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Beep.
Beep.
Beep...
I slowly awakened up to the sound of a machine showing my heartbeat. As I had anticipated, I found myself lying over a bed in a small hospital room as I opened my eyes. A young man who appeared to be no more than twenty years old, and who had short, shiny black hair and pale blue eyes, welcomed me directly to my left. He held in his hands an empty yet artistically painted bottle, tears running down his face.
"Anna! The elixir worked!"
"Huh?"
What the hell was happening right now? Anna? My name is not that. I also have no memory of having a brother. When was I admitted to the hospital, exactly?
"Ugh…!"
As I tried to sort my thoughts, a sudden rush of memories of two completely different people flowed into my mind, merging and forming my new self, the me of right now. This is wild; now I remember. My previous life name was Julia Martinez. I was a web novel writer, and I was rather unsuccessful at that. I was an orphan and had no family whatsoever. Throughout my life, I've always liked to read because it helped me cope with the harsh reality that was my life. Because of that, I started writing web novels to pass the time. Ultimately, I started earning some pennies out of it, and I thought I could become a full-time writer with enough effort.
Oh, how wrong I was...
I wrote romance after romance, but nothing clicked—less than 100 collections, almost no views, hundreds after hundreds of chapters—and nobody read them! I keep scrambling my head for new ideas, but despite liking reading romance so much, I was terrible at writing it. And then someone, an online friend, recommended that I read another genre: action, adventure, and systems. And there I was, like an idiot, reading novels after novels until I ended up with one that was the most popular of them all, the most popular of this stupid, overused, and lazy genre.
Solo Player.
It sounds as uninspired and dull as you can imagine. It's the usual template: monsters come out of the gates, hunters with powers fight them back, society stabilizes, the main character shows up weak and mocked, then awakens a special system, levels up, gains powers, and blah, blah, blah. It was one of the most generic things I've read, yet I was able to understand why this genre was so popular. I even had fun reading this uninspired thing!
Yet…
I died. Just when I was obsessively reading in the middle of the streets on my way to buy instant ramen.
BAAM!
A truck ran me over. I can't believe I died so clichédly.
"Can you talk? Anna, do you recognize me?"
And of course, as I heard my big brother's words, I was also recalling my other life. The life I've had in this world, which seems oddly similar to these novels I've read lately, is Anna. A little and innocent girl who grew up overly protected by her parents, her big brother always took care of anything, so she grew spoiled too.
Life was good, my parents had money, and I was going to have a happy life. But then, just like the script of my favorite novel, Gates leading to Dungeons! Monsters! Hunters! Our parents died in a terrible accident, just as the Gates showed up. And about me? While trying to run away, I was also attacked. Somehow, my big brother protected me, but I have been in a coma ever since then. It is ultimately bizarre that I've discovered my previous life was that of a woman who read my whole life as a novel.
"Hey, Anna!"
Ugh, big brother, can't you wait?! I am having my whole personal monologue here! At least give me ten minutes to settle my mind! There's so much information, it hurts.
"Brother, big brother?"
And there I was, tired of his babbling, though I was ultimately thankful he woke me up from my coma using an Elixir. I couldn't be surprised deep down because I knew this was going to happen. However, my side, which is Anna, is happy to be awake at long last, and I can't help but have tears flow from my eyes.
"I've been so worried, Anna!"
My big brother hugged me tightly as I kissed him on the cheek. His warm hug comforted my heart, making me feel happy immediately. Ahhh~ I can get used to this.
"Wait a second!"
Suddenly, I realized something.
"Huh? Anna?"
My big brother's azure eyes looked at me confused.
"I utilized an elixir I've been making to wake you up; you've been in a coma for three years now." He sighed. "A lot happened; our parents passed away when the Rifts began. There's so much to explain, but I know it is hard for you to understand, so I won't go into details."
"Eh? Huh?"
His face and that strong aura I am feeling out of him! He's… Oh, right! My big brother's the protagonist of Solo Player!
"You should rest for now. I'll go tell the doctors you've woken up, alright? Relax for now; everything is going to be okay." My big brother said it with a gallant voice as he walked away from the room.
As I was trying to settle my thoughts, a blue-colored holographic window materialized right in front of my eyes, startling me to death.
Ding!
[System Seed has been successfully implanted inside the user's soul.]
[Congratulations! You've been selected for transmigration by []!]
