The Max-Level Expert Returns to the Game's Launch [Full-Dive]

This novel will be completed and switched to paid chapters on October 13. The paid chapters begin with Chapter 20. Thank you for your support, dear readers.

Xu Zaiye was once hailed as a genius game developer. He created the first full-dive VR game, Rhapsody, and enjoyed unparalleled success for a time.

But nine years passed, and he still had no other work to show for himself. The halo of genius faded, and Rhapsody was about to shut down its servers.

After an unexpected accident, he was reborn nine years in the past, right when the game had just launched.

Millions of people were trapped in the game with him, unable to log out.

He was given an abysmal starting account: the weakest class, the lowest talent level, and even all his starting points had been assigned in the wrong places.

In the wasteland world, where everyone was struggling to survive, almost no players wanted to talk to a "deadweight" like Xu Zaiye, let alone team up with him to enter a dungeon.

Xu Zaiye didn't care. He quietly brought along another adorable newbie whom nobody wanted and entered a dungeon.

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Later, the entire server was abuzz about the number-one player, who had hidden all their stats and revealed only their in-game ID.

The number-one player cleared the hardest dungeon first.

The number-one player obtained the server's only copy of an overpowered weapon.

The number-one player became the first player to reach max level.

One day, while checking his status panel in the main city, Xu Zaiye accidentally equipped the number-one player's badge. The one-of-a-kind badge sparkled brightly.

In an instant, the whole city erupted: "Big shot, do you need a little sidekick?! Awooo!"

Reader's Guide:

[Warning 1: The pace picks up in the later part of the novel.]

[Warning 2: The romance is relatively understated, and the bonus chapters contain melodramatic plot twists. If that bothers you, proceed with caution.]

* The game is a survival game set in a wasteland. In another world, humanity struggles against invading alien beasts to preserve the sparks of civilization.

* A genius bottom who seems mature and levelheaded but is actually dense about romance X a younger, devoted puppy-like top who's a little unhinged

* The adorable newbie in the synopsis is not the top. The top appears a little later.

* The characters' values do not represent the author's values.

* Updates at 18:00, with an occasional extra chapter dropping at 21:00.

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[Recommendations for my two currently updating novels]

My Whole Family Are Savior Big Shots, While I'm the Future BOSS

Luo Tianxing had been an orphan five times.

On the sixth try, he got a family.

It was a warm and happy family.

His mother personally took him to and from school and bought him new clothes for each season.

His father took him on spring outings and taught him to read.

His older brother saved the tastiest food for him and played with him.

Everything seemed perfectly normal, until mutations swept across the world.

His mother blew an octopus-headed creature away with a single shot.

His father conjured a fireball and wiped out a patch of mutated weeds.

His older brother wielded a long sword, taking down minions one by one.

And then there was his deskmate, who raised a hand and instantly killed a Class D contaminant.

Luo Tianxing: ???

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Later, he realized two things:

1. His family were all transmigrators. His mother was the strongest bounty hunter in the interstellar realm, his father was a grand archmage from the world of magic, and his older brother was the foremost sword cultivator in the world of cultivation.

As for his deskmate, he would one day become the captain of the Third Squad of the Special Operations Department and the ultimate nemesis of contaminants.

2. Their shared wish was to eradicate contamination and return to a peaceful, stable life.

Now, he had to think about one thing:

How was he supposed to tell this group of big shots that he was the future BOSS, and that he had already destroyed the world five times?

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Since We've Been Reborn, We Might as Well Get Together with Our Other Selves

[Important: This is a switch-top-and-bottom narcissistic romance!]

Song Yunjian had ruled the business world for years, only to be set up and die in a car accident.

When he woke again, he had returned to eighteen years earlier and become Yang Zixiao, the deskmate of his younger self, Little Song Yunjian.

Little Song Yunjian was only sixteen. He was all alone, with no one willing to love him, much less give him a hug.

Song Yunjian hadn't planned to interfere with his younger self's future. After all, that kid would grow up to be incredibly successful.

But when he thought of his own crippling anxiety and weariness with life, the sleepless nights, and his inability to truly love anyone...

He wondered if he had taken the wrong path.

Looking at Little Song Yunjian, he suddenly felt that the kid should grow up to be a healthy adult, not end up like him.

He hoped he would eat well, sleep well, and love someone with all his heart.

He couldn't help reaching out. On those gloomy, rainy days, he gave Little Song Yunjian the warmest hug he could feel.

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Even he never expected that a few years later, his younger self would pin him against a wall and kiss him wildly, those once-gloomy eyes now clear and bright.

Little Song Yunjian bared his fangs. "Ge, are you really sure you can't date me?"

Theme: Every sacrifice and every effort has meaning. One day, it will bloom.