Weird, my gaming life

[This is what I kept in my head; I hope you enjoyed watching it.]

Yuan'er! It's all your mother's fault for being useless!

The woman's voice trembled, her words broken.

"From now on...you should live well here, and Mom will come to see you often!"

The woman looked exhausted, staring intently at the silent child in front of her.

Tears welled up in her eyes, one after another, rolling down her cheeks and leaving two wet streaks.

Lin Yuan simply watched silently, without saying a word.

He knew exactly what was going to happen next.

I was abandoned.

But what can he do?

He was just a six-year-old child.

Everything was beyond his control.

"Yuan'er! Is there anything else you want to say to your mother?"

The child's silence made the woman's heart tighten, and she couldn't help but ask again.

Lin Yuan's gaze passed over the woman's slender body.

He looked toward the slightly larger figure behind her.

"I have nothing to say."

Lin Yuan's voice was calm, without the slightest unease one would expect from a child who had been abandoned.

"I just hope that you and your brother can get what you want."

After speaking, Lin Yuan turned his head and looked at the kind-faced middle-aged woman beside him.

"Headmistress, let's go inside."

"Oh! What a good child!"

Orphanage director Zhang Wensang reached out and affectionately patted Lin Yuan's little head.

She then looked at the woman who was still sobbing with her face covered.

"Ms. Tang, things have already come to this, so you don't need to be too sad."

"We at Tangxin Orphanage will definitely take good care of the children!"

Tang Xin trembled all over; every word felt like it was stabbing into her heart.

Looking at the child who was about to be taken away, she suddenly felt empty inside.

She wanted to reach out and try to salvage the situation, but found that she couldn't even muster a shred of courage.

We could only watch helplessly.

She watched as the child, who had received little love from her since birth, was gradually taken away from her side.

She is a woman who has been married before.

Her ex-husband mysteriously disappeared, leaving behind a child.

Life was tough, forcing her to remarry while still having children.

A year later, she gave birth to another son.

She thought life would continue in this uneventful way.

I will be an ordinary wife and an ordinary mother for the rest of my life.

But fate is unpredictable.

During a delivery trip, her husband was driving while fatigued and was involved in a serious car accident.

The person is gone.

As a result, the family incurred a huge debt.

At that moment, she felt as if her whole world had collapsed.

Her husband wasn't a rich man; he was just an ordinary truck driver.

To support his two children, he only sleeps four hours a day.

They worked tirelessly day and night just to barely keep the family afloat.

But she never expected that disaster would strike so suddenly.

In the blink of an eye, the once peaceful life was shattered.

The house is empty.

As a last resort, the mother and her two children had no choice but to move out of their three-bedroom apartment.

They sold the house and used the money to pay off the compensation.

She had almost no money left.

She was a woman who was pampered by both of her husbands.

At home, I usually just take care of the kids and watch TV.

Now, the man, the pillar of the family, has fallen.

With two children, her life suddenly plunged into despair.

Just when she thought she was going to struggle in the mud for the rest of her life, a familiar figure appeared.

At that moment, her world was illuminated once again.

However, the price of this glory was that she had to lose a son.

"Mom, why didn't we take my little brother with us!"

Tang Xin was lost in thought when a boy of about nine years old behind her couldn't help but ask a question.

His clear voice was filled with intense doubt.

Tang Xin came to her senses and raised her hand to wipe the moisture from the corner of her eyes.

She touched her eldest son's hair and forced a stiff smile.

"Haicheng, if you bring your younger brother along, your father won't want us anymore."

"This way, it's the best for him and for you."

Lin Haicheng watched his younger brother's departing figure.

His small eyes were full of confusion.

He came to his stepfather's house when he was two years old and had little understanding of adult matters.

His stepfather treated him very well, and he was even unaware for a time that he was not his biological son.

Therefore, he also liked this younger brother very much.

She often shares the toys her mother buys with her younger brother.

But now, he has gained a father, but he is about to lose a younger brother.

