Life Game In Other World
Chapter 337: The Seventh Official Copy World (Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 337: Chapter 337: The Seventh Official Copy World (Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

[Age 0: You were born, and your parents named you Nell.]

[Age 1: You were born in Rock City, a city in the far north of the Federation. Here, for a third of the year, everything is covered in snow and ice. You are the youngest child in your family, the sixth in line, with three older brothers and two older sisters.]

[Age 2: Your mother is a gentle person with flaxen long hair. She isn’t frail; to support you and your siblings, she works three jobs a day. She is only home at night, and the one who cares for you is your fifth sister, who is two years older than you.]

Whenever your mother comes home late at night, she carefully strokes your forehead with her rough hands and sings you lullabies to put you to sleep.]

[Age 3: You have your first memory of your father.]

Your father is a miner who works at a mine outside the city. He only gets the chance to come home on the rest days each month if he can afford the expensive shuttle bus from the mine. However, even then, he doesn’t always come home.]

The times you see him are infrequent; he often hugs you, lifts you into the air, and spins you around as if you are flying. Through the loose synthetic cotton of his coat, you can feel the hardness of his hands, like stone.]

[Age 4: You meet your eldest brother, who is twelve years older than you. He attended middle school for a year before becoming an apprentice at a restaurant and then moving on to a furniture factory. He now lives in the factory dormitory and rarely comes home. He likes to playfully pinch your cheeks and make funny faces to amuse you.]

[Age 5: You are now agile enough to move around the house and help your older siblings with some chores. You don’t wash dishes well, but you are learning quickly. Your second sister graduated from middle school and started working at a textile mill. Your third brother, fourth brother, and fifth sister are all in school. The house is empty at noon, and your mother can’t afford kindergarten fees, so you have to take care of yourself.]

[Age 6: Before autumn, your father comes home. He bought some fruit, and the whole family is happy.]

You eat a banana with slightly blackened skin and find it tastes much better than the banana-flavored candy your third brother brings back from school.]

Your eldest brother sends some money home.]

That year in autumn, you started elementary school.]

[Age 7: You are doing well at school and are a well-behaved child. Teachers like you a lot.]

[Age 8: You overhear a conversation in the hallway where a teacher tells your mother it’s time to pay for the supplementary courses ordered by the school, a fee she has been delaying for three months. You hear your mother agree with reluctance, and your third brother gets accepted into high school.]

[Age 9: Your mother still hasn’t paid for the supplementary courses. Last winter, the electricity bill increased, and all the money you had saved was used for heating.]

Passing by the principal’s office with your friends, you seem to hear the principal scolding a teacher, and it appears that this teacher doesn’t like you as much anymore.]

That winter was freezing, and your mother turned off the electric heater and carefully burned coal at home instead.]

[Age 10: Because you lack one set of supplementary courses compared to your classmates, your schoolwork falls behind, and your grades drop. The teacher stops urging you to pay for the supplementary courses, but it’s as if he no longer notices you; you feel like an invisible child.]

Your mother is tired from working every day, and you don’t want to trouble her anymore. Your fourth brother gets accepted into high school but decides to drop out and becomes an apprentice at a restaurant instead. You no longer want to study either.]

Your fifth sister gets accepted into a decent middle school and receives a scholarship from a private foundation.]

[Age 11: Your grades decline further, relegating you to the bottom of your class. Your third brother seems to notice your struggles and talks with you through the night.]

Your older brother was about to take the high school graduation exams, but he still set aside a lot of time every weekend to tutor you, and your grades gradually improved.

He got into college, and he originally had the chance to go to a better university in the south, but after arguing with father and mother, he insisted on staying in Rock City and enrolled in Rock City Mining College.

At 12 years old: You started middle school, you couldn’t afford any tutoring courses, so you studied hard, your school was a charity school run by the church, this school had very low fees, but there were many prohibitions and rules.

You also received that scholarship from your sister’s foundation.

At 13 years old: On your way to school, you ran into your other brother, who had joined a gang, he told you not to tell your parents and bought you an ice cream, which was your first time tasting ice cream.

Your sister seemed to have fallen in love, with someone from her middle school, a child of a mine shareholder, your older brother said this person was not to be trusted and warned her to be careful, but she didn’t seem to listen and went to the same high school as that boy.

At 14 years old: You were doing well academically, the priest in charge of the school took a liking to you, he was a kind man, he said you would have the chance to go to college, God is fair to everyone, he gave you a black cross pendant.

At 15 years old: You were admitted to high school, your mother’s health was deteriorating, she was now working as a cleaner in a restaurant, jobs were getting harder to find, she could no longer find as many odd jobs, life was getting harder, your eldest brother, second sister, and the brother in the gang would send some money back home, while your older brother worked part-time and studied.

Out of everyone, only you knew your brother was involved with the gang, you often tried to persuade him to leave, he always just laughed and bought you some snacks, sometimes he would help you buy a couple of supplementary textbooks.

Life could just barely get by, but as you all grew older, life seemed to gradually get better.

At 16 years old: At the beginning of the year, the mine where your father worked reduced wages, a group of miners protested against the consortium, and your father got embroiled in it too, the mine arranged for the security team to suppress the protest, and your father died in the chaotic crowd.

The mine only said it was a stampede accident, an accidental death, and compensated ten thousand yuan.

Your brother in the gang couldn’t stand it and went to confront the mine, after that, there was no news from him.

Your older brother, after graduating, worked in the mine and began investigating the incident, was discovered by the mine, and was sent to prison on charges of stealing company secrets, receiving a ten-year sentence.

Your mother fell into depression, which, combined with years of overwork, caused her to collapse into bed.

Your sister came back for a visit and then left again, and after that, there was no contact with her anymore.

Second sister, with a pair of scissors in hand, wanted to go to the mine and fight to the death, but she was stopped by you and your eldest brother, who was the most honest and didn’t know what to do, just smoked cigarettes from night until morning.

You visited your older brother in prison, he said we couldn’t fight the consortium, and told you to take good care of mother, that she must not be allowed to come to harm.

After that, the mental state of your second sister seemed to have some issues, often needing some care, she lost her job, her boyfriend also broke up with her, you took second sister in to live with you and your mother.

Time drifted on to the end of the year, and this winter was especially cold, the cost of electricity and coal had risen again, and more and more people on the streets were out of work.

You gave up on your studies and found an apprenticeship at a fancy restaurant.