My Merch Came to Life

This novel will be complete on April 9, then become a paid novel.

Blurb:

My name is Xin Lanye. I'm just an ordinary illustrator, designer, and fan project organizer.

I have a lot of work to do every day. It's exhausting, but most fan creators do it out of love, and I don't exactly lack the money or time.

Maybe Heaven sensed my resentment, or maybe this love somehow broke through the fourth wall.

Anyway, on my 22nd birthday, I opened the room where I kept all my fan merchandise, only to find a fictional character standing there, alive and well.

He smiled at me and said, "I just happened to appear at this very moment, so I didn't have time to prepare a birthday present for you. How about treating me as a gift from this world?" He winked, and his pale violet eyes reflected a faint river of stars.

Me: eyes popping out of my head.gif

...And somehow, we ended up living together. I'm feeling conflicted.

"If you can't accept this love, then please treat it as a gift from this world."

[Flops over] I even made a NetEase Cloud playlist just for this novel, called "Gentle Poems Dedicated to Kenji Hagiwara."

[Unless something unexpected happens, updates will be daily, around 4,000 words.]

[The beginning is a little slow. If you just want the sweet stuff, you can start at the Date a Live section.]

Warnings:

The love interest is Hagi. Hagi. [Flops over]

1. Daily life and fairly colloquial language, with possibly a lot of inner monologue

2. The story mainly focuses on Hagi. Later on, Jinpei and Hiro will also get saved. I'll somehow bring the class representative back to the original world, too. Zero doesn't have a role.

3. The heroine is rich, socially anxious, and not great at socializing. She's Chinese and studied at an art college, and she's not a genius.

4. A two-dimensional fictional character transmigrates three times. This is an ordinary world crossed with the Durarara!! world, with no other world-fusion plotlines. There'll be a bit of unresolved regret from Bungo Stray Dogs, and Izaya will just make a brief appearance in Durarara!!.

5. If you dislike it, hate it, or find it a landmine, just exit using the top-left button. Please don't curse me, qwq.

6. Don't ask me for logic. This is just fluff, mostly sweet little stories and cozy daily life. Which means there may be some OOC moments. There won't be any cases or anything, just the everyday life of ordinary people.

[Upcoming novel, the next one I'll write]

"Beika Town's Top Talent Agent" (Go to my profile to bookmark it. I couldn't help sharing it because it's so funny.)

"Welcome to Beika Town's Top Talent Agent!"

As the top spender in the game Top Talent Agent, I was invited to beta-test a game called Beika Town's Top Talent Agent.

The game's slogan was, "Even host club workers can become stars! Agents, let's go!"

I thought that after playing an agent game for so long, this time I'd make my club one of the best in town.

So I eagerly opened the PowerPoint presentation masquerading as a game, only to discover, to my dismay, that I couldn't spend money in it.

Never mind. I could grit my teeth and grind.

Ordinary hosts all looked more or less the same, and their starting stats were pitifully low, barely in the teens. Then I saw the special hosts, whose stats started at almost 100, and my eyes lit up.

A special host with maxed-out social skills as a starting gift? Awesome!

Grind a high starting combat stat for my bodyguard, and I could rescue injured people and invite them to work at my club? I'll grind that combat stat to the limit!

Rescue someone, and I get a new bodyguard as a bonus? With his high combat stat, I'll make him my personal bodyguard right away.

Report just one criminal and I can bring someone back to my club? I'll reload as many times as it takes to find the real criminal!

I can visit the club next door to increase my hosts' fanbase, and even recruit people from there? Don't stop me. I'm going every day!

Wait... There's a feature where I can raise my happiness stat by sleeping with one of my hosts or bodyguards?

After showering my bodyguard with gifts to raise his combat stat and loyalty, I started sleeping with him every day...

I can't help it! He gives me so many happiness points! Besides, my host won't sleep with me!

But grinding action points all day and waiting until night to earn coins was really boring, so I maxed out the affection of a character in town who looked suspiciously like a monk, too.

Once I'd maxed that out, all I could do was camp out at the arena every day and grind combat stats with my bodyguard...

After finally grinding my way to the title of "One of the Best," I breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to head to Yokohama to open a new branch.

So I happily entrusted my club to Hiromitsu Morofushi, the number-one-ranked host in my club, and set off for the Yokohama Port branch with my personal bodyguard, Toru Amuro.

But... why does this game even have a main storyline? And it seems like "I" have amnesia?

[Warnings]

1. A crossover between Detective Conan, Bungo Stray Dogs, and Jujutsu Kaisen (Suguru Geto only), as well as Durarara!! [All are tentative]

2. Originally two worlds, later fused or crossed over

3. The timeline is a mess

4. Leaning toward putting the characters through the wringer. The plot may be silly, but everyone who died will be brought back.

5. Some of the game mechanics are inspired by The Top Agent in the Capital: an arena to raise bodyguard combat stats, a market to buy food and gifts for hosts and enter talent competitions, plus other host clubs and club challenges

6. The pairing hasn't been decided, but it's most likely Toru. If it ends up being Izaya Orihara... let's just pretend I never said it was most likely Toru.

Theme: Keep striving toward tomorrow because of love