"When heart touches heart"
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Xie Lingyan was diagnosed with congenital heart disease as a child and was not expected to live past twenty-five.
After graduating from college, he moved alone to the hills behind his alma mater and opened a bookstore.
He had long since grown numb to the death he had known was coming. But on his twenty-fifth birthday, he opened his eyes to find himself in a completely unfamiliar room, with a heart that was beating.
A mechanical voice suddenly rang in his ears.
"Congratulations, Host, you've successfully bonded with the Life Is Precious System. I'm your personal System, Life. If you can save the protagonists of these little worlds with love, make them fall in love with you, and get them to give up their suicidal and world-weary thoughts, you'll receive the corresponding rewards!"
Xie Lingyan: "..."
"I've detected your negative attitude, Host. The System can answer one question for you."
Xie Lingyan: "What's the reward?"
"A healthy body."
Xie Lingyan replied without hesitation, "Fine."
[World One: In an ancient mansion with a long history, the Ghost King holds a marriage contract and waits for a human on the verge of death.]
The door slowly swung open. Xie Lingyan sat on the old railing of the second-floor balcony, clutching a marriage contract in his hand. The person downstairs suddenly looked up at him, but didn't notice a thing.
Something in this mansion is watching me, he thought.
Xie Lingyan looked away and spoke into the empty air. "He noticed me, Little L."
Life: "Host, please don't make up nicknames for me. Would you like me to weaken his ability to sense magnetic fields? If he notices you unexpectedly, he might leave. Humans are very timid creatures."
Xie Lingyan turned and jumped down from the railing, answering calmly, "No need."
Life didn't know what he was planning and grew anxious. "Host, don't forget your mission."
"Of course. So I'm going to take this marriage contract and propose. Want to watch?"
[World Two: Even a tyrant destined to die can have his fate changed by someone who transmigrates.]
The future tyrant was still just a child who liked teasing birds. When he saw the new Crown Prince's study companion, even his smile was childish.
Xie Lingyan was led forward by a eunuch and bowed properly, but with his short arms and legs, he stepped on his robe and fell to the ground.
The young tyrant hurried over and blew on Xie Lingyan's knee.
"Mother says blowing on it makes it stop hurting."
Years later, after a wise ruler ascended the throne, he leaned alone against the memorial stele of an old friend and murmured, "Yanyan, let me blow on it for you."
"Blowing on it makes it stop hurting."
[World Three: An Omega suffering from pheromone dysregulation finds the one remedy meant just for him.]
Xie Lingyan became deskmates with a new transfer student. After class, following the example of his younger self in this little world, he poked his deskmate.
He rested his head on his arms, a faint smile on his face, and asked softly, "Big brother, can I touch your bald eagle again?"
The bald eagle was his spirit form.
It had also been the childhood "toy" of his childhood sweetheart, whom he hadn't seen in years.
His deskmate lowered his eyes. His voice was quiet, but Xie Lingyan could hear him clearly.
"Yanyan, have you learned what fairness means? Let big brother touch your spirit form, and then you can touch mine."
[World Four: In a full-dive online game, a player goes against the grain and actively seeks out the game's boss.]
One year after the full release of City Conquest, the top spot on the server rankings had never changed since a player named Inkstone claimed it.
Now this player had accepted the most basic commission, yet was working toward the opposite goal.
Xie Lingyan ducked into an empty alley and tapped the System in his mind. "Did he really return to the city?"
"Yes, Host. The game's main story was updated, and the City Lord returned to the City Lord's Hall on the day of the update."
"Good." Xie Lingyan flung out a grappling hook, climbed over the wall straight into the City Lord's Hall, evaded the guards, and found the big boss playing human darts.
The final dart flew straight at him.
"Take him away." At the big boss's words, all the other NPCs left, leaving just the two of them.
Xie Lingyan picked up the dart and toyed with it. With a deft flip of his fingers, he threw it and struck the bullseye on a nearby target.
He asked, "Want to see what's outside the City Lord's Hall?"
The big boss looked him over with a scrutinizing gaze, then smiled.
"Of course."
This unusual... player.
[World Five: An emotionless business marriage encounters a turning point in its second year.]
[World Six: My online boyfriend is my public enemy. What should I do about my stepfather's stepson?]
[World Seven: Change my ending, and hear my heartbeat.]
"I can hear your heartbeat."
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Cool, sickly beauty with a seductive streak, receiving role x reserved older man with a fatherly streak, giving role
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1v1, both leads' first and only. Age gap. Happy endings in reality and all the little worlds except World Two.
* The giving lead is six years older than the receiving lead.
* The protagonists of all the little worlds are the giving lead. They are not split fragments.
* Each world has a separate setting, with no crossovers or secondary couples. Both leads enter each world in their own bodies.
Theme: Life is precious, worth more than gold
