Writing Bugs in a Horror Game and Eloping with an NPC (Infinite)

The promotional blurbs for my upcoming novels, "Days Spent Digging for Treasure in the Sand (Infinite Escape)" and "Seriously? The Ghost Market Owner Says He Likes Me," are at the very end. Princess, please add them to your collection!

I may write side stories about the other players in "A Side Story." Their stories might appear in my author page's collection later. If there's a character you'd like to read about, leave a comment.

Xi Qing, a computer programming prodigy who has competed in countless contests, is only seventeen and already a leading figure among programmers.

Then, without warning, he gets trapped in the game "Death's Arrival." He's entering the game in person, and losing means certain death. Every round is a thrill ride.

NPC He Qiao announces the rules: the players are split into two teams, and they must "fight for supremacy" and kill everyone else to win.

Under He Qiao's benevolent-looking stare, Xi Qing unlocks his identity:

[Congratulations! You are the "deer" to be hunted in this game!]

Xi Qing: MMP.

But a programming genius never gives up. While everyone else enters the game to hunt people, Xi Qing dives in to hunt bugs.

Control center, source code.

A mere game instance can't stop him. His fingers hit the keyboard, and the whole zone shakes.

[Warning! Critical error! fengxue.exe "deer" has killed "Death"!]

NPC He Qiao, forced to chase him around fixing bugs: What the hell did you change this time?!

Xi Qing: It's snowing so hard, I'm freezing! What's wrong with adding a little health?

He Qiao, staring at the instance's energy radiation gauge: The sun doesn't burn as hot as you do!!!

But after a while, the bugs he was fixing started to feel a little off.

In the stream of core code, Xi Qing grabs the NPC by the collar. "So you're using me as your personal hacker for free? Do you know how much I charge per hour to debug programs out there? Even if I sold you, I couldn't make up the difference!"

He Qiao tilts his head slightly, his perfect face shifting into a bright smile.

"If I can't be sold, I'll give myself to Boss Xi for free."

"Would Boss Xi take me?"

[A cheeky, shameless, bug-hunting high school genius × a seemingly proper, cold-blooded NPC debugger who falls for a single flirt]

Reader's guide:

1. Infinite escape. The first game instance begins in Chapter 4.

2. His golden finger isn't that powerful. Everyone is smart, and the story has an ensemble cast.

3. The romance is sweet, with the leads doting on each other.

Upcoming novel 1: "Days Spent Digging for Treasure in the Sand (Infinite Escape)"

Chu Yan, a history graduate student, receives an invitation from a classified organization in Qingcheng to join an archaeological expedition and explore the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

He puts down his half-finished thesis and follows the team to the Giza Plateau, about ten kilometers southwest of Cairo.

Standing before the majestic pyramids, he feels his very soul tremble.

When he opens his eyes again, he's been transported to the era when they were built. Workers with stooped backs are passing by, carrying stones.

A girl on the stone steps sings with the voice of a bewitching siren, strumming her harp and beguiling the crowd.

The next second, her eyes widen as she points at Chu Yan. "Enemy spy!"

The army immediately pins Chu Yan to the ground. At the critical moment, an arrow whistles through the air. A burly man wielding a stone hammer knocks away the soldiers on the outer edge and drags Chu Yan to safety.

To return, he must first find traces of the gods...

After leaving the Great Pyramid of Khufu instance, Chu Yan realizes that the person who saved him is Ling Yeyu, a guide for a neighboring country's archaeological team.

Both teams try to get ahead, but they keep running into each other.

At the feet of the Colossus of Ospilin.

Outside the Temple of Eltre...

At last, Chu Yan can't take it anymore. "Why do you keep following us?"

Ling Yeyu's expression is cool. "I could ask you the same thing."

In the Hanging Gardens, illusory veils and yellow dust swirl across Chu Yan's face. He can no longer tell reality from imagination.

"Wake up."

"Don't believe what they say."

"You are your own person."

"Only you can decide how to measure the world."

Ling Yeyu's voice is like a northwestern gale, sweeping away everything that made Chu Yan feel adrift.

Upcoming novel 2: "Seriously? The Ghost Market Owner Says He Likes Me" (Over 100,000 words already written)

After his father mysteriously disappears and a corpse suddenly appears in his home, Fu Xingzhou follows the directions in a text message to the ghost market, seeking the protection of its owner, Qin Yan. He ends up running a shop with Qin Yan.

An independent, aloof young man × a restrained, mysterious shop owner

The pale-faced shop owner sits behind his counter, polishing one lifeless artifact after another, each seeming almost alive. He moves between the worlds of the living and the dead.

At the ghost market, you can buy anything...

An episodic story featuring:

A book that changes your fate and prolongs your life.

The red thread of a matchmaker.

A thousand-year-old bronze bell.

After meeting one person or ghost after another, Fu Xingzhou finally uncovers the truth behind it all. He's glad to have helped so many restless souls find peace and to have changed so many things.

Qin Yan watches the young man who once hid behind him gradually grow up, suppressing the feelings that have quietly taken root in his heart.

He watches Fu Xingzhou drink the River of Forgetfulness water, and finally smiles.

He's a wandering spirit in the mortal world, destined never to see the light of day, surviving only in the shadows.

But Fu Xingzhou is different. He has his whole life ahead of him and deserves every beautiful thing in the world.

Qin Yan wants to give him the best of everything. He wants Fu Xingzhou to forget him.

Fu Xingzhou passes his days searching and waiting. He remembers that he once had a lover.

He wanders beneath neon lights, intoxicated by liquor and cigarette smoke.

Awakening from a dream at midnight, he finally remembers the lover he had missed for so long.

Betting everything he has, Fu Xingzhou finally saves Qin Yan from the mire.

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