I Drew My Future Lover from the Start [Infinite]

[Abandoned project, proceed with caution]

After losing his memory, Tang Mian entered an infinite game and was forced to bind himself to a horror survival livestream app, where the player in last place in popularity would be punished.

The "audience" looked forward to seeing him beg and fall into depravity, then be swallowed up completely.

The comments bet on when he would give up. Some even urged him to submit.

Tang Mian only watched coldly. Then he suddenly smiled at the empty air. With his deep-set eyes and brows, his smile looked tender and sweet...

But his hand mockingly made a throat-slitting gesture, and his lips moved.

[Go die, you pieces of trash.]

A second later, the comments exploded.

Curses, insults, and mockery poured in, and Tang Mian shot to the top of the popularity rankings.

-

When Tang Mian first woke up, he noticed three characters written in black marker on the back collar of his school uniform: "Song Xingzhi."

It felt like a brand. He didn't like it.

Later, a dungeon changed and he almost died in a chase. The Hanged Man card grew faintly warm, and between life and death, a strong hand covered the lower half of his face and pulled him into a cubicle.

He struggled and bit on instinct.

The other person didn't get angry. In fact, he smiled indulgently, rubbing the writing on Tang Mian's collar with his fingers as he said softly, "I'm Song Xingzhi."

Twenty-five-year-old Song Xingzhi.

Tang Mian: ...Ah.

The owner of that annoying collar had come looking for him.

Outside the dungeon, someone looked at the hand covering Tang Mian's nose and mouth and the livestream that had suddenly gone black, and frowned slightly.

-

Every player's starter item is related to them, and each player gets only one.

Tang Mian was different. He entered the game with two cards: "Childhood Games" and "The Hanged Man."

The former was practically a bug. The latter was strange and unusable.

He didn't give it much thought.

Much later, Tang Mian learned that "The Hanged Man" was a tarot card symbolizing sacrifice.

Someone had crossed through time and lost himself, yet still loved Tang Mian, becoming the twisted monster who belonged to him: The Hanged Man.

Note:

1. Pairing: Song Xingzhi x Tang Mian

Gentle, devoted older top who takes charge x pretty, slightly crazy puppy-like bottom

2. Planned dungeons:

(1) The Never-Ending Overtime Shift [Complete]

(2) Building A, Sophora Blossom Residential Complex

(3) Late-Night Food Review Streamer

Coming soon: [Saved by My Scum Top's Older Brother]

[Switching tops and redemption | Gentle older top x puppy-like bottom who's very obedient with his top]

Song Zhir ran was an orphan with one blind eye and a fear of the dark. He lived in the Alliance's poorest Eighth District and made a living repairing things.

He once saved a "slave" boy named Lu Shijiu. They later depended on each other, and he naively thought they were lovers.

Until the other boy stole his work, left without a word, and became the unfamiliar young master of the Lu family he saw on TV. When Song Zhir ran went to find him, he was met with cruel words.

The other boy said, "Don't be stupid, Song Zhir ran. Who would like a defective cripple with something wrong in the head like you?" Then he turned and casually told his servants to "take care of him."

Song Zhir ran paid dearly for the love he'd felt as a boy.

When he was dragged out of a dark cargo hold, he finally came to his senses:

What he had thought was mutual love was only the other person's wretched past and forced submission.

-

A year later, Song Zhir ran made a name for himself at a mecha repair competition and returned to the First District.

Lu Shijiu looked at him with a complicated expression. "You still haven't given up?"

Song Zhir ran realized that he'd been an idiot.

He smiled. "Sorry, I have a boyfriend. Excuse me."

Lu Shijiu was about to get angry when Song Zhir ran suddenly quickened his pace and threw himself into the arms of a gentle, handsome man, rubbing his face against him with a little embarrassment.

Lu Shijiu stood frozen as the man led Song Zhir ran away.

That was the only heir of the Lu family, the man he feared... his half-brother.

-

Later, Song Zhir ran got everything back and never looked at him again.

At last, Lu Shijiu understood what he had done and what he had lost.

Lu Boyou looked down at him as he broke down, begging and weeping with regret. His expression remained as gentle as ever, his tone as cool.

"He doesn't hold it against you, but I can't let it go."

"You locked him up for seven days back then. I'll repay you a hundredfold... That's all."

-

After Song Zhir ran was sent back to the Eighth District, he nearly died at home. In the darkness of despair, he randomly dialed an ID number, never expecting anyone to answer.

Much later, Song Zhir ran was no longer afraid of the dark.

With his eyes closed in the candlelight, he made a wish. "I want to be with big brother."

Lu Boyou was silent for a long time. Then he blew out the candle for him and tenderly kissed his damaged eye and damp, trembling eyelashes. "All right."

"Happy birthday, Song Zhir ran."

Recommending my friend's book: [The Paper Dragon I Raised Thinks He's Raising Me]

Synopsis: Click to see a round-bellied, chubby little dragon take a bath.

In a tense, terrifying apocalyptic world, an app for raising a baby suddenly appeared on Jiang Yuzhou's phone. Inside was a round-bellied, chubby little black dragon, clumsily pacing back and forth.

The little black dragon was covered in wounds and bared its teeth, snarling fiercely. "Roar!" But it lost its balance, fell off the bed, and rolled a few times.

The little black dragon, injured and the Empire's strongest fighter, the only dragon species of its kind, lay silently on the ground.

On the phone screen, a speech bubble appeared above the cartoon dragon's head.

[Mood: Gloomy.]

Outside the screen, Jiang Yuzhou, who had just escaped from a horde of zombies, couldn't help laughing.

(A very cute, sweet little story. Go read it, go read it, go read it, go read it! ouo)

Theme: Love can overcome every difficulty.