New player Ye Nanchi woke up one day with the feeling that something was off.
Why did the white-clad female ghost scream and flee the moment he entered a haunted house?
Why did ill-intentioned NPCs tremble all over and offer him the key to clearing the level with both hands?
There were plenty of other strange things, too. One day, Ye Nanchi suddenly received a necklace made of skulls. Seven or eight creepy little skulls were strung together, clattering in the wind.
Ye Nanchi clutched his chest and pinched his philtrum. "An evil object! Someone's trying to kill me..."
After collecting a huge pile of bizarre things, Ye Nanchi couldn't take it anymore. That night, he opened his bedroom door and saw a man sitting on his bed, surrounded by billowing black energy. At a glance, it was clear he was no good.
Ye Nanchi stared at the man's puffed-out cheeks. "What are you eating?"
The man picked up a small gourd-shaped bottle. "I'm curious. Every time you accept my tokens of love, why do you always eat this afterward?"
Tokens of love, my foot! Ye Nanchi clutched his chest like Xi Shi and darkened his expression even further.
"Because it's fast-acting heart medication."
The King of All Ghosts: "..." At a loss for words.
It turned out that a group of top players in the game had once tried to hunt down the ultimate BOSS. No matter what they did, they couldn't kill him. Someone came up with a dirty trick: attach a wisp of the BOSS's remnant soul to a player. Once the player died, the remnant soul would disappear as well.
Ye Nanchi was the unlucky scapegoat. Everyone thought he'd have a heart attack and drop dead as soon as he saw the BOSS. But not long afterward...
The player who had suggested the possession knelt before Ye Nanchi in tears, begging him to spare his life.
The sky suddenly turned black as the King of All Ghosts appeared in his true form, intent on tearing the player to pieces.
Ye Nanchi: "Ahem, ahem..."
The King of All Ghosts stopped at once. "Don't kill him?"
Ye Nanchi: "Well, he did bring us together."
The King of All Ghosts thought for a moment. "Got it. Then I'll reward you with a little red flower on your grave."
Player: "...?"
Sharp-tongued bottom with congenital heart disease × pure-hearted puppy top, the King of All Ghosts
Another infinite-flow story, available for preorder: When the Horror Movie Has Only the Leading Lady Left
Yu Xi is a horror movie buff who has watched countless films. Her parents forced her to go on a blind date, and when she heard the man was a horror fan too, she reluctantly agreed to meet him.
They ordered milk tea and sat down, then started talking about horror movies.
"Women in horror movies are just eye candy."
"When women are in danger, all they do is scream."
"At the crucial moment, women always hold the male lead back."
"Women are so stupid they get themselves killed!"
Yu Xi couldn't take it anymore. She poured her milk tea over the man's head. He slammed the table in anger. "Everything I said is true. Go see for yourself if you don't believe me!"
In a way, the man was right. Movies often diminish their female characters. What he didn't realize was that this came from how deeply rooted people's stereotypes about women had become. Furious and unable to sleep, Yu Xi logged into a horror forum late at night and accidentally clicked on a post.
When she woke up, Yu Xi had entered another world. There, she would become the heroine (or supporting actress) of one horror movie after another, take part in the story, and have everything broadcast live.
To earn coins, and even more to prove women's worth, Yu Xi rolled up her sleeves and grabbed her weapons. If a person stood in her way, she killed them; if a ghost stood in her way, she killed it.
From then on, horror movie heroines no longer had aching backs or sore legs. They stopped screaming and holding everyone back, and they were no longer the first hapless teammates to die. A legend was born in the horror livestream:
When Sister Yu roars, the director shakes; when Sister Yu waves her hand, bodies pile up...
The audience in the livestream went wild as they watched Yu Xi take down everyone on her own!
Yu Xi: "Clear the level? Wait, your big sister still has to go save the world."
Keywords: badass female lead, satisfying power fantasy
Theme: Turning defeat into victory
