Synopsis
Zhai Xiaoling, a lovesick young heiress, transmigrates by accident and gets trapped in a paper-doll-raising game. To make matters worse, the unscrupulous System demands she complete an impossibly difficult task:
If she can't raise the favorability of one hundred players to 100 and get them to spend more than two billion, she won't be allowed to return to reality.
Zhai Xiaoling: ...
Fine, you win.
She decides to give up and refuses to pander to any players! No way!
After countless players nearly report the game until it's taken down, the System finally loses patience and plans to turn her into data and exile her into outer space.
Just then, a notification suddenly appears.
[You have bonded with a permanent player. Username: @￥&]
Hesitantly, she discovers that luxurious furniture has inexplicably appeared in her starter home, her tiny wardrobe is piled high with countless elegant dresses, and someone has inadvertently brushed her face with a touch both cold and gentle...
But spending in the raising game is limited, and completing the task is a long way off. Zhai Xiaoling crouches in her starter home, frowning anxiously.
Then she discovers that she can travel between different games, and has somehow awakened strange abilities: the resentment of an ancient Corpse King, the inscriptions of a Fallen Immortal, the legion of the Insect Lord...
In a horror dungeon game, ghosts and monsters make way for her, despite her seeming like a delicate, helpless beauty.
In a post-apocalyptic construction game, she somehow grows rare ingredients in an abandoned cellar.
Players everywhere: Aaaaaah, so you can jump between games?! I'm in, I'm in!!! Spend!!! Spend as much as you can!!!
And so, an incredibly popular paper-doll idol is born.
A perfect appearance, a personality that's anything but sweet, and a cool, aloof gaze.
People adore her, go crazy for her, and slam themselves against walls for her.
But they don't know that on the other side of the screen, countless pairs of cold eyes are fixed on her.
Insect Lord / Fallen Immortal / Corpse King, and other VIP players: So the daughter I raised belongs to other people too??
He sleeps in the darkness, his soul trapped in layer upon layer of dreams.
Then a voice breaks into his space. The screen lights up, revealing a slender figure within.
On the screen, she seems to look around. Her bright almond-shaped eyes shimmer like they're veiled in mist, the ends of her hair curling up slightly. Zhai Xiaoling tilts her head playfully.
"Do you want to have me?"
It's the game's opening line, and countless players lose themselves in the girl's sparkling eyes.
"Of course," the unknown being says softly.
Once, the God of the Dark Night was imprisoned in the tenfold Abyss, cut off from the world. Evil spirits and demons followed in his wake, and he held dominion over the world.
If someone had freed him a thousand years ago, he would have given them unparalleled power.
Five hundred years ago, he would have given them a peaceful and prosperous life.
In the end, after waiting in vain, he went mad.
If that person finally appeared, he would make them suffer just as he had, without hesitation.
Just then, the darkness parts, and the girl's smiling face appears on the screen before him.
She often sits in front of his screen, humming tuneless little songs.
Though his heart harbors wicked thoughts, he gradually wants to lavish her with boundless affection.
Until he suddenly realizes that she smiles at the countless other players in front of their screens, too.
His lashes twitch. With a cold laugh, he crushes the screen.
Later, the game world collapses, and the hugely popular paper-doll idol Zhai Xiaoling vanishes without a trace. Her last words before leaving are, "I've got enough points. Bye-bye."
Her devoted players search the entire world at any cost, never imagining that Zhai Xiaoling, the virtual idol, has become the dazzling, elegant, beautiful CEO of an independent game studio, appearing in massive street-side advertisements.
In the end, a battle to the death is about to begin, but it comes to an end with the arrival of a man.
After attending a game convention, Zhai Xiaoling discovers that the mastermind who went to any lengths to acquire her gaming company is not the refined gentleman she thought he was.
The other man's eyes turn blood-red and slit-pupiled as he strokes her neck with a tender, sickly affection.
"Where are you planning to run this time?"
A carefree little sunshine with her head in the clouds x a possessive, obsessive, dark god
A sweet romance + a career-growth story
[Purely a product of an overactive imagination, with an extremely niche premise]
[I'm a nobody paper-doll character, and I just happened to bring home an evil god]
[Interstellar + adorable pets + paper dolls + games + livestreaming + System]
[In the end, I still want to write this idea as a BG romance. Please keep it separate from all my other books. Screenshot taken, September 2022]
Theme: I played a paper-doll character and brought home a ghost king along the way
