The Forensics Handbook for Split Personalities

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[Third playthrough from the start, with the death-faking playthrough told in interwoven flashbacks]

Songjiang Shiyu is trapped in a game and must max out his experience points to return to reality.

He focuses on provoking people, stirring up trouble, and boosting their favorability, dancing with danger while covered in DEBUFFs. In the first two game stages, he managed to trigger the death-faking bad endings.

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[First death-faking playthrough: Instructor]

You are stern, obsessive, and extremely particular about cleanliness. Nightmares from the past haunt you, your partner’s death has left you heartbroken, and all you want is a peaceful night’s sleep.

Keep things clean.

Later, you vanish in a sea of flames in front of your students.

[Second death-faking playthrough: Hacker]

You are a genius and a neurotic, a master of sarcastic barbs. You have trouble walking, and the line between genius and madman is razor-thin. You fear the dark.

Keep the lights on.

Later, you vanish into the churning darkness of the sea in front of the organization’s members.

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[Third playthrough: Special Correspondent]

You are a special correspondent for the Public Security Bureau, undercover at Poirot Café, trying to uncover the secrets of its black-market operation, which is connected to multiple murders. You are in terrible health. You… beep… System… System error.

[You discover that the games have merged.]

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Songjiang Shiyu discovers that the games have merged.

The blond, dark-skinned café waiter gazes at him with an inscrutable look.

The brown-haired, cat-eyed bassist grins knowingly and personally brings him a glass of Scotch.

A curly-haired police officer who defuses bombs, his good partner, a dependable detective with a toothpick in his mouth, a cool-faced girl with tea-brown hair…

The NPCs who appear around Songjiang Shiyu and are closely connected to him all speak, without a word, the words he least wants to hear:

“Found you.”

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During the final stage of the game, the System malfunctions, delaying his return by a year, and Songjiang Shiyu’s game personas merge into one.

Whenever he switches personas, he can use that persona’s skills, but he must act in a way that fits the persona.

As the NPCs gradually piece together his secret identities from the smallest clues,

Songjiang Shiyu silently hugs his three accounts close: “…”

He only wanted to play a game!!

Reader’s guide:

1. Favorability does not always mean romantic feelings. It can be familial or platonic, too.

2. An ensemble-cast story with everyone doting on the protagonist, and plenty of love-triangle-style situations. Even one-sided feelings have to be written as pure love, as required by Jinjiang.

3. Secret-identity reveals and wild speculation. The three personas will merge into one storyline.

4. The author promises no socially mortifying secret-identity reveal scenes. Early on, the protagonist and the System do silly comedy routines. Later, the misunderstandings will bring angst.

5. This is written to satisfy the author’s personal tastes. It includes all kinds of substitute, white-moonlight, and other melodramatic tropes. If that’s your thing, welcome! If not, please don’t be mean. Love you!

6. The early chapters have been revised, and the pacing is fast, with lots of information. If you trust me, stick around for a few more chapters. Things get pretty exciting later _(:з"∠)_

7. Given the premise, some out-of-character behavior is unavoidable.

-----Original stories coming soon, see the author’s page

The Monster on the Tip of the Tongue by Zimu Tao

[Third-person narration]

“A monster has possessed my body.”

“Every night, I lose consciousness.”

“The fridge at home is packed with strange things, and there are stains on the floor that I can’t get clean.”

“Watching the cases in the news become more and more frequent, I can’t control my fear.”

“Who are you?” I wrote on a piece of paper.

After realizing that a monster had taken over my body, I tried every possible way to get myself killed, hoping to force it out.

But no matter what I tried, whenever I woke up again, my injuries had disappeared, and I couldn’t ignore how full I felt.

“I hate you,” I said coldly.

That night, I received a note from it for the first time. The handwriting was crooked, but I could still recognize my own style.

“I luv you.”

Oh, so the monster was illiterate, too.

Then one day, I woke up in the middle of the night, having lost too much blood.

The familiar room was filled with blood-red candles. Everything from before seemed to take on a terrifying, alien quality in that eerie red glow. In the ominous light that flickered faintly, my hand began to rise against my will.

The knife and fork were sharp, a glint of cold light shining off them, as a sticky, roe-like food of unknown origin slowly approached my face.

Its rich juices burst in my mouth. My wounds gradually disappeared, and even my strength increased.

Delicious.

I suddenly realized that the monster only wanted to feed me.

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Here’s the question: what exactly is my food made of?!

In the world of D620, monsters hide among humanity. They are cunning and deceitful, and they feed on human souls.

Humans have come up with countless ways to stop them, but none have worked.

Then, one day, the monsters began disappearing at an astonishing rate.

Some called it humanity’s victory. Others suspected an even more terrifying plot.

Everyone was searching for the king who had made the monsters bow in submission.

It is a world where light and darkness are impossible to tell apart. Some kneel in prayer, some set themselves ablaze, and some take up their blades and march to their deaths…

And amid the crowd, Song Linchuan stared at the black shadow meeting his eyes in the mirror and considered a more practical question:

What should I eat tonight?

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A doting, obsessive top who loves feeding his bottom and is addicted to dark fantasies X a cool-headed, battle-loving, dangerously unhinged bottom who only wants to get stronger

1. Nonhuman love, pseudo-selfcest.

2. Long plot, with plenty of face-slapping, showing off, and satisfying fights.

3. The protagonist grows stronger and will become the strongest.

Theme: Face the raging storm with a smile.