Is This Freaking a Dating Game?

Jiang Qianli gets her hands on an R18-rated romance game.

There are four romance options, and she eagerly jumps in.

Romance option one: A beautiful childhood friend who is cold and calculating

Qianli likes him a lot, but her progress with him is a little slow.

...Because she keeps dying by accident!

As she stares at the blood-red words "You have died" filling the screen, then looks back at the beautiful young man's eyes, filled with love and affection, Qianli grits her teeth and keeps playing, embracing the mindset of a shameless pervert.

It is only after dying three times in a row that she discovers a cluster of tiny red camera lights beneath her bedroom desk.

Game: "Congratulations on unlocking the achievement: Did You Survive Today?"

Qianli: ...

Romance option two: A gentle, caring online boyfriend

Her online boyfriend sends her thoughtful messages every day.

"XX, there's someone under your bed."

"XX, your best friend in front of you is already dead."

"XX, the food you're eating is made of human flesh."

"XX, your new boyfriend is a psychopathic serial killer, but I'm willing to forgive you for cheating. You know there's a knife in the kitchen, right?"

Qianli: "...No way!" Who's the real psycho here?

The next day, she dies in an accident after buying a bag of fruit.

Qianli: ??

Romance option three: A mysterious, gloomy, unhinged evil god

Qianli becomes a girl offered as a sacrifice to an evil god by a strange tribe deep in the mountains. Wearing a red bridal gown, she marries an urn of ashes enshrined at an altar.

She starts sharing a bed with the urn.

She accepts the situation without a fuss, falling asleep with the urn in her arms every night, giving it a goodnight kiss and reading it bedtime stories.

Later, the urn opens, revealing a writhing mass of bloody flesh.

Blood-red tendrils crawl over her fingers. As onlookers shrink back in terror, the tendrils slowly coil around the girl's pale, naked body.

Romance option four: An aloof, solitary young man from a conch shell

After finding a young man by the sea, half-covered in blood and with bones exposed, strange things begin happening one after another.

Qianli, a poor fisherman's daughter, realizes she seems to have brought home a young man from a conch shell.

Only when strange deaths in town become more and more frequent does she realize she did not pick up a gentle conch-shell spirit, but a terrifying overlord of the Sea of Blood.

In the middle of the night, the young man she keeps in the bathtub opens his mouth, baring gleaming fangs, and swallows her whole.

Later, among the dead spirits of the Sea of Blood, a white-boned orca appears with a human girl hidden in its mouth.

The game is so difficult that Qianli curses as she plays. "What the hell kind of romance game is this?"

Only after finishing it does she check the game cartridge's genre.

It is a horror game rated R18 for its bloody, terrifying, and bizarre content.

Qianli: .

...So this wasn't a romance game after all.

Wait, then what have I been dating all this time?!

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