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[Completed] Ever since Bai Yu picked up two strange cards, strange things have been happening in his life.
Every night, a cool and handsome man stands by his bed, holding the two cards he found between his long, pale fingers as he asks, "Do you want love or a career?"
The first time, he chose the career card.
Then he was pulled into a very strange place. Nine other people were dragged in with him, and they found themselves in an old, run-down factory. They were the factory's employees, and the boss was the same man who had asked him to choose between love and a career.
Their mission was to fill an order within three days. If they failed, everyone would die.
The cool beauty of a boss stood before them with a smile. "You chose this yourself, so even if you have to cry, you'll finish the job."
His cruel tone was impossible to hide, as if he had said it especially for Bai Yu.
On the third day of the mission, Bai Yu used the last of his strength to finish it and return to the real world.
The second time, he immediately chose the love card.
After he made his choice, he thought he saw the cool, handsome man smile in a way that made his soul tremble.
As expected, he was pulled into another strange place. This time, he was the boss's kept lover, and his boss was the same cool beauty who had nearly worked him to death in the previous mission.
He thought he was done for, but he unexpectedly cleared the mission with ease, even if the process was a little too embarrassing to talk about.
The third time, he chose the career card again. The moment he opened his eyes, he found himself in a filthy underground factory, the lowest-ranking worker there, tasked every day with completing the boss's brutal workload.
The boss was still the same, and his smile was just as cruel. The look he gave Bai Yu seemed to say, "You're being naughty."
After he dragged himself through the mission, he chose another love card with a manageable difficulty level.
He decided he could put up with being embarrassed, as long as he stayed alive.
Once he let himself go, he kept drawing love-card roles: the boss's secretary, the boss's lover, the boss's stand-in for his white moonlight, the boss's pet, and so on.
It wasn't until later, when he spoke with a player who had been with him since the first mission, that he learned their cards could include careers, love, professions, identities, backgrounds, and more.
So why did he only ever get two kinds of cards? Why did he keep running into that creep? No matter what he chose, he couldn't escape that freak's clutches, could he?
Bai Yu decided to lie flat and give up.
No more choosing! He'd just let the system choose for him!
[Screen-captured and saved on May 22, 2023]
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The World-Destroying BOSS Wants to Be His Gong
Blurb: Lin Xi, an employee of a transmigration-into-a-book bureau, runs into trouble while entering a retirement world. He was supposed to arrive at a villa in the most luxurious district of the Imperial Capital Planet, but instead wakes up in a remote district on the planet's outskirts, a low-level cleaner at a powerless pollution cleanup station.
Looking at his empty, drafty home, Lin Xi falls silent.
The situation is set, so Lin Xi has no choice but to begin a difficult retirement life focused on survival.
To make sure he doesn't go hungry, he does his cleaning job diligently, working every day in a garbage station full of sources of pollution.
Diligent and quiet, Lin Xi is practically invisible at the cleanup station. Nobody pays him any attention.
Until one day, a rumor somehow spreads throughout the entire station.
They say Lin Xi's background is anything but simple. He's childhood friends with the young master of the Imperial Capital's Nan family, and they're engaged, but he ran away from the wedding. One day, the Nan family will come and take him back.
Lin Xi, the invisible man, suddenly finds himself the center of attention. People look at him with eager anticipation.
As he leaves the station with his wages for the day, he hears the rumor he started himself finally spreading throughout the entire cleanup station. He's very pleased.
Under the title of the Nan family's young master's fiance, Lin Xi gets by quite well in this low-level district. People often give him things, hoping that when the Nan family eventually takes him back, he'll remember those who helped him.
Lin Xi brings home the food his coworkers gave him. The little beggar he picked up is sitting on the bed, waiting for him.
The little beggar is hideously ugly. Lin Xi found him in a pile of mutated creature corpses.
Someone wants the little beggar to be disposed of as a source of pollution. Those people are the boy's aunt and uncle.
