Rivers of the Night - Chapter 3: Merchant Greycoat

Reborn as Red Army Misha!

- Description from novelbuddy

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

—— Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》

I made myself a ghost back to life from death, with hatred in my bones and conspiracy brewed for years, sinking into the marsh, into the abyss. All I want is to bury the rotten roots, growing thistles and thorns which can kill like upas, to stab into the hypocritical civilization.

In the bottom of the muck……I found my lucida.

- Description from Novelupdates

Tsinghua University's top law student, Ji Xizhi, accidentally enters a book and becomes the naive secondary character in an entertainment story. Bullied online and pushed to the brink of quitting the entertainment circle, she fights back.On the day of the court hearing, Ji Xizhi goes to court alone and defends herself, completely outwitting the opposing lawyer and winning the case.Tsinghua Law School Professor Jiang Qianli tweets in her support: “Congratulations to my student on winning her first case.”Law School students chime in: “Junior, the Law School is waiting for you!”Her agency, which had been making threats, is left stunned: “????”Her fans are in disbelief: “?!!!! The idol I just started following suddenly got into Tsinghua?”[Entertainment Circle + Super Scholar + Various Variety Shows + Sweet and Empowering + Strong Female Lead]

When a terminally ill young man awakens in the world of his favorite childhood game, he realizes he isn’t the protagonist, the destined hero, or even a major side character. Instead, he has become an extra—a disowned noble barely clinging to relevance in a world where strength determines everything. Worse, his fate in the game was to die an early, meaningless death.Armed with only his knowledge of the game’s storyline and a common system that tracks his stats and skills, he is determined to survive. But mere survival isn’t enough. He remembers a hidden easter egg from a long-forgotten anime collaboration: the Mangekyō Sharingan—a power limited by game mechanics but unrestricted in reality.With Kamui as his trump card, he walks the fine line between fate and freedom, seizing power from the shadows while avoiding suspicion. As the protagonist and his allies battle against demons and unravel the game’s grand destiny, he secretly builds his own strength—manipulating events, mastering forgotten arts, and even forging ties with villainous factions.Will he remain a footnote in history, or will he carve his own legend in a world that was never meant to be his?