NPC Dating Show: A Guide to Starting Over

Coming soon: When a Perverted Bottom Falls into a Dating Game. Please add it to your collection! Blurb at the very end.

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Former titles: The NPC Movie Star Falls in Love, Going Viral in a Virtual World After Being Blacklisted

Xu An is a beautiful NPC displayed like a work of art in the central plaza of a virtual world. One day, he suddenly breaks free of the System's control and gains self-awareness.

[System: NPCs discovered to have self-awareness will be deleted. Please be careful.]

[System: Please take part in the virtual dating variety show You and I, Strangers, tomorrow. Be sure to hide your identity and avoid giving yourself away during filming.]

Xu An: ??? You're making an NPC join a dating show? System, you're exploiting NPCs! Have you no shame?

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To hide his identity, Xu An works diligently and carefully plays along on the dating show. He even puts up with the guests picking fights with him every other day, for the System's sake.

It's just a dating show. He can put up with it until filming's over.

But can someone tell him what's going on with Mr. W, who always steps in to help him out?

He's just an NPC. He really can't fall in love with a human.

[System: NPC, please acknowledge your feelings. Don't deceive yourself.]

Xu An: ??? Why does the world System seem to be getting weirder and weirder?!

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On an acting competition show, Xu An thrives and dominates the competition. His superb acting and beautiful looks make him a huge star in both the virtual world and the real-world internet.

But what puzzles him is that he seems to have run into the mysterious Mr. W on this show again.

When Xu An plays a scumbag who coldly leaves his lover in the middle of a passionate romance, Mr. W plays an infatuated wanderer who would risk everything for his beloved.

When Xu An plays an obsessive madman who hurts himself and others because his love goes unreturned, Mr. W plays a villain who enables his evil and willingly becomes his prisoner.

For their final scene, Xu An plays an innocent, sweet character. He tilts his head up, half serious and half joking, and asks, "You'll love me forever, right?"

"Yes," the man finally admits openly. "No one in this world loves you more than I do."

At last, Xu An can't help asking, "Sorry, have we met somewhere before?"

At that moment, bespectacled, bookish Mr. W smiles warmly. "Mr. Xu, are you hitting on me?"

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Only later, when Xu An breaks free from the virtual world's constraints as an award-winning actor, do the people of the empire suddenly remember the star who once swept the nation and nearly became the empire's calling card: Xu An.

Standing beside him is the empire's central AI, who is also his lover.

So while the world had forgotten him, the System was him, Mr. W was him, and the one who went to every length to meet him was him.

His lover never gave up on him. They had always been together.

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What the central AI is too embarrassed to say is that, just before he was about to be deleted, he secretly sent three messages to his young boyfriend.

The first two were:

[An'an, I love you.]

[Please take care of yourself. We will meet again one day.]

The last one was:

[When the program restarts, I will introduce you to the whole world again, my love.]

[Reading Guide]

1. Top-tier star in the interstellar world bottom x interstellar central AI boyfriend top

2. No fake trigger warnings or writing advice, please

When a Perverted Bottom Falls into a Dating Game

Blurb:

#What is it like when a perverted bottom falls into a dating-game harem and faces five devoted tops of different types at once?#

Su Tan: Thanks for asking. I'm in a dating game and just left my bedroom. Don't ask. I want to die. I never imagined I'd reach the pinnacle of life like this. These days, I'm constantly exhausted in the bedroom. orz

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Su Tan seems harmless, but he's actually a shameless horndog.

Strip away his innocent facade and he's a full-on pervert. One day, he accidentally falls into a dating game called Secret Crush Sniper and becomes the object of affection of its five male leads.

His company boss has had a crush on him for years. He's gloomy and stern most of the time, but whenever they meet, he becomes unusually easy to talk to.

The senior actor seems interested in him too, always greeting him with a smile. It's a little strange, though: anyone who has ever bullied Su Tan runs away whenever they see this senior actor.

His neighbor is a food blogger. He always brings over the delicious food he makes, claiming he'll have to throw it away if he can't finish it, and often drags Su Tan out to have fun.

At an art exhibit, he also met a gentle painter who likes to paint portraits of him and says he's his... muse? That's a bit much.

Finally, there's his childhood friend, a sharp-tongued jerk with a gorgeous face! He talks in a sarcastic, cutting way and is always making weird, sickly-sweet expressions.

But what can he do? Su Tan drools, thinking he could go all in on all of them.

Until... his agent books him on a dating show.

The five powerful men who have crushes on him meet on the same dating show...!!!

He's doomed!

Su Tan doesn't even dare look at the scene. It's terrifying, truly terrifying.

"A-Tan, I never knew you knew this many handsome, rich guys!" His tea-loving childhood friend gives him a sarcastic sidelong glance. Even his gritted-teeth expression is so tempting.

"Su Tan, company policy says actors have to report their relationships to the company. You remember that, right?" his boss asks, unusually stern.

"He calls you A-Tan? Then I'll call you A-Tan too. You don't mind, right?" The senior actor keeps smiling benevolently, making Su Tan tremble with fear.

"A-Tan, I made something tasty. Want to come over?" The guy next door holds out a box of fried chicken.

"It's okay. A-Tan can like whoever he wants. I don't mind." The gentle painter pats Su Tan's head, backing off to get what he wants.

Su Tan: I was wrong. I'll do it again.

Theme: Stay positive and keep breaking through, even when you're in a difficult situation!