After Simulating It Countless Times, I Became Everyone's One True Love

[A new month is here, and I’m determined to update every day! Update times are temporarily random ORZ]

Quan Qingsi downloaded the recently viral game Free Life Simulator.

At first, he only wanted to try it out, but after playing day after day, he gradually got hooked.

First playthrough: He adopted a cool-guy persona from childhood and gathered a huge crowd of underlings. He planned to become the top delinquent at school, then follow in his family’s footsteps and make his mark in the underworld. Instead, he somehow became a kind person whom everyone thought must have a tragic past.

[You have earned the achievements “Led Astray,” “Born and Raised in the Black,” and “Heart Turned Toward the Light.”]

Second playthrough: A beautiful boy, frail and sickly from birth. He planned to follow the incubating succubus route, but somehow got chosen by a mysterious stone slab to become a King. His Charm shot through the roof, and love came pouring in.

[You have earned the achievements “Chosen King,” “Human Walking Calamity,” and “Who in the World Doesn’t Know You?”]

Third playthrough: A naturally powerful fighting maniac with maxed-out survival skills. He planned to follow the martial-arts fanatic route, living for the thrill of fighting, but ended up receiving offers from N different underworld factions…

[You have earned the achievements “The Waves of the Yangtze Push the Ones Ahead, and the Ones Ahead Die on the Shore,” “Underworld’s Official Top Enforcer,” and “Undefeated Across Sicily.”]

Fourth playthrough: A good-for-nothing second-generation rich kid who had everything except a shortage of money. He became obsessed with investing in and supporting promising underdogs. He planned to squander his fortune, but somehow made money no matter what he did, and accidentally became the richest person in the region.

[You have earned the achievements “Money Keeps Rolling In,” “Become a Billionaire by Losing Money,” and “I Hear the Echoes of Great Fortune.”]

Although his original goals and the results were worlds apart, Quan Qingsi managed to live brilliantly and die spectacularly in every playthrough!

He had a great time playing, and only quit once he had confirmed he’d earned every achievement.

Then he heard about a major game update that introduced a mode for carrying progress over between multiple playthroughs.

Curious, Quan Qingsi returned to the game, only to discover… Wait, why am I surrounded by a love rivalry?

Reader advisory:

1. OOC, a chaotic timeline, and mountains of headcanon. If that bothers you, please don’t read.

2. The player will definitely attract plenty of one-sided crushes. Pairing undecided.

3. I’ll find time to revise the story and read the comments, then reply to a few. (I’d love to give everyone equal attention, but there’s a verification-code limit if I reply too much, so I can’t!)

Please add my upcoming story to your favorites: “After Maxing Out My Charm, I Became a Male Tomie?!” Click the link in the announcement to go straight there~

Blurb:

A friend recommended Second Life to you, and you decided to give it a try.

You heard it was a game with an incredible amount of freedom. To test how smart the AI was, you had a little bright idea and accidentally maxed out your Charm on the character-creation screen…

And unexpectedly unlocked a hidden trait

[Bewitching Charm: You were born with a special, innate allure. No one can resist your appeal, not even the gods.]

You: “Isn’t this just male Tomie? Sounds interesting. I’ve got to give it a try.”

You entered the game full of anticipation, and, unsurprisingly, triggered one strange side quest after another.

[Your beauty catches the attention of a mafia boss. This powerful man has you kidnapped and kept as his captive.]

[CG unlocked: “Bird in a Cage”]

[A wealthy man who wanted to take advantage of you dies mysteriously. Everyone pities you, an innocent person caught up in the mess, but an unsociable detective exposes the truth in front of everyone: it all happened because of you.]

[CG unlocked: “Trouble in the Form of a Beautiful Man”]

[After escaping the mafia’s control, you think you can finally live an ordinary life. Then one day, a mysterious rocket launcher sends you ten years into the future, to the funeral of your boss husband.]

[CG unlocked: “Widow”]

You: “How can this tiny Yokohama have so many criminals! Now I have no choice but to become a hero of justice and fight crime!”

To defend your precarious innocence in this danger-filled game, you start reloading your saves over and over…

[Your reputation in Yokohama has maxed out. Title unlocked: “Uncrowned King.”]

[You have successfully made at least seven close friends from different factions. Title unlocked: “A Friend in Every Corner of the World.”]

Reader advisory:

1. The main story is not written in second person.

2. Includes: ability users in an all-out brawl, a clash between red and black, and young mafia members saving the world too.

3. To be added.

Theme: Live well.