Qiao Yingyue has been unlucky since she was little.
Food poisoning at a banquet, an early period during the college entrance exam, her internship company going bust, and a train car coming loose from the tracks.
She's a born punching bag for bad luck.
After she dies, she arrives in a mysterious game that can let people be reborn once, but her cursed luck follows her like a shadow.
In identical instances, she gets the hardest missions.
When players draw a prize after clearing an instance, she gets the shoddiest item.
In an instance-wide battle royale, the NPCs hate her the most.
Even the players competing against her can't bear to watch.
Qiao Yingyue stares blankly at the item she just drew, a "cup with a crack, so it can't hold anything," and wants to smash it and quit.
But she wants to be reborn so badly that she grits her teeth and keeps playing.
Later, the born punching bag fights her way forward, gritting her teeth through one impossibly difficult SSS-rank instance after another, climbing to the top of the leaderboard and looking down on everyone.
After taking the top spot, Qiao Yingyue immediately changes her player profile signature: "Do you even understand what it means for a born punching bag to come in first?"
Theme: People can triumph over fate.
