Turns Out My Parents Are Big Shots in the Infinite Game

Note: Since this is still an infinite-flow story, it may be a little scary. [Updated daily every night. I'll post a notice if there's no update.] Blurb: 1. Yin Liuyun, a popular young idol, is invited to take part in a variety show. The guests enter a machine that sends them through time to their parents' era, livestreaming their time spent with their parents when they were young. Yin Liuyun was raised by his refined, gentle father, and has never met his mother. Whenever he asks about her, his father always brushes him off. The show offers a chance to learn about his parents' past, so he agrees without a second thought. But once he actually travels back in time, he belatedly realizes that something isn't quite right. W-wait. Never mind why it was so poor several decades ago. Why are the corpses moving?! Is this freaking science? 2. It's a livestreaming variety show, but while other kids share cozy meals or go to school with their young parents, or even hug each other and cry, no one else gets chased and gnawed at by monsters like Yin Liuyun. For everyone else, it's a heartwarming family show. For Yin Liuyun, it's become a full-scale survival horror program. Yin Liuyun: ... He's stubborn, too. The whole internet tells him to come back, but he insists on finding his mother. And he never imagined that his mother would be a man, and a ridiculously awesome one at that. Yin Liuyun: ? So how was I born? That day, “Yin Liuyun Was Picked Up from a Garbage Heap” shot to the top of the trending searches. Yin Liuyun: ...Do you people have any manners? 3. Yin Liuyun always thought his father was an honest, awkward, refined gentleman, and the viewers thought so too, until they saw his father kick the corpse chasing Yin Liuyun and trying to eat him into pieces. Viewers: Has your dad always been this badass? Yin Liuyun: ... Is that my dad? I'm not sure. Let's keep watching. 4. A newcomer who's far too kind arrives in a horror game. He's saved many people, and no one expects him to eventually become the most widely supported guild leader. Xiao Guannan thinks little of him at first, smiling as he says, “Kid, what makes you think you're qualified to tell me what to do?” Later, after learning Yin Liuyun's true identity, Xiao Guannan: ...Who did you say your father was? Plenty of people have been so afraid of him that they've begged for mercy. Yin Liuyun is the first to get so scared he starts babbling and claiming random people as his dad. Xiao Guannan thinks this is the most embarrassing moment of his life, but it turns out the worst is yet to come. He even wonders if he's misheard: “You little brat, who did you say your mother was?” You can claim him as your mom, but I can't claim him as my wife! Parents' romance: beautiful, powerful gong × cool, strong shou Main characters' romance: older gong In the parents' romance, Xiao Guannan is the gong. The story is told primarily from the shou's perspective. Content warnings: The setting is entirely fictional!! All entertainment-industry, boy-band, and company details in the present-day storyline are made up and may differ greatly from reality. Please don't overanalyze them. This story will certainly have some flaws, including deliberately contrived or comedic events to serve the plot. Please stop reading if anything makes you uncomfortable. Note: The setting is fictional. The research and details are based on information online and things I've made up, so please don't take them too seriously. This is a work of fiction. Don't imitate it. Don't relate it to real life, and don't imitate any dangerous actions. Please don't imitate them!! Take a look at my upcoming book~ My Boyfriend Is Nonhuman 1. Gu Yuan, Captain Gu, the top fighter in the Anomaly Management Bureau, has recently fallen head over heels in love. At first, when the Bureau wanted to hire a pollution-ability expert as a consultant, he scoffed and said, “How can theory help with fieldwork?” But the moment he saw the expert, he changed his mind. The new expert is soft and sweet, speaks gently, and especially has a pair of big eyes like a fawn's. The way they look at people is irresistibly captivating. The great iceberg Gu falls in love for the first time and awkwardly pursues him. To his surprise, he actually succeeds. Aside from his boyfriend being far too shy, with their intimacy never progressing beyond holding hands, everything is wonderful. It's just that for some reason, every morning he wakes up with dark red marks around his waist. 2. Bureau work is complicated, so it's inevitable that you'll get to know a few people in the gray areas. Gu Yuan is extremely careful when dealing with them, and they all act strangely when they see him. Once they hear about his little boyfriend, they all lose their composure, as if they want to devour him alive. Gu Yuan just thinks they're being ridiculous. Until, by a twist of fate during a case, he learns the truth. It turns out this world is a novel, and he's a cannon-fodder gong who gets terribly abused by all the male leads. He's exposed while carrying out an undercover mission and meets a tragic end. Afterward, he lost those memories and forgot everything. Captain Gu takes a special look. In the book, although he eventually ends up as fish food, he completes his mission perfectly. He doesn't take it to heart. He's busy with work, after all, so he gets back to it?? 3. After a mountain of work is finished, Captain Gu finally remembers that he's been neglecting his boyfriend for quite a while. He deliberately buys a gift to make it up to him, but when he opens the door, he's greeted by a creature so thoroughly inhuman it's almost impossible to recognize. Only its eyes are unmistakably familiar. His usually gentle boyfriend looks gloomy and distressed, so anxious that he's chewed himself bloody. “Why did you have to remember...” “You abandoned me already. Why did you come back now...” “Please, don't hate me. Don't leave me again...” “Forget all of this...” The last thing he remembers is his polluted boyfriend using his ability. All memories of the man fade away with it. 4. A new theoretical consultant joins the Bureau. Captain Gu doesn't think much of him, until he sees him. Gu Yuan watches the consultant smile warmly and introduce himself. Memories surge back like a tide, and he falls silent. ...So this person, no, this thing, manually restarted the game? “Hello, I'm the new consultant,” the other man says with a smile. He looks warm and approachable, just like when they first met last time. Note: 1. One-on-one romance. 2. Shou's perspective. 3. The gong is a tentacle monster. 4. The gong never mistreated the shou. In the novel, he was the “fish,” though technically an octopus (). Theme: Believe in yourself