I Heard the Players’ Thoughts and Became a God in the Haunted Realm

[The similar-style unlimited-flow novel next door, Infinite Players Retire After Taking Too Much Damage, is complete~] Blurb: Cen Xun is a folklore professor at H University: handsome, young, and the center of attention in every lecture. His life follows the same two-point routine, peaceful and uneventful, until an accidental fall from a building. After coming back to life, Cen Xun suddenly discovers the secret of this world. For example, his life actually repeats every day. His husband makes breakfast right on schedule and takes him to work on time. In the evening, the time they spend being affectionate is precise to the second. For example, he can hear the thoughts of those around him, and learns that a group calling themselves “players” have infiltrated his students. “Eeeee, our professor is so gorgeous! Third playthrough check-in! Let’s take a commemorative photo!” “I can’t bear to leave our gorgeous professor. This damn game rarely has such beautiful character models. It’s a shame H University is about to become a B-rank haunted zone. The professor isn’t a main character, so he’ll probably get killed off in the end, sob sob.” Cen Xun sneered. “Killed off? Not a chance.” At last, his boring life had become interesting. Cen Xun thought with wicked delight that, naturally, he ought to muddy the waters as much as possible. * The forum for the full-dive horror game Nightmare World. Player 1: “Can the devs explain the B-rank haunted zone, Lost Campus? Last time I teamed up with a player in the top 100 and tried it three times, and our whole team got wiped out every single time. How is that fair?” Player 2: “Are you new here? It’s been upgraded to an S-rank instance. Apparently, the boss swallowed up other haunted zones and allied with the rulers of several instances. The monsters from different instances visit each other now. No wonder nobody can win.” Player 3: “I’m losing hope. The dean of the School of Media is the S+ ‘Thousand-Eyed Reporter’ from the TV Station instance next door, and the dean of the School of Computer Science is a vicious ghost wanted by the whole game. Even the lunch server in the cafeteria is the ruler of an S-rank haunted zone! So what rank is the principal, exactly?” Player 4: “My wife, Professor Cen, is kind, beautiful, and so weak. He’s surrounded by all these big shots, so he must be getting bullied, sob sob.” In the horror game Nightmare World, all the players share one beloved person. Before his transformation, he was a folklore professor who seemed cold but was warmhearted. To save his students from the mutated principal, he sacrificed himself, bringing the players to tears. After his transformation, even as a monster, he remained kind to the players. To protect his students, he dared to challenge the rulers of haunted zones and take on high-level monsters in one-on-one fights. He was the one pure soul among all the monsters and demons. The players cried out that they would never forget his kindness, and rushed to the front lines to protect their fragile teacher, ready to lay down their lives. As the game progressed faster, the System issued the ultimate mission. All players were about to face off against the final boss, an evil god of the “Ghost Sun” rank. On the day of the final battle, all the players stood ready. At the highest point, surrounded by top-tier monsters, a familiar figure appeared, elegant as ever. “My students, and my... husband. It’s been a while.” Everyone’s eyes widened in shock. #Wait, my kind and delicate beloved wife is the final boss?!# * One night, after learning the truth about the world, Cen Xun hurried home, hoping to leave with his husband. But as he packed his clothes, he heard his husband’s thoughtful inner voice. “His behavior suddenly changed. Could there be a bug in the program? Should I ask a colleague to work overtime and fix it?” “...” Cen Xun slowly stopped packing and looked up at his husband with a deadly smile. “He looks so beautiful when he smiles. I want to lock him in the game forever.” His husband looked like a serious, abstinent type, but that was what he was thinking inside. [A gorgeous villain with maxed-out acting skills and a screw loose, paired with a mad-dog seme with an abnormal thought process] Reader’s guide: 1. The shou belongs to the opposing faction and has questionable morals. Don’t read if that bothers you. 2. The seme is younger. 3. Nonhuman characters. The shou is not human. 4. A shamelessly fun power fantasy. The seme and shou are playing an enemies-to-lovers game, with a lot of actual fighting, though they love each other very much. 5. There’s a side couple, whose story mostly appears in the extras. Check out my completed unlimited-flow novel, Infinite Players Retire After Taking Too Much Damage~ Blurb: In the 125th year after being dragged into an unlimited-flow game, Lou Yangxue is blind and abandoned by everyone, but he can finally retire. With just 250 yuan in retirement pay and the debuff of being blind from his injuries, how is he supposed to survive? No choice. His old employer won’t give him a pension, so he’ll have to get rich by killing anomalies :-D Just as Earth’s superpowered people are at a loss against the countless anomalies, a big shot called “Too Many Tentacles, I Can’t See” appears out of nowhere! They say this big shot is a master of every school of magic and excels at enchanting, runes, forging, arrays, spells, potions... A true all-rounder with eighteen specialties! Every superpowered person who sees his profile scoffs. What kind of nonsense is that? If he’s so amazing, why hasn’t he killed every anomaly in the world yet? Lou Yangxue: Soon. I’m killing them right now! In a haunted apartment building, innocent residents flee for their lives. Blind Lou Yangxue steps on the face of a tentacle-horror ghost and smiles calmly. “I know how to clear ten types of apartment instances. Let me guess, which one are you?” At an amusement park, all the guests are lost in the revelry. Lou Yangxue makes a dazzling turn and disguises himself as a divine messenger, tricking the God of Revelry into losing both his wealth and his life. After bringing about the fall of the gods, Lou Yangxue counts the divine cores in his hands, planning to pull off one last job before retiring for good. * The superpowered people of Earth would never forget that day: In full view of everyone, that magician killed a wicked god. With snow-white hair and an elfin face, he appeared on screens across the globe. He said to them, “I will kill every false god.” “So come and worship me.” Asmodius, an evil god, had been asleep for many years. When he finally woke, he discovered that his authority had been stolen and his body torn to pieces. The little tentacle monsters that had split off from him had fallen in love one after another with a blind summoner. Some even roasted their own tentacles for the summoner to eat. Asmodius was furious and decided to teach that arrogant summoner a lesson in person. Then he loved it :-D - Ever since Lou Yangxue summoned that unknown evil god, things around him had grown stranger and stranger. The little octopuses multiplied like noodles. Wherever he went, a fish disaster broke out. The little octopuses quickly became lovesick, shrieking and wrestling with each other just to claim the right to be their one and only mate. At first, Lou Yangxue could deftly keep them all happy. Until he discovered that the true form of these little tentacle monsters was the major creditor whose debt he had yet to repay. Finally realizing something was wrong, Lou Yangxue grabbed his white cane and tried to sneak away, steeling himself for the worst. But countless tentacles shot out, wrapped around his hands and feet, and dragged him into the darkness. “Are you trying to run away again, my... fiancée?” [A beautiful, tragic, blind, sickly big shot shou paired with a brooding, crawling-around, multiple-personality tentacle-monster evil god seme] Reader’s guide: 1. A max-level big shot returns to the beginner village, with shameless face-slapping and power fantasy. 2. The shou’s eyesight will be restored later. He won’t be blind forever. 3. The seme is a longtime stalker, a little creepy. All his fragments revolve around the shou, and their intelligence is inversely proportional to their lovesickness. Don’t read if that bothers you. 4. The seme is a hundred times older than the shou. The seme is an ancient evil god, while the shou is still young and has his own character-growth arc. Readers who prefer the shou to be stronger than the seme should read with caution. Theme: I decide my own fate, not the heavens