Name: Ruling the Infinite Worlds with Wealth
Author: The Veil of Ignorance

Synopsis

[Instance One Complete]

In a certain Infinite game, players are divided into teams and compete. They use game coins to take part in auctions in order to gain survival time and game items.

Each team starts with just 100 coins. Once they're gone, they're gone... and so are you.

Every player carefully guards their team's coins.

Except for one team, whose beautiful boy had a look of pure, clueless innocence in his eyes. Just ten minutes from the start, he announced:

"I bid 99."

His teammates nearly lost their minds. Spending 99 coins on a bottle of mineral water? What the hell is wrong with you?!

The "beautiful idiot" named Ji Nan, who had nothing but a pretty face, ignored them and earnestly asked the other teams: Anyone bidding 100?

The other teams: …

That team was as good as finished.

*

They looked at Ji Nan's teammates with sympathy, sure the whole team would be wiped out soon.

But as they waited... huh? Hold on, why was that team's fortune growing so fast?!

Word was, Ji Nan first used that bottle of mineral water to unlock a high-level storyline and earn a 200-coin reward. Then he recruited a big boss, who came with equipment worth 800 coins.

From one stage to the next, Ji Nan claimed almost every reward. Even if a penny fell from the sky, it had to have the Ji surname.

By the later stages, Ji Nan's teammates watched their game coins skyrocket by the second and smiled wearily. There's no way to spend it all. There's simply no way.

Meanwhile, the players who had to pay Ji Nan a tax just to catch their breath said: I*%.#^_^=@…

*

Ji Nan was born with a harmless-looking, beautiful face and a slender build.

His teammates all took him for a dumb deadweight.

Only after he crushed a boss's skull without breaking a sweat and raked in over a thousand game coins did they realize they were the deadweight.

Ji Nan: I want to spend 10,000 coins to throw them into the water. You guys okay with that?

Teammates: Absolutely! Play however you want!

[Reader's Guide]

1. Auction-themed, a nontraditional power fantasy in the Infinite genre.

2. One-to-one romance, two bking characters, happy ending.

3. A player who spends money like water and earns it like a waterfall, bottom x an NPC who lies flat at work, slacks off, and has eccentric taste in clothes.

4. Traditional instances, no livestream comments. Plot? Deduction? Mild horror?

5. The author is a materialist; this novel is idealist. The science fiction is made up, and the theories are fictional.

[Coming Soon: Don't Come Over Here [Entertainment Industry]]

Newcomer Shen Fanshen and young movie star Chi Jingzhi are paired up by their company and made to promote themselves as a couple.

While working together, Shen Fanshen notices that Chi Jingzhi often sneaks glances at him, then quickly looks away and pretends nothing happened when caught.

After a while, Shen Fanshen suddenly understands: He's secretly in love with me!

After giving it a lot of thought, he accepts Chi Jingzhi's feelings.

But the other man is more timid than he'd expected and never confesses.

So Shen Fanshen pins him against the wall. You like me, so why won't you say it?

Chi Jingzhi's Adam's apple bobs. Mr. Shen, you've got it wrong...

Shen Fanshen smiles.

Some devious tops really know how to flirt.

He lifts his chin and leans closer, teasing Chi Jingzhi's jaw with his breath. Then why are you blushing?

Chi Jingzhi looks like he's about to suffocate. Because I'm... homophobic... extremely... Mr. Shen, don't come any closer...

Shen Fanshen: *%.#^_^=@…

*

After a coworker breaks his contract, Chi Jingzhi steps in to save the company's arranged match.

His "marriage alliance" partner is named Shen Fanshen: beautiful, proud, and seductive.

Whenever the two get close, Chi Jingzhi has trouble breathing, and is diagnosed with homophobia.

His symptoms peak the moment Shen Fanshen corners him against a wall.

He catches the faint scent of his partner's body and is overcome by a nervousness unlike anything he's ever felt.

After explaining himself, Shen Fanshen finally lets him go... and stops giving him the time of day.

He should be relieved, so why is his mind still full of Shen Fanshen's smile and teasing? Why is he dreaming more and more often about getting together with Shen Fanshen... ahem!

Late at night, Chi Jingzhi sits up in bed.

Now he can't sleep at all...

[A sweet entertainment-industry romance about chasing your love after realizing what you've lost]

[A hot-tempered "vixen" bottom x a slow-on-the-uptake, old-fashioned top]

[Coming Soon: Beyond Science]

University professor Jiang Ran lives a peaceful life, going back and forth between home and campus every day.

Then the neighbor across the hall moves out and a new young neighbor moves in, and suddenly his life turns strange.

One moment, he's getting into the elevator with his neighbor. The next, he's alone in it.

He watches his neighbor walk out of the residential compound with his own eyes, but by the time he replies to a message, the neighbor is knocking at his door.

Xiao Ziyang: I bought some pecans. Want any?

Jiang Ran: ...

I'm not brave enough to eat those, buddy...

He quietly called the police once. After giving his statement, he didn't see anyone coming or going from the apartment across the hall for a long time.

Then one day, while interviewing applicants for his graduate program, Jiang Ran was surprised to discover that his long-missing neighbor had applied to be his doctoral student.

Even more absurdly, the neighbor had clearly grown five or six years older, and was half a head taller than him.

Jiang Ran: There's one condition for becoming my student.

Xiao Ziyang: What is it?

Jiang Ran: First, you have to be human...

Xiao Ziyang: ...Who are you calling inhuman?

[Not a supernatural story. The author firmly believes in materialism and science.]

[A flirtatious doctoral student top x an honest professor bottom]

[Coming Soon: Listen Up, Silly Kid [Entertainment Industry]]

Years ago, top-tier star Ren Xinghe helped a fan who was an extra land a role.

The fan appeared for just a moment in the drama, but became famous overnight.

Who knew that after making it big, the fan would repay Ren Xinghe's kindness by competing with him for resources and achievements? When they acted in a movie together, he even fought Ren Xinghe over the billing order.

Worst of all, the fan repeatedly provoked him to his face. Teacher Ren, am I impressive?

Ren Xinghe: …

What is wrong with this guy!!

*

Genius Lu Xiuyuan has Asperger's syndrome.

People with this condition are naturally cold, have trouble expressing themselves, and can't interact normally with others.

...Not necessarily.

Lu Xiuyuan looks at the autographed photo in his wallet.

He's not cold. He understands love. He loves someone very much.

Ren Xinghe.

He follows Ren Xinghe's updates and learns his likes and dislikes, especially remembering Ren Xinghe's answer when asked about his ideal type.

"Must like men... open to someone in the industry... must be impressive..."