After Dying Three Times, the Player Decided to Farm

My name is... My in-game nickname is Taotao, and I'm playing an 18+ otome game called Deathly Heartbeats.

The game's promotional PV revealed four story routes and four romance options, each with a different figure and build.

The romance option in the first route is a wolf-shifter boy. After being corrupted by the game's mysterious contamination, he grew a pair of wolf ears and was abandoned by his family. His dark green eyes hold a gaze that's obsessive and sinister, but when he looks at the player, he carefully keeps those feelings in check.

The romance option in the second route is a silver-haired bishop in white robes, standing atop a tower. His gaze is pure and compassionate, making him the perfect untouchable beauty, untouched by the world.

If you ignore the game's tag for him: #TheOneWho'sSurprisinglyBestAtIt.

The romance option in the third route is a general in the Imperial Expeditionary Army. Broad-shouldered and narrow-waisted, with tousled red hair and smooth, defined muscles, his dark skin looks as if honey is flowing over it. He's like a lithe leopard.

My review: So hot!

Wanting a piece of him is only natural.

The romance option in the final route is the player's stepbrother. Gold-rimmed glasses rest on his high nose bridge, and blood-red eyes seem to flow with crimson. His clothes are immaculate, every button done up to the very top, yet in the next shot, with the image flipped upside down, he reveals an eight-pack and pants hoarsely.

Damn, that's so sexy.

I can't be the first player in the world to fall for four men, can I?

I immediately went all in and bought all four routes.

However, the game has another name: The Happy Ending You'll Never Reach.

Each route has exactly one happy ending, but there are countless bad endings, and players can easily end up dead.

I have no idea why an otome game has to be so full of danger.

Anyway, I got bad endings in all of the first three routes, dying more miserably each time.

After finishing the walkthrough and spending money on the game, I was ready to go wild in the fourth route when I suddenly died.

When I opened my eyes again, I'd entered the fourth route of Deathly Heartbeats. If I could reach the legendary sole happy ending with the romance option, I could return to my original world.

With a walkthrough and cheats in hand, I wasn't worried at all. I settled into an utterly ordinary life: living in a mansion, riding in a luxury car, and occasionally teasing my stepbrother.

But little by little, I began to feel that something was off... The romance options from the first three routes seemed to have kept their memories.

They were all looking for me.

Why are you looking for me? Is it because you compared notes and realized you all have the same wife?!

One wife is one wife. Why are you being so stingy!

I wiped away my nervous sweat.

Good thing Taotao is already dead.

The face I came into this world with is my own, and it looks nothing like Taotao's.

My name is Yun Tao.

Some dating game? I'm done with it!

My wish is for world peace. I want to go back to the countryside and farm.

Theme: Playing games in moderation is good for the brain, but getting addicted to them harms the body