[Honkai: Star Rail] Remember to Hide Your Secret Identity When Writing Fanfiction About Your Best Friend

The Abundance still wanders freely, while the High-Cloud Quintet is a complete mess. Nearly seven hundred years have passed, and when Ri Ji wakes up, she still can't accept that the High-Cloud Quintet, a group that once held sway throughout the Xianzhou Alliance, has now gone their separate ways.

Until a High-Cloud Quintet reunion is held, bringing old friends together again.

The group's strongest fighter and its genius artisan have fallen to mara and turned their blades on each other. The youngest member of the team is now an office drone, watching their endless clash of steel with a heavy heart. The early-dead ghost of a man is caught between his former life and the fate of his reincarnation, with old problems left unresolved. The group's little ray of sunshine has become a different species and is caught in a bloodline crisis, miserable and forlorn.

As a "groupie" who's watched the High-Cloud Quintet since their debut, Ri Ji gets furious. For a moment.

She digs up the content-creation account she hasn't opened in seven hundred years, reformats the million-word memoir that never really caught on, and posts it to the interstellar net, adding a whole string of tags along the way.

#BasedOnPersonalExperience #LovePolygon #UnrequitedLove #RichFamilyMelodrama #BasedOnHistoricalRecords #CPHotpot #JingFeng #FengJing #YingFeng #FengYing #JingYing #YingJing #BaiJing #JingBai #YingBai #EveryoneLovesThem #LoveTriangle #NoFixedRoles...

After a string of possible pairings, Ri Ji is finally satisfied. She's happy, and the story goes viral.

At first, it's just CP fans who stumble across it. Then come the original fans who follow every update and dig into the history. After that come the account's original dormant followers... and finally, the Galaxy's fun-seekers arrive at the scene...

Everyone is having a great time watching the drama, except the people whose embarrassing pasts have been made public.

"WTF, this is history! Pure-love fans, run!" "Too late. It's so good."

"I'm dying over this ship, I'm dying! The author's still got it!"

"Dan Heng, are you really the child of the former Dragon Lord and my second uncle? No wonder he keeps chasing after you..."

"It's all wrong! The family seniority is all messed up!"

"Why do you believe this? It was obviously written by a fictional historian! Haha, this is hilarious."

"You all think it's fake, but it's actually true! You believe it's true, but it's all fake! Haha, this is hilarious!"

What? Ri Ji has gotten herself into serious trouble?

No, no. Ri Ji is old. Ri Ji doesn't know anything.

Besides, everyone charges headlong down the Paths as if they don't care about their lives. Life has no meaning anyway, right?

Ri Ji ignores the Shura field of people who have come to settle their scores, kicks Aha for fanning the flames, then turns and catches the Stellaron being, who is watching the spectacle while munching on sunflower seeds. She smiles darkly.

"I heard Akivili and Aha had a child... Friend, do you know anything about that?"

This story is sponsored by fictional historians, followers of Elation, Galaxy debaters, and others.

It contains lots of forum posts and wild speculation, has no limits, and mixes third-person and first-person narration. Read with caution.

All the outlandish CP theories are comments from outside the story. The main characters, including the protagonists, have platonic relationships, but... ship whoever you want!

I wrote the opening of this story in 2024, when it wasn't under contract. Now I've picked it back up to give it a proper ending. I hope you enjoy it.

Yes, in 2026, I still can't forget the High-Cloud Quintet.

Please check out my upcoming novel: XP Fans Don't Care About Combat Rankings [Honkai: Star Rail Crossover]

As everyone knows, the Zenin family doesn't support idlers.

Zenin Naoki spent two years doing nothing at home, watching anime, playing games, eating takeout, and drinking soda, living the good life. He mastered the art of lying flat and took it to a whole new level.

In the end, he shouted "Honkai: Star Rail! Launch!" right in front of his cousin, and his furious family kicked him off to Yokohama next door.

Yokohama, a wholesale market for ability users, a gathering place for members of the Scriptwriting Faction, home to the famous mafia diamond-polishing factory and the Scriptwriting Faction that excels at weaving balance. It's a place of chaos that the jujutsu world can only dream of, and wants nothing to do with.

Naoki can't be bothered to argue with the Zenin family. He obediently accepts their arrangements and happily finds a new place to lie flat.

Perhaps Heaven can't stand Naoki slacking off. Not long after he arrives in Yokohama, Honkai: Star Rail on his phone turns into an uncontrollable supernatural ability.

Supernatural Ability: [Fourth Wall]

Like playing games? Want a fully immersive experience? Here's your chance.

Rule One: Before the version update, players have 42 days of game time to challenge the three Abysses and achieve full stars.

Rule Two: If you fail, the game bosses you didn't defeat will descend into reality. Before your action points reach zero, hold off the monster invasion and save the world.

Rule Three: After meeting certain conditions, your odds of obtaining a [Character] will increase. [Characters] can be summoned into the real world and will be your best companions.

Rule Four: Reality isn't a single-player game. Friend support is available to players without limits. But remember, a player's agency cannot be questioned.

Rule Five: Enjoy your fun, turn-based game in the real world!

The supernatural ability's description, like a set of rules from a ghost story, is plastered across Naoki's face. A devoted XP fan now has no choice but to face game bosses with health bars longer than his life and underhandedness beyond all reason.

As Naoki's ability affects an ever-wider area, the three Abysses, Memories of Chaos, Fictional Narrative, and Apocalyptic Shadow, grow increasingly dangerous. Who cares about Yokohama's Three-Part Plan or the power struggles over jujutsu world reform anymore?

Even Sukuna has to fight the Black Tide, and Kenjaku has to face the Blazing Sun.

Is Gojo Satoru really the answer to the current version? Will Dazai Osamu make a Tier 0 rotation? Can Edogawa Ranpo beat a game System that has two opposing brains?

Fight to protect world peace and stop the universe's Honkai: Star Rail monsters from invading Earth!

But the blue-green modifiers are banned, and now that the game has become reality, the odds of pulling characters are unknown. They seem to depend on affection. Naoki, with his abysmal luck, keeps losing his pulls, exposing his XP preferences for all to see.

Naoki, publicly humiliated, cries out in despair:

"Do you think I don't want to pull for my favorite? Do you think I don't want to enjoy playing with the best character in the current version? But my darling is in the second-half banner!!

Is this my fault? This is obviously the developers' fault!"

Theme: A quiet, ordinary life is what matters most.