Still Unable to Set Sail Today

[Complete] As an overworked wage slave, Zhou Qi'an gets squeezed dry by his unscrupulous boss during the day, comes home to his parents pressuring him to get married, and gets berated by his night-school teacher for being stupid on weekends. The day he was swept into an infinite game, Zhou Qi'an breathed a sigh of relief. At last. Goodbye, marriage-obsessed parents; Goodbye, 996 work schedules; Goodbye, damn night school. Tonight, he was setting sail! In the first stage of his voyage, Zhou Qi'an boarded a horror bus with a group of players. When the bus reached its destination, Zhou Qi'an was astonished to see his own mother. “Sweetie, did you think running away from home would let you escape blind dates?” His mother grinned. “Not a chance.” Before long, a terrifying monster NPC was dumped onto Zhou Qi'an's bed: his new blind date! In the second stage of his voyage, the Haunted Tower, Zhou Qi'an spotted his boss among the players. His boss's shiny designer shoes stamped hard on a monster's head, and then he strode toward Zhou Qi'an as the players watched in horror. “Why did you disappear during overtime?” “I heard people who die here also die in the real world. You're trying to claim a workplace death benefit, aren't you?” “Have you finished the proposal? I'm asking you, is it done or not?!” During the stages that followed, his boss rampaged through the game, while Zhou Qi'an burned the midnight oil working 996. In the third stage of his voyage, the Sea of Study Has No Shore, Zhou Qi'an encountered his night-school teacher in a brutally difficult stage with a ninety percent death rate. He'd been skipping class for ages, but there he was. “Qi'an, come here to your teacher.” The pale-faced man held out a hand. “!” Zhou Qi'an lost the last trace of enthusiasm he had for setting sail and turned to hide behind his teammates. But as soon as he moved toward them, they instinctively backed away, leaving a deep gulf between them. “?” Why did they seem even more afraid of him? Three years ago, an eerie fog swept over the city. After that, Zhou Qi'an began noticing that some of the people around him seemed abnormal. Later, he was pulled into an infinite game. All the players condemned the dungeon NPCs for their cunning, cruelty, and terror. Only Zhou Qi'an voiced a heartfelt sigh: “Finally, some normal people.” Everyone stared at him, at a loss for words, then nodded. “Yes. You're the most normal one here.” A highly intelligent beauty who looks honest and dependable but is devastatingly handsome, as the bottom VS an aberrant top who's always been equally insane inside and out Note: 1. This is a fictional setting, so please don't compare it to real life. The author's notes include free bonus scenes, so don't miss them! 2. If you're seeing an advance chapter, the subscription rate is below 70%. Once some time has passed, clear your cache to see the latest chapter. This novel will be available to read in full starting February 8, 2024. Thank you for your support! The blurb was screenshotted on June 14, 2023 and archived on Weibo. Any plagiarism will be pursued! Coming soon: The Demon King Makes Entertainment in Another World: Lu Jia is a well-known paparazzo who knows every marketing trick in the book. Wherever there's a juicy scoop, that's where you'll find him! Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, with a fresh scandal every day. At last, one day, even Heaven had had enough, and a bolt of lightning sent him to another world. After he transmigrates, his mother is a saintess and his father is the Demon King of Hell. A walking testament to their union, Lu Jia is loved by neither parent. Unable to get close to either light or dark magic from birth, he is eventually abandoned in the land of exile. After chewing tree bark for three days straight, he can no longer take it. Lu Jia decides to return to his old line of work: making faith the path to power. Marketing, hype, brainwashing! He'll build a following of his own and use the power of faith to reach the summit. Will marketing get you beaten up on the Sacred and Demonic Continent? No problem. A book called The Three-and-a-Half-Year-Old Everyone Adores bursts onto the scene. As soon as it begins serialization, readers on the Sacred and Demonic Continent, who've never seen such outrageous plotlines, are furious. Other races: “Trash of the lowest order!” But among the dragons, who have trouble having children: “The little one is so adorable!!!” “Please give us another thirty thousand chapters... What, someone wants to ban this book? Someone called it trash? Anyone who insults the little one is an enemy of our entire race!” People mock the book about the adored child for being niche and failing to reach a wider audience? No worries. My Demon King Father, My Saintess Mother, The Cruel Dad, the Rebellious Mom, and Their Broken Child... Countless powerful figures secretly send people to buy copies for them. The classic boxed set sells out its entire print run of a hundred thousand copies in less than an hour! What? The demons have issued a wanted notice? Lu Jia writes stories while making movies with illusion stones funded by the dragons. Through some well-placed maneuvering, The Fake and Real Young Masters of a Wealthy Family hits theaters a month later. At the end of the story, the real young master, who has suffered terribly, falls into the sea, and his family regrets everything. Just as the plot reaches its climax, the scene changes: the first half of The Fake and Real Young Masters of a Wealthy Family has ended! The demons, who believe blood must be repaid in blood and have a desire to kill carved into their bones, have never been so wronged. In an instant, the entire Dark City erupts into chaos. “What kind of trash is this? Is this how you get revenge on the whole continent?!” “I'll kill the director! No, show me the second half first.” On the Sacred and Demonic Continent, where entertainment is almost nonexistent, Lu Jia's talents blossom across the arts, from novels and film to music and painting! Dragon: “I see the little one's shadow in him. That's right. He's not even twenty, so to us dragons, he's still a hatchling!” Elven King: “Lu Jia is my dearest friend. His music cleanses the soul.” Dwarves, secretly sponsoring him: “Lu Jia's The God of Forging deserves a place in the history books. From ancient times to the present, no one has ever been willing to make a dwarf the protagonist of a story.” Later, Lu Jia wrote this in his memoirs: I owe my immortality to my toxic superfan. Oh, and I also had one terrifyingly obsessive fan. We got married later. Theme: No matter how rough the road or how much the world changes, never give up hope for life!