He was the seventh recorder assigned to by the System.
He was born with a bewitchingly beautiful face and an air of delicate vulnerability. His eyes were innocent and slow to react.
As a System that had already seen off several silly beauties, the System was unshakable.
System: "After the White Tower, the core of the world, collapsed, the infinite minor worlds were contaminated, and characters and scripts within the instances began to mutate. Your task is to record the directions in which the monsters and BOSSes mutate. Your beauty and unlucky disposition will attract the monsters in the instances, and you're also likely to draw the attention of psychos. They'll hunt you down and torture you until you die."
System: "Do you understand?"
Yu Zhao: "Got it. They hit me first, so it's self-defense."
System: ?
After Yu Zhao set vine monsters on fire and recorded their dancing, tore apart mutated fish and reviewed their flavor, folded up long-haired female ghosts to use as clotheslines, and even turned a bunch of BOSSes into lovesick fools, the System finally realized something was wrong.
System: "What are you doing?!"
Yu Zhao: "Research, recording, and recycling trash."
The System's vision went black. Is this damn Host even serious?
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Excerpts from Yu Zhao's records:
[Instance: Doll Exhibition Hall]
[01, Monster Doll. I punched it, and it burst into tears. Initial assessment: Can't take pain, overactive tear ducts, weak combat ability. A waste of space.]
[07, Starts out human-shaped, then mutates. Boyfriend in the story, later falls in love with cooking at New Oriental. Initial assessment: Mutated into a chef-brain. Waste of space number two. Went crazy after the breakup, still a waste of space.]
[09, Ghost in the livestream. Disguises itself as a viewer and can talk, but whenever I say a couple of words, they all start crying. Initial assessment: Crybaby ghosts. All a waste of space.]
[Summary: Not a single one can fight. Boring.]
...The other recorders who'd been through the same instances remembered being "turned into dolls by monster dolls," "made into pastries by their ex-boyfriends," and "scared to death when viewers crawled out of their phones." Looking at the red-ink notes on their own reports that read "Stay away" and "Run," they burst into tears.
It's all fake! Every bit of it! The story I got assigned has to be fake!
Slow-witted, earnest, universally adored recorder Yu Zhao x psycho top whose own wife keeps destroying his fragmented selves
PS1: A light, silly, feel-good story with an all-loving protagonist. The bottom has a tendency to attract everyone.
PS2: The story is completely made up. Tentatively scheduled to start in October 2023, but it may be delayed.
PS3: I'll polish this blurb and refine the core concept before the story starts. Screenshots from February and April 2023.
Theme: Even an unlucky idiot can put their traits to good use