A High School Senior Isn't Allowed to Play Weird Games!

CP: If you think the top is acting a little out of character, he’s just showing off like a peacock. Hahaha.

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One day, the phone belonging to Ning Li, a high school teacher, automatically installs a supernatural app. After that, he can always see the strange creatures hiding in plain sight.

A woman in red standing in his classroom, crawling people from eerie urban legends…

As for him, he’s an unnamed, free-roaming NPC who escaped from a supernatural game, and his bizarre rule is “study.”

Ning Li: …

The app also tells him that several of his students are taking part in the game, and that failing a mission lowers their mental faculties.

Ning Li: They’ve only got three months until the college entrance exams!

He has to solve this problem,

And make sure his students study as well as they can.

Ning Li opens the app and gets assigned to a supernatural instance.

*

Everyone who comes here has a different reason.

There’s a famous, mile-long thread on the game forum: Why did you come here?

People raise their arms and shout out their desires.

“Wealth!”

“Slaughter!”

“Greed!”

“…”

“Study! Study till you drop, damn it!”

Everyone else: Wait, something about this doesn’t seem right?

*

The supernatural app has gained a new NPC with a screw loose.

Everyone warns one another: “In an instance, don’t skip school just to complete a mission. Whatever you do, don’t cut his class!”

Player One: “Last time, monsters had me surrounded on the sports field. He tore them apart with his bare hands, then dragged me back to class and stuffed a Chinese textbook into my arms so I could do morning reading.”

Vampire NPC: “Last time, I was about to carry out the system’s assassination mission when he caught me during dorm inspections and dragged me out to beat me up. He said I shouldn’t be going to the women’s dorm in the middle of the night instead of sleeping, and told me to go to class during the day.”

Player Three: “Thanks to him, I got into Wudaokou Vocational Technical College.”

Ning Li, quietly keeping his good deeds to himself: You’re welcome. I’m just an ordinary teacher.

*

The supernatural incident investigation unit has run into a bit of trouble lately.

The victims used to be out of their minds.

Now they’re out of their minds and studying.

Duan Yucheng, leader of the superior inspection team, is assigned to Qingwan High School.

During a routine interview, he meets a very introverted, socially anxious teacher in black-rimmed glasses. The man seems vaguely familiar, but Duan Yucheng can’t place him. There’s no doubt about it: he’s caught Duan Yucheng’s attention.

Duan Yucheng suspects there’s more to him than meets the eye.

The other man replies, “I’m just an ordinary teacher.”

Every night, after a long day’s work, Ning the teacher puts on a mask and returns to the supernatural world.

He’ll keep his good deeds a secret!

Ning Li (bottom) x Duan Yucheng (top).

Bottom: The glasses-hide-his-good-looks type. He doesn’t need glasses in his supernatural form.

End of this story’s blurb.

Coming soon: The Duke’s Son Has a Few Little Tricks Up His Sleeve

A story about a cool, aloof beauty with a soft heart and a shameless scoundrel of a top.

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Idenus rules over the Lai’en Grasslands. By the time his banner swept across the sky and slaughter, death, and despair became his calling cards, he had nearly forgotten the name he’d had on Earth.

Years ago, he found an ancient teleportation array, drew its pattern, and eagerly tried to use it to return to Earth.

The person he trusted most, his older brother, secretly altered the array. In the name of love, he forced their blood to merge and used magic to bind Idenus’s bloodline and soul to this fantasy continent.

Then he tricked Idenus into taking care of a child.

The only way home was to kill the child born from his blood, the child he had cared for all these years.

The tip of the blade still hangs over the innocent child’s face, never having fallen.

Only rarely can he remember the name he once had: Ying Zhi.

*

As a police academy student, Huo Ke considers himself exceptional among ordinary people in both fitness and reflexes.

But then he ends up on a magical continent.

Huo Ke: Damn it, all that time building muscle was for nothing.

He’s now the only son of an unloved duke. The impoverished duke has status but no money, and tearfully sends him from their remote fief to the royal capital’s magic academy, hoping he’ll become an outstanding mage and restore the family’s glory.

