Bai Chao died.
That was hardly surprising. He had given up struggling long ago.
Before he died, his friend let him try out the latest virtual reality technology, and then he transmigrated.
He transmigrated into the fantasy game world he and his younger sister used to play.
And, thanks to his friend's mischievous streak, he became a sweet little girl.
A broken golden finger, a body incapable of using magic, and negative combat strength.
But he no longer had the energy to care about any of that.
Whatever.
At least in this game, which he had worked so hard to beat, he might find some meaning in being alive.
But things weren't that simple.
He discovered that this wasn't the familiar peaceful ending. It was ten years before the game's story began.
The beginning of an inevitable march toward destruction.
Though his existence was little more than a speck of dust, he might be the only one capable of changing the world.
Did he want to live? Or change his fate?
He didn't know, but at least he didn't want to go on living like that.
The cycle of an era of technology and magic turns, and the gears of fate begin to move the moment she steps out of the village.
And she will become the world's most unpredictable, yet most insignificant...
variable.
[Long-form] [Slow burn]
(Note: This novel focuses on fantasy slice-of-life and battles after a gender transformation. It contains a romance subplot, but does not follow a conventional romance trajectory. Read at your own discretion if that bothers you.)
