The Paradox of Death [Infinite Flow]

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[Nonhuman Characters] [Two Powerful, Insane Leads] [Big Shots Return to the Beginner's Village] [Special Abilities] [Ensemble Cast] [Mind-Bending Epic]

A shocking announcement appeared on the forum for the infinite game:

The server's only SSS-rank player, [Bleach], has vanished!

Eighteen years later, a beautiful player with no player number appeared in a minor borderland instance.

The beauty was named Fang Zhuoyan, a pure, 24-karat newbie.

His hair was silver-white, his clothes were designer, and he carried an air of detachment... The only exception was his hands, which were tightly covered by black leather gloves, leaving not a trace of skin visible.

Some people guessed that the beauty's hands were so hideously ugly that he had to keep them covered.

What they didn't know was that he wore the gloves to suppress a special ability.

Every normal living being touched by Fang Zhuoyan's hands died instantly.

Among the dead was his own biological mother.

Then he entered the game.

A player who, like him, had no number, recklessly took his hand, but against all expectations, survived.

Fang Zhuoyan: "How strange."

Lou Suxue: "What's strange?"

Fang Zhuoyan: "Why didn't you die?"

Lou Suxue tilted his head and smiled. "Why would I die?"

Fang Zhuoyan's gaze shifted down, and he suddenly spotted the bizarre, wildly dancing octopus-shaped shadow at the other man's feet.

It seemed to be greeting him.

It was pretty excited.

Very friendly, too.

Fang Zhuoyan: "..."

But that really... wasn't the kind of shadow a human should have.

Lou Suxue: "What's wrong? (^_^)"

Fang Zhuoyan took a deep breath. "...No, I'm fine. :)"

Heh. How could he possibly be fine...

*

Fang Zhuoyan had thought his meeting with Lou Suxue was just a chance encounter. Later, he discovered that they had known each other for a long time, understood each other, and even... loved each other.

They had already done everything they should and shouldn't have done.

But that was in their previous life.

To Fang Zhuoyan, it was a distant past with no connection to the person he was in this life... but if he searched his heart, was it truly unrelated?

Death is a paradox. Humanity endures forever.

When kindred magnetic fields resonate, monster finds monster, and they walk together once more.

*

[Bleach], ranked first on the server.

The game's only 3S-rank player, an enigmatic presence.

He kept to himself, always wore a colorful pixelated mask, and rarely appeared in public. No one knew what he really looked like.

Everyone believed [Bleach] hadn't gone missing, but had died in some ultra-high-risk instance, or been erased by the being known in rumors as Them.

Then they watched helplessly as the beauty they had all been rooting for pulled out one old possession after another belonging to [Bleach], then expertly copied [Bleach]'s skills and beat an instance's aberrant boss into a pile of "bloody mush."

"..."

Wait, that's not right!

Wasn't the plan, "I'll protect the delicate beauty"? How come he's so vicious in a fight?

Later, [Bleach] returned, revealing the reasons behind the existence of all things in this world and exposing the game's darker side.

But this time, he would not be alone.

"Reader's Guide"

1. The top is nonhuman, and the bottom may be nonhuman. The bottom looks aloof and really is an ice-cold, ridiculously overpowered beauty. The top looks strong and really is explosively strong, with a cheeky personality.

2. Cold bottom, warm top; beautiful bottom, handsome top. The top is strong, but the bottom is even stronger. The top is not just a decorative side character. Both leads are pretty crazy, love acting cool, and can be chuunibyou. Sometimes they also have incredibly childish conversations.

3. Slow burn. Mind-bending. Ensemble cast. A huge setting and epic length. An exhilarating, high-powered leveling story that will be revised before it reaches its peak. A past-and-present-life story in a nontraditional sense. In some ways, also a story about amnesia.

4. The setting is entirely fictional. Any similarities are coincidental. Everything is made up, so don't draw parallels to real life. The characters' values do not represent the author's. Some content involves the mythologies of Central Asia, Japan, the United States, and Greece, but this won't affect your reading.

5. Contains a lot of horror elements. Not for the faint of heart.

6. The cover character is a template. Thanks to @Zheyuancat.

Please add my upcoming novels to your reading lists, everyone [bites handkerchief]:

1. "Straight, But a Pregnant Housewife Beta" - An AB pregnancy story, with a homophobic straight bottom and a domineering CEO top. Includes a confinement-in-a-room scenario, a groveling-after-the-breakup arc, and a warning for baby-rearing.

2. "I Faked My Death After Getting Involved with the Emperor" - An old-school tale: after faking his death, the protagonist is caught and brought back, escapes again, then gets caught and locked away once more in this melodramatic xianxia story. A naive, oblivious-to-his-own-charm green snake bottom adored by everyone x a high-ranking emperor top who goes mad with love and descends into the mortal world.

3. "I Think I Really Am an Immortal" - A modern-day story with memories of a past life, in a xianxia setting. An immortal in his past life, a fortune-teller in this one: an unfettered bottom x a widowed merman king top who has spent three thousand years searching for his wife, has long since gone mad, and loves pretending to be a green tea to get his beloved's attention.

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