hmm, not really, i mean it has the same "make your body perfect with strength, etc." and has all kinds of skills mc can use, BUT the difference with FOD is that the system's function is limited to the world's general rule. like what doesn't exist in this world shouldn't exist in the system, i.e. in modern world mc can't use xianxia/cultivation world pills to suddenly shoot fire out of hands or smth like that xD i think in FOD mc could store some items in his space system from xianxia world and use it in modern world? or did i mix it up with another novel? oh, and system here doesn't have a voice, the system here is like FOD where mc just chooses what he wants.
Lol, I knew I confused some things up. I saw that the MC's friend was worrying like crazy about buying, and in the end some other dude ended up bidding. But that dude was worrying b/c he bid a lot of money and he was waiting for the MC to bid again, and then the MC's friend started freaking out and the MC kept calming him down. Then I got confused and was like...okay, then how'd the MC get some land for his hotel/restaurant...then I thought "Ahh well, @azure_sea will correct me if I'm wrong." Thank you very much for the corrections! XD
And I thought it was QX who actually sent the thugs after the MC? It mentioned that QX could do whatever he wanted b/c he was ML's cousin, which is why when he killed the original body & CR, he didn't feel guilty or anything. I could be wrong tho ^^;
Starting from Arc 10 onwards, is when the Antagonist and sometimes the ML start showing signs of being aware of reincarnating. However, none of them have clear awareness of what's going on, with one exception in the last world.
MC wakes up extremely tired in a car headed for a business party. He's the president of a game company. He doesn't have time to read about his backstory further, as they've arrived, at the same time as the president of a larger rival company. They exchange pleasantries, but the minute they shake hands, both are jolted by a shock, and MC realizes that's his lover.
At the party, the original MC's plan was to mingle and make connections, but now the MC has the strong instinct that he shouldn't do this. He decides to trust his instincts and leave early. The ML of course notices and catches him before he leaves, making a few sarcastic comments about MC's company's situation because they are after all rivals. However, the MC has never had his lover talk that way to him before, even if the guy doesn't remember, so he shoots a angry comment back and immediately leaves. The ML catches the hurt in the MC's eyes, and feels inexplicably guilty.
MC heads home and his dad tells him his younger brother is going to be working at the company starting tomorrow. MC's immediate instinct is loathing, and he doesn't bother to hid his reactions. He argues with the family, who obviously has no place for him, and then leaves for his own apartment. There, he finally looks up the details of his place in this world.
The game company he's in used to be languishing under his dad, who's not very competent. It only started to head into the black under the original MC, who had been exhausting himself to do so because many of the people in the company are more interesting in jockeying for position and working against him than for him. His parents were married as part of a business partnership between the families, and neither were willing. His mom had tried several times to escape the marriage, even suicide, but was basically under house arrest until the MC was born. His dad had a mistress that he loved more, but couldn't marry her until his parents died, and then he switched his wife's meds so that she died, before he was able to marry the mistress. He dotes on the younger son with that former mistress, not knowing the kid is actually the son of that mistress and a friend of his. He also has a sorta adopted son, who he also treats better than the MC.
The original MC did all the hard work in getting the company in the black and producing a good game, and then got killed off in a plot by the 'younger brother' (hence: Antagonist) and the adopted son, who would then enjoy inheriting all the benefits of the family and the company. He new MC decides he can't be faffed about doing work for a company that someone else is going to enjoy. So the next day, he calls a board meeting and basically announces he's stepping down from his position and quitting the company entirely, and selling all of his stock at high price. The younger brother and adopted son are of course happy because that's one of the things they always wanted. The shrewder old board members of course realize that MC was the only one holding the company together, and he would probably do even better if he starts his own company without all the backstabbers below him.
MC however surprises everyone in the business world keeping tabs on him. He basically lazes around for a few days to catch up on sleep, and then posts up his resume online. Everyone is surprised that someone who used to be president of a company would be looking for a normal job rather than starting a new company. But MC is obviously waiting to catch a specific fish. Lo and behold, not a few hours after posting the resume, the ML shows up at his door, with an offer to collaborate rather than simple hiring. MC would get his own game design department and team to do with as he wishes. MC agrees, and ML then stays to mooch off his cooking.
MC decides to create a game in a futuristic space opera setting, using a lot of elements from the setting in Arc 8. He stays late a lot while working, and the ML would often visit with food for the whole development team. Everyone could recognize the obvious courting behavior, and so no one is going to make trouble for MC for being given such a free hand after just joining the company.
