The Eastern Heaven Beyond Heaven

[Touhou fanfiction + transmigration + ensemble cast + first-person POV + fantasy + mystery]

My name is Chen Mingxi. I'm a hardcore anime fan and a chubby otaku from the 21st century, and I work the night shift at a logistics transfer center.

That day, I ran into what might be the most ridiculously unfortunate thing that had ever happened to me. I hopped on my electric bike and headed to work, where I went through the same mind-numbing routine and put up with the same unpleasant people. I even got pressured by the assistant shift supervisor over being late, and had to spend ages dealing with him.

After a lot of trouble, I finally made it to the end of my shift. As I rode home along the same ordinary road as always, an unusual thick fog suddenly rolled in. By the time I realized what was happening, it was too late. In a daze, I was swept along by the fog to some strange place.

My years of otaku experience told me that the transmigration life I'd always dreamed about had finally landed on my doorstep. But when it actually happened to me, I felt like the sky had fallen. Common sense told me that another world wasn't paradise at all. It was precisely the gateway to hell.

As I went farther and farther down the road, I gradually guessed where I was: the central setting of the famous anime work Touhou Project, which I'd been obsessed with the day before I transmigrated: Gensokyo.

And the most tragic part was that this was Gensokyo as depicted in the official setting, a place that was practically hell for ordinary people.

Unlike other transmigrators, I had no golden finger or anything of the sort. All I had was an electric bike and the things I carried with me. What was I supposed to do now?

What lay before me was no longer up to me. All I could do now was choose between writing my own legend and dying here. Thus began my journey in another world.