Gardenia's Heart - Chapter 14: Curse

Gu Ting Yu is a veterinarian with a fear of animals. Haunted by the same nightmare all these years, he is desperate to find out the reason behind those dreams. He then travels into a fantasy realm by fate, entering the Palace of the Twelve Sacred Beasts.

Died watching his beloved club crumble. Reborn with the ultimate cheat code. Can he rewrite their destiny without breaking the game?Amani Hamadi breathed football analysis. His final, bitter moments in the future were spent witnessing Bristol Rovers plunge towards relegation, his heart breaking with theirs.Death, however, wasn't the end. He awakens in 2010 – younger, back at Rovers as a youth coach, and utterly bewildered.But confusion turns to stunned disbelief when a mysterious interface flickers across his vision: the Football Manager System.Player stats, tactical projections, future potentials – it's the legendary video game brought to terrifying, exhilarating life.Armed with encyclopedic knowledge of the future and this analytical tool, Amani has a second shot at his managerial dreams.Yet, reality bites hard. Trapped as a lowly assistant, his revolutionary insights are ignored. He's forced to watch helplessly as history repeats itself: relegation, financial ruin, and a club drowning in despair.When catastrophe finally opens the manager's door, Amani steps in – only to face scorn as the “25-year-old novice.”Now, the real test begins. Can Amani leverage his impossible System to:- Unearth hidden gems the football world has discarded?- Implement tactics so advanced they border on madness?- Lift a broken club from the depths of League Two obscurity?- Navigate the dangerous ethics of knowing tomorrow's headlines today?Every decision ripples through time. Every bargain signing is a gamble. Every tactical masterstroke invites ridicule before it breeds awe.And as Bristol Rovers defy expectations, Amani must balance his quest for glory with the weight of his knowledge, choosing which miracles to preserve and which destinies to alter.From the ashes of relegation, a legend is forged. But will the System be his salvation, or will the beautiful game exact a price for his second chance?Follow Amani's journey as he battles skepticism, financial ruin, and his own conscience, aiming not just for promotion, but for glory that echoes through history – one resurrected career and impossible victory at a time.

– The planet [Earth] has entered the abnormal state [Apocalypse].

– You have failed in saving the Earth. The Authority, [Vintage Clock (EX)] rewinds the world’s time.

For Yu Jitae, it was a message he had seen many times.

It was tiresome.

It would have been great had he died with everyone else.

But he couldn’t, for his authorities that made him the strongest existence, brought him back in time whenever he did.

And even with his strength, he couldn’t protect the broad earth against the maddened dragons.

– The world’s time will soon begin.

As the clock resumed ticking in the direction it should, his 7th iteration came to a start.

Fortunately, he finally had a gist.

Shen Ziqiao woke up from her deep slumber to find herself transmigrated as the character of an ancient novel. To make matters even worse, she was written by the author to be the moronic daughter of the villain, merely a walking cannon fodder.

“Are the Gods punishing me because I left a bad review?!”

Yet it doesn’t end there; she has to strive against a reborn heroine’s revenge! And especially against the major death flag in the plot: getting married to the capital’s fool.

But why does she find this fool’s eyes to be too cunning?

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