My Online Date Is the Dungeon Boss [Infinite]

[The first instance, "Orphanage," is complete!]

Xia Huai has a secret: she's not human, but a retired Ghost King from the Underworld.

Lately, she's had a problem. The person she's been dating online for three years suddenly asked to meet in person. After much hesitation, she agreed.

Unexpectedly, on the day they were supposed to meet, Xia Huai got more than her date. The apocalypse arrived, and the world was engulfed by a game called Infinite Worlds.

To hide her inhuman identity from her date, Xia Huai diligently plays the part of a useless burden who can do nothing but hold everyone back.

You're supposed to cry when you meet a ghost, right?

[The Cannibal Village] Xia Huai goes "Waaah, waaah" as she knocks out the cannibal in front of her.

You're supposed to fall over while running away, right?

[The Western Fantasy Demon World] As Xia Huai flees, she "accidentally" drops the cross in her hand right into a demon's heart.

You're supposed to make noise when you're hiding, right?

[Hide-and-Seek] Xia Huai hoists a boulder and smashes it into the back of the ghost counting with its eyes covered, making a tremendous racket.

After several worlds, Xia Huai thinks with satisfaction: Yes, I'm doing a great job playing the useless one.

The other players: Big shot, cut it out!

Yuan Li has a secret: he's not human, but a cosmic evil god who filters civilizations.

One day, his consciousness connected to a world called the internet, where he met a human girl.

The human girl was sincere and sweet, and he fell for her completely.

His longing gathered like an ocean. So when he saw that human civilization was being filtered, he accepted the mission without hesitation, setting out to find his human girl.

To hide his identity as a dungeon boss from the human girl, Yuan Li diligently plays the part of her weak and timid boyfriend.

But his girlfriend shines brighter and brighter, with more and more people pursuing her, and she pays less and less attention to him.

Until, while alone with an arrogant fool, he crushes a monster's head right in front of him.

He smears blood across the trembling fool's face. "Tell anyone, and next time I'll crush yours. Got it?"

After the instance ends, Xia Huai finds Yuan Li covered in blood and pale-faced. Worried, she asks, "You must have been terrified. It's okay, it's all over now."

Yuan Li coldly glances at the suitor who has wet himself, then says in a "weak" voice, "Yeah. What about you? Did you hold everyone back again?"

Xia Huai: "I did. I'm so weak."

Yuan Li: "So am I."

They exchange a glance, their thoughts strangely in sync: "Great, I didn't blow my secret identity in front of him/her today either."

[Reading Guide]

* A socially clueless Ghost King heroine who thinks she's a great actress x a male lead who seems gentle and harmless.

* One-on-one, mutually doting romance. They are each other's top priority, above everything else, and both are a little yandere. Neither is entirely good. The heroine is cool-headed with a touch of madness, while the hero seems emotionally stable.

* The characters' values do not represent the author's.

The next story is "A Confession Letter from My Obsessive Childhood Friend, Ten Years Later." Please add it to your collection and help it hatch QAQ.

Childhood friends / mutual pining / nonhuman male lead | cheerful, optimistic ray of sunshine x insecure, obsessive snake man

Wen Chi was the neighborhood's famous ringleader from childhood, with countless underlings. The one who clung to her most was Xie Ji, her neighbor and childhood friend.

Someone once saw Xie Ji beating someone up.

He slammed the other person's head into the ground, punching him again and again until blood splattered across his glasses. He casually took them off to wipe them clean, and his eyes, which should have been dark, glowed with an eerie red light.

When Wen Chi heard about it, she looked at her childhood friend, who was following obediently behind her. His thick glasses hid most of his face, making him look dim-witted and easy to bully. Wen Chi let out an incredulous laugh.

Ever since she started college, Wen Chi had kept receiving strange messages on her phone.

At first, they were just a few ambiguous, suggestive lines. Then came blurry pictures. Most recently, the sender had sent her human remains and threatened to avenge her after she died.

Unable to take it any longer, she asked who the sender was. This time, instead of getting no response, she received a reply.

[Who gave you the nerve to pretend to be the account owner?]

[Pretend? I'm Wen Chi. You've been sending me creepy private messages every day, and I'm the one who should be asking who you are!]

The person on the other end spent a long time typing. It wasn't until the next day that Wen Chi got a reply.

[I'm Xie Ji.]

"..."

Wen Chi stared blankly at him. Xie Ji noticed her gaze and looked at her gently. "What's wrong? Is there something you don't understand? I can help."

-

Xie Ji was a secret experimental weapon, Subject 07, a snake-man.

At ten years old, he returned to human society as a defective product.

By chance, he was rescued by the girl next door, and from then on he clung to her like a leech.

He was base and broken, never daring to dream that the sun would shine only on him. He just wanted to stay by his light as an ordinary person.

He never imagined even that small wish would be shattered.

At the graduation party, he joyfully went to meet Wen Chi, only to find her cold, lifeless body.

That night, Subject 07's readings exceeded their limits. Xie Ji, covered in blood, appeared in the laboratory and knelt, begging them to restart the experiment.

He sold his soul to the devil, all to find the real culprit who had killed the girl.

[Extra Scene]

Xie Ji sat in a room full of corpses and opened his phone to send Wen Chi a message, as usual.

He held nothing back, sending Wen Chi all the things he had once been too afraid to hope she'd answer, all the despicable thoughts he couldn't bring himself to say aloud.

But no one would ever reply again...

Ding-dong. Several messages suddenly arrived from Wen Chi's account.

Wait, someone actually replied to him???

He opened the messages:

[What do I do? I think I've fallen for my childhood friend, but they don't feel the same way, sob sob.]

"?"

[Oh no, I think my childhood friend is a snake monster. His tail keeps wrapping around me at night. Good thing he doesn't know I've figured out his secret, or I couldn't keep up the act.]

??

[By the way... do snakes really have two?]

???

Reading Guide:

1:1, single-couple romance, both each other's first love, mutual pining, time-displaced, only each other.

Theme: Don't tell people to be kind when you haven't endured their suffering.