[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist":3,"chapter-this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-606":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1532663,1991,"Chapter 606: 606: Who's Cheating?","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-606",606,"\u003Cp>Ten minutes earlier, Mistblade had been lounging lazily on her throne, staring at two neatly arranged rows of World's Grave Forest tiles displayed across a table made of shifting mist. Her posture was uncharacteristically relaxed—one leg crossed over the other, one hand playing idly with a tile, the other elbow propped on the armrest, her cheek resting against her knuckles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such undignified posture didn't suit a monarch, yet something about these tiles made her slouch every time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Top row:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[1-Dot], [2-Dot], [3-Dot], [4-Dot], [5-Dot], [6-Dot], [9-Dot], [9-Dot], [9-Dot], [7-Dot], [7-Dot], [8-Dot], [8-Dot]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second row had a similar count but was a chaotic mix of Bamboo, Character, and Wind tiles. There were sequences and pairs, but Mistblade disliked disorder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the years, she had scored a fair share of wins, but today she wanted to complete a Pure Suit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those two [8-Dot] tiles were new—she'd hunted them down deliberately. That extra [6-Dot] tile had been lingering forever; it was why she hadn't gone easy on BS-Rita when she found out Rita had snatched both the [6-Dot] and [8-Dot].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though admittedly, after acquiring those two [8-Dot] tiles, the rage had subsided somewhat…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For now, at least, she was pleased with her hand. She tapped her fingers merrily on the mist-table, admiring the potential victory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She finally opened the honor store and located World Graveyard, intending to purchase a final tile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the new tile began to coalesce before her, a system notification shattered the calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Divine Game Announcement: Due to the efforts of a mysterious player, the Lania Kaia World's Grave Forest has been reshuffled.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mistblade's hand froze mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her tiles collapsed, toppling one after another like corpses falling in line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then the newly formed tile in front of her—a shining [7-Dot]—also dropped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Mistblade's soul departed her body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the vast magical palace, silence fell like a tomb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Divine Game Announcement: Lania Kaia's Mistblade has used Divine Game reward \"Who's Cheating?\" to identify the reshuffler.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Divine Game Announcement: The reshuffler of Lania Kaia's World's Grave Forest — BS-Rita]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita: ¥#%@!#￥@%\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was privacy even a concept in this game anymore?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, when exactly had she cheated?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She inhaled sharply and opened the battlefield chat channel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lania Kaia · Maple Syrup]: I've decided. Next time I see BS-Rita, I'm giving her a 1-minute head start before I stab her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lania Kaia · Fat Goose]: Honk honk, same. My garbage hand got reshuffled into something great.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Marmang · Crab]: What's the deal? Did Mistblade almost win, and someone reset the game?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lania Kaia · Tanuki Cub]: Pretty obvious, yeah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lania Kaia · Mistblade]: Wither Monarch, if you catch BS-Rita, leave me half her HP.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lania Kaia · Wither Monarch]: Sure thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lania Kaia · Wither Monarch]: LOL.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lania Kaia · Mistblade]: ???\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lania Kaia · Maple Syrup]: Mistblade, were you building a Pure Suit?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lania Kaia · Fat Goose]: Yep, she even traded a tile with me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lania Kaia · Syntax]: And with me too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lania Kaia · XX]: She asked me as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Marmang · Crab]: What's a Pure Suit?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lania Kaia · Maple Syrup]: Hard to explain. The emotional equivalent is you standing at the restaurant door last game, about to kill Rita and get [Midnight Exile], and she vanishes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Marmang · Crab]: I don't get it, but... ouch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lania Kaia · Pine Bloom]: Mistblade, you were doing missions last round and missed the plate-smashing event. Regret it now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lania Kaia · Mistblade]: Rare Achievement Unlocked: \"Dear Gods, Remember My Name.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pine Bloom rage quit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lania Kaia · Maple Syrup]: Hah, Pine Bloom rage-quit again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lania Kaia · Mistblade]: Betrayal, sister-in-law, elopement, Maple Flare, BS-Rita, wedding altar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maple Syrup also rage quit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mistblade had become a razor-sharp meme machine—biting everyone in her path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thank the gods she hadn't realized she could actually see the battlefield chat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita quietly closed the chat channel and made a vow: from now on, she would lurk only—never again post with her real account.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, the post-game battlefield chat had proven incredibly useful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Players hid everything during a match—but after it ended, they dissected every detail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita had gleaned a lot from those replays.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, back during Chaotic Restaurant, after securing the chef's skill, she'd made a cautious retreat. In hindsight, had she been too cautious?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chef hadn't attacked, sure, but couldn't they have?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those tents would've been the perfect places for ambushes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the easier the opportunity, the more alert she became.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was like a cat with twitchy nerves—every rustle made her fur stand on end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in this case, she'd been right to be cautious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She'd overheard something in the battlefield chat a few days ago that confirmed her instincts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ghost·Sang Cup, while venting in chat, revealed he had wiped out eight players inside the restaurant—including staff and vendors—just to kill BS-Rita. In return, he only got three kill rewards and was severely punished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system had told him: \"You have caused significant trouble for a restaurant. You are now blacklisted from the Dark Cuisine Street and cannot enter any food tents for the next three hours. If caught by patrolling inspectors, you will be killed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>B8017913 rolled across the tiles, snapping Rita back to reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[B8017913]: With a hand this good... so, are you going back into the Battlefield tonight?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not that good,\" Rita muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She tried to find a new excuse. But the moment she realized she was actively looking for reasons not to go, she knew the truth: she wanted to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Getting stronger was addictive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After tasting the thrill and chaos of that kind of game, ordinary life felt unbearable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no better way to grow than through combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A year of real-world training couldn't compare to a single combat course earned in the World Battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with Apache no longer available, if she wanted more [Alchemy] classes, she had to get them from the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only real reason to stay out was to collect more attribute points in Lania Kaia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita found herself hesitating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She reconsidered an idea she'd dismissed many times before: should she trade for attribute points with Eclipse Vanguard?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just a few hundred—thousands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ugh, maybe it'd be better to find a high-level solo player and use [Moment of Reversal] to swap stats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not another 300-for-2000 trade—just 300-for-400+ would be safer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, a message arrived from Shadow.Q.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Shadow.Q]: If we wanted you to bring one of our players into the Mahjong Tournament, what would it cost? Eclipse Vanguard wants to know—just to be prepared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Rita]: 8888 attribute points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Shadow.Q]: That's... the most polite rejection I've ever seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't even really a rejection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though she later walked it back mentally, in that split-second when she typed that answer, she had considered it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eclipse Vanguard had made their offer at the exact moment she craved attribute points most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they could genuinely give her 8888 points in one go, she would have taken them—and used her [1-Bamboo] to bring one of their players into the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, she wouldn't have tolerated anyone else eating at her table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, she had enough confidence to share it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Divine Game could be a playground for the powerful—or a nightmare for the unprepared.\u003C\u002Fp>",1203,"2026-06-06T06:15:13.778Z",1,"novelbin.me","3b60ab5faacc59b63a4d888be26c3f5998f1a7b6d2bb2001cc14ef5042bd49bf","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-607","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-605",1404,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-cover.jpg"]