The Aloof, Beautiful NPC Who Can't Be Courted

"Sweet Dreams" is an exploration game that has taken the internet by storm.

Superpowered battles, high freedom, and romance, too.

Among its characters, an NPC named Ye Shuangze is beautiful and aloof, with long, cascading black hair. His popularity once surpassed that of every other major character, sending him racing to the top of the rankings.

Though merely a background character, he has nightmare-level conquest difficulty. No matter what players try, they can never stop him from resolutely going to meet his arranged date. Every time, it sends the forums into an uproar and leaves players in agony.

[Help! I spent two whole months grinding, only for my affection score to suddenly drop by 5 points! All I did was say his arranged date seemed scary!]

[Ha. It's not like I haven't tried unconventional methods, but I nearly ended up in prison for life! Do you know how I've spent these past twenty years?]

[Does he even have a heart? Can he even love? I'm going crazy, ]

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Ye Shuangze is an ordinary pastry chef with no special abilities.

He is cold-tempered and has few friends. The only exception is the person he has recently been set up with: tall, handsome, and gentle, they made his heart pound wildly at their very first meeting.

For some inexplicable reason, however, all kinds of obstacles keep cropping up.

People badmouth his date, or lawbreakers resort to coercion; the tricks are endless, and his dates get sabotaged time and again.

After the restaurant where they were having a candlelit dinner was suddenly inspected, Ye Shuangze finally snapped.

...All you filthy things, get out of here!

Just then, a wildly popular forum appeared in Ye Shuangze's mind.

It recorded, in tearful detail, the history of being "hurt" by him through conquest attempts, and condemned his heinous crimes. The posters couldn't understand why he insisted on loving his arranged date, or why that person couldn't be conquered...

[Wry laughter. Someone got arrested for making a false report against a restaurant.]

[Let's shout our slogan: Conquer Shuangshuang! We won't stop until death!]

[Day and night, without rest! As fierce as wolves and tigers!]

Ye Shuangze: ?

Gradually, Ye Shuangze learned the full truth about his world.

For example, his world was actually just a game, and to them he was merely a background NPC. Many of those filthy things turned out to be hardcore players...

Even the handsome, gentle person he was dating, the husband he'd just registered his marriage with, had his identity exposed amid the chaos.

[I'm losing it! I finally know who Shuangshuang's partner is!]

[No wonder he can't be conquered! The consequences of angering him are even worse than angering Shuangshuang!]

[He's actually the "Tyrant"]

The Tyrant, the most terrifying boss in the dark route of "Sweet Dreams."

Violent, unpredictable, and utterly heartless.

Ye Shuangze: ???

His husband, who is always clinging to him, kissing him, and saying he loves him, a model graduate of the School of Wifely Virtue who buys groceries and cooks first thing in the morning?

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[Even after being conquered ten thousand times, I still love you without hesitation // Bottom]

[My darling loves me even more today, so I guess I won't destroy the world // Top]

Theme: True love conquers all