One day while idly talking over dinner, ML reveals that he's been having recurring dreams of a lover in many different times and settings. He could never see the lover's face clearly, but has the instinct that they're the same person. Only after the time they had met at that party, did the face slowly began to be revealed as similar to the MC. The MC is very shocked at this lover is beginning to recall his other incarnations, but doesn't continue the line of conversation. Underneath, he's very confused, shocked, and worried about what the hell was going on. He searches the system, and realizes that he's not able to see any info any longer on any of his own past incarnations, nor any of his lovers past incarnations, but can see details of other people. So confused! What do! Just as he's panicking, the system suddenly activates and calms him down. He's surprised the system has this function, but now calm, decides to handle things as they come.
Anyway, the Conquering the Stars game gets finished and is immediately a huge success. Meanwhile, the Antagonist, true to his nature, insisted that he was going to create a space opera game as well to compete against the MC. However, despite spending a lot of money hiring a lot of experienced designers, the sheer incompetency of his management is still dragging production down.
The Antagonist decides to play the MC's game to see what he's up against, and the shock of subconscious recognition of the setting causes him to get hooked on the game such that he neglects his health and nearly goes crazy when his parents realize what was going on and cut him off, madly attacking them and ending up hurt and briefly hospitalized. ML tells the MC about this, which arouses MC's suspicions. He does a system search and finds out he's also not able to get info on the previous incarnation of his main antagonist. So now he realizes there's 3 people constantly reincarnating and seemingly playing out similar roles each time, but only he carries the full memories each time.
Anyway, despite cutting off playing the MC's game, the antagonist is still a bit unhinged, or maybe he was just normally delusional. He insists on a sharp deadline for finishing the game despite people saying it's not ready. He pours money into advertisement saying his game is better than the MC's, getting all the netizens hopes up. And then the game comes out and it flops, leaving the company in the red and their reputation ruined. He tries to dump the liability on the dev team, but they've had enough of his incompetency and abuse, and many just quit on the spot. The company's board calls the Antagonist to the carpet and tells him they're going to replace him.
Antagonist decides to cut his losses, which is to basically get his 'dad' to hand over his companies shares and whatever other properties and money, which then he would just liquidate and then just run away with the money. MC of course anticipated this, and shows up at the old house while the dad is alone, and dumps on him a DNA test he had performed on him and his 'brother'. They're not related, meaning only one of them could be the dad's biological son. Since MC's mom had been in house arrest the entire time from before the marriage to her death, there's pretty much no possibility for her to cheat. Still, the dad had a single sliver of hope and performs his own DNA check of his younger son against him self secretly, and then finds out the real truth that he was betrayed by the mistress he loved into pushing away his only real son for a false son.
He visits the MC to hand over his remaining properties because there's no one else anymore. MC only accepts the house deed of the ancestral home and says he doesn't care about the rest. He also tells his dad that his grandparents deaths wasn't an accident, but a conspiracy by his mistress, the friend she had the kid with, and his adopted kid. Beset by one too many shocks, the dad goes home and goes public with the information, suing his former friend, the mistress, and the false son for fraud, theft, etc. This ruins the family of his friend (who was also married from a powerful family), gets all the stocks and money he'd handed over to the Antagonist, and drags all their names through the mud.
He then invites that friend and his (now ex-)wife to a meal, ostensibly to settle the rest of the suit privately. But really he poisoned their food so that they all died. At the same time, he tampered with the brakes of the car the Antagonist and the adopted son was in, causing them to crash. MC learns of this on the news and asks ML if he did this. ML says he was going to, but the dad actually got ahead of him and did everything on his own. MC is surprised because he didn't think the man had it in him, since he loves face so much. He feels a little pity for the man. But ML soon recaptures his immediate attention because they still have a full life ahead of them.
Holy...that was a long summary, lol. Thanks though! XD As for arc 1: MC went to the auction to buy land, that‘s right. ANd in the previous life, mc bought a piece of land for quite a sum, bc he got news that the half-bro wanted it. Actually it was a trap for mc, the half-bro and his friend made it so that the price for that poece of land nearly sucked out all the heritage money from mc. In the previous life, the owner fell into their trap and after nearly spending all his money, before he could open his store, they a pile of skeletons under the construction site and the police had to do investigations. This led to the previous host getting a bad reputation and after many other pitfalls he ends up dead in a supposed street fight (he was penniless at that time). Actually the street fight was fake, half-bro sent thugs after him. Now that MC is here, he doesn‘t buy the land. He actually bid high enough so that when the enemy bid again (being sure that mc would bid again, bc it wasn‘t over his spending limit), he didn‘t and the enemy had to pay all that money. Which led to father and half-bro making a huge loss.
ML kind of fell in love with MC‘s cooking the first time at elder zhang‘s home. Mc was cooking for him and ML and his uncle came by and ate with them. But it wasn‘t enough and mc had to cook again, lol After mc opened his store, ML came nearly every day, but it wasn‘t mc that was cooking his meals (mc was cooking for elder zhang), so ML was dissatisfied bc he only likes MC‘s cooking (although the food was okay, but it still wasn‘t the best)
