"Ireland Zoff?"
Chen Qi's spirits lifted. That must be the guy who died in front of him tonight.
Full of anticipation, Chen Qi turned to the next page, only to find it completely blank.
Not giving up, Chen Qi flipped through the entire notebook, but there was nothing written in it at all.
'Did that guy Ireland not keep a diary at all?'
'Or maybe his diary isn't in this villa at all.'
Chen Qi's intuition told him the second guess was the correct one.
He even had a vague idea of where the diary might be.
The game role he had inherited, [Jomoya Chris], provided no specific memories, but it always seemed to offer some form of guidance.
'This world is getting stranger and stranger!'
'But I definitely don't regret rolling that die.'
Chen Qi summoned the bronze die again. Perhaps because one wish had already been granted, he felt a deeper connection to it.
After this "unique" wishing experience, Chen Qi had a theory about the die's Wish mechanism.
The [roll], he surmised, determined the magnitude of the power the bronze die projected into reality.
Perhaps in the bronze die's judgment, there was little difference between predicting a winning lottery number and providing someone's date of death.
The amount of power it could project into reality was fixed; how to [interfere with reality] was entirely up to the Wisher.
Of course, this was just Chen Qi's theory. Perhaps he would discover something new with his next Wish.
...
What was it like to live a rich man's life?
Previously, the wage-slave Chen Qi could only imagine it, but now he could experience it all for himself.
After one night, Chen Qi's biggest realization was that beds could be this comfortable, homes this warm, and food this delicious.
After a sumptuous breakfast, Chen Qi put on the kind of high-end clothes he could only have dreamed of before, ready to face the day's challenges.
This new [Jomoya Chris] was officially online.
...
"Good morning, Chairman!"
"You're in so early today. You must be working hard."
At the Chris Group headquarters, Chen Qi's car had just stopped when he was met with a high-profile reception.
In the past, he could only hide in the back of the crowd, serving as a background prop to fill out the atmosphere.
'Heh, so it's not about standing up straight to be at the center of the crowd.'
'It's that when you stand at the center, everyone else bows and scrapes to you.'
[Chen Qi] calmly enjoyed being the center of attention, feeling no discomfort or anxiety.
Everything was going so smoothly. He was playing the part of [Jomoya Chris] perfectly.
Originally, Chen Qi had been worried that people would see him as an imposter, but he soon discovered the incredible nature of the [King's Game].
No one around him had any doubts about his identity as [Jomoya Chris].
Even when he ventured a few tests, acting "out of character" for the chairman, everyone just assumed the chairman had some profound reason for it. They never once suspected that the man before them was a fake.
...
'No wonder [Ireland Zoff], a homeless man, was able to successfully take over the Chris Group!'
'I was planning to be careful, to put on a Disguise so I wouldn't arouse suspicion. But now, it looks like I can change my plans.'
After confirming there would be no problems with his [Jomoya] identity, Chen Qi decided to let himself go a little.
If his new life was going to be as timid and constrained as his old one, he might as well go back to his rental apartment.
"Notify Manager Glette from the group's subsidiary!"
"I want to see him in my office within twenty minutes."
Chen Qi issued his first command of the day to the secretary beside him. Glette was Chen Qi's former boss.
"Yes, Boss. You'll see him shortly."
The secretary hurried away. Chen Qi hadn't expected that [Ireland Zoff] would have a male secretary.
This was truly a bit unexpected. Chen Qi figured that a homeless man who suddenly became a millionaire would have let himself go even more, right?
But Chen Qi soon realized he had underestimated [Ireland].
After he found "Ireland's Diary" in the office safe, he finally understood what a [life of indulgence] truly was.
...
"Hahaha, it's all so easy! No one suspects my identity at all."
"This company is mine!"
This was [Ireland]'s first diary entry. Clearly, what Chen Qi had just experienced, Ireland had gone through as well.
"Luxury cars, nightclubs, beautiful women, throwing money around..."
The diary entries for the next full month revealed to Chen Qi a world of utter debauchery and extreme extravagance.
Chen Qi figured the guy only wrote in his diary so he could secretly show off.
But human desire is a bottomless pit, especially after gaining a Superpower that puts you above others.
[Body Control]: Materialize ten invisible Puppet Threads to control a Life Form.
One could only imagine how many depraved things Ireland did after acquiring this ability.
What left Chen Qi most speechless was that the guy had even used the ability on himself, boastfully writing that he "fought in bed for three days and three nights."
However, Ireland wasn't a complete waste. Although he hated studying, he had a talent for learning [Magic knowledge].
In just two months, he had completely deciphered [Jomoya Chris]'s diary and even ridiculed [Jomoya] in his own diary for being an idiot.
By the third month, due to his wild spending, the [Chris] Group's cash flow had dried up, and it was on the verge of bankruptcy.
Of course, Ireland didn't know how to run a company, and he couldn't be bothered to put in the effort.
But there was no way he was going back to being poor.
He had his own solution to the company's crisis.
In his diary, Ireland wrote smugly that now that he had money-power, only a fool would work hard to earn money.
So, he used his [Body Control] ability to forcibly borrow money from banks and acquire several competitors.
But then, something unexpected happened!
...
"Damn my luck. I actually ran into another player today."
"That bastard [Jomoya], just how many enemies does he have? How many people did he piss off?"
"Luckily, I confessed and begged for mercy. I managed to suck up to [Plum Blossom 10] and save my own skin."
"So it turns out this game has two factions: the [Order Keepers] and the [Traitors]!"
"Looks like I can't just do whatever I want anymore. Otherwise, even if I manage to mix in with the [Order Keepers], I won't be able to escape the final [King's Judgment]."
After that, Ireland's behavior changed drastically. Aside from his private life, which remained the same, he no longer dared to use his Superpower recklessly.
Until three days ago, when he got into a conflict with Hu Wanhai, the Boss of the Firefox Gang, over a girl at a nightclub. This led him to have the idea of punishing a "Mortal."
As for the result? He crashed and burned spectacularly!
At this point, Chen Qi had finally sorted out the complete backstory of the [game character] he had inherited.
There was still much more he didn't know, but this was enough to serve as a beginner's guide.