The little beggar doesn't know it, but Lin Xi, who received compensation from the transmigration-into-a-book bureau, knows from the original story that the boy's aunt and uncle want to get their hands on his upcoming slot at the Imperial Military Academy. They plan to kill him and have their own son take his place.
Lin Xi puts the food on the table and hands a portion to the little beggar. "Eat."
The little beggar takes it. When he sees the words "Gift from XX" on the bag, he tears it open without expression and takes a bite. "If you keep fooling them like this, aren't you worried they'll eventually see through it?"
Lin Xi bites into his bread without a care and points at the bread in the orphan's hand. "Before I brought you home, I only had to feed myself."
The little beggar, Nan Qingye, chews his bread and thinks that makes sense. He decides not to break the man's neck just yet, and to overlook for now the fact that the man is thriving under his name.
2. Nan Qingye watches Lin Xi with a gloomy expression as he finishes his bread and goes to do the laundry. This transmigrator seems different from the ones before.
The previous transmigrators had all tried to start a flirtation with him as soon as they arrived, then used his abilities and background to live the high life.
Has he changed tactics?
Nan Qingye sneers.
He wants to see what tricks this man has up his sleeve.
Nan Qingye keeps waiting for Lin Xi to reveal his greedy nature. But even after the Nan family finds him and takes him home, Lin Xi never asks him for a fortune. In fact, after he returns home, Lin Xi disappears without a trace.
Nan Qingye, who had planned to humiliate Lin Xi when he demanded an exorbitant sum, starts to panic.
He uses every resource at his disposal and finally finds Lin Xi in an obscure star district, fishing by the lake with a little beggar he has picked up from who knows where.
Seeing Lin Xi care for that little beggar the way he once cared for him, Nan Qingye is consumed with jealousy. He stops Lin Xi, who is about to take the boy home after their fishing trip, and demands, "Wasn't picking me up enough? How many people are you going to bring home?"
Theme: Everyone needs a dream. You never know, it might come true!
How can I put it this way? I still finished reading it all. The first half felt okay. However, the ending became more and more sloppy towards the end of the copy, and the ending () was written suddenly. It was quite sudden. I hope the author will continue to work hard and hone his writing skills. He should practice more on the main plot line. And the two protagonists fell in love at first sight inexplicably from the beginning. . . It's also a very sudden emotional line. . .
The ending of completely forgetting is really more uncomfortable than completely forgetting...
Srds, Bai Yu is the manager, what exactly is Si Nian?,,, A glowing cube code (?,,,,
The ending felt a bit lame and rushed.
? ? ? Does this obliterate it? [Question mark]
Finished? ! It's so fast... There's still a little bit of emptiness, scatter flowers [spread flowers]
Ah? He forgot ( ̄口 ̄)!!
"Everything here is not really much" is a big bug for the author ~ there is too much →
"Bai Yu knows that this is being too polite" is a big bug for the author ~ too →
"On the other side, Lu Zefeng" gave the author a big bug ~ he said → Yes
How can I put it this way? I still finished reading it all. The first half felt okay. However, the ending became more and more sloppy towards the end of the copy, and the ending () was written suddenly. It was quite sudden. I hope the author will continue to work hard and hone his writing skills. He should practice more on the main plot line. And the two protagonists fell in love at first sight inexplicably from the beginning. . . It's also a very sudden emotional line. . .
The ending of completely forgetting is really more uncomfortable than completely forgetting...
Srds, Bai Yu is the manager, what exactly is Si Nian?,,, A glowing cube code (?,,,,
The ending felt a bit lame and rushed.
? ? ? Does this obliterate it? [Question mark]
Finished? ! It's so fast... There's still a little bit of emptiness, scatter flowers [spread flowers]
Ah? He forgot ( ̄口 ̄)!!
"Everything here is not really much" is a big bug for the author ~ there is too much →
"Bai Yu knows that this is being too polite" is a big bug for the author ~ too →
"On the other side, Lu Zefeng" gave the author a big bug ~ he said → Yes