Next story: A Murky Dream in Broad Daylight. Blurb at the bottom.
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Blurb:
Sui Zhou, a psychological counselor at a maximum-security prison, has been voted by the inmates three years running as the most gentlemanly, soft-hearted, and understanding counselor. In truth, he's a monster completely devoid of emotion.
His smile is calibrated to an angle of 44.7 degrees. The blush of embarrassment is precise down to the tips of his ears. Even the number of tears he sheds at a funeral is calculated to perfection.
So, in an infinite world where time runs backward, the players encounter a "newcomer" even harder to fathom than the ghosts and monsters...
At first: Sui Zhou sniffs some minced meat and calmly says, "It's not human flesh." A second later, he turns to the stunned players. "It's... not chicken, duck, or fish, either..."
Later: Sui Zhou gets into a fight with an NPC and beats him into a concussion with his camera bag...
In the end: I'm dead. Oh, I killed myself!
Butler: Young Master Lu, Mr. Sui only pretends to like you. He has ulterior motives!
Lu Xing: "I know he only pretends to like me. Do you think pretending to like someone takes no effort? He has it pretty rough."
When the game's final act begins,
when all the players are listed for sale on the future world's dark web,
he becomes humanity's sole savior.
[Psychotic CEO seme x highly intelligent beauty uke with an emotional disorder]
Reading guide:
1. Updates at 21:00.
2. Traditional infinite-flow, leaning toward suspense and deduction.
3. Both leads are human, and neither is just set dressing.
4. No one, including the supporting cast, could be called a good person by moral standards. Please keep that in mind!
5. Happy ending. They only have each other, one-on-one. All the plot holes will be filled in as scientifically, or relatively scientifically, as possible.
Blurb for a forthcoming story:
Six years ago, the money-laundering scandal at Superstar Pictures sent shock waves through the industry, plunging the entire entertainment world into hell.
Seventeen-year-old Pei Jue was caught up in it, falling from the heir apparent to a homeless stray before fleeing to America.
At the time, Xie Tanglin had just graduated from graduate school. As the main force behind the news story, his career soared,
making him the only beneficiary of the scandal.
Over the next six years,
Xie Tanglin rose to become CNC's undisputed ace and the nation's dream man in the eyes of the public.
Pei Jue formed a rock band in America and shot to fame, becoming a hugely popular star.
Six years later, Pei Jue returned to China.
He would make that noble, spotless national heartthrob
experience the taste of falling into hell and having his reputation ruined.
But on his very first night back, he discovered that the house that should have been empty had been taken over by Xie Tanglin!
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Harbor City, Golden Lotus Awards ceremony.
Xie Tanglin hosted across genres, while Pei Jue was nominated for his film score.
Everyone knew the two hated each other like sworn enemies.
People in the audience kept glancing over, waiting for a show.
There was no interaction at all onstage, and not a single glance exchanged.
The rumors of their feud seemed to have been confirmed beyond doubt.
After the ceremony, paparazzi waited at the end of a dark alley and snapped two figures.
The next day, a blurry but shocking paparazzi photo appeared on the cover of a Hong Kong entertainment weekly:
Under the dim streetlights, Pei Jue gripped Xie Tanglin around the waist and hips with both hands, while Xie Tanglin clasped the back of Pei Jue's neck.
Their lips were pressed together, kissing fiercely and passionately.
"More outrageous than a prime-time soap! Bitter rivals caught kissing! All of Hong Kong is stunned!"
The Hong Kong media's sensational headline set the whole country ablaze!
A seemingly aloof and restrained national heartthrob with a powerful need to control x a gorgeous, pain-loving, unhinged rock star with a fiery temper
Theme: Believe in science.
