[Journey to the West] It's Me, Brother Monkey! Hey, Bajie!

After Zhu Zhu died and opened her eyes again, she found herself in a pigsty, with her brothers and sisters rooting around beside her.

As a human, she couldn't bear to stay here! She had to escape!

Wait, this food is pretty good. Maybe she'd leave after eating her fill.

When the butcher came toward her with a knife, Zhu Zhu got so nervous that she suddenly transformed into a human and ran away in a panic.

A handsome young man rescued her and took her home, but Zhu Zhu felt something was off. Looking closer, she saw the words "Gao Village" on the gate. Several young women were locked in the backyard, reduced to baby-making machines for the Gao family.

On the day she was forced to marry, Zhu Zhu saw two familiar figures through her red veil.

She tore the cloth off her head, rushed over, and clung to the monkey covered in yellow fur, shrieking:

"Brother Monkey! Save me!"

She thought that since she'd read Journey to the West a hundred times, completing the pilgrimage would be a piece of cake.

But...

Zhu Zhu: "Junior Brother Sha, you can't eat the master! Didn't the Bodhisattva tell you that?"

Socially anxious Junior Brother Sha: "What Bodhisattva?"

Zhu Zhu: "Master, brothers, listen. There's a Ginseng Fruit Tree up ahead. We absolutely mustn't eat any of its fruit."

There was nothing ahead, not even the shadow of a tree.

Sun Wukong: "You idiot."

Zhu Zhu: "You must be the White Bone Spirit! I've seen through you!"

Tang Sanzang: "Bajie, that's a Bodhisattva."

Just as Zhu Zhu was completely baffled, another Bajie appeared.

With the master and her fellow disciples about to set off on the pilgrimage, tricked into going along by Zhu Zhu, she clung tight to the monkey's leg.

"Brother Monkey, it's me! I'm the real Bajie!"

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You enter a full-immersion otome game based on Investiture of the Gods. They say there's no all-in ending: if you choose one male lead, the other three's affection levels will drop to zero. Faced with several familiar names, you eagerly begin your long campaign to win them over.

"You've loved acting spoiled with your master since you were little. But as you grew older, your master, always dressed in white and coolly gentle, would pat your head and order you without room for argument: 'Don't be rude.' Yet when you lowered your head and pouted, she'd quietly turn away and clench her fists."

"The little brother who once loudly declared he would marry you when he grew up has, by the time you meet again, become Taiyi Zhenren's true disciple and a notorious killer. The stunningly beautiful young man instantly lets go of all his bloodlust when he sees you, then leans against your shoulder with a gentle expression and says, 'I'm so tired.'"

"You once thought your nominal senior brother didn't care about anything in the world, since he treated everyone with distant courtesy, including you. But whenever someone showed interest in you, your senior brother would always be there, firmly turning them down on your behalf. Then he'd smile and tell you they weren't good enough for you."

"Whether he's the young prince who used to be sheltered beneath your wings or the Martial King who must now stand on his own, he always instinctively forgets that you know magic, and habitually draws you behind him. But when he sees you cast a spell, he silently pulls his hand back and murmurs, 'Will we always be different?'"

*

After achieving happy endings on all four routes, you suddenly realize something is wrong.

Why are all four affection levels at 100%?

Weren't they supposed to drop to zero?

Your hands tremble a little as you try to shut down the game.

But it doesn't work.

Someone wraps their arms around you from behind. Someone grabs your arm. Someone stands in front of you, watching with a faint smile. And someone else breaks your device outright.

"You still haven't decided who to choose."

Theme: Success comes from putting in steady effort.