[Upcoming novel: A Bouquet for My Lover [Infinite] at the bottom]
Qiu Mian is a minor actor who has repeatedly played minor supporting roles. He has a clean-cut look, ordinary acting skills, and a quiet, unremarkable personality. The only thing that draws attention is how often he arrives late and leaves early.
But he can't help it. Qiu Mian is always rushing from place to place, busy saving the world.
After night falls, only a handful of people know that the dream world has become linked to reality. Any dream could spiral out of control and become the spark that destroys the world.
Those who can remain themselves, calm and clearheaded, in dreams are called "dreamwalkers." They suppress their emotions, think with cool detachment, and keep traveling through people's dreams, fighting the evil, greed, desire, and fear magnified countless times within them.
After years of dreamwalking, Qiu Mian has become adept at handling all kinds of dreams: clearing away "monsters" born of fear; eliminating "human calamities" left behind by domestic violence, molestation, and bullying; and stopping "fantastical disasters" capable of wreaking the same destruction in the real world.
As he dreamwalks more and more, Qiu Mian realizes... he seems to have made a deep impression on the subconscious minds of many people without even noticing.
"I randomly watched a web series and felt an instant connection with the third male lead! I feel like I've seen him in a dream."
"I had a nightmare. The sky collapsed, the earth cracked, and there were floods and hurricanes. Then Mianmian slashed through the waves to save everyone. He was so cool, I cried..."
"I can die without regrets. I dreamed my ship was doing it (hands clasped)."
*
Chi Jianying is the president of an entertainment company, with a talent for stirring up chaos. He's always getting into trouble and has earned the title of the industry's most impossible-to-please lunatic boss. Knowing he doesn't have long to live, he throws himself into one outrageous stunt after another.
When night falls, he loses all his emotions and wanders the edges of dreams, cold and numb, dealing with every unstable element. When the time is right, he'll sacrifice himself to stop the dream world from spreading.
Until one day, someone broke through the darkness and tore through the abyss. Taking his hand with casual ease, they said, "I'm here to save you."
In reality, a crazy CEO; in dreams, a detached assassin and human weapon, the top x in reality, a low-profile little celebrity; in dreams, a mighty force who commands the winds and rain, the bottom
The top helps the bottom in reality; the bottom saves the top in dreams.
Tips:
1. The bottom misunderstands himself and thinks he's perfectly ordinary, but everyone else thinks he's incredibly cool.
2. No characters are based on real people, and the author is just an ordinary gossip-loving bystander.
---Upcoming novel: A Bouquet for My Lover [Infinite]---
Three years ago, Xie Junze, heir apparent to the Xie Group, died in an accident.
At his memorial service, his secret lover, Shang Qingmu, dressed in white and coldly surveyed the Xie family members, all pretending to grieve. He vowed to make them pay.
Three years later, Shang Qingmu had avenged himself, and everyone who had plotted to kill Xie Junze had gotten what they deserved. But all the strain had taken its toll on his life, and he soon died suddenly of illness.
When he opened his eyes again, he had arrived in the game world of the dead. Here, every soul who died with regrets had a chance to return to the living world, as long as they earned enough points.
Shang Qingmu wasn't particularly attached to the living world, but he was certain that Xie Junze would choose to stay here, looking for a way to come back to life and see him again.
So he stayed, too, eagerly taking part in the games as he searched the vast sea of ghosts for Xie Junze.
[Rule-Exploration Instance]
"As long as you find all the clues and avoid breaking any rules, most people have a chance of clearing the level."
"Then where do the clues come from?"
Shang Qingmu opened his palm. Between his fingers, a butterbur flower representing [Justice] quietly bloomed. The elegant, cool beauty before him whispered temptingly, like a demon: "Give me some of your clearance points in advance, and I'll lead you out of this dangerous gamble."
"If I fail, I'll pay you back with an eternity of ruin."
[Battle Royale Instance]
A thousand hunters, ten thousand bones left to rot.
