Taking My Character into the Game [Wuxia Crossover]

[The second book in the series with the same protagonist is open for advance reservations! For "On the Many Ways to Farm Hate," visit my profile to read the blurb. Please reserve a copy!] * [Blurb] "Jianghu Online" is a large-scale, fully immersive Chinese fantasy martial arts game. It features a cast of colorful characters, free exploration, and highly flexible storylines, all brimming with the spirit of the martial world and the passion of heroic warriors. It's a sensation across the stars. Yan You is a devoted player of the game. As the old saying goes, when you roam the martial world, how can you expect never to get cut? If you're a shameless troublemaker with an insatiable appetite for mischief, you may end up getting cut more times than the village barber has cut Master Wang's hair. Yan You is the very definition of a shameless troublemaker with an insatiable appetite for mischief. He managed to get himself marked as a wanted criminal by the entire game, and every NPC who saw him would yell, "You little reprobate, where do you think you're running?" To spread out the heat from the whole game, Yan You made a brilliant decision: spend money to customize his appearance and create alternate accounts. When he logged out here, he'd pop up there, roaming the game and living it up like a hero of the martial world. Then one day, he and all four of his accounts transmigrated into the game. The real him: an utterly unremarkable weakling who works out every day; His main account: a white-haired, gloomy, deranged beauty, gifted with the sword and tragic beyond measure; His alt: a sickly mute young master who coughs blood at the slightest breeze, yet can punch a boss into the sky; His alt: a defiant, unruly king of the Miao frontier, who believes his fate is his own to command; His alt: a sharp-tongued but softhearted young miracle doctor from the South Sea, with peerless medical skills. System: Beep! The secret identity system has been activated. Please cooperate in gathering information about this other world. The comedian Yan You: ...Ecstatic dancing.jpg Keep roaming! Keep going wild! Make people bang their heads against the wall for me! * The martial world always has its share of extraordinary talents, but this year there are far more than usual. The white-haired swordsman is gloomy, with nothing to hinder his path in swordsmanship, yet lacking both family affection and romantic love, and having tasted every kind of hardship; The mute young master was born frail and sickly, lost his parents early, and spent more than a decade alone, with no one to rely on; The king of the Miao frontier was robbed of friends and family by the many rules of his clan, and now wanders the world alone, carrying a heart full of anger and despair; The young miracle doctor from the South Sea was confined to a lonely island from childhood, with no companions and no knack for socializing, and is above all sharp-tongued but softhearted. Until they made their first friend. * A certain detective surnamed Lu / the Tulip Bandit / a great constable / the Thief of Thieves / ... tells his new and fascinating friend about those people he has met who were like hedgehogs. "I can't imagine what he must have been through, to end up like that." "Someone like him probably wouldn't open up to others easily." "I only hope he gets what he wants." Yan You: "Oh, is that so?" All those people... were actually me. I'm doing just fine. Later, they saw the very "him" they had been talking about pouring tea for Yan You and basking in the sun with him. The detective surnamed Lu / the Tulip Bandit / the great constable / the Thief of Thieves, and so on: … Hey! Isn't something wrong here?! [Reader's Guide] * The setting is fictional. * No one discovers the secret identities throughout the story. * Also known as "Yan You's Autobiography: What Do I Do When My Acting Is Too Good?"; "Memoirs of the Secret Identity System: The Years I Simply Lay Flat Because My Host Was So Capable"; "The Martial World Has Some Rather Tragic Geniuses"; "Master of Physical Dissociation" ---------------- My Other Works ---------------- ▲ Completed: Wuxia Crossover, no pairings: "Take Your Medicine If You're Sick [Wuxia Crossover]" "The Coolest Guy in the Whole Martial World [Wuxia Crossover]" "Master of Physical Persuasion [Wuxia Crossover]" "Did the Big Shot Go on a Rampage Today? [Horror Crossover]" ▼ Completed: "The Healing-Type Man, Oda Sakunosuke" -> pairing: