Turns Out I'm an NPC in a Dating Sim

Liang Mu has a secret: strange hallucinations often appear before his eyes, and he frequently feels that the world he lives in lacks a sense of reality.

His condition has been getting worse lately, and the world around him seems increasingly abnormal.

The first strange occurrence was the words "GAME START" appearing in the sky.

The next was his friends one by one falling into melodramatic, heart-wrenching romances.

Friend A is lavishing attention on a D-list star, apparently because the star bears a slight resemblance to the unattainable love of his life.

Friend B suddenly reappeared after being missing for a month. A poor college student claimed to have looked after him ever since he lost his memory in a car accident, and that the two of them had fallen in love.

But now that his memory has returned, Friend B has forgotten their romance during his amnesia and instead suspects the student's motives.

A genius child who looks remarkably like Friend C did as a child suddenly appeared by his side. It turned out the child was conceived after one of Friend C's secret admirers drugged him and slept with him years ago.

Friend D: Liang Mu had always thought that 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 turned out that from the very beginning, he had been out for revenge.

The bizarre part was that three of the four other leads in his friends' melodramatic stories were men.

Yes, including the one who ran away while pregnant.

Liang Mu: Men can get pregnant? Why am I the only one who thinks this is abnormal? I'm going crazy.

*

The four people entangled in melodramatic relationships with his friends were strange in every way, with nothing about them making sense.

Liang Mu's friends were suffering and troubled, and they came to him for help:

"There's no way I could like him."

"I don't feel like myself anymore... I often feel like I'm being controlled."

Just as Liang Mu was growing worried about his friends, he triggered the NPC Awakening System and discovered that the world he was in was a heart-wrenching romance game scenario. His friends' romantic partners were infinite-game players completing romance missions, his four friends were romance targets, and he was an NPC with no significant role.

The strange things he had seen weren't hallucinations. They were the world's reality.

Liang Mu: ...So it was the world that was abnormal, not me.

He did everything he could to help his friends escape the fate of being controlled by the game. Just as they were about to succeed, he accidentally stumbled upon a crime scene.

A corpse covered in mosaics lay on the table beside Friend A.

A gave him the same reserved, restrained smile as always.

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

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

But what drew his attention even more was the player's consciousness hovering above the corpse.

The player was cursing furiously.

"Bad Ending: Stitched 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?!"

More Bad Ending CGs flashed before Liang Mu's eyes.

Well, it turned out he wasn't just Friend A's unattainable love. He was also the unattainable love of Friends B, C, and D.

Liang Mu's vision went dark. When he opened his eyes again, he was back at the beginning of the story.

Four new players had entered the game.

The previous players had all received dark endings at the hands of his friends and become dazed, vacant NPCs in the game's world.

Liang Mu: Weren't you supposed to be a romance game? Why is it so terrifying?

One-on-one, happy ending. A cool, composed beauty who thinks he has mental problems, bottom (Liang Mu) x a split-personality, nonhuman top

Pre-release: They All Say I'm the Villain Who Will Destroy the World

Zhan Yi's parents are dead, and he has no one to rely on. In a world overrun by alien species, his abilities are exceptional, yet after offending someone, he can barely stay alive from one day to the next.

Recently, the stagnant waters of his life have inexplicably begun to stir.

People who used to treat him coldly, or had never even crossed paths with him, suddenly began doing everything they could to approach and help him, seeking to earn his trust and even his affection.

The arrogant, sharp-tongued young master of a powerful family specifically requested him as his personal butler, insisting they eat and live together and offering him exceptionally generous benefits.

A gloomy, world-weary test subject who escaped from an illegal laboratory refuses to leave his home, inviting him to destroy this decaying world together and often watching him from the shadows with the fanatical gaze of a believer.

The undisputed strongest member of the Pollution Control Bureau took him on as a student of his own accord, keeping him by his side to teach him. The forceful, inscrutable man held the back of his neck and instructed him tenderly, yet his grip looked as if he might take Zhan Yi's life the very next second.

Zhan Yi let them approach, and soon understood the truth.

It turned out they had all awakened memories of the future.

In those memories, he would become powerful enough to destroy human civilization, and bring about the world's end in a mutually destructive act.

Zhan Yi: What a shock!

Sure, I secretly have a bunch of alien-species underlings, and sure, I love tentacle play and confinement play, and am especially obsessed with seeing powerful people bow in pain and restraint. But I'm really not a villain!

Some wanted to use him, while others wanted to kill him.

Zhan Yi decided to strike first.

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No matter how those who had awakened future memories looked at Zhan Yi, he seemed like a weak, innocent little victim. They couldn't connect him with the powerful man who would destroy the world.

Just as they began to suspect that their memories of the future were nothing but a false dream, Zhan Yi took them down one by one.

They woke up in cages in an abandoned factory and stared in disbelief at the man outside the bars, who had dropped his disguise.

Zhan Yi looked down at them, then clapped his hands as if he'd just remembered something:

"Young master, when we first met, you said you needed a good dog and wanted me to follow you. You said that even a dog would get the best treatment from you."

Zhan Yi smiled.

"Well, now you're all my dogs. From now on, you'll do as I say. I give pretty good treatment, too."

Zhan Yi, Esper potential: SSS. His ability is called "The Reaper's Summons."

All alien creatures he kills come back to life and can be summoned and controlled at his command, becoming his personal puppets.

He also used the parasitic traits of alien creatures to further control the humans who posed a threat to him.

Everyone finally understood. His poor, isolated victim persona was just a way to conceal his abilities.

Zhan Yi wasn't some withdrawn, fragile person, either. On the contrary, his desire for control and thirst for revenge were disturbingly strong.

*

Zhan Yi gazed at the twisted, resentful expressions of the powerful men in the cages, thoroughly enjoying himself. At the same time, he asked his sickly childhood friend:

"Do you think I'll really destroy the world someday? Why would I do something with no benefit to me?"

But his childhood friend's attention was elsewhere. He grabbed Zhan Yi's hand as it reached into the cage to tease them and guided it to his own neck.

With barely concealed anticipation, he said, "If you like it, I can do that too. Whether it's a cage or a collar, I'm fine with either."

1. One-on-one, happy ending. A seemingly pitiful but actually carnivorous-flower bottom x a sickly childhood-friend top with extraordinary mental power.

2. The bottom does not destroy the world.

Theme: Embrace freedom