The Phantom Realm of Last Wishes [Infinite]

[The rest of the story is already written. Updates will be posted daily.]

[Blurb: Plot]

After nearly dying and losing her memory, Ye Guipu wakes up in a death wish illusion. A group of people who enter the illusion must fulfill the dead person's final wish within seven days to return to the world of the living. Otherwise, their souls will be destroyed.

In a dim, old house where time has gone awry, a series of bizarre deaths occur. Blood seeps from the enchanting wooden sculptures created by a genius sculptor. A grand wedding at an amusement park plays out again and again at midnight. In an old church, a group of people are hanged before the statues, forced to repent...

The illusion is eerie and bizarre, yet every mystery is a moving story from the distant past.

In this illusion, the group encounters two people who defy convention.

Ye Guipu: I don't want to leave.

She finds the exit just like that.

Liang Qingze: I just want to have fun.

He solves the puzzle without even trying.

The others, stuck on the same level for ages without a clue: Could you two big shots stop showing off so much?

Neither of them has any desire to survive, yet they defy expectations and clear level after level, opening a path to safety for everyone else.

Everyone thinks this is the first time they've worked together, but they don't know that after countless times of being swallowed by the darkness and woken again and again by the illusion's cycle, this is...

A reunion after a long separation.

A tough-headed, all-around heroine who thinks she's useless x a goofy husky on the outside, gentle and devoted on the inside hero

[Blurb: Romance]

Ye Guipu's life has always been controlled by others. The things she carefully protects today can become bargaining chips used to force her to obey tomorrow, reduced to ashes in an instant.

So she always acts a little detached, and never dares believe that anything will stay by her side.

Until Liang Qingze tells her firmly:

"You don't need to feel uneasy. For the long years ahead, you can ask me again and again. I won't leave. You can be whoever you want to be."

Liang Qingze and Ye Guipu aren't like a great tree and a climbing vine, bound together through dependence. They're like an oak and a silk-cotton tree, standing side by side.

He doesn't make himself her whole world. He stays just one step away, ready to catch her when she falls, just as she did for him all those years ago.

The oak and the silk-cotton tree stand as equals. Having grown, we stand together with pride.

[Bonus scenes]

A ghost searches everywhere for people, while the group hides in a corner.

Ye Guipu opens the door casually and asks, "Hello. Have you eaten?"

Liang Qingze presses his face to the peephole. "That knocking is so fierce. Could it be Aunt Xue outside?"

A ghost is hanging itself, and the group makes a tactical retreat.

Liang Qingze provides commentary from the side: "This is the latest sporting event. The track athletes have started running."

Ye Guipu cuts the rope. "I have a few questions. Could you wait a moment before you die? Thanks."

The group meets a ghost: "Help! Don't come any closer!"

A ghost meets Ye Guipu and Liang Qingze: "Help! Please get out of the illusion already! We can't take this anymore!"

Ye Guipu: "I don't want to leave."

Liang Qingze: "I promised I'd stay with you forever, so I'm not leaving either."

Ghost: "? Don't push your luck, or I'll get down on my knees and beg you."

Everyone else: "..."

[Notes]

1. One-on-one romance. The leads save each other at different stages of their growth.

2. A slow-burn story, with the mystery gradually unfolding layer by layer.

3. The original title was I Cleared the Death Wish Illusion by Being Stubborn [Infinite].

Theme: Good and evil are repaid in kind. Cherish the people around you.