Jason Chard grumpily got off his massive twin bed, he turned around and looked at his messy cramped room, 80% of the space had been consumed by the bed. 

He lived all alone but had such a massive bed, most people could never understand that bit about him, but the answer was simple, Jason loved his bed! Not even sleeping on it, just drowning in the softness of his bed gave him comfort.

 He looked at his clock and saw it was only 6:55 am, meaning he still had a few hours to get to work.

"For once I'll actually get to work early, I don't have to deal with their relentless nagging!" Jason said while yawning, he looked at the clock again. "But I'm up way too early, let me take a 5 minute nap till 7:00 am, just to make it a round figure." He thought.

With that he dived back into his soft comfy white bed, and slowly sank in, as he was being absorbed by his bed, he realised that the nap probably wouldn't last for only 5 minutes...

And 3 hours later he woke up to several angry calls from his direct superior, Laura Lace.

"Jason where on earth are you?! Just because your game had a little success doesn't mean you can waltz in at any time you want!" Laura Lace yelled angrily over the phone.

Hearing her angry voice he smiled, and thought of the recent game he had just developed with the team, an extremely addictive and immersive MMORPG, Dao seeker. 

A crappy name yes, but as an Eastern fantasy addict he had made a game with the cultivation aspects of the lovely web novels he read, sects, lots and lots of competitions, pill making, formations, you name it! He had dumped it all, and due to the wide possibilities in the game, it was an instant success!

"Calm down, calm down, I'd be there in a minute, I'm already driving down." He said as he threw his phone and lazily got off his bed, checking his platinum watch he could see it was already 10:15am.

He got up and glanced in the mirror, he ran his hands through his black hair that was littered with plenty white hair, even though he was only 27, his head was already spotted with several grey strands.

He had dark eye bags from countless hours reading webnovels at night, but apart from that he was extremely fit. He washed his face and prepared himself for the day, he went to check his phone and realised he was still on a call with Laura, and she had been ranting about Stephen's current project.

"Can you believe he did all that?" Laura asked.

"Wow I'm shocked." Jason replied, while having absolutely no clue what she was talking about.

"You're just shocked? I'd thought you'd be kind of furious?" She replied.

"Err, I am actually super furious." Jason quickly replied, and begun to wonder what Stephen could have done. Then he instantly realised. "Wait did Stephen touch my..."

"Yeah, didn't you hear me tell you all that?" 

"That ***tard, **it, oh no. tell him to stop right now, immediately at once!!!" Jason yelled, and he quickened his pace.

"You know Stephen doesn't listen to anyone, you've got to come convince him yourself." 

"I should have never given him access, he said he just wanted to help me, damn that ***tard! I'll be there right now!" This time he cut the call and glanced at Clay sleeping quietly. He prepared some food for the cute ginger cat, then ran out to stop Stephen.

"Hey Jason." His neighbor said.

"Oh hi Martha, love that dress." Jason replied as he kept rushing to the elevator.

"Late for work again?" She yelled as she saw him leaving.

"Haha, as usual." He laughed.

Getting down he quickly popped into his car adjusted his mirrors, and zoomed off. 

He was working with No Lag, a large team of software developers, he had been working with them for around 4 years, and his constant cunning innovative ideas had made him a common favourite in the team. 

Recently there was a large breakthrough in AI, and he had come up with an idea to make his game more immersive, and hearing that Stephen wanted to use his idea for his own game made him mad. 

Stephen was working on a life simulation game, and he wanted to make the NPCs more interactive, so he had been one of the first people to jump onto Jason's idea, and with a big shot like Stephen backing him up, the idea had being greatly boosted and was almost near completion.

He felt a his phone vibrate, and picked it up.

"I'm almost there Laura. Just calm down a bit."

"No that's not why I'm calling, just wanted to let you know, Stephen just released the expansion pack for Dao Seeker, it's live now" 

Jason was temporarily confused, then quickly understood. "Oh wait you mean he's using it on my project first?"

"Yes, did you not hear anything I said this morning?"

"Of course I did..." 

"Sure..." She replied as she cut the call. Laura was a bit of a blabbermouth so people tended to ignore her, she could go on for hours just talking to herself.

Hearing that Stephen wasn't selfishly stealing his work, he had stopped panicking. Even though he was the creator of Dao Seeker, he had already gotten used to the small tweaks the others would add, and as long as it didn't worsen the playing experience, he was okay with it.

Less worried, he decided to go grab a cup of hot coffee. As he calmly sipped on his extra cream, with 8 cubes of sugar, he thought about how much he really loved life. 

"Ah damn, I got killed by this golden winged roc again." Jason heard someone saying, he looked around and saw a male of around 17, concentrated on his phone, going for a closer look he could see he was playing Dao Seeker, this caused a smile on his face. The young man was walking out and Jason followed him trying to sneak a peek at his player ID so he could gift him a super strong flying sword or something similar. He began to wonder how he would react if he found out the creator of the game was right behind him.

The young man was so engrossed in the game that he mindlessly crossed the road, and didn't notice the reincarnation device, sorry I meant the speeding truck, on the road.

"Stoppp!!!" Jason yelled, "Oh no he has Airdods on he can't hear me!" Jason rushed into the road to quickly grab the young man. Obviously he died too, or else how would this story progress?

-

"What are we gonna do with this mess now?"

