The Game Has Blacklisted This Player [Infinite]

Pre-release: "The Villainous Young Lady Doesn't Want to Woo Him [Book Transmigration]" and "I'm a Teacher at a Haunted University [Infinite]". Blurbs at the very bottom ↓

Blurb:

The escape game "Survival Simulation" has taken the world by storm, inviting players into instances anytime, anywhere, to face a narrow escape from death.

Feng Yao was one of the unlucky ones. She was watching TV when a ghostly hand suddenly reached out. Startled, she grabbed a kitchen knife and hacked the TV to pieces. "What a piece of junk. The channel switching is so bad."

With no TV to watch, she could only enter the game to find some fun.

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At Sunset Hotel, the NPCs shuffle around like the walking dead during the day, then turn into monsters at night and eagerly knock on guests' doors. Feng Yao likes making friends with outgoing people, so she gladly invites them into her room and, holding a scalpel, humbly asks, "Can you carve flowers with this?"

The monster, now shaped like a jasmine flower: "...What the hell did you just ask me?!"

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In Fifth Prison, the players are criminals, and the goal is to break out successfully. Along the way, the NPC guards hunt them down.

The players flee frantically, not daring to rest for even a moment. Then they realize that their teammate Feng Yao has somehow picked up a chainsaw, joined the NPC army, and is excitedly giving orders. "Hurry up! Chase them! Don't let them get away!"

The players: "...What the hell? Is she really a player? Are you sure she's not a mole for the game?"

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In remote, isolated Baishui Village, ignorant villagers worship an evil god and regularly offer sacrifices to their deity. The players are the sacrifices.

Feng Yao asks a local, "Can a deity grant every wish?"

"The great deity can do anything!" the villagers proclaim with blind devotion.

Feng Yao wants to be friends with powerful people, so she kills the monsters nearby and prepares a blood sacrifice to summon the deity...

The passing villagers, who are NPCs: "What are you doing?!"

The other players in the instance, horrified: "Stop her! She's trying to summon the boss!"

At first, players fear the NPCs and the monsters that appear and vanish without a trace. Later, to avoid crazy Yao, they specifically hide in the same room as the monsters.

"We're safe for now."

The game monsters: ...

Could you show me a little respect, please? Thanks!

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Later, after Feng Yao leads the players astray and wrecks the game's rules, the Game's Supreme Deity personally steps in to blacklist and expel her: "Troublemakers, get out of my escape game!"

Reader's Guide:

1. The heroine is a born thrill-seeker, reckless and crazy, always looking for fun.

2. The heroine's three favorite things: causing trouble, having fun, and making friends.

3. As for the male lead, maybe he's the straight man to her jokes?

4. My take on infinite-instance fiction, with lots of original worldbuilding.

5. A silly, brainless wish-fulfillment story. The author's logic and imagination are limited.

[Thanks to Bishui Gugu for the cover background]

Screenshotted on Weibo on March 28

Pre-release 1: "The Villainous Young Lady Doesn't Want to Woo Him [Book Transmigration]]"

Blurb:

Qin Zhou is the protagonist of a no-romance, son-in-law power fantasy. He has unbelievable luck. He learned this when he overheard the ill-intentioned people who approached him talking to something called a "System" inside their heads.

They got close to him and treated him well to raise his favorability and win his heart, thereby stealing his luck.

After learning this, Qin Zhou came to loathe people like them.

At eighteen, following the plot those people had described, he went to the Su family and became their live-in son-in-law, biding his time.

The first time he met his fiancee, Qin Zhou heard that familiar System voice.

[Host, he's the protagonist. You have to please him and win him over! Once you get him, the whole world will be yours!]

Qin Zhou sneered inwardly. Sure enough, another schemer trying to woo him.

Then, the next moment, he heard his fiancee think, "Is he even worth pleasing?"

Qin Zhou froze. This wooer was different.

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Before she could kill her half-sister and fiance, Su Mingjiao was tossed by a System into a novel about a male protagonist and his live-in son-in-law life. Because his fiancee constantly made things difficult for him, the male lead developed a deep-seated wariness of women and devoted himself entirely to his career.

The System said the male lead had incredible luck, and plenty of wooers wanted to win him over and gain some of it. Even a little would make everything go their way.

