Zhou Zhou won a beta test for a massive cyber romance game. His character was a sickly young master from the Upper City, enrolled at the Imperial Capital's elite academy. Though frail, he was a womanizing, disposable scumbag of a pursuer who loved going to nightclubs and spent most of his time asleep in a recovery tank, waking only when he logged in.
He played on and off a few times, fully embracing the player principle of "run if you can't win, hide after flirting, and log off when they chase you." He established the character setting that the young master's temper was bad and his health was weak, and that he'd faint whenever he got angry.
Yet even with his frail health, he was determined to be a devoted simp to the most famous F4 at the elite academy, switching up his methods and using different secret identities to pursue them.
One day, he brought lunch to F1. The next, he picked up F2. The day after that, he went to cheer F3 on at a competition. And the day after that, he sent F4 a love confession by text.
A true master of time management.
But when the game opened to the public and updated, Zhou Zhou logged in for the fourth time to find that his family had gone bankrupt, and the little simp had been forced to leave the elite academy.
Zhou Zhou: ...Fine, then.
Leaving was no big deal, but unfortunately, his secret identities were exposed. Everyone found out that he'd been simping for four people at once!
Now the supposedly aloof F4 were all furious, and they came to confront Zhou Zhou.
Faced with this socially mortifying scene, and unable to bear the four-way showdown, Zhou Zhou fled headlong into the Lower City.
The Lower City was a notorious haunted district, and it was also where the protagonist was based.
In the Lower City, Zhou Zhou logged off temporarily and collapsed right in front of the protagonist. When he logged back in, he had somehow moved into the protagonist's home.
Zhou Zhou: Am I... that impressive?
I actually moved straight into a place no one else could get into, no matter how much they simped?
Zhou Zhou was thriving at the protagonist's house, until the four people who couldn't get used to life without him showed up.
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1. The male lead gets jealous of his wife's four ex-boyfriends (?) and turns dark.
2. The male lead thinks his wife is in poor health and is afraid to be rough with him. Who knew he'd still dare to simp for four people in the Upper City?
3. They weren't really simps (.). The four didn't appreciate being pursued, and once they lost him, they went completely crazy.
Theme: Cherished by the supernatural