When a Paper Doll Becomes a Game NPC

Burdened with a huge debt, Gu Nanmo is kidnapped and taken aboard a giant ship. He receives an anonymous invitation to take part in a live-action immersive game with a prize of ten million yuan. The only catch is that he has to sign a waiver accepting the risk of death. Gu Nanmo hesitates, but the enormous prize tempts him into joining.

A real-life hunting game: clear it and live; fail and you are trapped in an endless loop until you die.

After joining the game for the first time, Gu Nanmo feels that something is wrong with his body. One day, he sees a shed shell beside his bed, then watches the surveillance footage and panics.

First instance: The Giant Ship That Sank Thirty Years Ago (Completed)

Second instance: Escape from the Deserted Island (Completed)

Third instance: The Missing Eighth Person (Completed)

Fourth instance: The Dead Have Returned for Revenge (Completed)

Fifth instance: Who's the Mental Patient? (Completed)

[1. It's fine that the protagonist is an NPC. 2. The protagonist is also a paper character. 3. At first, the protagonist doesn't know who he is and thinks he's a player. Later, he'll learn that he's an NPC. The title matches the story; you'll understand as you read on.]

Screenshotted on June 12, 2020.

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Blurb for "The Little Taotie Enters a Malevolent Spirit Livestream"

The Taotie clan is famous for eating, yet one little Taotie has no appetite. He only takes tiny bites and never says he's hungry. As if being handsome weren't enough, he also stays in such great shape. It's practically a scandal in the clan.

Worst of all, he isn't ashamed but proud of it, always cheerful. Father Shen can't bear to watch his son be so unmotivated. Since the boy has turned twenty, he decides it's time for him to get some life experience, and throws him out on a dark and windy night.

On his first day in the malevolent spirit livestream, Shen Yinian runs into a long-tongued ghost with disheveled hair, "playing" with someone (scaring them). Staring at the ghost's hair and blue-green fingernails, he thinks they're far too unhygienic. Food prepared like that would give you diarrhea.

After thinking it over, he makes a decision. The long-haired ghost becomes a short-haired ghost, and the blue-green fingernails disappear.

The next day, while enjoying the night breeze, Shen Yinian sees a fat ghost chatting with someone (scaring them one-sidedly). Shen Yinian says, "Being too fat can lead to high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and high cholesterol. It's bad for your health."

After another bout of thought, the fat ghost starts running at night with weights on, and gets a fat-loss meal plan.

After Shen Yinian thinks things over a few more times, all the ghosts start going to bed and getting up early... and cooking healthy meals.

The ghosts groan at the pile of food. They're supposed to scare people, but now they're kitchen hands. How can they show their faces if word gets out? But they can't beat him or win an argument, so all they can do is pray every day that someone will get rid of Shen Yinian.

But when Father Shen really comes to take Shen Yinian away, the ghosts regret it the very next day. So, on another pitch-black night, they bring Shen Yinian back...

Blurb for "The Days an Encyclopedia Spent Running a Tavern After Coming of Age"

Tell me a tale of lifelong regret, and I'll trade you a cup of wine to drown your sorrows and lay your regrets to rest.

When the all-encompassing book is repeatedly dismissed as too bulky and inconvenient to search, and thrown away time and again, it finally gains self-awareness one day and becomes the handsome, mysterious Yu Buzhou. From then on, a tavern called Jianquan appears in the mortal world.

Theme: No matter when or where you are, never give up on the chance to keep living.