Unexpectedly, the three little wretches tormented by fate would reunite in a game.
And Wan Huanyu was the boyfriend of Sun Jingya, the driver responsible for the accident.
He had been sitting in the passenger seat and was the one who asked Sun Jingya to drive. Aside from him, there were two other people in the car—both top-tier rich second-generation—all of whom had been drinking and were sentenced to three years.
Three years. They had all been released from prison by now!
They had even set up a studio, become big shots with countless underlings, and still acted just as domineeringly.
How could someone as evil as Wan Huanyu still be a man above others, while the victims had been reduced to forming a league of the disabled?
To be honest, many people had described that devastating disaster as an accident over the years.
But if the other party hadn’t been drinking, if they hadn’t treated other people’s lives like they were worthless, none of this would have happened.
Why? Why? Why?!
Shen Chi felt that these three years had been an excruciating torment for him too. But his family was so happy—so happy that he... didn’t deserve to complain.
He was exhausted. Every day, he smiled at his parents, but deep down, he often wished he could just end it all.
Yet Shen Chi didn’t dare.
Now, suddenly, he felt he had a reason to go on.
He would play the game with Chu Fu and Xie Lin. Together, in the game, they would destroy Wan Huanyu.
Revenge. Revenge. Revenge!
...
On the outskirts of Linjiang City, inside an old, rundown house.
Xie Lin took off his gaming helmet and skillfully got up to go to the kitchen, where he boiled himself some instant noodles.
The room was shabby—almost like an unfinished shell.
All unnecessary obstacles had long since been cleared away.
He lived poorly.
But his body was packed with muscle, and he walked with a commanding stride, not at all like a blind man.
At fifteen, he had shown talent in gaming. His parents, however, refused to accept that their child had become an internet addict. Each blamed the other's parenting.
They were just ordinary people but expected their son to become a dragon.
They even tried to send him to a boot camp for internet addiction.
Luckily, he ran away back then.
After he ran, his parents divorced. The love between them had long died in their daily quarrels, and both felt they would be better off without the other.
They discarded him like a failed product.
Xie Lin didn’t care. He was indeed an internet-addicted teen, but with his sharp skills, he became a standout in every game he played.
He streamed. He went pro. He competed on stage.
At twenty, he used the money he earned to buy a sports car.
But maybe fate always strikes when you’re at your peak.
He was too arrogant, too flashy.
And so he was brutally punished.
His car was sent flying in a crash. Glass shards pierced both his eyes, and his eyeballs were removed.
He went blind.
He heard that the driver who caused the accident had also killed a married couple and turned a little girl into a vegetable.
And after crashing into his car, the driver continued onto the crosswalk, hitting a prospective college student, leaving them paralyzed.
Sometimes Xie Lin wondered: If he had swerved out of the way, would that student not be paralyzed?
Had he ended up ruining that person’s life?
But there were no ifs.
It wasn’t his fault.
It was the driver’s fault.
Xie Lin gritted his teeth and refused to sign a letter of leniency. But being blind, he couldn’t make many decisions on his own. His divorced parents showed up again, without a single kind word.
“You had it coming. You had all that money and didn’t think to support your father—why buy a car? A waste raising an ungrateful brat. Now you’re blind,” the man said.
“If you’d listened to me before and just set up a street stall selling sausages, it would’ve been better than playing games. This is your punishment for being unfilial,” the woman said.
“Get out! Both of you, get out! I won’t sign it. Why should I forgive her? She destroyed me! Why doesn’t she just die!” Xie Lin roared.
But he couldn’t decide anything.
His parents signed the contract.
They took the money.
They said it covered the cost of raising him, and that from now on, they wouldn’t bother with him anymore.
In the end, with a lawyer’s help, he got some of it back, but it wasn’t enough for his expenses.
He had to hire someone to take care of him.
He also learned boxing and swordsmanship.
He thought of the game characters he used to play: the blind monk, the blind swordsman, the blind girl.
Why couldn’t he do the same?
Treat the world like a real game world!
Every punch he threw would be punch skill +1.
Every sword swing would be sword skill +1.
He could locate things by sound. His body was strong.
Three years passed. The day he’d been waiting for finally arrived!
But because of his blindness, his operations were slow. He registered late; the game had been open for a month by the time he entered.
Still not too late. Not too late.
“Xiao Dou, find me the server merge news on the [Primordial Gate] forum. Find all information about the Huanyu Studio.”
“Yes, master...”
Xie Lin ate his noodles while listening to the updates.
The server merge rules of [Primordial Gate] were very interesting.
Each server represented a different region, so after leaving the newbie village, players landed in different towns.
Server 8888, which belonged to Linjiang City players, landed in a town called: Fengdu Town Fortress.
After the newbie village expansion monster invasion, even if players defended the village, the survival rate might only be half—meaning about 5,000 players would survive.
The probability of the village being wiped out was 90%.
Maybe only a few hundred or a few dozen people would escape, traveling on foot through the wilderness to reach Fengdu Town, and many would die and delete their accounts along the way.
Then [Primordial Gate] would merge servers. One Fengdu Town could still only hold 10,000 players.
So, [001 Zone 8888 Server] to [007 Zone 8888 Server] were merged.
Only [001 Zone 8888 Server]’s newbie village was preserved, because they had successfully defended it.
At present, [008-013] were merged, and [014-019 Zone] were merged.
[020 Zone] was still holding its village defense battle today.
Xie Lin took a guess: The game likely wanted level 10 players to play together, level 20 players together, and level 30 players together!
So, which zone was Wan Huanyu, the founder of Huanyu Studio, in?
The AI had already answered him.
“Zone 015, Server 8888, Huanyu Studio recruiting. Studio owner Wan Huanyu, backed by Wantu Real Estate’s heir, is running a mega studio. Want to rise in the game and earn a windfall? Join Huanyu and dominate Primordial.”
“Zone 015.”
Xie Lin sneered.
He even hoped Wan Huanyu wouldn’t die too soon.
When they reached level 30, the game might merge again. That was when they could meet on a new map!
He, Xie Lin, would personally kill Wan Huanyu.
Before that, he wanted to slaughter Huanyu Kuangba just to vent.
He also needed 1 million to buy a gaming pod, so he wouldn’t have to log off every day just to eat, wasting time.
