Kiss 100 Times to Escape the Instance ~☆

As the only daughter of an ancient family of exorcists, Yin Shuilian has always followed the family rules. Under her father's strict guidance, she works hard to become the strongest exorcist of her generation.

She gave up all entertainment and pleasure, devoting herself to rigorous training. At a young age, she earned a place among the academy's ten student representatives, and became known among the geniuses for her coldness, inflexibility, and old-fashioned seriousness.

But one day, an accident sent her and several other super-geniuses from the academy into a strange instance. The moment they entered, they saw a huge line of text floating in the air:

"Kiss one hundred times to escape the instance."

Everyone: "..."

After a moment of silence, her teammates stole a glance at her usual icy expression, then dejectedly looked away and glared at one another in disgust.

"Who has to kiss whom? We're all guys. I (we) won't do it."

That's right: of the seven people there, everyone except Yin Shuilian was a man.

Unable to agree on a plan, they fought monsters in a bizarre, suffocating atmosphere, trying to find another way out of the instance.

Yin Shuilian pondered something with a grave expression, fighting like an emotionless battle robot. She charged in with her blade and struck like a bolt of lightning, successfully chopping the monster to pieces, but accidentally getting its blood on herself in the process.

"Wait... Oh no."

Her teammates were too late to stop her. One furrowed his handsome brows.

"That's a dream demon. If you get its blood on you while killing it, you'll be cursed," said a refined, handsome teammate, his gaze grave. "Until you leave the instance, you'll be forced into a state of total honesty, revealing your true nature and unable to control yourself."

"Whew!"

Another teammate gave a cheeky whistle and teased, "Even if she can't control herself, she'll probably just go crazy killing monsters."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yin Shuilian began fidgeting with her fingers, cheeks flushed as she glanced at them.

"??"

Her teammates were dumbfounded. "What's wrong with you?"

In her state of honesty, Yin Shuilian was completely candid.

Her gaze swept over the group. There was a roguish type, an ethereal type, a gentle type, a cool and aloof type, a cute type, a hot-tempered type... They really had everything.

She blinked, shyly voicing the problem she'd been pondering.

"What should I do? Shuilian wants them all~ But there are six of you, and one hundred times isn't enough to divide evenly~"

"...??!!"

Her teammates' eyes nearly popped out of their heads.

After a long silence, they picked their jaws up off the floor and started calculating. "So this is the real Yin Shuilian..."

An unspoken current seemed to flow between them. After a moment, and countless subtle exchanges of glances, one of them spread his hands and said, "How about this? I'll take the short end of the stick: twenty times for me, and sixteen for each of you."

"??" The other five all sneered. "In your dreams!"

After escaping the instance, Yin Shuilian finally regained her reason. (She smoked a cigarette with a world-weary look.) Don't tell me my true nature is surprising. You six are clearly even more outrageous than I am.

(All the teammates are virgins and have never been in love, and neither has the female lead. In short, everyone is inexperienced.)

(Blurb written on February 25, 2023.)

Theme: Face your true feelings and rediscover your authentic self.