As an SSR, I Fleeced the Player

[Game Meets Reality + GB]

Huai Xu is an artificial human of low status. By sheer luck, she is adopted and becomes the young lady of a certain family.

But she discovers that the head of the family who adopted her is the boss of a terrorist organization. All the family members are his private soldiers, used to investigate mysteries and as expendable assets. He took her in to make her the family's assassin.

Too dangerous. I can't do this job!

As soon as she gets her first assignment, Huai Xu slacks off at the location, hides away, and eats an ice cream.

The next day's news reports:

[Business tycoon suspected of illegal activities involved in a series of car crashes despite layers of bodyguard protection. No clues were found at the scene, only a passerby eating ice cream.]

Huai Xu receives a reward from the family head for no apparent reason, then blows her pay on a huge shopping spree at the mall.

[Stock market manipulator responsible for a major financial collapse attends a ribbon-cutting ceremony at an imperial mall today. A massive ceiling light collapses, leaving no survivors. No clues were found at the scene, only a passerby carrying shopping bags.]

The family head raises his long, narrow eyes. "You did well. You even predicted my next assignment in advance."

[Justice served! Every member of a notorious black gang found dead at their headquarters.]

Huai Xu blankly eats a box of takoyaki, spends the whole day doing nothing, and somehow manages to complete a whole series of assignments.

Before long, Huai Xu realizes that she has killed off nearly every obstacle in this world. Her fearsome reputation spreads, and people curse her as "the family head's number-one attack dog."

She turns her attention to the family head who keeps assigning her missions. This frail young head of the family has put her name down as the heir to all his property, but who knows how many years it'll be before he dies?

Huai Xu tentatively raises the candied hawthorn skewer in her hand... and takes a bite... A little while later, inexplicable good luck makes her dream come true.

She accidentally oversteps her place and gets handsy with her delicate, frail family head! Just like that, she has a wife!

This is another way to inherit the family fortune, right?

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A player is very fond of a post-apocalyptic wasteland management and puzzle game. In it, he plays the head of an ancient family, acquiring family members by various means, building up the family, and sending its members to explore the world's mysteries. But the game is so difficult that his progress gets stuck.

Then one day, after completing a hidden quest, he obtains a hidden SSR in an institute instance.

Causality: Huai Xu

Huai Xu is cold and efficient, so strong it's hard to believe. She can complete any difficult mission, no matter its level. She kills her way through the game until all that's left is the title marks. The player, who admires the strong, becomes Huai Xu's number-one fanboy, dreaming about her, until one day he transmigrates into this game's dark and terrifying world.

Various enemies and long-simmering family grudges all have the player in their sights. The slightest sign that something is wrong will get him killed without a trace. The only one who remains as devoted as ever is his wife Huai Xu, whose affection he maxed out by spending a fortune on gifts. Deeply moved, the player swears that everything in his game account will belong to his wife!

Until Huai Xu gets handsy with him.

My wife is me!

The assassin heroine, who somehow becomes the number-one attack dog × the game player pretending to be a ruthless family head

*GB, and since Jinjiang has recently loosened its rules, she won't just get handsy with one person. Everyone with a name is fair game. She won't make the first move, but she won't refuse, and she won't take responsibility. She'll keep at it until she gets tendonitis. She'll get handsy with anyone she sees, with everyone!

Sorry, I had to change the title due to reasons beyond my control. If you suggested the original title before, please leave a comment when I start posting this story, and I'll send you a red envelope as compensation. (Runs off with a pot lid over my head.)

First edition: June 24, 2023 (record kept)

Second edition: October 7, 2024 (record kept)

Theme: Work hard and strive forward