[Very short, not long.]
After barely escaping the first escape game, where he was wanted, Xie Jianxing gets dragged into a completely different second game. This time, he draws the "healer" role. Looking at the brief description on his role card, "Please restore the patient to their original condition," Xie Jianxing nods thoughtfully: Healing, huh? More like making them miserable.
When two infinite games merge, Xie Jianxing successfully steals a city from two indescribable beings. Abandoned by his mother, he takes in the homeless, bizarre beings, and successfully makes them miserable (heals them), eventually turning the city into a peculiar instance city.
Water ghosts roam beneath the city's bridge across the river, monsters live in residential buildings, the office towers start work at midnight, and the Book of Rules that governs everything floats above the city.
The city eventually becomes the ultimate instance of the infinite game, where countless players meet their downfall. As for Xie Jianxing's original intention, he just wanted to give all the weird beings a home. jpg
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The "healer" role comes with a parasitic item said to have the most tragic ending. A bizarre entity parasitizes you, and the more you use its power, the faster it revives, the more hostile it becomes toward its Host, and the more likely it is to kill them.
Other people's parasitic entities are things like a butcher from a car accident or a woman who fell into a pond on a rainy night. But Xie Jianxing's parasitic entity is:
[1. You've seen him.]
[2. He has many identities, but one of them is more familiar to you than any other. He was once your "mortal enemy."]
Xie Jianxing: "."
Isn't this the mastermind behind his first escape game? He got tricked by Xie Jianxing once, so why did he come after him for revenge?
Fine. Go to sleep.
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Some time later, Xie Jianxing can feel the "him" inside him awakening. He can even clearly sense what the other is thinking: "He" wants to kill him, but "he" wants to kiss him even more.
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Lin Yan participates in the beta test of a bizarre game and becomes the third male lead's cannon-fodder love interest. The third male lead is known throughout the upper city as a sickly young master. Rumor has it that he's hideously ugly, frail, ashamed to be seen, and yet terribly flirtatious.
Only Lin Yan knows that this body rarely appears in public because whenever he logs out, he has to recuperate in a nutrient tank. On top of that, he's naturally antisocial and doesn't like going out.
Of course, he still has to complete his missions.
So Lin Yan uses his neural interface to flirt with five people at once, including the protagonist's love interest. He fully embraces the player's principles: "If you can't win, run; after flirting, hide; if they chase you, log out." He establishes the young master's reputation for having a bad temper and a weak constitution, fainting whenever he gets angry.
Then the game goes live and the world updates. His family goes bankrupt, and Lin Yan can't log out or return to the real world. With tears in his eyes, he has no choice but to step into the public eye.
The people of the upper city expect to see an ugly, sickly young man. Instead, the news shows a pretty young beauty, timid and teary-eyed.
In no time, male leads one through four are all fighting to become his guardian, replacing his father, who has been sent to prison.
Unable to face the people he'd once flirted with becoming his guardians, Lin Yan is mortified and throws himself into the lower city, where the protagonist's love interest lives.
The lower city is a notorious zone of bizarre mutations, dangerous and with an extremely high death rate. The protagonist's love interest is one of the bizarre beings, wearing a human shell.
In the story that follows, the protagonist's love interest will disguise himself as a human, return to the upper city, and begin his revenge.
Meanwhile, Lin Yan plunges headfirst into the lower city and gets caught up in one paranormal incident after another. Eventually, a handsome man finds him and takes him home, caring for him like a supply of emergency food.
Later, when the turning point from his memories arrives, he grabs the man's hand. "Are you going to the upper city?"
The man looks up sharply. "What, do you want to go back?"
Lin Yan shakes his head. The man grips his chin. "Be good, and I'll be gentle with you tonight."
[Preview 2: He Is the Miaojiang Gu [quick transmigration]]
Yan Yan is born in Miaojiang. Though doted on by everyone, he has no talent for making gu. While out collecting materials for gu, he falls off a cliff and is found by a System.
System: If you successfully play your role, I'll send you home and give you a talent, too.
Yan Yan: How do I play the role?
System: You're the one left behind in every multiple-choice question.
Yan Yan: I don't really get it. I'm always the one people choose.
System: ...
System: So, you just have to play the role. Shall we give it a try?
Yan Yan: .
In a modern villa engulfed in flames, he is the cannon-fodder left behind by the male lead. He watches the male lead go save the others, while he himself burns to death.
When kidnappers force the male lead to choose between two people, he is the one the male lead would never choose. The kidnappers stab him, and he falls off a cliff.
At a celebrity wedding, he is the big star the male lead pushes aside without hesitation. He watches the male lead leave, humiliated in front of everyone.
The first world.
Yan Yan and the cannon-fodder male lead are childhood friends. As he tries to keep the protagonist's love interest and provoke the protagonist, he plays his role with casual indifference.
At last, the day of the grand wedding arrives. He and the protagonist are waiting to get engaged, and he is also waiting for the protagonist to leave him behind.
But instead, the protagonist's love interest arrives to steal the bride. He stops in front of Yan Yan, the beautiful man standing there quietly, and says, "Don't marry him. Marry me."
Protagonist: "Are you looking to die?"
Cannon-Fodder Male Lead 2: "I'm the one who's right for you. We grew up together..."
Yan Yan, the one they're fighting over: ?
The wedding was interrupted, but not quite.
Does that count as successfully playing the role?
Every world Yan Yan enters turns out like this. It isn't until the end that the System finally realizes he himself is the gu of Miaojiang.
Theme: Let's learn to cherish what we have
This setting, this setting, my long novel! 55555! Come back and write a side story! 555! The copywriting has not been fully recycled! ! I just feel like the plot is gone 5555 just after it started!
My wife and I just got married and it ended...
Woohoo, finally I understand what the phrase "not long but very short" means. I was still thinking about how short it could be, but it is really short.
I feel like I'm holding my breath, and it's really a hasty ending, woo woo woo woo, but the previous content really attracted me.
The front is okay, but the end is completely rushed.
Damn it, I thought my wife was joking when I said what I said in the last chapter, but I didn't expect my wife and I were really joking. Wow, oh, no infinite stream is so short.
So Jian Jian is his Lao Gong's sacrificial bride!
Wuwuwu, my wife, it's over just after it started.
Ah this? ! Is it going to end so soon? ! Didn't the story just unfold?
Why is it gone? What a pity, this could be a long story.
This setting, this setting, my long novel! 55555! Come back and write a side story! 555! The copywriting has not been fully recycled! ! I just feel like the plot is gone 5555 just after it started!
My wife and I just got married and it ended...
Woohoo, finally I understand what the phrase "not long but very short" means. I was still thinking about how short it could be, but it is really short.
I feel like I'm holding my breath, and it's really a hasty ending, woo woo woo woo, but the previous content really attracted me.
The front is okay, but the end is completely rushed.
Damn it, I thought my wife was joking when I said what I said in the last chapter, but I didn't expect my wife and I were really joking. Wow, oh, no infinite stream is so short.
So Jian Jian is his Lao Gong's sacrificial bride!
Wuwuwu, my wife, it's over just after it started.
Ah this? ! Is it going to end so soon? ! Didn't the story just unfold?
Why is it gone? What a pity, this could be a long story.