The first time Su Mingjiao met her bargain fiance, she was repulsed by him from the bottom of her heart. "A darling of the heavens? Ha. My sister and fiance were protagonists too, according to you, but I made their lives worse than death."

She smiled wickedly. "You want me to please him? Is he even worthy?"

Seeing the protagonist looking uneasy and stiff, Su Mingjiao sneered. "A poor boy thinks he's fit to be my fiance? He'd be better off pouring my tea and serving me."

[What are you doing?! He'll hate you! Once he grows powerful, you'll be the first person he kills!]

Su Mingjiao didn't care. "So what? Death is just death."

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The wooers around her and Su Mingjiao's System all thought the male lead hated her so much he wanted to stab her to death.

But then they saw this:

Qin Zhou tossed aside the System, which had turned into a little mutt, and knelt beside Su Mingjiao's legs. He looked up at her ingratiatingly. "How about you get rid of that dog? I'll be your dog from now on."

Wooers/System: ...

What the hell, is this guy a masochist or what?!

Reader's Guide:

1. An arrogant, moody, villainous young lady x a devoted, lovesick, live-in son-in-law power fantasy protagonist who only wants to be his young lady's dog.

2. The wooers include both men and women.

3. The heroine is not a good person. If she's in a bad mood, she'll mess with anyone. Fearless is her whole thing.

4. The heroine is clever, ruthless, and has a maxed-out golden finger.

5. The male lead is a master of overthinking and a true lovesick fool.

Pre-release 2: "I'm a Teacher at a Haunted University [Infinite]"

Blurb:

At some point, everyone began entering haunted games upon reaching adulthood, and the games never ended. To reduce the death rate among new players, the Haunted University was established.

It's been just one month since the 233rd class of freshmen enrolled, and Class 29 has already gone through ten teachers.

The class is full of rebellious troublemakers who are so contrary they could make anyone tear their hair out.

Class 29 is in chaos again today, with all the students cheering because they've driven another teacher away.

Creak

The door opens. A woman shuffles in wearing slippers, her hair carelessly pinned up with a pencil, her cheeks suspiciously flushed. She carries a bottle of baijiu in her left hand and takes a swig every couple of steps. Slowly making her way to the podium, she says, "I'm Ti Wu, your new teacher. Today we're having a mock exam. Come with me into an instance."

The students: !!!

Wait, this disheveled drunk woman is their teacher? But they've never learned anything. How are they supposed to take an exam?

Inside the instance

The 46 students of Class 29 look at the horde of ghosts all around them and are so terrified their legs go weak. Their usual swagger is nowhere to be seen.

"Where's the teacher?"

"Holy crap! So many ghosts! They're coming!"

"Teacher Ti?"

"Help!"

At that moment, Ti Wu is drinking with an old acquaintance. "Your sacrificial wine really is the best."

The instance boss, sporting a bruised and swollen face, takes a deep breath to hold back his anger. "That's an offering for me. Could you leave me a little?"

"Yeah, yeah, I know," she says dismissively.

Outside, the students of Class 29 scream themselves hoarse. They tremble and sob as the ghosts draw closer, while their teacher has already fallen asleep.

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Ever since Ti Wu took over Class 29, all the troublemakers have turned into model students.

The whole school cries out: "Teacher Ti is amazing!"

The students of Class 29 sneer. "All she does is drink. She never teaches a class, and she gives us a mock exam every three days and a test every five. We taught ourselves just to stay alive. What does Ti Wu have to do with it?"

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Everyone in Class 29 thinks Ti Wu is a half-baked teacher. They're unhappy, but don't dare say anything, until they're dragged into a wild instance during an autumn outing and find themselves on the brink of death

Then Ti Wu kicks the instance boss flying and solves the instance's mystery with ease. "We're out of booze. Let's go."

The students: ...

Holy crap! Is this really their unreliable Teacher Ti? She's freaking awesome!

Reader's Guide:

1. The heroine is usually laid-back, unreliable, and never without her baijiu. She shows up to crush everyone when it matters, a total badass.

2. The troublemakers start out arrogant, then cry even harder later. The main focus is their growth.

3. There is a male lead. They are a couple from the start, and their relationship is steady. He has a small role and appears in everyday scenes, but won't enter instances with her.

4. Chuunibyou and a style leaning toward Japanese light novels.

5. My take on infinite-instance fiction, with lots of original worldbuilding.

Theme: Keep looking up, even in difficult times