The Rules Horror Game's First Boss

First loop: As a rookie, Bai Yue held a strange-tale core and died when the tenth Rules Horror officially descended, in the tenth instance after she joined the Rules Horror Cleanup Bureau.

Second loop: Reborn, Bai Yue thought she was the chosen savior. Relying on her past experience, she made it to the fifteenth strange-tale instance, then died beneath a rising blood moon.

Third loop: Reborn again, Bai Yue figured she'd made a few mistakes in her previous life, but that was fine. She could optimize her approach.

Seventeenth instance, blood moon, dead.

Fourth loop: Reborn once again, Bai Yue gave the matter a great deal of thought and decided the problem might be her route. So she joined the Fusion Sect and actively tried to merge with the uncanny.

Twentieth instance, blood moon, dead.

Fifth loop: Reborn yet again, Bai Yue raised her middle finger at the sky.

This time, she decided to lie flat.

Five years later, the blood moon descended upon Qianzhang. Together with everyone else, she welcomed the inevitable death.

Sixth loop, blood moon, dead.

Seventh loop, blood, dead.

Tenth loop.

She was the only human left in the entire world when the blood moon descended.

She flew into the sky and, as the blood moon appeared, spread her arms and plunged into it.

The familiar red light enveloped her.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back on the day the uncanny outbreak began.

She was at school. She was eighteen, two months away from the college entrance exams.

Back then, she'd survived by instinctively following the rules when the newly appeared, relatively “harmless” strange tales emerged.

But that didn't matter.

Bai Yue had no interest in being a savior or a prophet leading humanity forward anymore.

After all, once the first strange tale ended, human society was still trying to recover from the disruption to normal life, suppressing the news and maintaining the appearance of peace.

Since she was back, she might as well keep preparing for the college entrance exams.

If she didn't take them now, soon there'd be no one left to take them.

Eleventh loop.

Resting her chin on her hand, she watched the “teacher” at the lectern, face covered in blood, and wrote a line of text no human could understand:

“We have returned.”

Bai Yue rubbed her eyes.

Then rubbed them again.

...Was she seeing things?

She looked down and saw red light seeping from the palm holding her pen.

...A shard of the moon had fallen into her palm, leaving a bright red mark.

It was the moon that had killed her ten times.

Buy ten, get one free. Was this the bonus round?

Bai Yue continued writing her exam paper, her face expressionless.

...Hah.

She'd long since stopped being a savior.

So why had those Rules Horrors started going out of their way to avoid her?

Reader's guide: One female lead, no male lead, no “strong female lead, even stronger male lead” trope. Bai Yue has high stats in both hands. She's just given up, not weak. Once she gets going, she's terrifyingly strong.

Theme: Your arrival is what the world has been hoping for