MTL - Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 5 staggered

Burdened by the crushing debt of his parents, Lex never imagined a life beyond endless work and grief. But fate had other plans.One fateful day, an accident ends his mundane existence—only to thrust him into a world of fantasy. Reincarnated as a side character doomed to fail, Lex now inhabits the body of a so-called teacher—a fraud with no real skills, destined for disgrace.Standing at a crossroads, he faces a choice: follow the canon and flee from his inevitable downfall, or defy fate and carve his own path.Just as he considers running… a voice calls out.[Need some help?]Grasping the talent that his predecessor never realized he had, Adrian decided to defy his fate and become a true Runesmith.However, he never expected that once he would start on the path of becoming a Runesmith, he would start gaining so many connections.[Ding!][Cross-dimension group chat has been activated!][Hero of World Nebula: Old man, when can I get my sword done?][The untamed witch: When will you help me with my staff?][The obsessed one: Darling, when will you do me-I mean, when will you do something about my blades?]....what the heck is all this?°°°°°°°°°A/N:- Read the first few chapters, before deciding to drop it.English won't be perfect, but it will be readable.Additional tags: Cross-world group chat, possessive characters, sudden strength gain, overpowered MC, broken engagement.

Xiao Yanling traveled through time.

Yan Suisui, the cannon fodder and silly sister who transformed into the heroine of the Koi novel.

She is from the same mother, but her younger sister has stolen her luck, and she is the little lucky star favored by the group in the capital.

And she became a disaster star.

She was sent to the countryside and lived a life of stupidity. The whole village was slaughtered and her life was miserable.

The three brothers in the adoptive father’s family died without a burial place.

Twins are born from the same birth, but they have different fates.

Yan Suisui put her hands on her hips, and her words came true, and her words followed the rules, pointing out who was struck by lightning.

She wants to change everyone’s destiny! Take back your luck!

On the day she was brought back to the capital, the whole capital was eagerly waiting to see her joke.

But who would have known that the poor eldest brother was the youngest chief minister in the dynasty.

The second elder brother is already a general guarding the dynasty.

The third brother controls the world’s granary!

The aloof tyrant was standing cautiously at the city gate, waiting for his little ancestor to come home.

- Description from novelbuddy

A mysterious teenager who had lost his past, awakened in Tianlong Continent. Mistaken as the Ye family’s Son, he used this identity to observe this chaotic world and to search for his past self, but only to find an inevitable and terrible fate, therefore he indignantly laughed at his destiny, and revealed his prowess to rule the lands under the heavens.

Since then, the air and the clouds moved with his hands, and even thunderstorms were subject to his palms! He, as the fairytale’s main character, had shocked the people of Tianlong Continent with his legendary prowess and intelligence, but the extent of his powers were still unknown.

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He died doing what he loved—on the basketball court, surrounded by cheers, chasing a dream that never came true.But fate—or perhaps the Basketball God—gave him one more shot.When Dirgantara Renji, a washed-out benchwarmer with a decade of struggle behind him, suddenly wakes up as his 15-year-old self, he’s confused, overwhelmed... and determined. This isn’t just a second chance at life—it’s a second chance at the dream he refused to let die.Now in 2009, armed with a mysterious System, years of experience, and a deep hunger to prove himself, Dirga is ready to carve a new path. But this time, things are different. New faces. New choices. And hidden talents he never met in his past life.Will he finally rise from the shadows to become the basketball legend he was meant to be?