The Crematorium Has Collapsed Again and Again

Also known as One Bizarre Crematorium a Day, Crematorium: Lie Flat and Take the Mockery...

A powerful couple who dote on each other.

The love interest is neither weaker nor shorter than the protagonist. He isn't cold and beautiful or fragile-looking, either. He's a dazzling diamond.

On their anniversary, a handsome young man rings Gu Zhao's doorbell. "You're the stand-in. I'm the real one."

Gu Zhao looks at the young man, then at himself. "Me? You? The stand-in? ... Are you blind, am I blind, or is Zhong Li blind?"

After that day, Gu Zhao's life turns into a complete mess, riddled with holes.

He discovers that their world is controlled by a "ball of light," and has suddenly become a trashy "sugar daddy x stand-in" crematorium story.

And he has to follow the plot!

If he doesn't, the crackling, flickering "white ball of light" will force the story back on track in all sorts of ways.

But Gu Zhao has no intention of acting according to the "plot"!

The "plot"?

What does it matter? If it doesn't like it, it can fight him!

After finally capturing the story-list gremlin, Gu Zhao gets to spend his days "holding the plot in his hands and leisurely checking in."

But... urban romance, historical fiction, ABO, and beastfolk stories?!

How does every "crematorium" get more bizarre than the last?!

Gu Zhao: "Fine, I can hide in a film studio, wear a wig, and pretend to be an ancient person. But in a big modern city, how am I supposed to act out a beastfolk story?!"

Then Zhong Li appears in front of him wearing a wolf-head hat, sincerely convinced he's a wolf... well... a werewolf...

Gu Zhao: "Pfft!"

He takes one look and hurriedly turns away.

Story-list gremlin: "Sir! You have to look into his eyes, heartbroken and despairing!"

Gu Zhao: "If I look at him one more time, I'm going to laugh myself unconscious. How am I supposed to look heartbroken and despairing?!"

Besides...

Are these "crematorium" stories even remotely respectable?!

This world is getting weirder and weirder. It must be cursed!

The story-list gremlin, tears in its eyes: "Who keeps wrecking the plot right at the beginning? Which one of us is cursed?!"

The first story, "The 'Stand-In' Is Visited by the 'White Moonlight,' and the 'Sugar Daddy' Keeps Playing the Tragic Lover" [Complete]

The protagonist loves the love interest so much he's practically dying of it, but the "plot" brainwashes him. He keeps thinking he's "a terrible person," tortures himself terribly, adds his own dramatic scenes, and performs a tragic love story all by himself.

The second story, "The 'White Moonlight' Is Visited by the 'Stand-In,' and the 'Ex' Seizes Every Chance to Get Physical" [Ongoing]

The moment they wake up, the protagonist and love interest somehow become "exes." The protagonist spends every day putting on a show of "a love ruined by hatred," then pounces whenever he spots an opening, shouting, "I hate you! I hate you!" Honestly, he's getting a little carried away with the "getting physical" part of this story. Sigh...

[Reader's Guide]

1. This is an atypical transmigration-into-a-book story. The male lead is haunted by a "crematorium story list" and has to check in at plot points from "crematorium fiction."

2. It's not one book, but a whole list of stories. The world stays the same, but stories from different eras and with different settings keep transmigrating into it. The plot is forced to make everything fit, so it ends up riddled with holes, bizarre, and full of things to snark about.

3. Lighthearted, with melodrama and subversion of tropes in equal measure. The crematorium turns into all kinds of bizarre check-in challenges.

4. One-on-one, powerful couple who dote on each other.

5. The protagonists may be given different identities and skills in each story. But the love interest is powerful in his own right, with maxed-out fighting ability: he can hold a car down with his bare hands and is strong enough to fight his way through the whole world.

Theme: Break through the fog