Falling for the Gorgeous NPC in a Dungeon Is My Fate (GB)

GB, happy ending. Completed arcs: post-apocalyptic survival / Western fantasy kingdom / Bloodsuckers of the Fog City / Hide-and-seek in Paradise.

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A fake aloof, showy, charismatic queen × a silly but genuinely gorgeous male dungeon NPC. Cool-faced flirt meets cool-faced cutie.

Shang Ning opened her eyes after quitting her job, only to find herself back at her desk.

The bad news: she was a wage slave again. The good news: it was the apocalypse now. Bizarre game dungeons had arrived, and Shang Ning was forced into this post-apocalyptic survival game.

Good heavens, she wanted a gap year, not to play a game!

A life without putting on an act is a life wasted.

Killing zombies, fighting monsters, leveling up, awakening special abilities: Shang Ning gradually became someone countless players feared and envied.

In an unfinished building, she accidentally saw a frail, slender man with waterfall-long hair and bewitchingly beautiful features.

His eyes were full of innocent dependence, and in an instant, all she could think about was the thrill of possessing him.

Shang Ning, who had little sense of morality, snatched the player's mission target right from under them and took him for herself.

He was beautiful, obedient, and compliant. The admiration of the weak was a crown for the strong.

So she didn't mind protecting him or looking after him. She didn't even care that the thorns hidden beneath his beautiful bones took root in her and sucked her blood.

When the apocalypse dungeon ended, her clinging vine disappeared with it. He was just a virtual NPC in a game dungeon. Shang Ning had been taken by his looks, but she soon forgot about him.

In the fairytale dungeon, Shang Ning disguised herself as the kingdom's knight commander and met her clinging vine again.

She couldn't get enough of the mermaid's innocence.

She was as ruthless as ever, killing his destined lover and taking the prince's place in the fairytale where the mermaid saved him.

Shang Ning loved standing high above others, basking in flowers and applause. A knight commander? No. She wanted to become the dungeon's king.

To clear the dungeon, she had to find the king's most beloved princess. Seeing the mermaid's infatuated gaze, Shang Ning pinned him to the throne and publicly declared him the object of her affection.

In the eerie Fog City dungeon, Shang Ning became an orphan in the slums. From her seat in the church, she watched the "bride" on the high platform, about to marry a nobleman, and acted out a story of taking what she wanted by force.

If you're lowborn and wretched, bullied by everyone, don't worry.

"I'll reach the very top, so everyone can only look up at us."

Shang Ning proved through her actions that following her meant flourishing and staying forever on top.

Then came the final school dungeon. Familiar surroundings intruded on unfamiliar memories, and Shang Ning looked at the boy in front of her, wearing the same school uniform.

For the first time, she couldn't tell whether he was an NPC.

At eighteen, Zhou Shiyu made a wish over the candles on his birthday cake: "I hope she'll look at me a little more."

In the hazy, endless dungeon world, Zhou Shiyu endured countless nights alone, until one day...

That blazing gaze entered his field of vision, as if she could see no one else in the whole world but him.

Shang Ning, thank you for claiming me.

My wish came true a long time ago.

Theme: Stand tall and keep striving upward.