Why is this process a bit artificial? (Although Shou is emotionally indifferent, the stages of expression changes are really a bit [dog-headed]
"Fitcher's Vogel" (Fitcher's Vogel|Standard Chinese translation of Grimm's Fairy Tales, online alias: Fitcher's Bird) Once upon a time there was a wizard who pretended to be poor and went begging from house to house, but in fact he caught pretty girls whenever he came across them. No one can tell where he took the girls, because none of the girls he took away ever came back. One day, he came to the door of a family with three beautiful girls. He was carrying a basket on his back, as if he was preparing to hold people's alms, and he looked like a weak and pitiable beggar. He asked the family to give him something to eat, and the eldest daughter came out. The wizard didn't need to touch her, and the girl would jump into his basket unconsciously, and then he would stride away towards his home deep in the forest. All the furnishings in his residence are so magnificent, and he has prepared everything for the girl that she might think of. He always said: "My dear, you will live a happy life with me, because you will have everything you want." A few days later, the wizard said to the girl: "I have to go out to do something, and you have to stay at home alone for two days. This is the key to all the doors. Except for one room, you can see the rest. This is the key to the forbidden room. I don't allow anyone to go in, otherwise they will die." At the same time, he handed the girl an egg and said: "Keep the egg and take it with you wherever you go. If you lose it, you will be in bad luck." The girl took the keys and eggs and promised to do everything as he asked. After the wizard left, the girl looked around the house from downstairs to upstairs. All the rooms were glittering with gold, and the girl had never seen so much wealth. Finally she came to the forbidden room and wanted to walk over without looking, but her curiosity drove her to take out the key and want to see what was different from the others, so she inserted the key into the keyhole. The door clicked open and she walked in. What do you think she saw? In the center of the room stood a large bloody basin filled with human bodies cut into pieces; next to it was a large wooden chopping board with a large, sharp and shiny ax placed on it. She was so frightened that she dropped the eggs in her hands into the basin. As a result, the blood spots on them could not be wiped off. She washed and scraped them, but still could not remove them. The wizard returned soon. The first things he asked for were keys and eggs. The girl gingerly handed over the key and the egg, and the wizard immediately knew from her expression and the red dot on the egg that she had entered the bloody room. "Since you entered that room against my will, and now I want you to go back there against your will, you will be dead." The wizard said, grabbing the girl's hair, dragging her into the slaughterhouse, pressing her head on the cutting board and cutting off her limbs, letting the blood flow all over the floor, and then threw the body into a basin and put it with other corpses. "Now it's time for me to get the second girl." The wizard said to himself. He dressed up as a poor beggar and went to that family's house to beg. This time, the second girl brought him a piece of bread. He only touched the girl once and caught her like the older girl. The second girl's ending was not better than that of the eldest girl. Driven by curiosity, she opened the door of the slaughtering room and saw everything; and then she was killed in the same way when the wizard came back. The wizard went to catch the third girl. She was much smarter and cunning than her sisters. When the wizard handed her the key and the egg, and then went on a journey, she first carefully placed the egg securely, then began to check each room, and finally came to the forbidden room. Oh my gosh! What did she see? Her two good sisters lay in the basin, brutally murdered and dismembered. She began arranging their limbs in order: head, body, arms and legs. When nothing was missing, the limbs began to move and come together. The two girls opened their eyes and came to life again. They happily kissed and comforted each other. As usual, the first thing the wizard does when he comes back is to ask for keys and eggs. He looked left and right and couldn't find any traces of blood on it, so he said: "You have passed the test, you will be my bride." In this way, he not only had no magic power over the girl, but also had to act according to the girl's instructions. "Oh, that's great!" The girl said. "First you have to carry a basket of gold to give to my parents, while I prepare for the wedding at home." Then she ran to the small room where the sisters were hiding and said to them: "Now I can save you. The bad guy will carry you home himself. As soon as you get home, you must find someone to help me." She put the two sisters into the basket and covered it with a thick layer of gold. Then he said to the wizard: "Take the basket. But I will watch through the small window to see if you stop and be lazy along the way." The wizard picked up the basket and left, but the basket was so heavy that it bent his waist, and sweat dripped down his cheeks. Just when he was about to sit down and take a rest, a girl in the basket shouted: "I saw you taking a rest from the small window, so I got up and left immediately." The wizard thought it was the bride talking, so he had to get up and continue walking. After walking for a while, he wanted to stop and rest again, and immediately heard someone say: "I was watching you from the small window. You stopped to rest again, can't you just walk back?" Every time he stood still, the voice would shout again, and he had to move on, and finally arrived at the home of the girl's parents out of breath, carrying two girls and a lot of gold. Besides, the third girl was preparing for the wedding banquet at the wizard's house while sending invitations to the wizard's friends. She prepared a grinning skeleton, put a garland on it, decorated it, then placed it in front of the small window in the attic and let it look out from there. When all these things were done, the girl jumped into a bucket of honey, then cut open the feather bed, and rolled herself on it until her whole body was covered with feathers, and she looked like a strange bird, and no one could recognize her. She walked outside, meeting wedding guests along the way. They asked her: "Ficher, strange bird, how did you get here?" "Coming from Ficher's house nearby." "What is the young bride doing?" "She has cleaned the downstairs and upstairs, and I think she is looking out of the window right now." Finally, she met the groom who was slowly walking home. He also asked: "Ficher, strange bird, how did you get here?" "Coming from the nearby Fichers' house." "What is the young bride doing?" "She has cleaned the downstairs and upstairs, and I think she is looking out of the window right now." The groom looked up and saw the dressed-up skeleton. He thought it was his bride, so he nodded to it and greeted it affectionately. But when he and his guests entered the house, the brothers and relatives who had been sent to rescue the bride arrived. They locked all the doors of the house so that no one could escape, and then lit a fire and burned the wizard and his gang to death.
