"Ding~" "The player has successfully used the Son of a Baron Character Card. Matching character..." "Character match successful! Entering the game..."
"Waah~ waah~"
A loud cry rang through an ancient, towering castle.
"Dear Connor, it's a boy—a boy whose nose and mouth look so much like yours." The woman on the bed, her face glowing with maternal radiance, held the infant in her arms and spoke to the young man beside her.
"Hahaha, good, good! I, Connor, finally have a child to inherit the glory and crest of the Burns Family!" The young man held the child in his arms and laughed aloud, his laughter filled with endless hopes and expectations for his eldest son.
Six months later.
I actually became Edward?
Quietly sitting in his cradle and sucking his thumb, Zhou Ming had no idea how many times he had voiced this same thought.
Edward, whom he had driven into a deadly trap in the previous game and killed along with his entire family, had somehow become him in this life.
Zhou Ming finally understood the system's twisted sense of humor. Anyone connected in some way to the default character from the previous game would generally be among the possible matches if a Character Card was used in the next game, creating the illusion of a fate full of twists and cruel irony.
In reality, the system was just being lazy.
*Fine. Edward it is. In the previous game, he was an arrogant, conceited bastard who was unbearably irritating, but he wasn't exactly a bad person. He merely had some of the common flaws that probably came with being a noble. For the sake of a knight's dignity and status, it was only natural for him to look down on lowly farmers struggling at the