Puzzle Games

This novel is also known as Everyone Wants to Cling to Me [Infinite] and I Became a Big Shot in a Horror Game [Infinite].

By day, Bai Tian was just a minor neighborhood committee clerk. He drank tea, chatted, read the newspaper, and steeped goji berries in his thermos.

Then, after a nationwide torrential rainstorm, he was dragged into a strange and deadly horror game, bringing his retirement to an abrupt end.

But could someone explain why every player in every instance had become his devoted little fan?

Player A: The big shot is always right!

Player B: Big shot, need a little leg accessory? I can yell “666” for you!

Player C: Veteran, take me along! I’ll cheer you on!

Bai Tian, expressionless: “...Ye Zhao, help me fight that monster.”

A devoted, powerful top who can take on ten opponents at once x a clever, aloof bottom who’s terrible at fighting. Mutual unrequited love.

The trash author’s upcoming novel:

Studying Hard Even in an Infinite Game

Li Qing, who had hated studying since childhood, was accidentally dragged into a strange library, surrounded by tens of thousands of books.

[Books are the ladder of human progress. Go ahead and explore the ocean of knowledge to your heart’s content!]

Li Qing, the hopeless student, smiled. “I graduated many years ago.”

[If you don’t finish reading within the allotted time, you’ll die.]

Li Qing: “...I have a %￥@%#&%% to say.”

*

Li Qing, a newcomer, was fair-skinned and beautiful, with long legs and a slim waist. He was kind-hearted, and supposedly a terrible student. Everyone bet he wouldn’t survive three chapters.

And yet

In the very first book, Li Qing won the favor of a key NPC and gained a skill that made everyone envious, with redemption in one hand and slaughter in the other.

Those around him: “??? Weren’t you supposed to be a hopeless student?”

Next came the second book, social science.

In the eerie, dilapidated Wolf Mountain Prison, players were all on edge before the sinister and ruthless warden. Only Li Qing sat calmly on a cafeteria bench, eagerly and skillfully slicing open the rotten head on his plate with a knife and fork. The warden was very pleased.

Those around him: “...Beep, ”

Then came the third book, young adult fiction.

At last, the Nth book.

Li Qing: “I didn’t do well this time.”

Those around him: “That’s fucking amazing!”

Li Qing: “I lost one point. QAQ”

Those around him: “...You damn top student! Take this!”

*

On Li Qing’s first day in the library, he met the real top student, Lu Ran: tall, handsome, and great in a fight, with boyfriend appeal off the charts.

When they first met, Li Qing clasped Lu Ran’s hand and said earnestly, “Brother Lu, you’re such a good person!”

The next time they entered a book, Li Qing said, “Classmate Lu, you’re such a good person!”

After they’d spent more time together, Li Qing said, “Boss Lu, you’re such a good person!”

Then one day, Lu Ran pinned him to the bed and asked in a low, sexy voice, “Am I a good person?”

Li Qing, lying limp like a salted fish with a hoarse voice: “I’m fucking blind...”

Theme: The tenacious will to survive in desperate circumstances!