"We only planned for one person where did this guy come from?"

"Is there space for one more person?"

"Only one useless but secretly talented main character just died. It would be hard to find another suitable person."

"Couldn't we like, just lump them together?"

"Wait that's not a bad idea actually..."

-

"Wake up."

"Huh?" Mo Zuo groaned as he struggled to open his eyes. "Who is that?"

"I am Jason Chard, and you are now Mo Zuo." Jason replied. 

"My name is now Mo Zuo? Wait did you say your name is Jason Chard? like the Jason Chard?" Mo Zuo asked, he was a committed Dao Seeker player, so he obviously knew the brains behind the wonderful game.

"Yes, that is me. You have being reborn as Mo Zuo of the Mo clan." Jason calmly replied.

"What, reborn? Just like in Dao Seeker where we start out as the reincarnated form of a character?"

"Correct, but you are in quite a predicament."

Mo Zuo finally opened his eyes and looked around, he saw a blue screen hovering in front of him and on it was displayed

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Name            -:- Mo Zuo (16)

Cultvn           -:- Qi Gathering stage 2

Class            -:- N/A

Subclass      -:- N/A

Vitality          -:- 0.01/1.2

Qi                  -:-  0/1.4

INT               -:- 0.01

Sys points   -:- 0

*Other Statistics are currently not available*

Skills -:- Path of the black mamba (Stage 1) Simple Sword slash (Stage 1) Path of Apep (Sealed)

Current Quest : Eat the Desporium herb next to you (Reward : 1000 system points)

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Mo Zuo looked at the stats screen and quickly understood what was going on. He struggled to get up and a huge flash of pain surged through his body, he then noticed his current predicament, a Sword had impaled him through the ground, he was currently lying in a pool of blood, a surge of memories began flooding into him.

"Mo Zuo, only son of Mo Zhi, the head alchemist of the Mo clan and twin brother of the patriarch of the Mo clan, Mo Zhu. Due to a dispute between Mo Zuo and Mo De, fourth son of Mo Zhu, Mo De challenged Mo Zuo to a secret battle outside the clan. Mo De had already broken through into the 5th stage of Qi gathering, but Mo Zuo refused to back down, the outcome was obvious, and Mo De thrashed Mo Zuo, but Mo Zuo still refused to yield, even managing to use his sword to slash Mo De's cheek, infuriating Mo De even more, Mo De in anger snatched Mo Zuo's sword and impaled him. Upon realising what he had done, Mo De hurriedly ran away, and left Mo Zuo in a pool of his own blood." Jason calmly explained.

"Argh." Mo Zuo groaned. "What can I do?"

"Complete the quest, eat the herb that fell out of your pouch." Jason said calmly.

"Could you pass it to me please... wait where are you?" Mo Zuo asked while looking around, he looked but couldn't catch sight of Jason.

"I'm the blue screen in front of you, just stretch and eat it, we'll deal with the rest later."

Mo Zuo forced the last of his strength and managed to swallow the herb.

*Ding* Quest complete.

Reward : 1000 System points.

"What now?" Mo Zuo asked

Jason looked at Mo Zuo and didn't reply. He mentally shook his head at his current situation, 'It seems I'm now tied with Mo Zuo huh?' After a moment he checked the system store and found something appropriate for the situation.

"The herb has some slight regenerative properties, but for a full recovery you would need the 'quasi life snatching pill' capable of greatly increasing your vitality, its worth 899 points."

"I'll take it!" The pain from the sword impaling him was getting unbearable.

"Sure, say ahh." 

"AHHH."

Jason popped the glowing green pill into Mo Zuo's mouth, and he watched as his body started glowing, and the sword was repelled from his body and the wound instantly healed, his meridians started glowing a bright green and in a few seconds Mo Zuo was perfectly healed.

Mo Zuo opened his eyes and slowly clenched and released his hands. "I feel fantastic!"

"Good for you." Jason replied unenthusiastically.

"Well this was an amazing experience, but how do I log out?" Mo Zuo curiously asked.

"Log out? Do you not remember how you died?"

"Dead? I just clicked on install for the new and more immersive expansion pack on your game and then I appeared in the game?" Mo Zuo asked very confused.

Jason looked at him and couldn't help but laugh, "You really think this is all a game? I'm good, but I'm not that good."

"I don't understand, what's going on." Mo Zuo had started panicking.

Seeing the kid panicking, Jason couldn't help but sigh. "You got run over by a reincar.. I mean a speeding truck."

"What... but then how are you here?"

"I was trying to save you, a stupid mistake of mine." Jason replied slightly annoyed.

"You lost your life trying to save me?" Mo Zuo asked horrified, he never knew his carelessness could cause the death of another. "I am so sorry." and he smashed his head into the ground as he kowtowed, "I am so so so sorry." Mo Zuo kept saying as tears flowed from his eyes.

Jason was shocked as he saw Mo Zuo's actions, "Stop, its alright, its okay, we're alive now."

"No no no, this is not okay, not okay at all." Mo Zuo said while crying.

"It is actually, we've being reborn, here we can get as powerful as we want and return to our previous lives if we want, or live as gods here. To be honest as a xianxia fanatic, this is my dream." Jason replied trying to ease Mo Zuo's conscience.

'I've being reborn, but you're stuck in a system' Mo Zuo thought feeling guilt in his heart.