The full-dive quick transmigration life simulator game hit a snag on the first day of its closed beta.
Mu Kongnian, Manager Mu, and Shen Ying, the newly appointed manager of the team next door, were sucked into the quick transmigration System together. They couldn't return to reality until they completed their randomly assigned missions.
As luck would have it, they were in the server known as the Cold-Topic Zone, full of outdated, overused tropes that were anything but easy to play.
The first world was a pseudo-Republican-era AU. Shen Ying was a famous opera star. Mu Kongnian was a powerful tycoon, young and successful, who could sweep aside anyone in his way. His only flaw was his poor health.
But instead of gracefully performing "The Drunken Concubine" onstage, as the usual plot demanded, Shen Ying descended from the sky dressed in black and swiftly dealt with every assassin who had come for Mu Kongnian.
After ruthlessly taking care of the assassins, he raised a hand to cover his eyes and said gently to Mu Kongnian, "I faint at the sight of blood. It's so frightening. But as long as you're safe, Young Master Mu, I can be as scared as you like and still feel relieved now."
Mu Kongnian coughed weakly, efficiently finished off one more attacker, and said coolly, "I recruited you to be my hired muscle, not to put on a performance of tea ceremony for me."
And in the final Western fantasy world, Shen Ying, who should have been enshrined in the temple, stood before Knight Mu Kongnian's horse and said gently, "Why won't you take me to battle? Do you think I'm too frail to help? I really can protect you, A-Nian."
Mu Kongnian watched the villains sent flying everywhere, one by one, from the sword of the supposedly frail holy son. At last, a crack appeared in his impassive expression. "I was afraid that if I took you along, you'd wipe out the enemy nation, leaving us without an important NPC and making the mission impossible to complete."
"As long as you fall in love with me, the mission is already complete."
Gentle, manipulative, and violent seme x icy, expressionless elite uke
Theme: Never give up, never abandon anyone.