The Sickly Beauty Who Stumbled Into a Strange Tales Instance [Infinite]

🆘 Reading guide below. Be sure to read it. 🆘

Jiang Zhou is a beautiful passerby NPC. His job is to serve as an inconspicuous background character in a world of supernatural horror stories.

Everything changed when he accidentally caught the eyes of those world-destroying horror bosses and saw the greed, obsession, darkness, and malice in them.

Evil gods, sirens, vengeful ghosts...

Countless sources of horror were desperate to breathe in his scent and hear his voice, and began pursuing him with near-mad intensity.

[① The Ultimate Choice: Which One Is Your Boyfriend?]

Your boyfriend suddenly commits suicide.

You cry for days on end, and your already weak eyesight fails completely.

Your neighbor offers to take care of you and invites you to live with him. A doctor knocks on your door and gently bandages your eyes. Your senior takes your hand and holds you in his arms, softly comforting you.

But to your horror, you discover that they all have little habits that only your dead boyfriend had.

After they're found out, they blink their thick-lashed eyes, full of malice, and ask in unison:

- Which one of us is your boyfriend?

[② The Mutant Island: The Pitiful One Under Their Protection]

You've had your heart broken.

In your grief, you decide to travel and see the sights. But your plane has an accident, and you and the other survivors crash-land on a deserted island, waiting to be rescued.

The night wind is cold, so Survivor A holds you close to keep you warm. Food is scarce, so Survivor B feeds you fish he caught, one bite at a time. You have no change of clothes, so Survivor C tells you it's fine not to wear any.

Taking advantage of your frailty and need for protection, they grow more and more brazen, even sneaking kisses when they think you won't notice.

All you can do is hold back your tears and cry alone.

[③ The Bride in a Substitute Marriage: The Beauty Fought Over by Vengeful Ghosts]

You're sent off for a ghost marriage.

On the way to the wedding, you sit in the bridal sedan, clutching the urn in your arms and crying nonstop.

Someone lifts the curtain and rescues you, but his condition for saving you is that you marry him instead. You agree, but on the night you enter the bridal chamber, you discover that someone else has lifted your veil.

All three stubbornly insist that they're your husband and demand that you say so yourself.

You hesitate, then choose one of them. The one you picked is pleased, but the other two stare at you, clearly unhappy.

That night, you realize they may not be human.

It has set its sights on him.

From then on, the eerie horrors only want to make Jiang Zhou lose himself in its warmth.

- This isn't a prank. It's its “courtship.”

Reading guide:

1. The love interests are inhuman beings, split into fragments. They love their darling, but love seeing him cry even more. They're sickos.

2. Not scary. Our darling bottom is an unparalleled heartthrob, adored by everyone, and a total Mary Sue.

3. I won't accept false warnings about the story (important). The bottom has never! died in place of the top! In arc three, one of the top's fragments has gender identity disorder (after being framed and sent into a ghost marriage, he was raised as a girl) and feels deeply insecure about liking the bottom. If this bothers you, don't waste your time; just leave. That way, we're both happy. Comments that insult or attack me personally over things I've already clarified will be deleted.

★Upcoming story

"The Fragile Beauty Is a Treasure on an Unlimited Dating Show"

Jiang Yang is just like his name: gentle and harmless, a delicate beauty who pants after every few steps, like a fragile glass jar.

He transmigrates into a weird unlimited dating-show novel and becomes background male character number whatever in a cast of over a hundred. He can only survive by pushing others out, winning popularity points, and getting lots of screen time until he makes the debut lineup.

Current debut spots: 8

Current live ranking: 101

In short: You're a cannon fodder character about to be executed.

Jiang Yang, a former top-tier star idol hailed as a treasure of the entertainment industry, can hardly believe it. “Cannon fodder, me?”

(Thinking) (Rubbing chin) (Suddenly gets it).jpg

He smiles. “The shareholders voting must be blind. A bunch of pigs who can't appreciate fine things.”

In his world, someone with his looks and talent would be treated like royalty.

But no matter. He can find another way to succeed.

Jiang Yang decides to pair up with the top-ranked contestants and market them as couples.

Potential ship list:

Top 1: Bo Jing, a powerful, ambitious male lead who grows stronger with every challenge. A handsome masked mixed-race man who became a hot star thanks to his aloof personality, the long saber he never puts down, and his ability to speedrun levels.

Top 2: Bailin Yuan, a priest who can offer gentle praise even to ghosts. He recites scripture as he takes lives and grants every soul its final rites. “Elegant” is the only word for him.

Top 3: Qu Liao, a rich young master with a roguish charm. He wears twenty expensive item rings across his ten fingers, each with a different supernatural power. He clears levels by throwing money at them, and every dungeon is a vacation.

Top 4: Zhu Wuen, a beautiful, taciturn boy on the surface, but actually someone with split personality disorder. His alternate personality is a complete pervert who enjoys torturing and killing. If he sets his sights on you, you won't live to see the next sunrise.

Top 5, 6, 7, 8...

Every last one of them is just as flirtatious.

Jiang Yang: ...

Don't lose heart, my courage.

Dungeon 1: [Lovers at the Hot Spring Resort]

Couples are caught in a crisis of trust. When your lover's trust in you falls to zero, a monster will take your place.

Bo Jing, Top 1 and Jiang Yang's teammate, looks at the number 100 above Jiang Yang's head, surprised.

His lover trusts him completely.

Depends on him.

Loves him.

Like a sacrificial lamb.

Dungeon 2: [The Lovers Who Got Together, Then Died Young]

Top 2 Bailin Yuan summons his lover's ghost and asks gently but coolly if he can share the clues he has.

Jiang Yang, holding the ghost character card, cries: “...Clues? Darling, I don't really understand... But I can still see you after I died... Sob, I'm so happy.”

Bailin Yuan suddenly realizes that this little lamb really thinks he's his boyfriend.

He even still loves him after death.

Dungeons 3, 4, and 5: [TBD]

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Hundred-Person Livestream: [The Number of Debut Spots Has Been Decided]

Hundred-Person Livestream: [The Undisputed Center Is, ]

Under the spotlight, the top-tier star idol gives a shy smile.

#Who says a fragile beauty has to be eliminated as cannon fodder?

Theme: Stay true to yourself to break through difficult circumstances