Only after arriving does Huo Ke realize the place is full of intrigue and backstabbing. The royal family, the Church, and the Magic Knights control the country.

There are no laws here, and magic can make someone die without a trace.

Huo Ke plans to work a late-night side job to earn some crystal stones, but gets caught up in the murder of a member of the royal family.

The bad news: The captain of the Magic Knights rides in on a griffin and declares, “Better to kill an innocent than let a guilty man escape. Kill them all.”

The good news: Huo Ke seems to hear him say something in an ancient Earth language. No one else can understand him beyond making a few guesses.

Huo Ke: “Kill them all”? That’s not an expression people use here.

Huo Ke: Wait, you’re from Earth too, aren’t you?!

Even better news: When the young man removes his helmet, dark red hair falls over his shoulders. His handsome, delicate face, long thick lashes, slightly pursed lips, and faint, lingering melancholy make him the picture of a classic Chinese beauty.

Huo Ke: !!!

*

Back in his fief, the impoverished duke eagerly awaits his son’s return after completing his studies.

Not long afterward, a royal capital spy sends word.

Although the young master’s grades in magic are practically zero, he has found another way to bring honor to the family.

He’s become the lover of Idenus, the man who has slaughtered countless people.

The whole royal capital is talking about it.

The duke: ???

*

A little extra scene.

The duke: Son, how come the knight commander didn’t run you through with his sword?

Huo Ke: Father, I know how One Piece ends. Every night I climb into his bed and insist on telling him the next episode.

The duke: What on earth?

Two highly recommended completed novels: The American Horror Story Instance Survival Guide

After Xi Qing gets into a car accident, he enters a horror game.

The instances are full of danger.

The authorities tell him that he can return to real life only if he clears them all.

First Instance: Hunting the Monster

System: [You are a spoiled young master. You’re traveling with your friends’ caravan into an uninhabited forest in America.]

System: [The rain is pouring down, so you decide to force your way into an abandoned hunter’s cabin to take shelter.]

System: [Using your silver tongue and a sweet, coaxing voice, persuade the taciturn, towering hunter to take pity on you and let you stay.]

[You accidentally open the cellar hatch.]

[You discover the real hunter’s corpse.]

Second Instance: The Haunted Apartment Block

[A group of travelers are exploring an abandoned apartment block: a company team on an outing, three hikers who join them along the way, and two guides.]

[Everything seems normal, except one of the guides gets separated from you on the first day.]

[On your way back, you’re forced to take shelter in an abandoned apartment building in the forest.]

[That night, bored and alone, you turn on the TV. Deep in the mountains, a news report announces that a headless male corpse has been found at the site you’re exploring.]

[Another report follows, warning that three murderers and robbers are on the run.]

[The trouble is, they look exactly like the three hikers traveling with you.]

Third Instance: The Bewitched Farm

[The bullies who drove a girl at their school to jump from a building have gotten away with it thanks to their politician fathers. They flee to a remote village to lie low.]

[On a vast, lonely farm, the coldhearted farmer is waiting for his wife to come home when this group of uninvited guests arrives instead.]

[With no internet or way to contact the outside world, the students decide to toy with the farmer.]

[Until they discover the farmer’s terrifying secret.]

[Farmer: Have you seen my wife?]

Completed novel: Why Does Everyone Keep Kissing My Wife?

Wu Ming, the second son of the Wu family, has a beautiful friend named Jiang Xia whom he keeps hidden from the world.

Jiang Xia is gorgeous and refined, mature and chaste, a rare treasure in every way, except that he’s a man and a little stiff.

A pitiable, dull office worker with an artsy streak.

Wu Ming likes him, but that doesn’t stop him from dating other women.

He thinks Jiang Xia will keep supporting him as a friend, waiting for him to turn over a new leaf.

On the very first day their relationship goes public,

Jiang Xia blocks him.

Wu Ming never imagined Jiang Xia would leave him.

After the relationship is exposed…

He sees his usually cold older brother press his lips against Jiang Xia’s, then leave several possessive marks on the side of his neck.

Theme: Learning is the guiding light of humanity