Blue Beard (Charles Bellot | Dai Wangshu's classic translation) Once upon a time there was a man who had a lot of property in the city and in the country. His family was wealthy, with various gold and silver utensils, furniture covered with embroidered cloth, and gilded carriages. Unfortunately, this man had an ugly blue beard. When the women saw him, they turned around and ran away. Bluebeard has a neighbor, a noble woman. She has two daughters as beautiful as flowers. Bluebeard wanted to marry one of her daughters and asked her to marry him a daughter. But the two daughters looked down upon him, pushed each other away, and refused to marry Bluebeard as his wife. They are also very taboo. Bluebeard has married several wives, but no one has ever known the whereabouts of those women. In order to please them, Bluebeard specially invited the mother and daughter to stay in his country villa for a week. He also invited some of her daughter's friends and several young women from the neighborhood to keep them company. They saw nothing in the villa except entertaining dances, hunting, fishing and luxurious banquets. Everyone stayed up all night, just talking and having fun together. Bluebeard's invitation was very successful. The little daughter of the aristocratic woman was moved and began to change her mind. She thought that the owner of the villa's beard was not so blue anymore, was not annoying, and was an outstanding gentleman. After they returned to the city, they soon decided to get married. A month later, Bluebeard told his young wife: "I have important things to do and I have to go to the countryside for at least six weeks. During my absence, please make your own arrangements. If you want to relax, you can also invite some relatives and friends. If you are happy, you can take them for a walk in the countryside and cook some dishes to entertain them." After finishing speaking, Blue Beard told his wife: "These are the keys to two large warehouses. They contain my favorite furniture. This is the key to the gold and silver table room, which is not usually used. This is the key to the safe, which stores gold and silver currency. This is the key to the jewelry box. This is the key to all the rooms in the house. This small key is the key to a small room on the side of the large corridor on the ground floor. You can open the door to enter those rooms. But you are not allowed to enter the small room on the side. If you go in, don't blame me for being angry. It will make you unbearable." The young wife promised to do as he said. So after hugging his wife, he got into the beautiful carriage and drove away. Neighbors and good friends were waiting impatiently for the new housewife to invite them to her home to see the gorgeous furniture. In the past, when her husband was at home, they did not dare to enter her house because they were afraid of Bluebeard. They visited her bedroom, various rooms and warehouses. The rooms were so exquisitely furnished that each one was better than the other. Later they went upstairs again and entered two rooms. It was furnished with the most luxurious furniture, with hanging hangings on the walls, beds, couches, cupboards, cabinets, tables, mirrors, everything was ready. It's really dazzling and beautiful. Especially those mirrors, which can reflect the light from head to toe; some of the frames are made of silver, and some are covered with gold. They are dazzling. They are all the most luxurious treasures they have never seen. The girlfriends were full of praise after seeing it and envied the happiness of the newlywed housewife. But the young wife wanted to see everything in the house and open the small room on the ground floor. Because she was so anxious to see what was in the small room, she ignored the fact that it would be rude to leave the guests alone. She walked down the small escalator at the back by herself, walking in such a hurry, as if she was afraid that someone would break her neck. She walked to the door of the small room and couldn't help but stop. She hesitated for a while, thinking about her husband's instructions and considering whether disaster would happen if she didn't obey. But I wanted to open the door and go in to take a look, but the temptation was too strong. Unable to restrain herself, she finally took out the small key and opened the door with a tremble. At first, she saw nothing clearly. Because the windows inside are closed. After a while, she saw the blood stains on the floor, and the corpses of several women lying against the wall (those women were all killed by Bluebeard after he married them in the past). She was frightened to death and hurriedly pulled out the key from the keyhole. By accident, the key fell from her hand to the ground. After she calmed down, she hurriedly picked up the keys, locked the door, and ran upstairs to the bedroom to rest. Because she was so scared that she couldn't make up her mind. She found that the small key was stained with blood and tried to wipe it off. She wiped it two or three times, but the blood stain could not be wiped off. She washed the key with water and even scrubbed it with soap and sand, but it never came out clean and blood stains remained on it. Because the key was enchanted, she couldn't wipe away the blood. The blood on one side of the key was wiped away, and blood stains appeared on the other side. That night, Bluebeard came back. He told her that he heard the message on the road and that what he had to do had been successfully completed. His wife forced herself to calm down and said she was glad he would be home soon. The next morning, he asked his wife for the keys back, and she handed them back to him one by one. The hand