Please Ignore the Main Quest

Gaozu’s greatest achievement in life was somehow dying by tripping over a wire and face-planting into a doorframe. Surely the afterlife would be kinder… right? Wrong. After waking up in a fantasy game world, he’s immediately roasted by his own System, and every monster, ghost, and animal within five miles has collectively decided he looks delicious. Cursed with the inability to ignore people in trouble, Gaozu somehow ends up training both himself and a bunch of hopeless NPCs into something that can actually survive this nightmare. His goal? Turn a nearly forgotten village into a haven despite the corruption, monsters, and horrors surrounding it. One level, one disaster, and one near-death experience at a time. Now, if the game world would kindly stop shoving him toward the main quest and let him build his little haven in peace, that would be really nice. He is not the protagonist here! What to expect: ✧ Kingdom-building, from one struggling village to something much, much bigger.✧ Training, progression, survival, and plenty of disasters.✧ A wimpy MC who slowly grows into a confident leader.✧ A sarcastic, sentient System with feelings of its own.✧ A dark fantasy world crawling with ghosts, spirits, monsters, and things that really shouldn’t exist.✧ One love interest.