Becoming Everyone's Favorite in the Instance Worlds

[Chapter 22 begins the paid-release portion; Chapter 65 ends it]

(The next book I’m writing is the upcoming neighboring title, "I Help the Protagonist’s Career Brick by Brick." The blurb is below. If you’re interested, feel free to add it to your favorites!)

After his unexpected death, young master Ruan Song was transported into an instance-based game. The System told him that if he completed his missions and earned enough points, he could return to reality.

Ruan Song, a sheltered young master from a wealthy interstellar family, knew nothing of the world’s cruelty. He happily entered the instances, only to be sent back after being put through the wringer until he could barely stand.

[Instance One: The Giant’s Manor] A vicious, murderous giant had her eye on the prettiest darling in the crowd. Breaking his body would be as beautiful and dazzling as a rose in bloom. He would make the perfect work of art.

But the frightened boy turned around and clung to her, and she couldn’t pull him off. His lovely little face was full of panic, a hundred times more beautiful than the artwork the giant had imagined.

Later, the spoiled boy in the giant’s palace kicked him away in displeasure. “Your hands are so rough! They hurt when you rub against me.”

[Instance Two: The Uncanny Apocalypse] By accident, the boy stumbled into an unethical human experimentation lab in the apocalypse. The half-human subjects, transformed by zombies but still retaining their reason, were cruelly classified as test subjects.

“But, Doctor, he’s conscious. He’s human.”

“Isn’t that exactly what makes him worth studying?”

The man narrowed his eyes and smiled with his usual gentle elegance. “I’m sorry, sweetheart. Humanity needs his contribution. You can’t take him away.”

“You’ll have to stay, too.”

[Instance Three] ...

[The New Era] We have the fastest means of transportation. Starships can tear open the rifts in time and space and take you anywhere you wish to go. We have the most precise instruments, capable of analyzing thousands upon thousands of possibilities and predicting every eventuality. We have the most eternal lives. We live as long as the universe.

Hey, kid. Where are you from?

At first, Ruan Song thought this was just a simple challenge. Only after peeling back layer upon layer and reaching the end did he realize that it was a dream game meticulously crafted for him.

Content warnings:

1. A universally adored bottom, very much adored by everyone; the top is split into fragments, with an extremely intense one-sided devotion that eventually becomes one. Both leads are adults in the main story. One-on-one romance, happy ending.

2. The bottom is a silly, beautiful character. He does grow, but not much (though I think he grows quite a lot). If that bothers you, please think carefully before reading.

3. There is some logic, but not much.

4. The later instances are undecided.

5. A beautiful, silly bottom x a restrained and courteous perverted top

"I Help the Protagonist’s Career Brick by Brick"

After his death, the chuuni internet addict Ke Ka was bound to the "Protagonist Career Growth System." His mission was to travel through different worlds, offer the protagonist their treasures, and help the protagonist’s career advance by leaps and bounds.

System: “What is our mission?”

Brainwashed, Ke Ka raised his arm and shouted, “Help the protagonist’s career brick by brick!”

In the first world, the protagonist pinned Ke Ka down with one foot, leaving him unable to move. The protagonist leaned over disdainfully. “If I used this stupid dragon as a mount, people would laugh at me for eight hundred years, wouldn’t they?”

Ke Ka looked at his own claws and only then realized he had become a dragon. He had meant to help the protagonist soar to success, but the protagonist’s garbage-disposal look made him clench his claws in anger.

Say that one more time. Go on.

As the last dragon in the world, Ke Ka thrived in the protagonist’s lair. Everyone treated him like a treasure, and only the protagonist found new ways to disparage him every day.

But on the day the protagonist achieved fame and success, when the last dragon in the world fell, his dragon knight lunged toward him like a madman, only to clutch a handful of bubbles.

Ke Ka happily died and went on his way, but when it was time to settle the score, the System told him that the world had collapsed after his death. He had failed his mission so badly that his points had gone into the negatives.

Ke Ka figured he hadn’t done enough to support the protagonist and refused to give up.

In the second world, he became the spirit of a divine sword renowned throughout the heavens.

He was very pleased with his new identity and went happily to find the protagonist, only for the protagonist to mistake him for a malicious evil spirit and try to throw him into an incinerator.

“???”

The System giggled. “Oh, I forgot to tell you. The protagonist in this world is a tragic beauty who’s powerful but miserable, and has been abandoned by everyone. He doesn’t trust you.”

Ke Ka had no choice but to pretend to be a real evil spirit and strike a deal with the protagonist. In the end, he successfully helped the male lead get his revenge, rise to success, and ultimately reach the pinnacle of the cultivation world.

Though Ke Ka mostly served as a decorative accessory throughout the process.

Still, Ke Ka swore that he had done an excellent job on this mission.

But when the instance was over, the System told him that when the sword spirit disappeared, the protagonist had gone mad cultivating and nearly destroyed the world. The world had suffered a severe collapse, and his points had plunged even further into the negatives.

After traveling through world after world, with each one collapsing wherever he went, his points about to bore through the center of the earth, Ke Ka finally realized something was wrong. “This isn’t right. Something is very wrong. Something must have gone awry.”

I help the protagonist’s career brick by brick ×

I am the bricks in the protagonist’s career ×

I am the stumbling block in the protagonist’s career √

The protagonist’s career falls apart all thanks to me √

1. Protagonist tops from different worlds × a chuuni, silly troublemaker bottom

2. The top is split into fragments, which eventually merge

Theme: Grow tenaciously through adversity