The Imperfect Beauty Falls into an Infinite Loop

As a defective NPC scheduled for deletion, Ruan Xing accidentally fell into an infinite-flow world.

His damaged soul always brought him fatal debuffs: blindness, deafness, difficulty walking...

In an infinite-flow world, these were practically fatal.

The viewers bet that the pretty boy wouldn't last three days.

The truth was the complete opposite

[88 Mansion]

The limping beauty couldn't outrun the monster pursuing him. As his teammates cried out in alarm, he was swallowed by shadows, his face full of despair.

But the bloodiest scene never came.

The monsters competed to lick Ruan Xing's tears and wounds, as if all they wanted was to become his crutch, his bones.

They devoured and savored him, yet bowed their heads in adoration.

[Spring God Festival]

Blind Ruan Xing was always afraid to go out alone. He needed to hold on to something at every moment to feel safe.

He had no idea that his trusted teammates had already shed their human skins and were greedily watching his every move.

The terrifying evil spirits crawled at his side, willing to be his guide dogs.

[Mermaid Reef]

The deaf, beautiful tourist had no idea that the mermaids' deadly songs each night were also full of mating calls.

People bewitched by the songs shattered into red foam in the ocean. As Ruan Xing fled in panic, he too cried out as he was dragged beneath the waves.

But the mermaids only wanted to hide him in their lair, pleading for the affection of someone who couldn't hear.

To hear their songs and the love they would never receive an answer to.

Ruan Xing had once feared this game, afraid he would be deleted and discarded like a defective product.

Until he discovered that the monsters weren't trying to kill him.

His damaged soul was a precious treasure the monsters had lost and found again.

He was a star fallen into darkness.

They would go through fire and water for him, and gladly so.

Please check out my upcoming novel: This Extra Is Still Watching the Love Triangle and Eating Popcorn

As a genre, the love-triangle trope is a melodramatic, outrageous romance in which several people fight over one person. It's always impossible to put down.

But these stories usually need NPCs to help manage their complicated plots and keep them from collapsing. That's how Jiang Chen, the golden supporting extra from the transmigration agency, came to be.

In a dormitory love triangle, he was the transparent roommate who watched two tops fight over one bottom and stepped in to keep them from brawling in the dorm.

In a rich-family story about a real and fake young master, he was the banquet guest who watched the farce between the newly arrived heir and the childhood friend, marveling at how rich people knew how to have fun.

In an entertainment-industry story, he was a boy-band trainee who, as the stand-in and the one true love faced off, gasped, "He loves him so much, and he loves him so much too."

In short, he got paid to enjoy a fresh bit of juicy drama every day. It was so much fun!

But the good days of watching from the sidelines didn't last long.

One day, the three roommates, whose relationships had somehow grown even stranger, pulled Jiang Chen, the transparent extra, to their bed and asked what he thought of the three of them as roommates.

Jiang Chen: Why are you asking me such an awkward question?

In the rich-family story about the real and fake young master, the two had somehow reconciled. They beat up the CEO who had changed the marriage agreement, then asked him who he cared about more in this family and this rich-family farce.

Jiang Chen: But shouldn't you be looking to your childhood friend to comfort you?

In the entertainment-industry story, the stand-in and the one true love teamed up, kicked out the former movie emperor, and cornered him backstage at a variety show audition.

"If you say everyone has a unique soul, which of us do you think is more unique?"

Wait, wait...

Jiang Chen felt a little dizzy and took a moment to check the love-triangle limit for this world.

It had gone down, not up. So the plot should still be stable, right?

But as he got cornered more and more often, a sense of foreboding crept over him.

He rushed into the System backend to check.

The names of the love-triangle leads in this world had all been replaced with his. The original one-on-two love triangle had turned into a number that terrified him.

Ah.

Ah?

Ah!

What the hell was this broken System doing? That kind of relationship is against the rules!

Who goes to work and ends up being the target of the drama they're watching? Please, go have your love triangle without me. Why are you all coming after me!?

Theme: Have the courage to discover what makes you shine.