The Gloomy Outcast Awakens

The next book will be Everyone's Survival: I Drew a Safe House from the Start

Feng Wuyan, the young master of the Feng family, only learned on his coming-of-age birthday that he was a fake.

The day the Feng family brought home their real young master, his usually coolheaded parents smashed a cup and flew into a rage: “So you really aren't our biological child. You're the reason our marriage almost fell apart!”

His childhood friend frowned in disgust: “You stole eighteen years of his wonderful life. Don't you feel even a little guilty?”

Wave after wave of accusations and insults crashed over him. Feng Wuyan was numb.

Then, when he saw the real young master's face with his own eyes, something suddenly awakened within him. He realized that he was living inside a book.

Everyone was a character in the story, serving its dazzling, universally adored protagonist. He was just an insignificant cannon-fodder character.

And the real young master who had returned was also cannon fodder, a stepping stone for the universally adored protagonist.

Feng Wuyan's mind snapped. He decided to let loose and stop caring about anything.

He left the Feng family for good and never looked back.

*

Ji Shuhong grew up surrounded by affection and adoration, yet he loathed the world.

Everyone fawned over him and acted sickeningly obsequious. They loved his looks and his status, like puppets without personalities of their own.

At his birthday banquet, everyone's applause, laughter, and gifts were as bland as plain water.

He walked out to the villa balcony to feel the night breeze, where he saw a boy leaning against the railing too.

The boy had a cool, distant air. When he glanced at Ji Shuhong, his gaze was gloomy and indifferent... even tinged with disgust.

Ji Shuhong suddenly smiled. So there was someone in this world who hated him.

*

Feng Wuyan didn't understand why, after he changed, the people who had once despised him all changed their tune.

His parents, who hated him: Wuyan, could you come back...

His childhood friend, who disliked him: Can we still go out together in the future?

Feng Wuyan loathed all of it. He didn't look back, leaving every part of his false past behind.

But one thing puzzled him. He could understand the others, but why was the story's universally adored protagonist trying to get close to him too?

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The next book will be Everyone's Survival: I Drew a Safe House from the Start

Everyone's survival + farming + infrastructure building + stockpiling + gourmet food + fluffy companions + card draws + leveling up

Jian Qinghe had just passed the civil service exam and secured a government job when he was forced into a survival game called Everyone's Survival.

[Welcome to Everyone's Survival. Loading the first instance: Dark Forest.]

[Players are in a one-month beginner protection period. Hurry and build a safe house, gather resources, and do your best to survive.]

[Your beginner skill will now be issued.]

Jian Qinghe stared at the endless forest before him, lost in thought.

Towering trees blocked out the sky, poisonous insects crawled all over the dark forest floor, and the roar of magical beasts echoed in the distance.

Jian Qinghe trembled as he checked his beginner skill.

[Ding! Congratulations, Host, you've activated the S-rank skill “Anything Can Be Drawn as a Card”! As a beginner's gift, you get one free single draw. Would you like to draw?]

Jian Qinghe's eyes lit up. He tapped the screen.

[Congratulations! You drew an SR-rank card: Crude Safe House.]

Lucky Jian Qinghe immediately got cocky: System, did you just say I need to build a safe house?

In a world full of danger, Jian Qinghe works hard to upgrade his safe house, stockpile supplies, and complete missions to earn more card draws so he can survive.

[Congratulations! You drew an N-rank card: Rusty Dagger with a Tetanus Buff!]

[Congratulations! You drew an R-rank card: Sprouting Magic Potato (fully grown in ten days).]

[Congratulations! You drew an SR-rank companion pet: Snow Fox Cub That Can Do Nothing but Eat and Sleep!]

Jian Qinghe gazed at the hungry little snow fox in his arms, eyes shining: And it's fluffy!

Other players' survival: Fight desperately against monsters in a harsh environment, then use points in the System shop to buy survival supplies.

Jian Qinghe's survival: Expand his safe house, clear wasteland, grow magical plants, build defense towers, and raise a fluffy little fox on the side.

As he kept completing missions and earning card draws, his card pool finally began to improve.

[Congratulations! You drew an SR-rank card: Greenhouse Blueprint!]

[Congratulations! You drew an SSR-rank card: Automatic Irrigation System!]

[Congratulations! You drew an SSR-rank card: Pet Shapeshifting Pill!]

Jian Qinghe fed the pill to the chubby snow fox that had grown up.

A flash of white light, and a man appeared before him, with snow-white hair, fluffy fox ears atop his head, and a bushy tail.

The chubby fox, now in human form, eagerly wrapped his tail around Jian Qinghe and pulled him close. His voice was low and plaintive: “Master, I'm hungry. I want hotpot, barbecue, cake, and big-plate chicken.”

A month later, the beginner protection period ended and natural disasters struck.

Extreme cold and heat, earthquakes, gales, and rampaging beasts swept across the entire server.

Players across the server were on edge, while Jian Qinghe had already used the infrastructure blueprints and rare materials he'd drawn to upgrade the leaky little safe house into a vast manor, one step at a time.

Outside the manor stood automatic defense towers to stop the beast hordes. All kinds of crops grew in the greenhouse, and the warehouse was piled high with more infrastructure materials than he could ever use.

Jian Qinghe reclined beside the rocking chair by the fire, letting the chubby fox wrap his tail around him as he closed his eyes in comfort.

[Server-wide announcement: Congratulations to player Jian Qinghe for achieving the “Unharmed Under the Onslaught of Twenty Natural Disasters” achievement in the Dark Forest instance.]

Players across the server: “What?! Poet, I'm reporting this! Somebody here is cheating!”

Jian Qinghe smiled faintly.

Dark Forest, Endless Desert, Frozen Wasteland, Zombie Town, the Lonely Void...

No matter what kind of survival instance he faces, he'll begin a new legend.

Theme: Everyone has the right to be loved