And as if things couldn't get weirder, a system window showed up in front of my face, but my brother couldn't even see it. And what do you mean selected for transmigration? Was this the doing of somebody else?
Ding!
The Cosmic Throne {Butterfly That Flies Across The Universe} is wondering why there are so many gazes directed at you... She quickly finds your flabbergasted face a bit funny.]
[Due to the entertainment you've brought to her, she has tipped 10 plot points (PP)!]
[The Cosmic Throne {Monkey that Dances in Chaos} is wondering why this klutz is harnessing the attention of the Nebula Stream.]
[He has to admit, though, that the face you're making is beyond silly.]
[He has tipped 5 plot points (PP)!]
What is going on? These are Constellations! But Anna wasn't supposed to even become a player.
[By the command of [], a Constellation will be sent to explain your current situation.]
[The Cosmic Throne {Jester Filled With Lies} has decided to manifest an illusion avatar before you!]
[The Nebula Streaming Services have been temporarily halted within your vicinity; no Constellation can see you or what's happening now.]
POOOF!
Suddenly, an enormous quantity of white smoke exploded into the room, making me cough frenetically.
"Cough, cough…! What the…?!"
And within the smoke, a jester emerged, laughing calmly. I couldn't discern his face, hidden beneath a mask, showing a divided expression of joy and sorrow.
"It seems you've woken up. Welcome to your new life, Anna."
This was straight out of the wildest of my dreams.
And if this is a dream, please, someone, wake me up.
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Oh my goodness, are that pancakeswitch? The one who wrote Epic of Caterpillar!?
Yes its me
@PancakesWitch authorrrrrrrrr I'm back hahaha I sure you forgetten about me hahaha I haven't read your creating for many months because unfortunately my beloved phone was stolen well I can't understand how get a phone fetish but I miss her....
Haha I'll this new master piece
I wrote romance after romance
No wonder you were unsuccessful
Well, if you go to wattpad, romance just everywhere
Hehe... pp.
finally someone said it
This seems interesting, I'll be watching. Thanks for writing.
I'd actually like to read one of those monster gates stories where the MC has enough humanity to care for his sister. I feel like all these stories' MCs are just selfish and ruthless loners for no reasons other than being "cool".
And even the exceptions to that rarely have any family or loved ones.
Solo Leveling?
Funnily enough... I know it's likely the best known of the genre, but I actually have not read that one.
Are you really the legendary pancakeswitch ???? Really? Your not taking her name or something right???
Also will this novel be in the same chared universe as your previous novel ?
And you are already very famous why are you still writing on this website? Not that I'm looking dawn on it or anything its just you want take any money here like you can take on other paid website right??
Webnovel should gladly takes your novel no ????in my opinion they should beg you for it right???
Suspicious very suspicious 🤨🧐🙄
Yeah its me i just have made enough money and now i will just publish new stuff for free. I dont really care anymore
@PancakesWitch you have just got my undying loyalty praise the pancakeswitch 🙏
You know all your novel are really super good i often work as beta reader to some author so i can read more chapter without paying for patron or webnovel its not that i this they are not worth the money or i dont have money
Its just that unfortunately i live in Syria and we have ban in most websites and we don't have credit card nor can we have PayPal account we can't pay or buy anything online at all even if we have money 😔
Thanks for the chapter
From what I can tell just from this so far
The Universe in this book is inspired by a combination of solo leveling and omniscient readings viewpoint. a bit more so the latter. One of my favorite sayings is that no one has ever had an original idea. Only mix and matched concepts picked up through entertainment, osmosis and, conversation. Creativity is the distance one can go with said concepts while maintaining some form of meaningfulness and shape
well yeah i always just mix tropes and ideas i get from other works, i just create new storylines
"I also have no memory of having a brother." No one said anything about him being her brother?
"Just when I was obsessively reading in the middle of the streets on my way to buy instant ramen. BAAM! A truck ran me over. I can't believe I died so clichédly." *tsk* Truck-kun's timing was off. He was supposed to hit the loner otaku that attempts to save her smh ;)
"Solo Player as a novel does NOT exist, it is of my own creation within this fictional universe, and this novel is NOT a fanfic." Ah, good thing this is here. There are so many stories with this name or a very similar one that have this basic plot structure that I was assuming it was a fanfiction.
Thanks for the chapter!