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4/5!!! [RR: 8/10] [Game Elements, Upgrade, Infrastructure - City Building, Action/Adventure] This novel is quite fun! It reminds me of another apocalypse novel called "Apocalypse Lord". The main premise is that the entire Earth has been drawn into a game, which is the same as the "Apocalypse Lord" novel though this one happens to be less extreme about the survival aspect. It's more about action and adventure. I also distinctly remember that "Apocalypse Lord" didn't pay very close attention to the development of characters or romance plots. The same goes here, but it's a little more involved?? At least, that one, it was very much about the game. While this one, despite not being too deep regarding character and romance development, there's at least a little there to keep you interested on the main characters.ANYWAY, similarities to other novels aside. I quite liked this read! It gets a bit... twisty??? At the end, but it's still a fun read altogether. It's very satisfying to see the FL build a city from the ground-up. Of course, she has lots of resources beforehand, so there's not much tension. But that's also a good thing in its own way. At least, it's relaxing rather than anxiety inducing (if you want something more high tension, this is definitely not what you should be looking at. There are better horror-suspense novels out there if you're interested in something with lots of tension~).__________SUMMARY — The FL of this novel is called Lu Jiu. She's the only daughter of a small local businessman in China. When she was about to turn of age, both her parents died, and she was lost for a while. Her dad left her a sizable inheritance to play with, but that attracted the intention of her blood-sucking relatives, so she ended up locking herself in her room in order to heal from her parents' sudden death. It took two years for her to decide to finally come out of her shell. Two years which she spent playing games as a rich little lady LOL.One game she spent lots of money in was called "Lindong." It's a very useless dress-up game that she spent millions of dollars in. I guess it was very therapeutic to do so XD. It seems like a waste, but she persisted even after most other players had given up. And, in the end, she became the only one who collected the most powerful equipment in the game before the world suddenly changed.The next thing she knew, Earth had merged with another planet and everything was digitized. The FL passed through with her game backpack, so she could be said to be very powerful in this new environment. But she's not the only player who did so. Plus, there are all the other humans that had been thrown in. Everyone wants to survive. The Lindong Players are the breakthrough point for most development, they have the resources to build cities in this new game world and lead others to win. Though, of course, things are a lot more complicated than that. (As for the ML, his name is Shen Junfeng. He's one of the first players that the FL will meet. And though the romance between the two is very anticlimactic, it still has a sense of sweetness now and then).
