her boss always helps her rack up achievements. That only makes sense, after all, you need your boss's help to get promoted! But why are these achievements so strange? Are these some kind of weird workplace promotion tactics? Yan Shuanghui sighs. It seems she still knows far too little about the workplace. Still, she really does get promoted, eventually rising to a position higher than her boss's. Just as she's marveling at how right the career game was, her boss suddenly turns bright red and confesses his love for her. !!! Office romances are a no-go! Red-faced, she crawls out of the game and hurries to the control room, planning to report the NPC bug to the staff. That's when she sees it on the giant screen: Huge pink letters fill the center of the display. [Free-Roaming Dating Game] She's done for. So this was a way to make people fall in love after all. Yan Shuanghui && Xu Zhuobai Reader's guide: 1. The female lead's social anxiety is caused by the oppressive environment of the future interstellar era she lives in. It's not the same as social anxiety in real life. (The setting is very fantastical.) 2. 1v1, both leads are sexually inexperienced. 3. Wishing everyone a smooth life and a happy reading experience. [Upcoming novel] The Only Ordinary Person at a Mary Sue Academy [Mary Sues/Tom Sues: a strange kind of human being. It's said their hair sparkles, their tears turn into pearls, and even the weather changes with their moods. They're heaven-sent stars, blessed with talent and good fortune. Everyone adores them, and every flower is captivated by them... Generally, there's only one Mary Sue at an academy. Everyone else is an ordinary person who worships and adores her. But what if there were only one ordinary person at an academy, and everyone else were Mary Sues?] Yan Shiqiu raised an eyebrow. "So I'm the ordinary person?" The System said coldly, "As the only ordinary person, you must adore them, watch them, and fulfill their need to be admired as Mary Sues/Tom Sues. You must prostrate yourself on the ground so they can step on your arms as they climb the ladder to success. You must be their lackey and shoulder life's hardships for them. You must be the target of their face-slapping so they can draw power from it." "Always remember: no matter how hard you work, you'll forever be a supporting character whose only purpose is to set off their perfect lives." Yan Shiqiu nodded casually. Years later, when the System saw Yan Shiqiu again, every Mary Sue and Tom Sue was doing everything they could just to earn a glance from her. They yearned for her, respected her, adored her, and wouldn't let a speck of dust in the world touch her. The System flew into a rage and rushed forward. "Didn't I tell you that you could only be a supporting character?" Yan Shiqiu blinked innocently. "I am a supporting character. Just one with a bigger role." Theme: Treasure the life you have now.