The Heart System
956 chapters · Ongoing
Library updated · Latest available chapter
Joseph “Joe” Bloomberg had everything a man could ask for.Two successful web novels. A loyal fanbase. A loving girlfriend. A dog. Life was good, and for once, luck was on his side.Then he decided to write a harem fantasy.Armed with confidence in his writing and absolutely no sense of self preservation, Joe began working on “A Streamer’s Guide to Surviving Haremdale”, a power fantasy about a protagonist blessed with infinite luck, a Hero System, overwhelming strength, and enough good looks to make every woman in the world fall at his feet.Joe thought he was creating the perfect protagonist.Apparently, the universe disagreed.The moment he began writing, his luck started running out. His girlfriend left him for his own brother. His dog was gone. His house was gone. His once loyal audience abandoned him, and the novel he had poured everything into became the last thing he had left.Coincidence? Maybe.But after watching his entire life collapse in the space of a year, Joe decided he was done. He would abandon the novel, walk away from writing, and somehow put his life back on track.Then, on an ordinary sunny day, lightning struck him.Because apparently, rock bottom had a basement.As Joe lay dying, a strange voice echoed inside his head.System recalibrating...90%...And then he died.The end.At least, that was what Joe thought.Because when you create a hero who can never lose, someone has to pay for all that luck.And Joe was the one who paid the price.Except death wasn't the end.Joe found himself transmigrated into his own novel as an extra, a nobody whose only purpose was to die in the opening chapters at the hands of the very hero he had created.Talk about a shitty afterlife.Now, trapped inside a world where the protagonist has infinite luck and the story is already written, Joe has to find a way to survive. He knows how the plot is supposed to unfold, and he knows exactly how his own character is supposed to die. Unfortunately, knowing your fate and escaping it are two entirely different things.Every decision he makes risks altering the original script, and every change could trigger consequences he never anticipated. The more he strays from the story, the less certain his knowledge becomes.He wrote this world. He created its hero. He gave that hero everything he could ever need to succeed.Now, he has to survive in a world designed for someone else to win.Can Joe rewrite his own fate without destroying the story, or will the hero he created become the reason he dies all over again?
Chapters 1–21 · up to 20 before and after the selected chapter.
1Chapter 1: Bad luck2Chapter 2: Joseph3Chapter 3: Millhaven4Chapter 4: The Back Door5Chapter 5: Clara6Chapter 6: The Unscripted7Chapter 7: The Hero Arrives8Chapter 8: The race9Chapter 9: The letters10Chapter 10: Fireworks11Chapter 11: The Blind Angle12Chapter 12: The guest13Chapter 13: The Sister Who Wasn’t Supposed to Exist14Chapter 14: The Hero Makes His Move15Chapter 15: What Maren Knows16Chapter 16: The Choice17Chapter 17: Learning to Fight18Chapter 18: A Hole in the Weave19Chapter 19: The Threads Are Unraveling20Chapter 20: The First Move21Chapter 21: The Hero Has a Problem