He felt a tightness in his chest, but dared not say anything more.

After all, the new dad doesn't want a younger brother.

"Mom, will we come to see our little brother again?"

Tang Xin was about to take Lin Haicheng's hand when she heard these words and her body stiffened abruptly.

"Haicheng, when you have time... Mom will bring you to see your little brother."

After saying that, she took Lin Haicheng's hand and quickly left the place where she couldn't breathe and dared not stay for another second.

Lin Yuan, who had followed the director into the orphanage, silently turned around.

He glanced at the two departing figures and sighed softly in his heart.

He is a time traveler.

I've been in this world for six years now.

From the initial bewilderment of being reborn as an infant, to living in a daze until today.

He still couldn't fully adapt to this unfamiliar world.

Just a second ago, he was still working overtime at the company.

The next second, a sharp pain shot through my heart, and everything went black.

When he opened his eyes again, he had become a crying, hungry baby.

At first, he thought this place was no different from Earth in his previous life.

But gradually, he discovered the truth of this world.

He pieced together a rough outline from the television and news his mother watched.

This is a world rebuilt after the apocalypse.

The world, once governed by the rule of law, saw its order collapse under the catalyst of the apocalypse.

A rigid hierarchical system once again enveloped the land.

Human civilization seemed to have been severed in half, returning to the era of feudal dynasties.

Although it retained the technology of the previous era, the emergence of the Awakened changed everything.

Those who wield power are no longer satisfied with the power they hold.

Thus, the aristocratic families bound by blood ties once again stepped onto the historical stage.

Lin Yuan is currently in the southernmost lower-level city of the Eastern Pole Kingdom.

The entire world was built upon pre-apocalyptic nations, forming nine megacities.

Humanity uses these nine cities as its center to expand again into the post-apocalyptic world.

The Easternmost Country is distributed in a circular pattern.

The megacity, located at the center, is the residence of powerful and wealthy families.

From the outside out, the cities are ranked as follows: higher-level, intermediate-level, and lower-level.

What chilled Lin Yuan the most was the true meaning of this distribution.

This is a layout with people forming walls.

The lower-level cities are located on the very edge of the entire country.

Their existence is meant to use the negative energy in the hearts of the residents to block the eerie forces constantly encroaching from outside the city.

This was done to protect the superior city from invasion.

The higher the city's tier, the happier the life.

In the superior city, resources are plentiful, and it is even more prosperous than before the apocalypse.

Moreover, higher-ranking cities have absolute dominance over lower-ranking cities.

Lin Yuan also knew something about his mother.

In their daily interactions, he could sense that she was not simple.

She has an innate air of pamperedness about her.

She was out of place among the women in the lower city who were struggling to make a living.

From birth, he experienced his mother's differential treatment.

No matter what delicious food or fun toys there are, they are always given to the older brother first.

He didn't actually harbor any resentment about it.

His body was that of a child, but his soul was that of a man in his twenties.

She wouldn't be so jealous as to compete with a child for someone's affections.

Moreover, he could see the kindness his adopted brother showed him.

It is normal for parents to show favoritism towards their children.

He can accept anything as long as it's not abuse.

He just didn't understand why his mother suddenly wanted to send him to an orphanage.

Life has indeed been difficult since my father's accident.

But it's far from being a situation where we can't survive.

Filled with questions, Lin Yuan could only silently follow behind the dean.

Curious glances were cast from all around.

The children were dressed in drab, gray clothes, their eyes blank.

A sense of unprecedented confusion welled up in Lin Yuan's heart once again.

Is this my future home?

It's a complete mess.

He used to have a father and mother, but now he is an orphan.

However, since we're already here, we might as well make the best of it.

The turmoil in Lin Yuan's heart gradually subsided.

In his previous life, he was an orphan.

Now, it's nothing more than being brought back to square one and having to start all over again.

Thinking about this, his troubled heart calmed down. After all, it was quite unpleasant to call a woman who didn't love him "Mom" every day.