[Just an idea. I'll leave it here for now]
.
On his first night in a mission world, Yun Shijin was locked in a cage.
Inside were a group of rookies like him. Outside, thousands of people ran amok, armed with knives.
One hour later.
Yun Shijin sat atop a mountain of corpses outside the cage, the beauty mark at the corner of his eye glowing in the moonlight.
"Why all the fighting? Can't we just wait quietly for the time to run out?"
.
He made the mission-taker rankings three months after becoming a mission-taker, founded an organization six months later, and reached the very top of the rankings a year after that, becoming the "God Yun" everyone talked about.
But he never found an answer to the question of how to shed his mission-taker identity and leave for good.
Later, the mission worlds underwent a major upheaval, and every mission-taker had their progress wiped and had to start over.
Back to being a rookie, the first thing Yun Shijin learned was that completing twelve missions would free him from his mission-taker identity.
.
Then, on his first mission after his progress was wiped, Yun Shijin ran into the man he'd kept below him on the rankings, the fated enemy who supposedly had always disliked him.
.
.
Everyone said that Qi Shaobai was arrogant and haughty, that he never stopped for anyone in the mission worlds, and that his curt, cold manner made him seem like a machine incapable of human feeling.
But no one knew that ever since he was seventeen, he had been following one person's shadow.
.
Even though that person had once abandoned him without mercy.
.
Even though, when they met again, he was still lost in his memories, while that person regarded him with an unfamiliar, cool gaze and asked lazily, "Who are you?"
Warm on the outside, cold within, beautiful gong x cold on the outside, warm within, secretly sulky shou
Gong POV
Younger gong
.
"You are the legendary, peerless splendor. Don't say that I haven't been waiting for you."
-- "Northern Lights"
Theme: Cherish life
