The Beautiful NPC Wants to Cuddle Up to Me [Infinite]

[After he found out I betrayed him, he seemed even more into it = =]

[Coming soon: Reborn, I Ascend to Immortality, Get Rich, and Find a New Man. Blurb at the very end.]

Wu Qing dies unexpectedly and signs a contract. Under its terms, she will enter an infinite world and stop an NPC from going rogue. If she succeeds, she can return to the real world.

System: [As long as you can ensure the NPC stops trying to destroy the game world and becomes a kind NPC, I won't erase him.]

Wu Qing laughs. "If you could erase him, there'd be no need for me to get involved..."

Though Wu Qing scoffs at the System's claim, she still chooses to make a deal with the devil in order to come back to life.

After a lot of effort, the NPC decides to die alongside his enemy. If he willingly dies, he won't awaken from his character script, go rogue, and become a demon bent on destroying the game world.

With the mission nearly complete, Wu Qing is overjoyed. She leaves the NPC behind and turns to run.

But before her laughter has even faded, she hears the notification that the mission has failed.

System: [As he was dying, the NPC's vision spread throughout the entire game world. You were the only person left in the world he cared about, so he took a special look at you.]

Wu Qing senses trouble.

[He saw you smiling, and you looked...] The System considers its words. [Like the mastermind behind it all.]

[Congratulations, Host. Your wonderful journey through life has been extended once again.]

Wu Qing: "..."

In the worlds that follow, Wu Qing discovers that the NPC is impossible to shake. Even when she wakes in the middle of the night, she finds a beautiful face leaning close to hers.

He'll play with her hair and say in a sickly-sweet voice, "Poor thing~ You can't even sleep when I'm not around."

Wu Qing: "..." Who was it just now who pinched her nose and made her wake up gasping? :)

*

After a poor childhood and a bleak future, at the moment his life force ran dry, Chi Yu saw the truth about the world he lived in. Black threads representing the past and the future bound the entire world inside a cage. Every living being in it was a puppet on strings.

The power of despair gave him the ability to break free. He was reborn, becoming one of the outsiders from beyond the world.

Countless "correctors" came one after another, trying to erase him, the anomaly. Chi Yu was "overcome with gratitude" and gave each of them a game-character assassination bundle.

Then one day, a rookie "corrector" appeared. She brought him false warmth and insincere greetings. He caught a whiff of a chance at life on her, and followed close behind like a hungry hyena.

They were a pair of lovers with ulterior motives in this frigid world. Each held a sharp dagger, its point aimed at the other's heart.

But every now and then, Chi Yu still had a beautiful dream.

If only she would stand by his side...

*

1. He

Reborn, I Ascend to Immortality, Get Rich, and Find a New Man

Only after Sang Zhiyan died did she learn that she was a lovesick cannon-fodder supporting character in a novel.

She had served as a stepping stone for the male lead, Yan Che, and the female lead, Zhao Chenjun, to claim the highest seat in the world. Her only part in the book was a line of recollection from Yan Che in his old age:

"Zhiyan was beautiful, but stupid and spoiled."

Sang Zhiyan had a thousand choice curses to throw at him.

An estate spanning thousands of acres, thousands of pearls, even the divine bloodline in his wife's veins: which one of these belonged to Yan Che? And which one didn't belong to Sang Zhiyan?

And she, the last descendant of the Divine Clan, had ended up as Yan Che's nameless, early-dead mistress!

Fuming, Sang Zhiyan blinked and found herself reborn on the day she was supposed to marry that fortune-hunting pretty boy.

The mansion was decked out in lanterns and decorations, and full of celebration.

She crushed the jade ruyi beside her and brought out the family motto, reflecting on it three times a day.

"With a fortune at home, do as your heart desires."

Her mother's translation went like this...

Spend spirit stones on the biggest splashes.

For a live-in son-in-law, choose the most handsome man.

As for strength... why do the work yourself if money can take care of it?

Sang Zhiyan wholeheartedly agreed. Compared to Yan Che, who was less handsome and didn't listen to her, the Yan family's adopted son was far more to her taste!

*

Wanqi Yuan knew Sang Zhiyan, the young lady with the greatest beauty and wealth in the Six Realms, but not much sense. Somehow, she had fallen for that Yan family man, a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Now she was even going to bring several estates with her as she married into the Yan family's shabby little home.

If you asked him, a pretty girl with money would be better off keeping eight or ten handsome young men.

They'd be easy on the eyes, sweet-talking, and available in all sorts of styles.

Before he could finish sighing, Wanqi Yuan's smile froze.

Sang Zhiyan had turned and was walking gracefully toward the gate of his courtyard.

She even put down several large chests of gold, silver, and jewels, calling them her betrothal gifts.

Sang Zhiyan was considerate enough to say she could offer more if they weren't enough.

Wanqi Yuan, the ultimate villain behind the whole story: "?"

#What do you do when the gossip you're enjoying turns out to be about you? Asking for a friend. It's urgent.#

*

[The Scumbag's Little Scene]

Yan Che had just summed up Sang Zhiyan's life in eight words: "Beautiful but brainless, spoiled and willful." When he opened his eyes, he had returned to thirty years earlier.

The vast estate, thousands of pearls, and divine bloodline were all gone, along with everything he had snatched from Sang Zhiyan. Now he crouched on the roadside, holding all he owned: a shabby bowl for begging. Luxury cars roared past him. A gust of wind lifted a corner of one car's curtain, revealing half of a familiar man's face. Yan Che recognized him as the "orphan of war," his adoptive older brother, the famous Demon Lord of the Western Regions.

The chatter of customers at the teahouse next door reached his ears.

"The Demon Lord is so proud and has an army of countless warriors. Why would he agree to become the Divine Maiden's lover?"

Someone else lowered their voice and said mysteriously, "I hear she offered an awful lot."

Theme: I decide my own fate, not Heaven