Chapter 1 - The First Step to a New Life
[Would you like to live a new life in another world?]
[Yes? No?]
[Time remaining 5:00]
asked the robotic voice resonating in his ears.
"Great, now I'm hearing things!" Xiao Yang said sarcastically, convinced it was all unreal.
He stood up and added, "I think it's best I head home—can't believe this day could possibly get any worse," as he patted the dust off his clothes.
"Betrayed by my girlfriend, fired from work, expelled from college, and abandoned by family—what a marvelous day, right?" Xiao Yang remarked while wandering toward his house, recalling the day's events.
Before he knew it, tears began streaming down his face and he murmured, "Sniff!... Sniff! Home? What home? It's all because of those..." as he sobbed, realizing he had nothing left.
Throwing the bottle from his grasp, he shouted, "Damn!" in a futile bid to vent his frustrations.
Crying as he watched the water flowing beneath the bridge and the moon's reflection, with no friends, family, job, or girlfriend, Xiao Yang even considered leaping from the bridge just to escape the pain inflicted by those damned people. But as he rested his hands on the railing, about to jump, he heard the robotic voice once more and, this time, a translucent message appeared before him.
[Would you like to live a new life in another world?]