Is It My Fault When a Dating Sim Ends in a Bad Ending?

The massive full-dive romance game Perfect Match was taken offline after countless players reached bad endings. Shi Qi enters the game as a tester. The game is set at a prestigious royal university from the start. Character role: A hapless guy with a built-in sickly debuff Romance targets: The strict discipline committee member / the handsome, germophobic student council president / the cold, unruly homophobic campus bully / the gentle childhood friend next door who treats everyone like a sweetheart The routes are hellishly difficult, and countless players have reached bad endings. Shi Qi diligently completes his quests. He shows up late, and the discipline committee member docks him points. Affection +1 He accidentally touches the president's hand, and the president frowns and wipes it. Affection +2 The campus bully catches him in the shower without a shirt on and curses him out. Affection +5 He confesses to his childhood friend, who gently turns him down. Affection +10 Shi Qi: ? Is there something wrong with these romance targets? Shi Qi navigates among the romance targets, never expecting that one day, while he is kissing his childhood friend, the other three will catch them [Campus bully's corruption +20] [Discipline committee member's corruption +30] [Student council president's corruption +40] His childhood friend glances at the others with a faint smile, then asks gently, “What exactly are you to him?” [Childhood friend's corruption + unknown] System: Warning! When a character's corruption reaches its maximum, a bad ending will begin. Shi Qi: ??? No way! Bad endings cost me money! Trembling, Shi Qi rolls the dice and prays that his luck is maxed out. A slightly mischievous, straight, adorable office worker uke × a black-bellied, black-bellied, black-bellied dual-personality seme Immersive romance game / The seme in the game has a one-sided crush on real-world seme Zhuang Zhen / Each game scenario ends with a happy ending with only one person / The uke has an extraordinarily creative imagination / Some content contributed by readers / Includes some tabletop roleplaying-style game content / A mountain of authorial liberties / Multiple worlds / Mild Lovecraftian horror / Some nonhuman characters / Elementary-school-level writing / Multiple bad-ending branches in the game, but the story ends happily / All the semes are the same person / This story is entirely fictional; please do not apply it to real life Coming Soon 1: A Survival Guide to Disposable Boyfriends [Quick Transmigration] Wen Yu accidentally enters a gacha game called Disposable Boyfriend. The only way to return to reality is to pull cards, complete the story, and clear the game. R-[The aloof, celibate beauty on the mountain peak] He is a flirtatious college guy with a crush on a cold, distant heartthrob, and decides to make a move on his roommate first. Wen Yu is getting very close with the roommate when the heartthrob suddenly catches them together. Heartthrob's corruption +100 Wen Yu: Let me explain! The heartthrob turns and walks away. Wen Yu is about to chase after him when the roommate grabs his chin and asks casually, “Did you get close to me just for him?” Wen Yu: … S-[A ruthless, sinister business tycoon] He is a playboy who thinks his husband has become a vegetable, so he flirts with anyone and everyone. Husband's friend: “Compared to someone who's completely useless now, I'm much more worth your while, aren't I?” Husband's younger brother: “I'm younger than my brother, and better-looking too. Sister-in-law, why not give me a chance?” Wen Yu returns home after juggling them all, only to find his supposedly insensate lover holding a divorce certificate he must have dug up somewhere. His lover quietly gazes at the hickeys on Wen Yu's neck, his voice icy. “Explain.” Husband's corruption +100 SS-[An elegant, refined man with a dual personality] He is a blind man who thinks his boyfriend is cheating on him, so he decides to put on an act with his childhood friend. His boyfriend has been mysteriously absent lately and seems to have a poor memory. He is always brushing him off, sometimes wearing a cold expression as if he's tired of him, and sometimes showing up with a huge bouquet of roses. It's just like the telltale signs of an affair. He complains to his childhood friend, who suggests, “Why don't you pretend to fall in love with me, then break up with him and see if he gets jealous?” He agrees, not knowing it will be the biggest mistake of his life. SS-[An upright, reserved prodigy] He is a young master who wants to pursue his unrequited love, but accidentally casts a love spell on his rival instead. Mission objective: Reduce “boyfriend's” corruption to 0 / Raise affection to 100% Failure penalty: Classified Coming Soon 2: The Villainous Cannon Fodder Picked Up the Wrong Everyone-Loves-Me Script [Quick Transmigration] Lu Jin, an employee on the protagonist team, is framed by a coworker and transferred to the villainous cannon fodder team next door. The character traits he is assigned are [selfish] [stupid and vain] [gloomy and callous] [arrogant and heartless] [greedy and jealous]. He must carry out his destined role and spend the rest of his life in misery to complete the mission. Lu Jin (sneering): How could I possibly be cannon fodder? No one's going to make my life miserable. After the mission ends. Lu Jin (with an aching back): Damn it, why is everyone in this world gay?! In the first world, Lu Jin is an office worker exploited by his boss and bullied by his coworkers. By chance, he learns how to use hypnosis. He hypnotizes his boss and gives orders in a haughty manner, only for a coworker to walk in on them. With no other choice, he hypnotizes the coworker too. But something seems wrong with the hypnosis. Both men are fixated on getting into bed with him. Lu Jin (covered in hickeys) (lighting a cigarette): Is something wrong with this hypnosis? In the second world, Lu Jin is an arrogant rich kid who steals the protagonist's girlfriend out of jealousy. Then the protagonist arrives at the family home as the true young master, and their positions are instantly reversed. To protect himself, Lu Jin has no choice but to ask his two older brothers for help. But his brothers, no longer family, demand that he become their lover. If he doesn't want to be kicked out, he has no choice but to agree. Until the protagonist pins him against the wall and says that if he wants to stay, he's asking the wrong person. In the third world, Lu Jin is a poor man pretending to be rich. He sets up his friend and childhood friend to make a fortune, then flees the city, never expecting to find them outside his new home. “If you needed money, you could've asked me. Why did you lie?” Lu Jin takes a step back and immediately runs. But no matter where he flees, they always manage to catch him. In the fourth world, Lu Jin is a painter, and the protagonist is his boyfriend. Before long, Lu Jin becomes famous and cruelly breaks up with him. Afterward, Lu Jin's fortunes decline until he is saddled with enormous debts and forced to become a tycoon's lover. Then he runs into the protagonist at a banquet. The protagonist offers to pay off his debts. Lu Jin is moved to tears, but the tycoon sneers, “You think he's such a good person?” At the time, Lu Jin doesn't understand what he means. In the fifth world, Lu Jin is a shameless straight man who immediately accepts when the rich second-generation protagonist confesses to him. But every time, he finds a clever way to avoid getting intimate. Then he starts dating a girl online, and when they finally meet in person, the protagonist catches them in the act. “That's my younger brother,” the protagonist says with a sneer, pointing at his “girlfriend.” Lu Jin is dumbfounded. Theme: Even in darkness, look toward the light and strive to improve yourself