Infinite Actor Selection Contest

[Major revisions planned, on hiatus]

Shi Mu, haunted by nightmares and suffering from amnesia, is suddenly pulled into a terrifying actor-selection game.

The scripts are random, and survival comes down to luck. Either you debut in the lead role or take center stage at your own funeral.

When he first enters the game, his fellow rookie teammates cower behind him, trembling. Only Shi Mu is excited, holding a script titled Temptation to Go Home!

At first, everyone watching the rookie assessment livestream thinks the ragtag group of newcomers will be torn apart by evil spirits. Only later do they realize that the most refined-looking person on the team is the real lunatic demon.

Others tread carefully around the NPCs in their scripts. He runs wild in his. When a red-clad female ghost climbs into bed to claim his life, he pulls out a vicious ghost baby and puts it in her arms.

Female ghost: ?

Ghost baby: Waaa, Mommy, stop climbing into bed. I'm scared.

Everyone: ...Isn't this script going in a strange direction?

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Wen Chao is a notorious evil spirit in the game world, a being said to be more terrifying than ghosts. He has held the number-one spot on the game's S-rank leaderboard for years, has countless actors working under him and stacks of scripts, and is unquestionably the richest person in the game world.

Yet this wealthy man is so stingy it's unbelievable. He's the richest person in the game, but lives in the smallest thatched hut. He's obsessed with buying all kinds of rare items from the in-game mall but never uses them, and sometimes even his clothes have holes in them.

Over time, everyone says that he's strong but miserly, and even suspects that the big shot has something wrong with his head.

Then one day, they discover that his points are plummeting at a crazy rate. He's using items like money is no object, his thatched hut has been replaced with a manor, and even his clothes have become impossibly fashionable!

Everyone is shocked and rushes to find out what's going on. Then they see the big shot circling around a rookie like a lovesick puppy.

That night, the news that the big shot has transformed himself for love rocks the game world!

Shi Mu, the so-called rookie everyone is circling: ...Don't love me. It won't end well.

The lovesick puppy: Is there anything in the mall you like? You don't like it? Fine, I've bought it for you already.

Shi Mu: Get lost!

A seemingly refined and aloof but actually crazy beauty bottom x a cold, stingy attack who's a vicious dog

[Content warnings]

1. The attack is a robot recreated from the bottom's genes. His mechanical dog ears might pop up when he's excited?

2. Both leads are big shots. Everything is made up.

3. Some silly humor.

Theme: Believe in science, believe in the light.