where she handed the keys kept shaking, so he immediately guessed what had happened. "What?" He asked. "Why are the keys to the small room not together?" "I must have left it on the table," she said. "Bring it to me at once," said Bluebeard. The young wife hesitated for a long time before getting the key to him. Bluebeard looked at the key carefully and asked his wife: "Why is there blood on the key?" "I don't know," cried the poor woman, pale with fright. "You don't know!" Said Bluebeard, "but I do. Didn't you go into that little room? Well, madam, go in and find a suitable place among the ladies you saw." After hearing this, the young wife knelt down tremblingly at her husband's feet, begged him for his life, and swore that she would repent in the future and never dare to disobey his orders again. Seeing her beauty and pleading, even a stone's heart would soften, but Bluebeard's heart was even harder than stone, and he was not moved at all. He insisted: "Madam, you must die. You must die at once." "Since I have to die, please give me some time to pray to God." The young wife burst into tears and begged. "Okay, then I'll give you five minutes, no more than one minute." Bluebeard said firmly. The young wife went upstairs to her sister and said: "Anna (this is her sister's name), I beg you to go to the roof and see if our two brothers are here. They have promised me that they will come today. When you see them, immediately send out a signal to urge them to come quickly." Sister Anna climbed to the roof. The poor wife who was about to be killed kept shouting to her sister: "Ana, do you see anyone coming?" Her sister replied: "I only saw the bright sunshine outside and the green grass. I didn't see anything else." At this time, Blue Beard held the steel knife in his hand and said sternly to his wife: "Come down quickly. Otherwise, I will come up." "Please wait a moment." After the young wife answered, she hurriedly whispered to her sister: "Anna, sister Anna, do you see anyone coming?" "I only saw the bright sunshine outside and the green grass. I didn't see anything else." "Get down quickly. Or I'll come up." Bluebeard was howling again. "Just come, just come." After the young wife agreed, she shouted to her sister: "Anna, sister Anna, do you see anyone coming?" "I saw it. I saw the dust rolling on the road, coming towards us." "Are the brothers here?" "Ouch, that's not right." Sister Anna replied, "A group of sheep are coming!" "Are you coming down?" Bluebeard shouted. "Wait a little longer." After the young wife answered, she shouted: "Anna, sister Anna, do you see anyone coming?" "I see! Two knights are coming. But they are still far away from us." "Thank God!" Cried the poor wife happily. "Those are my two brothers. I have to find a way to send a distress signal and urge them to come quickly." Bluebeard's howl grew louder, making the whole house shake. The unfortunate wife, pale with fright, came downstairs and threw herself at her husband's feet, with her hair falling over her shoulders and tears streaming down her face. "It's useless for you to be like this, you have to die." Bluebeard said, holding her hair with one hand, and raising the kitchen knife with the other hand to chop her head. The poor woman turned away and looked at him with her dying eyes, hoping to buy time for her to calm down. "No, no. You have to rely on God to save you." Blue Beard raised his hand and was about to chop down the knife. It was too late, but soon, I suddenly heard someone knocking on the door frantically outside. Bluebeard was stunned and suddenly put down his hand. As soon as the door opened, two knights rushed in. They drew their swords and stabbed Bluebeard straight at him. Bluebeard knew these two knights. They were his wife's brothers, one a dragoon and the other a musketeer. He hurriedly ran for his life, but the two brothers were in hot pursuit. When Bluebeard fled to the door and was still on his feet, two swords pierced his body and stabbed him to the ground. The poor wife was almost as dead as her husband, and she no longer had the energy to stand up and greet her brothers. Bluebeard had no children, so his entire family fortune was inherited by his wife. She gave part of her property to her sister Anna to pay for her marriage to a young nobleman with whom she had been in love for a long time; the other part was given to her two brothers for the position of captain, and the remaining part was used by herself to marry an upright man. With that man, she could gradually forget the unfortunate experience she had with Blue Beard.
Help, what a realistic sentence...
You will definitely not survive this copy😇
The seven deadly sins are arrogance, jealousy, wrath, laziness, greed, gluttony, and lust, so they should be listed in order from least to most serious.
It's so exciting. Why are there so few comments?
A very thoughtful article
It is recommended that the author adjust the writing pace of the next book. The progress is almost half way. He is still showing the world view to the readers in each dungeon (can't you tell that this game is not simple? You don't need to show it all the time...). It is a bit boring. I skipped 2 dungeons and only looked at the plot of the real world. It seems to have no impact. This shows that the plot of the dungeon is indispensable to the overall world view... And the progress of the emotional line is also insignificant. Please adjust your rhythm. The copy is well written, but I feel a little tired after reading it halfway through.
This book is really good. I originally wanted to leave a review after reading it, but I have been slow to read books lately, so I decided to review it first! The author is awesome!