Life starts anew. A world only has one chance to reset time, and since Baiya is the ruling goddess of this world, this rare opportunity is valuable when she uses it. After that, Fia asked the gods of time from various realms for help.
After the time reset, Baiya was terrified to face her past again. Although she was the goddess who ruled a world, her heart was already full of wounds and scars. She was an extremely fragile girl.
Baiya insisted that the past she experienced was an absolute despair that could never be chosen differently, a cruel fate already arranged in advance. She didn’t want to go through that sorrowful life again, where she had to sacrifice others just to survive! Even if the world was one of the strong devouring the weak, companions, family, lovers—all of them were used! All of them betrayed her! Just to live… she didn’t want to experience that again.
Fia was troubled by this. The time reset was meant to untangle the knot in Goddess Baiya’s heart and prevent her from destroying the future of the world. But if Baiya didn’t participate in her own life, not to mention what the future would become, time itself would become chaotic.
Fia had a good idea. She was a wicked goddess, so since Goddess Baiya was afraid of her own life, why not arrange for someone else to live it in her place? That way, everything would be perfect~~
As for the feelings of the person she chose, Fia didn’t care at all.
Once decided, ordinary humans could only be game walkthroughs. Because the name was the same as Goddess Baiya’s, a seventeen-year-old boy named Baiya was honorably chosen by Fia.
Regarding this matter, Goddess Baiya argued with Fia. Baiya believed that no matter who it was, when faced with her absolutely despairing life, they would never make a different choice! In other words, no matter who, they would follow exactly the same tragic destiny, or even one more cruel and hopeless.
No matter who, in her life, there was only one way to survive, only one choice! And that choice was the despair that Goddess Baiya could never bear to face again—a hopeless hope.
Goddess Baiya was unwilling to sacrifice her important people just to survive, so she opposed Fia’s decision and believed her existence was unnecessary!
Maybe without her during the reset time, others… could definitely live better lives.
Fia couldn’t agree with that. During the reset time, Baiya’s existence was essential.
“What Baiya-chan can’t do, Baiya-kun might actually be able to do,” Fia said seriously in a sweet voice, sounding almost like a half-hearted excuse.
The highest deity, the creator goddess of all realms, Fia, yet Goddess Baiya didn’t understand why she was interested in her.
She was just a ruling goddess of one world; Fia could be said to be her senior. If Fia truly wanted a boy with the same name to replace her, she had no choice but to accept it.
Next, Fia had her write down all the important people, events, places in her life into a novel, with no less than 300,000 words, to be completed within a month.
Still not fully understanding, Goddess Baiya hadn’t even come to her senses before Fia locked her in a little black room.
Having never written a book before, she spent half a month learning the basics, then another half a month finishing the draft.
“Um, what’s the point of this?” Goddess Baiya asked, holding the manuscript.
“Baiya-chan, look, if I told Baiya-kun this way, ‘Uh huh, sorry Baiya-kun, there’s a flat-chested goddess whose life is too tragic, so I’m asking you to change her fate. Please live her life for her!’ honestly, well, he would definitely look at me with pitying eyes, sniff sniff. Even if Baiya-kun understood, he’d probably refuse.
If I forced him, he’d be very unhappy. He might even commit suicide the day Baiya-chan reincarnated, so I have to think carefully about the excuse to make Baiya-kun naturally and wholeheartedly participate in Baiya-chan’s life,” Fia smiled innocently, though as a creator goddess, she knew all about human nature and deceit.
“Baiya-kun really likes games, you know. No matter how harsh or terrifying the world in front of him is, he won’t get nervous, provided the world is virtual. As long as it’s fake, it’s all fine. Baiya-kun has this lucky mindset, and this is a common fault among all gamers. No matter how cruel the facts, as long as it’s fake, they can accept it calmly. Otherwise, they’d be scared away during the game, which would be embarrassing.”
“Fia needs to help Baiya-kun adapt to Baiya-chan’s world as fast as possible. That means using this very trait. Baiya-chan’s novel is indispensable. Even if it’s a lie, making Baiya-kun feel lucky is the best thing ever~~”
“I get the logic, but didn’t Fia just say something rude? Flat·chest·god·dess? That’s unnecessary!”
“But after Baiya-chan became a goddess, her body stopped growing. She has to keep this regrettable body. There’s no chance for her chest to grow at all.”
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Thus, Fia’s plan unfolded. She first erased Baiya’s mark in the original world, then transported him to her homeland of the gods, [Aertia]. She took out the novel Goddess Baiya wrote about her own life and told Baiya that if he could revise the tragic fate of Baiya Ephiel Clorom in the book titled [SLAVE], he could return to the original world.
Everything she did was to give Baiya a lucky, unreal mindset toward the game.
After sending the soul of the boy Baiya into Baiya’s body, the true instigators—Goddess Baiya and Creator Goddess Fia—began observing “Baiya’s” life in the godly homeland [Aertia].
However, according to their observations at this moment, Baiya’s life was already over. At least, based on the current situation, Baiya was beyond saving.
“Lost an arm, large burns across the body, half the flesh below the face gone, a third of the brain and flesh shaken. She’s dying, it’s over. As expected, there’s no salvation,” Goddess Baiya grasped her skirt tightly, her eyes moist, unwilling and biting her lip hard.
“That’s… enough…”