I Survive by Reading NPCs' Minds [Infinite]

[My next book: Bound to My Nemesis by a Chastity System. Please add it to your reading list!]

Human nature is greedy. These are worlds shaped by desire.

Lin Xiuwen woke up one day to find a strange smiling face on the Rubik's Cube toy beside his bed.

His usually short-tempered mother gave him a "gentle" smile.

The library was covered in bloody footprints, and the entire city was filled with a skin-crawling "friendliness."

Even the chubby orange cat that loved to beg for attention had turned aloof... Lin Xiuwen offered it a dried fish, but the cat suddenly started talking.

"Kid, smile more, because... if you don't smile, you'll die!"

World One: Smile or Die

Here, friendliness is your life bar, and everyone is full of "goodwill." The moment you have an emotional breakdown, death awaits.

A supermarket cashier who seems just like AI, a beggar who swallows living people whole, passersby who suddenly vanish...

A "ding" rang in Lin Xiuwen's head:

Warning, warning! Your friendliness score is too low. Keep smiling!

World Two: The Girls' High School Piano Room

Lin Xiuwen became a high school girl, the kind with all the usual equipment…

A girl who fell from a building, old photographs in a locker, and piano music that appears every day at 4:44 p.m.

A handsome male teacher beckoned him with a finger. "Want to get out? Then be a good boy and do as I say!"

Lin Xiuwen: "You're the orange cat!"

Gu Yan: "…"

World Three: Open the Door at Midnight

Lin Xiuwen: "Is this a retrospective of classic old movies?"

A guest at a certain hotel: "Wenwen, I'm scared. Can we share a room?"

Lin Xiuwen: "Gu Yan! Why can't I hear your thoughts anymore?"

A guest at a certain hotel: "Hah! To escape your mind-reading, I've decided to stop being an NPC."

Lin Xiuwen: "…"

A sharp-tongued NPC top pretending to be a cute pet x a straightforward bottom who uses mind-reading to get by with the NPC crowd. One-on-one, happy ending.

The following is the divider for the upcoming book

Bound to a Chastity Lock with My Nemesis

Jiang Nan thought Qin Shen might be an ordeal he was fated never to overcome.

They had been rivals in college. Qin Shen stole his spotlight and opportunities, and even the girl he liked ended up as Qin Shen's girlfriend. After finally making it through graduation and going their separate ways, all Jiang Nan wanted was never to see him again.

Yet, for some inexplicable reason, he ended up bound to Qin Shen by an unspeakable superpower!

Whenever he had an "improper thought" about anyone or anything, Qin Shen would appear out of nowhere, defying the laws of physics, and precisely ruin every chance of romance.

A blind date? Qin Shen would suddenly appear across the table.

A date? Qin Shen would show up in the next seat over at the cinema.

Even if he had a naughty dream, he'd wake up to find Qin Shen lying on his sofa!

Even more absurdly, it worked both ways.

As a straight-as-an-arrow man, how was this any different from being artificially castrated?!

The experts offered one solution: Stay within five meters of each other to avoid triggering the effect. They recommended moving in together.

Jiang Nan: ...That's a great suggestion. Don't ever make it again.

Until one late night, Jiang Nan could take it no longer and pinned Qin Shen against the wall. "Can you control those 'thoughts' of yours?"

Qin Shen looked down at him, a desire Jiang Nan had never seen before roiling in his eyes.

"Jiang Nan," he said in a low, husky voice. "How do you know the person I'm thinking about right now... isn't someone else?"

A taciturn, secretly passionate top who kills conversations x a straight-laced, straight-as-an-arrow domineering CEO bottom

Theme: Love is the source of everything