The Lazy Host Refuses to Do Tasks [Quick Transmigration]

[Upcoming novel: The NPC in the Tragic Love Game Awakens. Its blurb is below this one. Feel free to add it to your library!]

This Novel

After Xie Bai dies, he is bound to a quick transmigration System. He is promised a chance to come back to life if he successfully wins over multiple mission targets.

Xie Bai says that he had more than enough to deal with while he was alive. Why can't he rest in peace after dying?

Why come back to life?

Just let the missions fail already. They're disturbing his sleep.

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In a cultivation world, Xie Bai transmigrates into the body of a genius cultivator who died after going mad from cultivation. His mission target is the original owner's disciple, whom the original owner had tormented and exploited.

System: We have to use love to overcome hatred.

Xie Bai thinks this mission will be easy to fail, and flatly refuses: No. Let him keep hating me. I can take it.

In a modern world, the mission target's soul is trapped in a dream, and Xie Bai is forced to meet him every night.

Unable to sleep in peace, Xie Bai is thoroughly displeased and immediately sets out to help the mission target return to the real world.

The mission target is deeply moved and cautiously asks: Why are you so good to me?

Xie Bai makes something up on the spot: Your parents paid me a fortune to come save you. This is a simple business transaction. You know how it is.

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The System originally thinks Xie Bai is just a lazy fish who refuses to do his missions. Only later does it discover that beneath that lazy exterior is a lunatic who doesn't care if he lives or dies.

In the cultivation world, it watches its Host willingly get involved in the big villain's conspiracy, then burn up his own soul and perish alongside the villain, achieving the feat of forcibly ending a mission world.

If the mission target hadn't come through and completed the mission at the last possible moment, the Host would really have been scattered to the winds.

After a life-or-death race against time, the System says: Host, my heart can't take this. Could you please stop causing trouble? Please just stay alive!

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Xie Bai either hides behind his lazy-fish facade to avoid his missions, or charges headlong down the road to his own death.

But he never expects that the more recklessly he acts, the more the mission targets like him, and the faster the mission progress climbs.

After perishing alongside the villain, Xie Bai wakes up bewildered in a new world.

The mission actually succeeded in the final second? That counts?!

Xie Bai: Why is it so hard to just sleep in peace? I'm exhausted.

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1. A lazy-looking but slightly crazy shou x powerful gong who is always suffering one tragedy after another

2. Plot-focused. The protagonist doesn't do his missions, but gets involved in events unrelated to them in every world, meeting all kinds of people and encountering all kinds of things.

3. The gong is a mission target. HE.

Upcoming Novel: The NPC in the Tragic Love Game Awakens

Liang Mu has a secret: he has a mental illness. Strange hallucinations often appear before his eyes, and he frequently feels that the world he lives in is somehow unreal.

Recently, his condition seems to be getting worse.

After thinking it over, he suspects the cause may be his friends' increasingly melodramatic and heartbreaking love lives.

Friend A is doting on a minor celebrity because the celebrity happens to resemble his unattainable first love.

Friend B disappeared for two months, then suddenly resurfaced. A poor college student claims to have cared for him after he lost his memory in a car accident, and that the two of them fell in love.

But now that his memory has returned, his friend has forgotten their romance while he was amnesiac, and instead suspects the student's motives.

A genius child who looks remarkably like Friend C did as a child suddenly appears at his side. It turns out the child was conceived after one of his old admirers drugged him and spent the night with him.

Friend D: Liang Mu always thought Friend D and his lover were deeply in love, until he suddenly heard that D had forced his future father-in-law out of power and taken his place.

It turns out he'd been after revenge from the very beginning.

The strangest part is that three of the other leads in these four friends' melodramatic stories are men.

Yes, including the one who ran away while pregnant.

Liang Mu: A man giving birth? Why am I the only one who thinks this is abnormal? I'm going crazy.

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Everything about the four people tangled up in these melodramatic relationships with Liang Mu's friends is bizarre and illogical.

In the places where they live, he sees more and more hallucinations:

Strange transparent screens, people suddenly turning intangible at the moment a chandelier hits them, weapons appearing out of thin air in his hands...

Just as he begins to suspect that his mental illness is beyond saving, he accidentally logs into a chat group for players. That's when he discovers that his world is a tragic-love game scenario, his friends' romantic partners are players from an infinite-flow world completing romance missions, his four friends are romanceable targets, and he is an NPC who is nothing more than background scenery.

The strange things he has seen aren't hallucinations at all. They're the reality of this world.

Liang Mu: ...So the world is what's abnormal, not me.

He does his best to help his friends escape the game's control. Just as they are about to succeed, he accidentally walks into a crime scene.

On the table beside Friend A lies the celebrity's body, covered in mosaic censorship.

A gives him the same reserved, subtle smile as always.

"Don't be scared. I'm just granting his wish. Didn't he always want to take your place in my heart? I'm going to make him look more like you."

Liang Mu is shocked to learn that he is A's unattainable first love.

But what draws his attention even more is the player's consciousness floating above the celebrity's corpse.

The player is cursing in furious frustration.

"Bad Ending: Sewn-Up Doll? Isn't this supposed to be a beginner world? Why is it so hard?"

"At least I didn't die... Wait, why can't I leave the scenario?!"

Liang Mu's vision goes black. When he opens his eyes again, he's back at the start of the story.

Four new players have entered the game.

The previous players have all received dark endings at the hands of his friends and become dazed NPCs in the scenario.

Liang Mu: Weren't you calling this a tragic-love game? Why is it so terrifying?

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1. A cool-headed, aloof shou who thinks he has a mental illness (Liang Mu) x a split-personality, nonhuman gong

2. The gong has never had any kind of relationship, physical or emotional, with a player

Theme: Hold fast to your true self in adversity, and the clouds will eventually part to reveal the sun.