An NPC in a Full-Dive Wuxia Game Awakens

* Female lead-centric, with a touch of ensemble cast

* Wuxia

A Ling is a general goods merchant NPC in the full-dive wuxia game A Dream of Jianghu.

When the game System crashed and the players were trapped inside, someone drew a knife and shouted, "You really think of these NPCs as people?" Only then did A Ling realize that all the memories she had accumulated over the years were nothing but a dream.

She was merely a doll, obediently playing a role someone else had written for her in a play someone else had written.

And yet, in this illusory soil, amid this thin story and its sparse setting, genuine joys and sorrows took root.

The players had lost all their golden fingers and were trapped in the game with nowhere to go. The NPCs had escaped the plots dictated by the System, but were lost and bewildered, with no idea where to turn. And she was the only NPC in this world who knew the truth about it.

A peerless master becomes a novice in martial arts. A bandit wants to give up crime and turn over a new leaf. The richest man in the city ends up on the streets.

Martial arts of unknown origin, an ambitious prince, and inexplicable assassins.

In this turbulent jianghu, A Ling steps into the stories of countless people, helping them become the authors of their own stories while finding the direction of her own.

When the bewildered former bandit leader asks her, "Why are you helping me?" A Ling replies, "Because every one of us is a miracle."

In this world that can grow freely, I want to see what it will eventually become.

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Player: Other people transmigrate with golden fingers. We lost our golden fingers and got stuck in the game, and on top of that, we became Tang Sanzang, chased around by demons and monsters.

A Ling: Then I'm Sun Wukong. Even if it's the Celestial Palace, I'll go there and cause a ruckus. This whole mess of people and events deserves to be smashed to pieces!

My next novel will be I Use Machine Learning to Cultivate Immortality. The outline is complete, and I'm building up a stockpile of chapters.

Blurb

Fang Guanwu is an odd-job servant in the outer sect of a third-rate sect in Nanya Continent. Unfortunately, an inner disciple takes her fishing for vicious beasts. Who knew they would attract a fearsome demon? Just as she's about to be killed, she accidentally falls into a cave and obtains a legacy:

"This art observes the mysteries of the universe and finds its tools within all things, so it is called... machine learning!"

"I have taught you the climate, plants, terrain, and this demon's past movements. Use this art to calculate fortune and misfortune, and you will surely make it back to your sect safely."

Feeling the bizarre, indecipherable characters flooding her mind, her vision went black. She said cautiously, "This disciple is ignorant and unlearned, and still hasn't even begun to gather qi. I'm afraid I'll turn into a dried skeleton in this cave before I can calculate anything. How about... Senior helps me out one more time?"

The System fell silent for a long while, then conjured a translucent screen before Fang Guanwu, covered in worm-like symbols. "I'll also give you a divine artifact called Scikit-learn. It will help you make your calculations!"

From then on, Fang Guanwu was forced to end her lie-flat days and devote herself to hard cultivation. Peerless techniques, secret cave abodes, immortal herbs, and elixirs were all within her calculations. But...

She looked up at the sky. "This cultivation world is full of deceit and ruled by the survival of the fittest. How is that any different from beasts? What kind of Dao are they cultivating? What kind of immortals are they becoming?"

Theme: Finding self-worth through helping others.