The Good News Is, I Was Reincarnated into an Otome Game

[Welcome, Player 001, to the beta version of the game Love Between Yin and Yang. Please choose your ideal male lead.]

Xia Liu, inexplicably pulled into the game world, stared at the floating options before her and fell into thought. With no choice, she had to make a selection:

[Male Lead No. 1: A melancholic water sign]

Turns out he was a long-haired water ghost standing in the river, clutching her ankle and insisting that he was cold and Xia Liu should come down and keep him company.

[Male Lead No. 2: A possessive yandere with insatiable desires]

As Xia Liu ran from the pale, red-lipped vampire chasing her and shouting, "Darling, you smell so good. I want to eat you," she cursed him. Damn it, his insatiable desire was for food!

The next few options were even more outrageous. Xia Liu got to meet:

[Male Lead No. 3: A sexy guy who loves bondage play]

He turned out to be a hanged ghost who liked using ropes to suspend corpses for fun. He really did love bondage.

[Male Lead No. 4: A quiet, dependable puppy type]

He was a zombie who lay in a coffin with her and started gnawing on Xia Liu at the slightest provocation.

Xia Liu was tired of cursing. In a fit of rage, she chose the last option:

[Male Lead No. 5: A brave and righteous wizard]

Great! At last, she didn't see a ghost this time. Xia Liu looked at the rosy-cheeked, normal-temperature... Taoist priest before her. Sure, calling him a wizard was false advertising, but at least he was alive! Overjoyed, Xia Liu leaped at him as though she were greeting a relative.

The cold Taoist priest pulled out a talisman and slapped it onto Xia Liu's forehead.

"Wicked woman, you're covered in ghostly energy. Best to exorcise you."

Xia Liu: What the *** kind of dating sim is this? Isn't this a damn horror game?

System: Why can't it be both?

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As the sole player, Player 001, in the open beta, Xia Liu lived up to her name and played dirty. After exploiting countless system bugs, she maxed out every male ghost's affection, and the System crashed.

What game has all its male leads go on strike before it's even launched? How is it supposed to serve the players in the official release?

Water Ghost No. 1 clung to Xia Liu all night: Don't you love me anymore? Why are you letting other people play with me...

Vampire No. 2 sucked at the skin on Xia Liu's neck: Baby, everyone else's blood smells bad. Only yours is sweet.

Hanged Ghost No. 3: Uh, tie up the other male ghosts.

Zombie Ghost No. 4: Nom, nom, nom...

Taoist Priest No. 5: He went from wanting to exorcise Xia Liu to wanting to exorcise himself, after realizing she liked male ghosts, not men.

System: What dating sim has the male leads pursuing the player? How can this even be called a dating sim?

Xia Liu: Why can't it be?

Affection: 120%

Affection: 200%

Affection: 999%

[Danger: Affection has exceeded the threshold. System malfunction. World collapse in progress...]

The male leads, who had originally been intent on killing Xia Liu, eventually fought desperately to keep her alive.

But Xia Liu discovered, to her dismay, that they only wanted her to live in this world.

It's over. I went too far. There's no escaping now.

1. A foul-mouthed, unlucky heroine with split personalities x a colorful cast of male ghosts

2. The original blurb was posted on 23.8.13. The revised version was posted on 24.11.4, and screenshots have been saved as backup.

Theme: My fate is mine to decide, not Heaven's.