(Chapters are being written. Launching this year.)
In her previous life, Ling Yu had stomach cancer and died young. After being reborn, he accidentally entered a "horror gacha game livestream," where he could gain life points by completing missions.
Ling Yu is nineteen, with black hair and eyes, and a reddish hue beneath his lower eyelids that gives him a melancholy, delicate beauty. His lips are pale, making him look as if he could die at any moment, as fragile and breakable as glass.
Though he looks delicate and feminine, he has an excellent personality and speaks gently. When he and his teammates are starving and on the verge of death, he gives them the last mantou. He is a gloomy, pale, sickly saint of a good person, the most sacred presence in the game, and the "saintly father" in everyone's eyes.
No one knows that Ling Yu drew the [Traitor Card] from the start.
[Traitor Main Quest activated: You must be cunning and malicious, skilled at manipulation and playing with people's hearts. Survive by betraying and selling out the players, lead them to guess the wrong game setting so they fail and return empty-handed, and finally lure out the ghost so it can kill the players.]
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Word is, there's a traitor in the game.
But the traitor is completely unhinged. He comes up with three ways to solve each game's mystery: one to fool the players, one to fool the ghost. He lies and covers his tracks every day, yet he's so good at it that no one ever sees through him.
He betrays everyone. The players all lose, and the ghost gets taken out too.
The traitor is the only one who survives each game.
Standing in a pool of blood, the traitor calmly wipes the blood from his face and smiles with a sigh. "How is that not betraying the players?"
It's just that he betrayed everyone.
He only trusts himself.
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When a player dies, Ling Yu looks sorrowful and tells the others, "I'll go mourn the dead." His teammates all think Ling Yu is a truly good person, so kind and pure he's like the moon in the sky.
But when Ling Yu reaches the player's corpse, he smiles and makes the sign of the cross, thinking, I'm a good person, before kicking the corpse aside
To express his condolences and apologize for the broken object.
[I'm dead. #He's obsessed with being a good person, so calmly unhinged, love him!]
In the mirror world, a ghostly claw pierces Ling Yu's chest beneath his clothes. One more inch and it will pierce his heart, killing him. So he simply does something villainous right in front of the players, splattering blood all over himself and even stabbing an already-mutated teammate to death, imagining that he's making tomato soup.
Afterward, Ling Yu coughs and says, "I never thought the mirror ghost inside me would do something so evil. I don't want to see things turn out this way. Maybe if I die, I can stop the ghost inside me..."
He pulls out a dagger and points it at himself, but the players comfort him one after another, crying and begging him to love himself as much as he loves everyone else.
Livestream chat: [What mirror ghost?!!! You did all the bad things! You made it all up on the spot and just acted it out!!]
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One day, on a whim, Ling Yu lets his black hair fall over his face, lowers his melancholic gaze, and covers his lips with his fingers as he coughs. His lips are pale, but his voice is gentle as he tells everyone, "Actually, I'm the traitor."
Teammate A: No! We believe you!
Teammate B: Baby, I packed medicine for your stomach pain. You look so fragile and breakable. How could you be the traitor?
Teammate C rolls up their sleeves: Did someone threaten you?! Tell me who it was and I'll beat them up!
The livestream chat explodes: [He's a liar, aaahhhh!]
[Don't believe him!!!! He's led the whole story astray, aaah!]
[What an actor, I'm a fan!]
[Don't follow Ling Yu, it's ghosts all the way ahead!]
[We're doomed! The traitor got a perfect score again. He's about to start luring out the ghosts, ]
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Ling Yu quickly gathers cards and life points, rising far ahead of everyone else in game points. Everyone waits for him to ascend to godhood and personally deal with the utterly evil traitor.
Ling Yu: smiling.jpg
I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone's expressions when the truth is revealed.
Bonus scene:
For a while, Ling Yu often felt a sticky gaze licking at him from the corner of the room. He discovered it was a string puppet. Its eyes were buttons, and its face was hideously twisted.
Ling Yu leaned back on the sofa and gave a slight tug on the puppet strings wrapped around his fingers, making the puppet helplessly draw closer.
Their breaths grew nearer, and danger spread.
"You can't come any closer..."
In the dark, Ling Yu covered his mouth and coughed softly, lifting his pure black eyes. His pale, sickly face slowly broke into a smile. His voice was gentle and pleasant, yet as sharp as a tender blade. "Who are you talking to?"
The corners of the puppet's eyes flushed faintly red. "M-Master."
Ling Yu pulled the boy into his arms and held him captive. Who could have guessed that the puppet who killed without blinking in the game could have such a slender, soft waist?
"We haven't done today's puppet training yet. Master will teach you how to practice kissing."
[The gong is convinced he's a good person but is actually calmly insane, with a layered personality: saintly on the outside, traitor underneath, and a fake human underneath that; also a sickly gong] × [The shou is a crazy evil ghost puppet] The shou can take human form.
Episode 1: Livestreaming from a haunted house, selling sex dolls and BDSM toys
Episode 2: Miaojiang witchcraft
Episode 3: Falling into a horror game app and endlessly parrying
Episode 4: A mermaid who keeps rotting
Episode 5: The mirror ghost
Episode 6: Double wedding, red and white
Episode 7: Pen fairy, please tell me the answer
Theme: My fate is mine to decide