The Days My Soul Was Gone [Infinite]

Jiang Yi transmigrated.

This happened after he experienced a car accident, unemployment, and a breakup, all in the same day, and then transmigrated from a huge pit into a massive 3D game.

The death game was awful in every way, but somehow he met the number-one player, a cheat-like powerhouse.

Jiang Yi had no other talents, but shamelessness was his forte, so he shamelessly latched onto the handsome powerhouse's leg.

In [Paradise Lost], the powerhouse crushed zombie heads. In [House of Human Skin], the powerhouse dragged him through the level without a word. On [Murder Ship], the powerhouse killed without batting an eye...

The powerhouse looked down on him. The powerhouse was aloof. The powerhouse was so damn cool. The powerhouse, um... liked him.

Huh?

Wait, wait, wait.

You mean that poker-faced, brutally honest, remorseless killer, the number-one player, the demon, likes him?

You've got to be kidding.

Jiang Yi's brain went into overdrive. After finally running a billion calculations per second, the algorithm told him the answer was correct.

Oh!

The powerhouse likes him! In this hellish game! It's like telling a worker ant that a queen bee in a bonfire has taken a fancy to him. It's a hellish joke.

Okay, fine. He understood the logic, and he could accept that the powerhouse loved him.

But can someone tell him why his brain is really running a billion calculations per second?!

Question: Can the brains in this game be modified?

Flexible, sunny, lively, shameless, and cheeky gong x an A-grade-in-every-way, taciturn, cold-faced but warm-hearted shou

Reader's guide:

[1]: Updates are irregular, so feel free to save up chapters. (Bows.)

[2]: Corrections and chatting are welcome.

[3]: A brainless, feel-good story, not scary.

Also, here's an upcoming novel: Since I'm a Beta, Does That Mean I Can't?

After differentiating as a beta, Wen Qi finally plucked up the courage to hand a love letter to his childhood friend Ji Yaoming, whom he'd secretly loved for years, outside the library.

But Ji Yaoming frowned and tore the letter in half right in front of him, tossed it in the trash, and walked past him with a cold, "Disgusting."

As one of the Alliance's few S-rank alphas, Ji Yaoming was admitted to the shooting and combat program at Hylight Interstellar University at the age of seventeen, making an exception to the usual admissions rules. He then successfully joined the Alliance's First Deployment Force and became deputy commander in just three years.

Almost no one could connect such a dazzling alpha with an ordinary beta like Wen Qi, even though the two had known each other since childhood.

Even Ji Yaoming himself refused to admit it.

He regarded Wen Qi as a stain and kept his distance.

Seven years later, Wen Qi, now missing an arm, moved into the Alliance Headquarters' logistics department and became a mechanic.

Of course, Wen Qi didn't think he was noble. He was just someone who repaired weapons.

Wen Qi was content. One advantage of working at headquarters was that, if he was lucky, he might occasionally run into Ji Yaoming, who was now commander of the First Deployment Force and chief executive of the Alliance's eight war zones.

Even though Ji Yaoming loathed him, Wen Qi still couldn't help being drawn to him whenever he got the chance to see him.

But he no longer had the ideas he'd entertained when he was younger. He knew perfectly well that a heaven-blessed prodigy and an ordinary person like him were destined to take different paths.

But fate loves a joke. To improve combat efficiency, the logistics department underwent a major overhaul, and each force needed to assign two or three mechanics to accompany it.

By sheer coincidence...

He opened his private notification and saw:

"Dear Mechanic Wen Qi, you are assigned to Group A of Headquarters Repair Department and have been specially approved to stand by with the First Deployment Force."

Wen Qi: ...

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Ji Yaoming had been feeling troubled lately.

He frowned at the love letter taped back together on his desk. Its awkward, youthful words all made it clear that Wen Qi loved him...

But why had Wen Qi started avoiding him lately?!

Including, but not limited to, locking himself in his bedroom without saying a word when he got home, finishing his meal without a word and hurriedly leaving after clearing up, and even just nodding and saying, "Oh, Captain Ji is here," when he brought weapons in for repairs...

Finally, one time, with drink in his head, Ji Yaoming pinned him beneath himself.

"Wen Qi, do you like me?"

The person beneath him froze, then smiled. "I used to."

"What do you mean?"

"Now I only admire you. And besides..." He actually pushed Ji Yaoming away and said, "Please behave yourself. My family is already arranging a blind date for me."

"..."

Ji Yaoming nearly choked on his own breath.

The person he'd held back from making a move on for so many years...

Was someone else going to snatch him away just like that?

[Bonus scene]

Someone was secretly watching him. Ji Yaoming curled his lips into a smile. "If you have something to say, just say it."

"Uh... it's nothing." Wen Qi had been drinking and wasn't thinking clearly. "I was just wondering, they say Lieutenant Colonel Ji is... well-endowed. Is that true?"

Ji Yaoming found the shy man rather interesting and replied casually, "Have you tried it?"

Wen Qi: ...

Well, he did kind of want to try.

Theme: Finding a beautiful future in a painful past.