Can the Beloved One Still Save the World?

As the world mutates, Yuan Xiuzhi steps out to buy medicine for his sore throat, only to have the bad luck of running into a Corrupted. Luckily, a handsome part-timer with a cool face and a warm heart rescues him.

Back home, a fever hits. When Yuan Xiuzhi wakes from unconsciousness, he finds a vivid, crimson-red vertical line on his neck. The line moves, then slowly splits open into an eye.

As he stares in bewilderment, a cool voice sounds behind him: “Congratulations. You’ve become a Mutant.”

Yuan Xiuzhi turns around. The handsome man he’d brought home because of his injuries is standing behind him. He’s very tall, with long, dark lashes and a composed expression.

He presses his lips together, hesitant to tell the man that he’d already seen words beside every object at the pharmacy. Those words were their voices. He had awakened an ability from the Object Spirit sequence.

The blood-red eye on his neck is domineering. It doesn’t just gobble up the Corrupted couple next door, it also shows intense distaste and hostility toward any living being that tries to approach Yuan Xiuzhi.

But on the road to survival, those people still follow Yuan Xiuzhi with absolute devotion. Even when, just a moment ago, vast neural tentacles lashed about in a frenzy, pure white wings behind him whipped up violent gales, and every inorganic thing under the Object Spirit’s influence obeyed his command... once it’s all over, they rush to him in a panic, patting his hair and squeezing his arms, their worried gazes filling the space around him. In the end, all their concern boils down to one sentence:

“Don’t do anything so dangerous next time!”

Surrounded by his teammates, Yuan Xiuzhi obediently nods and makes his nth promise. “Okay.”

In the distance, the villain, who has been beaten black and blue and is barely breathing, says nothing.

Dangerous... him? (Tired smile, utterly at a loss.)

You people whose eyes have been clouded by Yuan Xiuzhi, can’t you see who the dangerous one really is?!

His teammates say: What could Yuan Xiuzhi possibly have done wrong? He’s just a little bird baby who stares at you blankly and, even when provoked, only gets fluffier!

Reader’s guide:

1. An aloof, deadpan, adorably eccentric young master on the receiving end (the love interest and teammates think he’s a princess, a little bird baby) x a love interest who adores him no matter what form he takes (splits himself up for love)

2. Also known as A Succubus in All but Name in a Mutated World. The receiving end has arrows pointing at him from every direction (romantic arrows point only to the love interest). He’s the slightly, just slightly, everyone’s-darling type: a fluffy little bird who does almost nothing, yet somehow everyone around him follows him with unwavering devotion and dotes on him like crazy (?)

Blurb captured on March 8, 2026

Theme: The essence of love is being seen