Dazai x Oda ◆ Next up, now open: "I Build the World's Greatest Sect with Secret Identities [Wuxia Crossover]" Blurb: "Simulated Jianghu: I Am the Sect Leader" is a wildly popular single-player simulation game. Players take on the role of a sect leader, recruiting disciples, taking in followers, and building their sect's reputation. The ultimate goal of the game is to make your sect the most renowned in the world. Players can create different secret identities and place them throughout the martial world to recruit disciples. There are three possible paths for developing a sect: evil, chaotic, and virtuous. Bu Zao transmigrated one day with a simulation system, only to find the sect's reputation had dropped to zero. All he had was a ramshackle hill, a broken bamboo hut, and a total of four people and one dog, counting himself and his secret identities. He was the sect leader, the disciples, and even the sect mascot. [System: Please raise the reputation of the "Lazy Fish Sect" and make it the greatest sect in the world!] Bu Zao: This new mode is thrilling, but I like it (dog holding a rose in its mouth) * The Lazy Fish Sect's leader has three disciples, each a genius who is either sick or crazy. Disciple One left the sect, swallowing his bitterness and resentment, and established an intelligence network. Nothing in the martial world escapes his notice. He became a neutral organization, hidden more deeply than any other, with no one knowing its true strength. Disciple Two is reserved and a neat freak, skilled in a hundred arts and best at hidden weapons. He became an assassin to make a living, sometimes an enemy of the Six Fan Gate and sometimes its ally, always shrouded in mystery. Disciple Three is beautiful, with a face impossible to categorize as male or female. His smile never reaches his eyes, and despite his appearance, he is swift, ruthless, and precise in a fight, with peerless martial skills. The mascot travels all over the martial world. It has begged for food at the Hundred Flowers Tower, drunk water at the Six Fan Gate, and stood on a ship with its head held high, howling at the moon: Woof, woof, woof, woof! As for the sect leader... He keeps his true strength hidden and can transform into countless different people. He works day in and day out to build the sect. A worker's soul is a worker's soul: today he slacks off, tomorrow he chops wood, and the day after he repairs the roof. Every now and then, he even takes a turn as a cook / escort / guard / boatman / ... / peddler. * "I will prove myself to him." The masked leader of a mysterious organization spoke with a fierce gaze, his tone full of the stubborn, ruthless resolve of someone with nothing left to lose. "I'm better than him." "I am a disciple of the Lazy Fish Sect." The baby-faced assassin spoke politely. "Since you asked, of course I have to tell you." "One of my senior brothers is too rebellious, and the other is too obedient. I'll strike a balance and just listen to myself." The beautiful young man smiled brightly. "Would you like to join our sect? If you do, I won't be that cursed little junior brother anymore." The adorable little dog with four eyes, its face honest and kind: "Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof!" * The three fellow disciples of the Lazy Fish Sect get along neither well nor badly. Each has a distinctive personality, and together they stir up trouble throughout the martial world. Their feelings toward their sect leader and master are even harder to sum up. As the public's curiosity about the three disciples grew, so did their curiosity about their sect leader. "Every one of them has remarkable skills. Their master must be a true jack-of-all-trades." "But they don't all respect their sect leader and master." "I wonder what kind of person this sect leader is." "Yes, what kind of person could he be?" When the detective surnamed Lu / the Four Great Constables / ... / Chu Liuxiang asked, the sect leader himself looked at his steadily rising reputation and joined in. "Someone just like me." * <Tips> The main character's vibe: #A behind-the-scenes sect leader who wears many hats and just happens to pass by The secret identities' vibe: #A deeply embittered, inscrutable king arrives on the scene The sect leader's vibe: #Coldhearted hidden boss #Lives in other people's stories through the early and middle parts Theme: The most precious thing in life is finding a kindred spirit; even strangers met across the four seas can become family.