[Genshin Impact] I Gave Up Too Much to Get Into the Banner

*Check out my next novel, The Comments Say They Want to Raise Me, Is That Really Science?* I'm Shiyue Shixi, an orphan born with a congenital illness, a resident of Teyvat whom doctors have said since childhood is destined not to live past eighteen. As my physical functions gradually declined, I could clearly feel my life slipping away at sixteen. Just as I thought all I could do was wait for death, something called "comments" inexplicably appeared before my eyes. The continent of Teyvat, where I live, is a huge gacha game, and I'm just an ordinary passerby who has never appeared in the game and dies young from illness :). From what the comments reveal, it seems that in a gacha game, every character added to the banner gets a temporary immunity-from-death pass. Before I turn eighteen and die, I decide to become a named character in the comments and get into the banner to earn that temporary immunity-from-death pass. [New character! A boy with black hair and silver eyes. I'm dying, he's so handsome, so why is he doing pyramid schemes? Is there an insider who can spill the tea about our new husband?] [The new story leaks don't include a new character who briefly appeared in the story, or the Archon he's been promoting like a pyramid scheme.] Shiyue Shixi: The leaked story happened in real life. I think I've discovered something interesting. (rubs chin) [With that face, you're telling me he's just a totally ordinary character without a Vision?! I don't believe it!] [With that model, you're telling me he's just a sickly, ordinary boy who won't be added to the banner to make money?! I don't believe it!] Shiyue Shixi: Don't believe it [He has a congenital illness, shields others from danger, says he's destined to die before eighteen, and claims his life isn't worth much. Mihoyo is as cruel as ever with the angst. Damn them.] [The Archon Shixi has been promoting like a pyramid scheme seems to actually exist.] Shiyue Shixi: You tell me :) * Content warnings: 1. The author started playing the game in version 3.3 and isn't a lore expert. There will be fanon. 2. The author isn't very smart and the story doesn't have much logic. 3. Lots and lots of comments, because I like them. I really love reading them QAQ * Check out my original no-CP novel in my profile, an upcoming story called Forced to Become the Mastermind Behind the Scenes in a Full-Dive Game. If you're interested, please add it to your collection qwq. Su Baizhu is a passerby NPC in a full-dive game. His only advantage is an extraordinary face, with red eyes, white hair, and an unruly, carefree air. Su Baizhu thinks there's nothing wrong with being a good-looking NPC. Countless players confess to him every day. If he wants something, he just needs to hang a quest marker over his head, and players will rush to offer it to him. Life is wonderful, except that players on the game's forum are convinced he's part of some conspiracy. [With that character model, he's just a random NPC in the starting village? I don't believe it. This is definitely some scheme by the developers!!!] Su Baizhu: I'm really just an ordinary passerby NPC. (exhausted) [Why can every other NPC date, but Su Baizhu still rejects you even when you've raised his affinity?] Su Baizhu: Your name is "Su Baizhu's Underwear". Do you really need another reason to be rejected? [I accidentally saw the monster ranked number one on the leaderboard begging Su Baizhu to pet it. Su Baizhu is definitely the mastermind behind the whole game's main storyline!] Su Baizhu: I'm not, I haven't, don't make things up! (three denials) As players kept spinning conspiracy theories day after day, the game's main story reached its later stages. At last, the mastermind controlling everything emerged. Atop a boundless, densely packed sea of twisted monsters, a young man stood quietly. The ugly, grotesque monsters crowded around him, their writhing tentacles clamoring for his attention. The young man lowered his eyes slightly, gazing at the players facing the monsters with weapons raised. His pale golden eyes held an ethereal divinity. The players froze in place, unable to believe what they were seeing as they recognized the young man surrounded by monsters He was Su Baizhu, the passerby NPC they'd seen the moment they first appeared in the starting village. Su Baizhu, hurriedly forced into the role by the developers, stared with dead-fish eyes at the players facing him, tense and ready for battle. His suggestion: shut down the game immediately Theme: Hard work leads to success.