The Paper-Doll Character I Courted Came Looking for Me

Blurb

Ming Juan had finally escaped from a paper-doll game and returned to the real world.

He thought he could finally sleep peacefully, but the System informed him that all the paper-doll characters he'd romanced had also crossed dimensions and arrived in his world.

Their target was clear: Ming Juan.

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The trending topics had been exploding every day lately.

First, a hugely popular customizable dating sim suddenly shut down and was taken off the market, making players curse and threaten to sue.

Then the game company's CEO led the team in an apology event, promising to refund every player twice the amount they'd spent.

After the apology event, netizens noticed that the CEO's appearance, physique, and life story were remarkably similar to a certain non-romanceable character in the game. In other words, he could be called the character's real-life model.

The revelation set off a storm. Netizens found that aside from the CEO, there was also a mixed-race male model called the "elf," an idol in a top boy band, a world champion skateboarder with incredible skills, and a world-renowned tattoo artist. All of them matched the profiles of non-romanceable characters in the game almost exactly.

Some enthusiastic netizens even put together a comparison of the paper dolls and their real-life models.

In the end, the hashtag #ThePaperDollCharactersFromThatGameAreReal# crashed the servers.

As Ming Juan watched them climb the trending lists one by one, give interviews one by one, and gracefully, politely, and pretentiously talk to the cameras about how devoted and faithful they were, and how they respected the people they loved, acting out the beauty of a love that could never be fulfilled...

Having been locked in a little dark room and deprived of his freedom, Ming Juan knew their true nature: obsessive, yandere, completely unhinged, crazy, and twisted. He was desperate, certain he was going to lose sleep again.

#The paper dolls I raised came to life, but I'm not happy about it#

*Every paper-doll character in this novel is messed up.*

Theme: Stay away from dangerous love.