Irwin's Journey - The Cardsmith - Chapter 1: It’s never what you want

His name was Arlan, a social outcast for his overweight body and constant bullying of his classmates.Today he was trying a brand new VR game called Abyss Saga. He had waited months for it, saving what little money he earned from cleaning a neighborhood cyber cafe.His parents don't give him money anymore saying he would get more fat.Putting that aside, the moment the game booted up, a soothing voice echoed in his ears.​[ Welcome to Abyss Saga. Please enjoy the most immersive underwater fantasy world. ]​[ Please choose your Role:​• Merfolk​• Crabkmen​• Water Fairies​• Sea God“Huh!”“What's this? Is this some kind of glitch?” Arlan muttered in bafflement.​To his knowledge, an overpowered Role like the Sea God shouldn't exist for a beginner player. Heck, there might not be a single player with the Sea God's Aspect yet.​While contemplating this impossibility, he clicked on the last option.​[ Role Confirmed. ]​[ Transferring the player to.... ]​[ Error! ]​[ Error! ]​Seeing the constant errors, Arlan thought the glitch was acting up again. However, what happened next shocked him.​No. Not just him. Every human across the planet.​A Universal Notification flashed in everyone's mind, mechanical and authoritative:​[ Congratulations! You Have Inherited: Aquabyss Domain (Divine/SSS+) ][ Talents: Sea God's Physique (Divine) ]---[ GLOBAL NOTIFICATION! ]​[ Sky Lord Aegis is the First Sky Lord to acquire a Divine Tier Follower! ][Admin_01]: “Again? How are we going to live like this?”[EternalWarrior]: DIVINE TIER FOLLOWERS?! That's impossible! This must be a system bug! Where did you find them, Aegis? Answer Us![FallenPaladin]: The Sea God is real! First the water, now a Divine-Tier Follower! Aegis, I beg you, come to my Island! I will be your personal servant![ThreeBeautifulPrincesses]: @FallenPaladin Do you have no shame at all?[FallenPaladin]: I don't want to talk to bitches.

Liu Xuefeng was a normal boy who had it all planned: get to the same university as his best friend Tianshi and win her love, spending the rest of his life with her.

Perla had always felt a longing for adventure, stifled by the rules of her strict upbringing and surrounded by her older brothers free to do as they wanted. She longed to carve her own path, to seek out excitement and perhaps even a little romance along the way. One day, while escaping yet another tedious piano class, she stumbled into the hollow of a massive tree. At its base, a mesmerizing green light beckoned her, and before she knew it, she was transported to a bizarre forest teeming with colossal, long-extinct creatures and menacing carnivorous plants.This was the realm of Beastkin, where men could transform into mighty beasts. Here, the constant threat of war had led to a peculiar imbalance, with most females giving birth to male Beastkin, resulting in a dire shortage of women. The land was a battleground, filled with mercenaries and adventurers seeking glory. While the males formed companies to embark on quests, their females stayed behind, living a life of comfort. But not Perla—she was determined to break free from the mold, to grow stronger, and to join her new love interests on exhilarating escapades.

Xu Jinning traveled through time and entered the fictional world of the 1980s that was a mixture of several novels, and she was a fake daughter who would die of depression three years later. Knowing that this was an unchangeable world, Xu Jinning chose to live in ruins and survive as long as he could.

And the cannon fodder of these novels suddenly discovered that they could hear Xu Jinning’s heart!

[Sister, your plastic best friend will only lie to you, and will also plan to marry you to a domestic violence man, take away your college admission letter, and cause you to be miscarried and died by the domestic violence man. 】

Xu Fanghua: …I completely broke up with my best friend of more than ten years, pushed my best friend to a domestic violence man, and went to college with a college admission notice.

[Auntie, your house is going to be demolished. It is large in area and will subsidize several houses. Don’t sell it. 】

Aunt Xu: … gritted her teeth and refused to sell the house. Three months later, they moved into a new house and started living a life of collecting rent.

[You can’t raise pigs this year because there will be swine fever. If you raise pigs this year, you will lose money until you cry. 】

The director of a meat joint factory that changed to raising chickens and ducks: … all other people’s pigs died, and only the chickens, ducks and geese raised in his factory made a lot of money.

…

Xu Jinning discovered that she was just complaining, but why did the people around her change one by one and still treat her so well.

The eldest sister who hated her wanted to help her get into college. The second brother contracted a large piece of land for her. The director of the meat factory actually wanted to accept her as his goddaughter so that she could eat meat every day. What was even more shocking was that Aunt Xu actually wanted to demolish the house. Write her name on one of the houses she got and give it to her…

Unknowingly, Xu Jinning discovered that she seemed to win without doing anything!

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