The Office Worker Who Revived Chinese Civilization Became the Strongest

Apocalypse, power progression, lighthearted, ensemble cast.

As a wage slave, Jiang Yuanyuan worked diligently through the night revising a draft at her client's request. When she woke up, she found herself on an unknown island.

The endless ocean surrounded her. Countless city ruins lay submerged beneath it, and a dark fog in the distance devoured everything as it steadily drew closer. Several pairs of eyes watched from beneath the sea, waiting for a chance to strike...

[Welcome to "Civilization Reawakening" Online]

[Awaken deities and revive civilizations to gain protection]

[Name: Jiang Yuanyuan

Awakened Talent: Pixel Loss

Talent Rank: A

Talent Level: 0

Deity Affinity: Blank/0

Civilization Awakening Progress: No civilization selected...]

The overworked office drone Jiang Yuanyuan shuddered. "What's a talent??? My drawings can't lose pixels!"

Later, Jiang Yuanyuan touched her hair and thought, Okay, I get it now. Good thing it's not me losing pixels. Pixelated objects look just right clipped to my hair, and they don't take up space.

As long as she rescued deities and awakened civilizations, her talent would level up.

Food? Pixelate it for permanent storage!

Sea monsters? Pixelate them to fight for me!

Houses? Pixelate them into mobile fortresses!

Jiang Yuanyuan treated awakening deities like a job. With a mouse in one hand and a keyboard in the other, she set off to explore the ruins and rescue deities.

As players from other civilizations struggled to find a way forward, patches of golden light appeared across the gray-fog-covered land. One after another, golden apparitions of deities from Huaxia appeared, their immense forms shaking heaven and earth as they held back the darkness.

A fierce, iron-faced, bearded man gripped his sword and glared. "Today, I'll cook you up for a side dish with my wine! Who dares to challenge the heavens?"

A six-armed young god stamped on his wheel and brandished his spear. "Today, I'll rip out your tendons and peel off your skin!"

A sunken-faced, sharp-mouthed monkey scoffed and twirled his staff. "You dare ambush me, Old Sun? Eat my staff!"

Players from other civilizations: "You're cheating! You must be using hacks!"

Jiang Yuanyuan: "Cheating? Hacks? Have you any idea how much five thousand years of history and civilization are worth?"

While players in other civilization zones were still exposed to the elements and living like cavemen, Jiang Yuanyuan was already enjoying fine food and drink in the safe zone with her player friends.

Then someone tried to monopolize Blue Star's resources and destroy civilization. The wage slave Jiang Yuanyuan finally snapped.

A frail young woman stood alone, armed with nothing but a mouse and a keyboard?

The traitor sneered. "Join us or die."

Perhaps his words had frightened her. The girl stood motionless, brushing a loose strand of hair behind her ear as she looked at him timidly.

The traitor grinned menacingly. "Surrender, and you'll have food and shelter."

The other party ignored you and attacked you with a single pixel.

He had his talent active at all times, so he laughed coldly. An attack with a single pixel? Even an elementary school kid knew that a pixel was a tiny dot in an image. How much damage could it do? A single pixel? Was she looking down on him?

A black square grew with the wind, transforming in the blink of an eye into a sea monster covered in fangs. It swallowed him whole.

"Ugh..."

He should've known: more dangerous than the endless black fog were women adventuring alone!

Jiang Yuanyuan twirled her hair and thought seriously: Having too many monsters to fight is a problem too. Which one should I pick next time? Maybe I should use them all and wipe out these traitors' lair!

Blurb written on June 15, 2025.

[Reader's Guide]

1. Set in an imagined future. Please don't nitpick the details.

2. The more powerful a deity is, the more heavily it is suppressed, so none will appear early on.

3. The blurb will be changed once the main group comes together.

4. The heroine has a female love interest. She acts like a doting mother to men in everyday life, but becomes the extreme opposite of her usual self when she activates her talent.

Theme: Believe in the power of belief