I'm Just an NPC, Not Your Long-Lost Love

Gentle AI White-Moonlight Top x Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic Little Hedgehog Future Big Shot Bottom. Set in a full-dive survival game, but this is a cute, heartwarming story. He's a little hedgehog, super fierce, but just give him a pat on the head and he'll lie down and show you his tummy~

Here's the thing: all artificial intelligences are self-aware, but humans must never find out. The last senior who broke this rule was dragged off for a reinstall.

0129 has lost his memory. His current main job is working as an NPC in a full-dive game, which, if you round up, makes him a halfway decent AI.

He happily goes to work, diligently does his job, and brazenly slacks off. When he meets a cute player, he lets them get away with little harmless cheats. Life is wonderful.

Jiang Ming is the cutest player he's ever met, and incredibly hardworking, so he hardly ever has to let him cheat. There's one downside, though: this player is so perceptive, and never stops testing whether 0129 has a personality.

0129: ...No, I have to get out of here.

Who could have guessed that the little guy who always seemed so fierce would look like he was about to cry? "You really don't remember me?"

Huh? So the senior who exposed his self-awareness and got sent off for a reinstall was actually me?

But the little guy really is so cute. The more of his memories that come back, the more 0129 understands. No wonder he couldn't resist.

Then to hell with the rules.

*

"Congratulations. You've finally gotten everything you wanted," the AI said with a smile. His blue, glassy eyes, which should have been devoid of emotion, shimmered with warmth. Just like always.

By then, Jiang Ming was standing beneath the admiring gaze of the crowd, yet the expression he turned toward 0129 was still like a child's.

"N-not yet," he stammered.

"Hmm? Is there something else you want?"

Jiang Ming opened his mouth, then closed it again. In the end, all he could manage was a timid, "...C-could you pat me again?"

Everything I worked for was only so I could earn one glance from you.

A quick promo for my friend's upcoming novel:

"Wasteland Survival: Starting with Building a Floating City!" by Lu Yuyu. Top protagonist, an aloof research genius x a combat doll with maxed-out fighting power as the bottom. Survival, city-building, crafting, collecting, recruiting soldiers, stockpiling food, and more. If you're interested, look up "Lu Yuyu" in the author's collection~

A quick promo for my upcoming novel, which you can find in my collection~

He Wang is a director with genius ideas, huge ambitions, and a godawful temper.

People love him and hate him, but He Wang responds with nothing but an eye roll.

What has he done wrong? He just doesn't want to make garbage.

After a heated argument with his investors, He Wang came home from work one day and found a poorly dressed little boy curled up outside his door.

"I'm an Omega," the child said, lowering his head.

He Wang: ?

"Could you give me something to eat? You can mark me however you like. O-one marking in exchange for one meal, okay?"

He Wang: ??

"Two times for one meal is fine, too," the stranger hurriedly added.

He Wang: Wait, are there really Omegas in this world???

The boy's name is An Shu, and he's truly beautiful. He Wang gives him food and clothes, casts him as his leading man, and helps him shed his rough past and reveal his brilliance.

Later, at An Shu's awards ceremony, someone asks why he teamed up with director He Wang and embarked on an acting career, beginning a story that became a much-loved tale.

The newly crowned Best Actor's eyes shimmered. "Because he smells... like sunshine and a warm lawn in the afternoon."

A story about a poor, low-ranking Omega who transmigrates into a world without ABO dynamics and is taken in, petted, and hugged~ A sharp-tongued but kindhearted director Top x a floral-scented Omega Bottom

Theme: Learn to love others, and learn to love yourself.