Surviving in a Dating Game

[This novel will enter VIP status on October 3. A 10,000-word update will drop that day www] [Also known as The Perpetually Single Me: How Did I End Up in Another Love Rivalry?] The full-dive dating game Dear Lover was met with rave reviews upon release, becoming the first romance game to achieve phenomenon status. But an unknown virus swept through the dating game, causing the romanceable characters to become corrupted or unstable to varying degrees. As the first person to clear every route in the game, Hoshimiya Shiori is asked to enter the game world once again and find the source of the virus. * Hoshimiya Shiori, who seems like an experienced dating-game player but is actually perpetually single, treats this assignment as a simple mission. But by the time she comes to her senses, she finds herself surrounded by a love rivalry. * Scene 1: He leaned against the doorframe with a faint smile. His brown eyes seemed to contain all the darkness in the world. "So, Shiori, who will you choose?" Hoshimiya Shiori: [Closes the door decisively] Sorry to bother you. Scene 2: "What will you find when you search for truth in an illusion?" The famous Yokohama detective tilted his head toward her. His gaze fixed on her eyes, the corners of his own sharp and cold as metal. Hoshimiya Shiori: Are you... playing too many games? Master of keeping everyone happy Hoshimiya Shiori gives a step-by-step lesson in how to survive a love rivalry √ As long as I'm single enough, the love rivalry can't catch me (certain). Reader's Guide: 1. Alternates between silly and dark. 2. Unrestrained fun. 3. Uses settings from my previous works. 4. Primarily Bungo Stray Dogs, with Kings and related psychic powers content. [My next novel, The Redemption Novel's Heroine Quits! [Book Transmigration], is next door.] Luan Wei transmigrated into the heroine of a redemption novel, along with a System. In the original story, the male lead Gu An was highly intelligent, but family troubles and an unhappy childhood ultimately led him down the path of crime, and he even became an enemy of humanity. The System tells her that her mission is to redeem the highly intelligent criminal Gu An and set his values straight. But after failing in two full rounds, Luan Wei flipped the table. (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻ She's done being the heroine of this redemption novel!! Seeing this, the System panicked. System: All you have to do is become a ray of light in his life. Luan Wei, on her third round, nodded in understanding, then immediately called the police: Got it, the light of justice. System: No, no, no! Aaaaaaah, Host, don't do anything! You have to heal him with love!! Luan Wei, on her third round, kicked Gu An, whom she'd just thrown over her shoulder. "Ah, no problem. I'll heal him with the iron fist of society." * Gu An discovers that he's trapped in a sealed time loop. His life repeats itself over and over, and no matter what he does, he'll die at twenty-nine. Since that's the case, he decides to make the world his playground and enjoy himself to the fullest. One day, the girl next door suddenly appears in his bleak, gloomy childhood, stubbornly and naively wanting to become the person closest to him. "You are loved," the girl tells him with a bright smile. He looks at her with amusement, treating her kindness as a joke. Until Luan Wei gives him a cold look, then walks briskly toward another man. Jealousy spreads through him completely. "You said I was loved," he murmurs, his eyes red. Straight-laced, patriotic, steel-willed heroine x antisocial, incredibly annoying male lead Theme: Is there a boundary between illusion and reality?