No safe zones, no rest areas, only endless pursuit until your slow legs can no longer escape the bite of death.
"One percent of the players will clear the level, a total of ten spots. First come, first served."
With a fierce ghost about to break free behind him, Shang Qingmu was thin and delicate, seemingly frail, yet he calmly bit down on a starflower representing [Promise].
"As for my chance of survival? I'll sell that, too, as long as you can pay the price."
Later, every player knew that a reckless points hunter had arrived in the game world. He took on every seemingly impossible task and seized every chance to gather information, all in search of his lover, but there was never a trace of him.
Until one day, Shang Qingmu met a man in an instance who looked uncannily like Xie Junze. His eyes filled with tears as he cried, "Honey!"
But the man looked at him coldly. "Who are you? I don't know you. Don't call me that."
Shang Qingmu: "..."
He'd found his husband, but the man had amnesia. What now?
He'd just have to lure him in all over again ୧(๑˃⤙˂๑)୨
*
Participant [X], ranked first on the points leaderboard, unexpectedly failed to clear an instance and became its final boss.
Strangely, he retained most of his reason, losing only a few subtle memories. The obsession he carried from before his death drove him to keep taking part in instances, earning points to exchange for an item that could save his lover, who was still alive.
Until one day, he finally got the item, but it failed when he tried to use it.
It turned out his lover had already died.
"It feels as if I have waited an eternity for this moment, just to kindle my flame and gather my flowers."
Ruthless and decisive in public, gentle and doting in private, top: Xie Junze
Cool and detached in public, devoted and obedient in private, bottom: Shang Qingmu
Theme: Everyone for me, and me for everyone.
That is, you can understand it, the kind of human structure that gradually becomes familiar little by little when faced with an unknown existence. But I know for sure that I'm not a human being.
And they were not handed over to the state? Don't know what happened? If they were handed over to the country at the beginning, then Qiuqiu should have registered with the country long ago?
How can an article written by a single author be so noisy [question mark]
I feel that with Xiaoying's temperament, she can copy the surveillance video back and watch it again and again.
I think it's quite similar to the uncanny valley effect, where people are very afraid of everything that looks human or non-human.
Alas, for sure... What would it be like if he could be taught tenderly from an early age? [Tuck his chin]
The strongest in the world! ! (Raising signs at the top of his lungs)
Ah ah ah Xia Xuan will not be with the poet, right?
There is something creepy and sweet [split]
The world view is very interesting, xql made me fight to death... At first I thought it was two BKings fighting for the top of BKings, but it turned out to be two very sincere and cute people after they realized their enlightenment.
Thanks to the author for letting me knock on it, I wish Mr. Chi and Xiao Mian 99 [shy]
I finished reading it all at once, and then when I wanted to add it to my read list, I realized why it wasn't finished! !
That is, you can understand it, the kind of human structure that gradually becomes familiar little by little when faced with an unknown existence. But I know for sure that I'm not a human being. And they were not handed over to the state? Don't know what happened? If they were handed over to the country at the beginning, then Qiuqiu should have registered with the country long ago?
How can an article written by a single author be so noisy [question mark]
I feel that with Xiaoying's temperament, she can copy the surveillance video back and watch it again and again.
I think it's quite similar to the uncanny valley effect, where people are very afraid of everything that looks human or non-human.
Alas, for sure... What would it be like if he could be taught tenderly from an early age? [Tuck his chin]
The strongest in the world! ! (Raising signs at the top of his lungs)
Ah ah ah Xia Xuan will not be with the poet, right?
There is something creepy and sweet [split]
The world view is very interesting, xql made me fight to death... At first I thought it was two BKings fighting for the top of BKings, but it turned out to be two very sincere and cute people after they realized their enlightenment. Thanks to the author for letting me knock on it, I wish Mr. Chi and Xiao Mian 99 [shy]
I finished reading it all at once, and then when I wanted to add it to my read list, I realized why it wasn't finished! !