James slumped on a broken chair in his tiny rented room. The walls were cracked and the fan made a weird grrr grrr sound every 5 seconds. His dinner? instant noodles again. The room was dark, lit only by the glow of his laptop.
But none of that mattered or he didn't care. All his focus is on one thing," A novel."
Five years. He had waited five years for this.
The webnovel "Perfect Life: Face Slapping To the Top was his favourite. It was a story about multiple protagonists, where everyone tried to live their perfect life with their talent, some even have special skill and systems.
The concept sounded boring to him at first and he remembered calling the author dumb once, but he gave this story a chance and he became addicted. This dumb author became a genius for him and coincidentally the author's name is dumblygenious.
With only 100 chapters the novel entered the top 10 ranking and the author competed with legendary authors like Gultyten, Jbsmanhua, Goatspec, Bend over.
But one day this trash author stopped updating the novel, one by one all readers left, only he was waiting for it. He didn't stop sending daily powerstones, even sending big gifts like castle to him occasionally hoping he would come back one day.
The author came back, but he was a little late, only 10 years.
"After 5 years…. it's finally here!"
"Let's gooo!" he whispered.
He clicked.
He read.
He blinked.
He frowned.
He scrolled up.
He read again.
There was only one thing written in that last chapter.
"In the end, everyone died. Story over."
.....
"....HUH!?"
James stood up so fast his chair almost fail over.
"This dumb author dropped it for ten years and gave me this." he screamed and slammed the table in front of him.
"This trash spent a decade and dropped a Thanos snap. No explanations, no epilogue, just straight up Alt+f4 on the characters.
His face twitched anger surging through him. His disappointment was immeasurable and his day was ruined.
" Trash ending. Garbage plot. I could have written it better and if i was one of the mc's i would have won everything, money, girls, slap those young masters.
He was shouting like a madman.
Then a cold wind blew through the room, the lights flickered like a horror movie even though the switches were off.
The laptop screen went black and a single line appeared.
"Do you want a perfect life?"
James froze and his eyes twitched. He was confused and the confusion grew even more when a bright screen appeared in mid air, floating in front of him.
Perfect Life System Detected
You have been chosen.
Accept the perfect life system and be reborn inside the novel "perfect life"?
Get to live your ultimate tycoon life with heroines, make your own empire , reach the end of the story.
[Accept] [Decline]
James blinked.
"Wait… is this some kind of prank? Where is the hidden camera? He whispered.
"It can not be a prank, I don't have any friends or any relative to do this prank."
He pinched his cheek." Ow. Okay, not dreaming."
He stared at the screen, the accept button blinked gently.
This has to be fake. Right?
But what if it wasn't?
All his life, he had nothing. No success, no girls ,not even luck in gacha games. A life full of regrets and failures. HIs adopted parents left him. A job that tortured him day and night.
If it was a scam.... Well who cares.
He clicked the [Accept] button
The moment he did his room covered in light, his laptop fried.
"Wait wait wait…. I didn't even finish my nood-
BOOM!
He was gone.
James felt like he was falling.
Then Floating.
Then suddenly everything stopped.
When he opened his eyes, he was lying on a desk.
His body ached.
He blinked at the bright sunlight coming from the window beside him.
He sat up and looked around.
" Why does this feel like I'm in a university?"
The school looked like it belonged to the rich and elite.
Students nearby glanced at him.
"Ethan is spacing out again," One boy whispered.
"Still broke and still useless," a girl said.
He froze.
Ethan. Who is this Ethan?
Then a sound rang in his ears. A window popped up before his eyes.
Perfect Life System Activated
Welcome, Host.
Current Status:
Identity: Ethan
Age: 20
Background: Nothing Special( A mob who got off-screened by author)
Status: Poor. Trash. Bullied. Zero presence.
First Task:
Talk to a Heroine (Affinity +1)
Reward: $10,000