Figure Skating Simulator: My Gacha Luck Is Insane

My next novel is The Research Genius Who Handcrafts Chips [The 1970s]. Please add it to your reading list! ~

[System: Loading Figure Skating Simulator. What is your ultimate goal?]

[Li Guang: Break the technology blockade and discrimination in the judging, and pick up a few Grand Slam titles along the way.]

China’s women’s singles skaters were once mocked around the world as “a desert of difficulty.”

No technical prowess, no influence, forever relegated to supporting roles and under-scored on the international stage.

Until Li Guang burst onto the scene

The first Chinese skater to land a triple Axel.

The first young ice queen to venture alone into the uncharted territory of the quad jump.

The first to break the West’s monopoly on artistic taste. With Jade Butterfly and Knocking on the Night with Waves, she reshaped the global artistic landscape with Chinese aesthetics.

The first to sweep gold at three Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Beijing, and Milan, becoming a legend who forced the ISU to rewrite its rules!

Off the ice, she was a top science student with a gold medal in mathematical olympiads. She was also a majority owner of a leading sports science lab and LVMH’s only global partner in sports aesthetics.

At the height of her fame, Hollywood repeatedly adjusted its filming schedule just to wait for her to make a guest appearance.

“I don’t need a crown.” The spotlights illuminated Li Guang’s radiant face. “On the ice, Li Guang is the crown.”

…

Reborn, Li Guang found that her golden finger had taken a rather unusual form.

[Welcome to the Figure Skating Simulator]

[Choose your family background] [Figure-skating dynasty / Born into money / Cultured middle-class family / Heaven-chosen poor family]

[Choose your physical type] [Human top / Artistic jellyfish / 1234 / Aged like fine wine]

[Choose your starting passive skill] [Born lucky / Reincarnated grind master / Money talks]

With the simulator in hand, the world is hers.

In real life, Li Guang is always radiant and claims that sleeping is her favorite thing. In the simulator, however, she works every rival into the ground without exception.

Growth spurts, injuries, declining stamina, online harassment, biased rules...

She has faced every despair firsthand and overcome every setback one by one.

Undaunted by hardship, she plans every step carefully and makes countless attempts to reach the heights of her dreams!

In real life, she holds the notice that she ranked first in science across her province. In the simulator, she has fallen ten thousand times attempting a quadruple Axel

[You have unlocked UR Card: “5T: The Immortal Throne.”]

[You have earned the achievement: “Figure Skating Grandmaster.”]

[You have triggered a legendary spectacle: “Six Men Get into a Fight over You at the Celebration Banquet.”]

It all began when she was twelve and drew her very first UR card

* Rather than being pure wish fulfillment from beginning to end, this is more of a [figure-skating fairy tale].

The author is a figure-skating fan who loves every skater, and is dedicated to making up for all the disappointments of real life. The result is a reading experience that is [thrilling enough to make you cry].

* Content warning: Set in an alternate world. Please don’t compare it to reality. No real-life inspirations; don’t associate it with real people. This story is entirely fictional.

* Multiple male leads! All six male leads are inexperienced, and the heroine dates one at a time.

* The heroine starts at age twelve and goes through the novice, junior, and senior divisions, across three Olympic cycles: Pyeongchang, Beijing, and Milan.

* The 5T is a fantasy element, represented as a card.

* The heroine gets a seriously powerful golden finger, but [this is not an overpowered story]. I’ve done my research and made every effort to follow real figure-skating cycles and rules. I’ve put my heart into this!

[Upcoming Novel Preview]

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the first page of every global computer-history textbook bore a single name.

The instruction-set standards she established are still in use. Her book on compiler theory has been translated into forty-seven languages.

In museums, her photograph hangs between those of Turing and von Neumann.

When editors at Time magazine voted on the cover of their centennial issue, they argued for only ten minutes before unanimously agreeing

In the photograph, Song Jun balanced a microchip on her fingertip:

“The Third Industrial Revolution began with her.”

*

In the 1970s, Song Jun crossed the Luohu Bridge with a suitcase. All she owned was a box of English-language notes, a goldfish, and the label of “special suspect.”

The military officer escorting her to Beijing spoke coldly: She was not to leave the factory grounds or meet outsiders, and had to submit a written reflection every day.

The whole factory was betting on how long it would take this pampered young lady, who frowned even at a sip of well water, to crack.

But then

Chip blockade? She hand-built a second-generation supercomputer.

Not enough foreign currency to buy equipment? The calculators she developed went on sale at the Canton Fair, where foreign buyers outbid one another for orders.

Supercomputers bottlenecked? She led the female workers in threading magnetic cores under microscopes, and even wrote the operating system and compiler herself.

Later, overseas delegations flew in to buy her motherboards. The Pentagon regretted its decision bitterly: who had let go of the information hegemony of the next thirty years?

1. An empowering, fast-paced national-development story set in a historical era. The main plot is about chips, supercomputers, and industrial revolution, outpacing the United States, Japan, and Europe.

2. The heroine is a pampered genius returning from abroad. The male lead is a submarine officer. One couple, happy ending.

3. The technological details are researched, and the wish-fulfillment elements are exaggerated. Please don’t compare it to real historical figures.

4. Expected to launch in October. Please add it to your reading list! ~

Theme: Always be greedy, always throw yourself in with everything you’ve got.