Chapter 1

"Brother Lin, this is the curry rice that Haruka asked me to deliver."

"The taste is amazing!"

Inside an apartment in Tokyo—

A girl with twin pigtails burst into the living room and, with Lin's bewildered expression, placed the curry on the coffee table.

"Remember to eat it while it's hot!"

"I'm off!"

She waved her hand.

The girl didn't give him a chance to speak.

In the next second, she turned around and rushed out with the momentum of a charging boar.

It wasn't until the sound of the door closing reached his ears that he was jolted out of his shock.

Subconsciously, he cast his gaze toward the curry rice, which was still emitting a faint heat.

At this moment,

Lin's expression was filled with complexity.

At his age, he was still being fed by a much younger girl.

He really was a disgrace to all transmigrants...

Yes, that's right!

Lin had transmigrated.

Once a middle-aged single otaku,

he woke up one day to find himself in Tokyo in 2004.

He became a recent university graduate.

An experience that only the protagonist could enjoy.

It seemed very lucky.

Unfortunately, reality was cruel.

The original owner of the body Lin inherited had a life full of hardships.

From a young age, his parents divorced, and he lived with his father, moving to Tokyo to make a living.

He endured countless hardships and offenses.

After much effort, he accumulated some wealth, and his father met his true love. It seemed that the family's hard times were over, and a bright and happy future was just around the corner.

However, a traffic accident occurred, resulting in the death of his father and stepmother, leaving the original owner completely alone.

Worse still,

the original owner's father was ultimately found to be at fault in the accident.

This meant that the original owner not only received no compensation but also had to pay a large sum of money to the victims of the accident.

Losing his family and nearly going bankrupt, the original owner felt the endless malice of fate.

Perhaps it was precisely because he couldn't accept this cruel reality

that he couldn't bear the immense shock and was taken over by a soul from another world.

Such an experience

was truly lamentable.

Fortunately, although Lin inherited all the original owner's memories,

these memories were more like a long movie, not requiring him to fully immerse himself.

Because of this,

he wouldn't fall into despair like the original owner, feeling abandoned by the world.

To some extent,

this could also be considered a stroke of luck.

However, after inheriting everything from the original owner,

Lin was surprised to find

that he not only had the same name as the original owner,

but their appearances were also surprisingly similar.

Compared to his pre-transmigration self,

this body was not only younger but also more handsome.

His skin became flawless, his nose more defined, and his eyebrows and eyes more striking, as if a beauty filter had been applied, making him instantly more charming.

If he could have been this handsome before transmigrating, he wouldn't have remained single for so long.

Cough, cough...

Getting off track.

Lin wasn't sure whether his soul had transmigrated into the body of a counterpart in this world

or if a deity had played a joke, optimizing his body and sending him to this new world to experience transmigration.

But the reason no longer mattered.

What mattered was

how he would adapt to this world and survive after transmigrating.

After the initial surprise, tension, and mild excitement,

Lin quickly calmed down and began to analyze his current situation.

First,

the identity of a recent university graduate offered him no advantages.

Graduating with a language degree, finding a suitable job was difficult.

If not, the original owner wouldn't have faced so many setbacks.

Moreover,

Lin himself didn't want to become a Tokyo salaryman, working overtime every night.

Therefore, the option of finding a job was the first to be ruled out.

But without a job,

there would be no food.

Even Lin, who had chosen to lie flat before transmigrating, understood this.

So the next step,

he quickly focused on the inheritance left by the original owner's father—

After paying off all the compensation,

Lin was left with only the apartment he lived in and a small but fully equipped convenience store.

If he could run this convenience store, even if he didn't make much money, he could at least ensure a basic standard of living.

Moreover, he still had about 500,000 yen in savings, so he wasn't completely destitute.

As long as he could get through the initial period,

Lin felt

that survival wouldn't be difficult for him.

However...

Was this enough?

After experiencing transmigration,

was this enough?

No!

Although Lin had a go-with-the-flow personality,

he wasn't truly without desires.

A new life was before him,

and there should be some changes.

At least,

he shouldn't continue to be a middle-aged single man with no girlfriend, right?

That's decided!

His goal after transmigrating was to quickly find a girlfriend, preferably one who was both beautiful and caring.

For example, his childhood friend Haruka, who lived next door, was a perfect match.

If he could marry her, his future life would surely be fulfilling!

Unfortunately,

although Lin immediately liked the girl next door,

whether through the original owner's memories or his own understanding,

courting this childhood friend wouldn't be easy.

After all, she was an anime heroine who was extremely slow in matters of the heart and only cared about her two younger sisters.

Waiting for her to come to her senses

who knows when that would happen...

Yes,

from the moment he arrived in this world,

Lin realized that he wasn't transmigrating to a time in the past but to a new, somewhat different world.

More accurately,

this was the world of an anime.

Because living next door were the three sisters from the anime he remembered well, which had four seasons, with mixed reviews for the art style of two seasons but impeccable storytelling—the Nan sisters!

In the original plot,

the Nan sisters didn't have a neighbor like Lin.

But in this real world,

this neighborly relationship had lasted for nearly a decade.

As the saying goes, "Distant relatives are not as helpful as close neighbors."

Over the years, the relationship between the Lin and Nan families had become so close that they were like one family.

Because of this,

when the original owner faced a crisis and the childhood friend's brother was deeply affected, the eldest sister, Haruka, took it upon herself to take care of him.

She would deliver three meals a day to Lin, either herself or through her younger sister, Natsuki.

If she had free time, she would even come over to help clean the room and wash clothes.

Her care was meticulous!

Unfortunately,

Haruka's attentiveness never helped the original owner overcome his depression.

In the end, it benefited Lin,

who took over the original owner's future life!