The Fan Favorite's Days as an NPC in an Escape Game

Blurb:

[Updates are irregular, proceed with caution]

A 3S-level instance in an escape game is finally cleared, but the System discovers that an NPC in the instance has developed self-awareness. According to the rules, the System descends into the instance to eliminate the bug.

The NPC about to be erased has a face as beautiful and bewitching as a camellia. The System, which has felt no emotional stirrings for thousands of years, softens after the NPC gazes up at it from afar with tear-filled eyes.

To keep this one-of-a-kind beauty in the world, the System makes a contract with him, turning him into a special NPC. After each instance ends, he will be randomly sent to another instance to continue his work as an NPC. Out of selfishness and a touch of mischief, the System makes him the only NPC in the game who cannot be romanced.

How could anyone be allowed to claim the moon in the sky?

Yun Nian doesn't want to die, so he agrees to Mr. System's demands and begins his career as an NPC.

But in his first instance, he becomes a widow whose husband died right after their wedding, and has to act as stepmother to two stepsons who clearly don't like him.

He thought being someone's stepmother, older brother, uncle, or wife was already the limit. Little did he know that the game had plenty more surprises in store.

* A jealous, possessive, split-apart seme who gets jealous of himself x A beautiful, deadly, universally adored uke

Content warnings:

[Unsteady update schedule]

The protagonist remains weak throughout. I'm writing something for my own enjoyment while recovering from illness. It has some very unusual kinks, so proceed with caution. Very melodramatic, universally adored, weak uke.

Upcoming novel: “Fake Pregnancy: Four Powerful Men Fight to Take Responsibility for Me”

Ye Xing transmigrates.

Familiar with web-novel tropes, Ye Xing understands his situation. More accurately, he has transmigrated into a book.

After a one-night stand, he and the other four men in the room stare at each other.

If he remembers correctly, these are supposed to be the novel's four semes, 1, 2, 3, and 4. But why are they all in his bed together?

Before he can figure out which of them left him covered in bruises or whom he should hold responsible, a tsunami hits the island. The five unlucky men, left behind on their own, are forced to survive on an island that's not quite as deserted as it seems.

They rely on each other to survive, and eventually become friends, though they're not especially close, with a bond forged through life and death.

While they wait for rescuers, Ye Xing's days are fairly peaceful and calm.

Until…

“Ye Xing, you're pregnant.”

When the first confused fool says this to him, he smiles sweetly and politely suggests the man go sit in the sun, preferably until the water in his brain dries up.

When the second and third confused men insist that he's pregnant, he gives them the same advice.

Finally, when the most reliable of the four, a doctor, tells him the exact same thing, Ye Xing remembers in horror that he really has transmigrated into a male-pregnancy novel!!!

In the days that follow, Ye Xing watches his face and belly visibly grow rounder and feels his body gradually changing. At last, he accepts his fate.

Mistaking the four men's jealous squabbling over him for a fight over who gets the baby, Ye Xing runs off with the baby as soon as he's rescued…

*

Ye Xing is a creation of an evil god who favors him without limit. Ignorant, greedy followers try to please the deity by choosing him as a sacrifice and sinking him into the sea.

So when the beautiful human, bright as the morning star, opens his eyes again, he finds himself in another world that the god created for him with boundless devotion and love…

A healing, sickly beauty uke x A split-apart seme who can't help falling for him

Content warnings:

1. No pregnancy! No pregnancy! No pregnancy!

2. Only one man was involved in the one-night stand! Only one! Only one!

3. For fans of universally adored characters and melodramatic love triangles. Uke-focused.

Let me recommend my friend's upcoming novel! Trust me! It's exactly the sort you'll like. You can search for the author's ID, “Tian Tian Wu Hua Guo,” which is easier.

“Role-Playing Lets the Universal Heartthrob Win Without Lifting a Finger [Infinite]”

Yun An dies on the day he comes of age, while summoning his contracted ghost.

There probably isn't a weaker celestial master in the world. He actually dies from the backlash of the ghost he summoned.

When he opens his eyes again, he's in another world.

It's a world of ghosts and monsters, dark and terrifying like the eighteen levels of the underworld.

The veteran players look at the newcomer with pity. He's strikingly beautiful, with a face as lovely as a woman's. What a shame. A beauty like that, without someone to protect him in the game, usually dies first.

But when the first instance begins, they stare in disbelief as Yun An charges without hesitation into the arms of an NPC sitting on a throne, handsome as a god descended from heaven, with a hint of wickedness in his smile.

Yun An: “Waaah, it's my contracted ghost! My contracted ghost!”

Hua Jiang looks displeased as he holds the person in his arms. He had just emerged from the blazing hell, and before he could spend a second admiring the beautiful human world, his contractor dragged him into this cursed place.

But a contracted ghost and contractor share one life and fate. As an outsider, he has to take the form of an NPC in every instance and help Yun An clear it.

Yun An gets it right away. He checks the backstory provided by the game, then snuggles into Hua Jiang's arms and calls sweetly, “Young Master, don't you remember me? I'm your missing fiancée!”

Hua Jiang freezes, then grits his teeth. “Then why don't you look the same as before?”

Yun An blinks and says uncertainly, “Because I had plastic surgery?”

Hua Jiang: “…All right, I declare that you are my long-lost fiancée.”

Everyone: “??? That works? Are NPCs really that easy to fool?”

Someone can't help but sneer, “Ghosts aren't that easy to fool. He's definitely messing with him before tearing him apart!”

When the first instance ends, the players who managed to survive are covered in wounds and utterly miserable.

But Yun An, who was carried to victory under the protection of a monster, is completely unharmed. His watery eyes gleam with captivating radiance. Amid a scene of carnage, as horrific as hell itself, he is like a rose in a greenhouse, even his fingertips carrying a faint fragrance.

Everyone falls silent. Later, others try to imitate Yun An, only to be toyed with and torn apart by the monsters.

Gradually, Yun An's reputation in the game grows.

Veteran players call him “the Human-World Enchanter,” because NPCs are always there to carry him to victory.

New players envy him: Every NPC in every instance falls for him, and every instance he enters becomes his harem!

Unaware of all this, Yun An wraps his arms around Hua Jiang's waist and cuddles up to him. Life is so sweet when your contracted ghost seme carries you to victory~

Theme: Freedom, democracy, civility, and harmony come first