A Life Devoted to Running Away

A cockroach rides a fish and flies around the bathtub. Welcome to the bizarre dream world you have to clear, and to the Rules of Romance Horror!

[Highlight] The main focus is romance, with a classic Mary Sue at its heart, wrapped in an imaginative infinite-flow framework.

Cui Weishu is a spineless person. Before calling a company to complain, she is all fired up; as soon as they pick up, she goes, "Hello, yes, please, thank you, goodbye."

One day, she began frequently dreaming about Sheng Luo, the person she had a crush on ten years ago.

An inexplicable cybernetic creature also appeared on her phone, telling her: [If you keep dreaming about someone, it means they're trying to forget you.]

She was hallucinating.

She had always been hard on herself, so without a second thought, she checked herself into a psychiatric hospital, registering and waiting for her appointment in one smooth motion.

"Your number has been called. Where are you going?" The person she hadn't seen in ten years was sitting right there in the psychiatric consultation room.

Cui Weishu decided to take the long way around. She would avoid psychiatry at all costs.

The System said: [If you're unwilling to take action in real life, you have to go into the other person's dreams, blah blah blah...]

Cui Weishu: You overestimate me.

Her strategies for clearing the levels:

1. Dodge with all her might.

2. Run away as fast as she could.

3. Drop to her knees and surrender at the first opportunity.

That was until Cui Weishu saw the requirements for the dream stages she had to overcome:

1. Become his deskmate, and don't let anyone object.

2. Stop a little bird from nesting in the trousers hanging out to dry on the balcony.

3. Here, the state of a person's tail reflects their mood. His tail is broken, so figure out how he's feeling.

4. Every day at three in the afternoon, the Kitten Cleaning Company comes out. Don't let the irritable cleaning cats find you.

Cui Weishu: ...I've encountered some bizarre rules horror.

Unexpectedly, more and more missions came her way.

A hidden powerhouse with little time left to live.

A police officer at the far end of the world.

The neighbor boy who just graduated from high school.

Cui Weishu demanded of the System, "You told me all of these were romance missions?!"

The System: [Uh, some of them are missions from the urban-legend system next door... Since you're good at games, they outsourced them to us...]

So it was outsourced work all along.

The System added in a hollow voice: [Oh, and one more thing. I'm a romance horror system, so I turned all the rules into romance missions.]

Messages popped up on her phone.

"Missed call"

"Are you free tomorrow?"

"I'm downstairs at your place."

The System should have told her sooner. Now every last one of them was coming to her door.

Cui Weishu: But us spineless people don't fall for that.

[Second Highlight]

Infinite flow encompasses everything. Welcome to an imaginative infinite-flow story with no deaths and no horror.

Mary Sue, choose your favorite love interest freely without getting hurt, in distinct stages.

Blurb archived on 2024.2.27

Theme: Understanding what's in another person's heart