The Beauty Player Gets Rich in an Infinite Game

[Sorry, I'm busy at the end of the year, so updates for this book will be irregular for now. The blurb for my upcoming novel, The Poor Little Landlord Is Being Bullied by Tenants Again, is below. Tap my author page to add it to your collection.]

Ye Ling is about to graduate and wants to go home and inherit his family fortune.

Instead, he receives devastating news:

His family has gone bankrupt.

Ye Ling: ...

Getting a job is out of the question. He has to save the family business.

Infinite games are all the rage. Why not sell his family's merchandise inside one?

---In the disaster instance, players hide in a cave, trapped in endless waiting until they lose their minds.

Ye Ling pulls playing cards, Chinese checkers, Gobang, Flying Chess, Werewolf cards, and more out of his suitcase...

"Little Ye's Game Shop is open! Play all day for just a thousand yuan."

"Gorgeous shopkeeper selling games online. Credit is fine, but no haggling!"

---In the ferocious beasts instance, the players' position is exposed, and a savage pack closes in...

Ye Ling calmly takes out a cat teaser and bouncy balls...

The beasts stop in their tracks, dumbfounded.

Then he pulls out a flying disc and chew toys...

The beasts hold their breath, eyes wide!

A few minutes later, every beast is fighting over the little toys.

The well-behaved ones have already started wagging their tails and begging.

Ye Ling, happily petting the beasts: "Acting cute won't work! Money first, goods after."

---In the final instance, players have to find the key to clear the game.

The others move quietly, searching for a way out.

Only Ye Ling sneaks up onto the boss's big bed.

He gives the boss, rumored to have some trouble with his manly functions, two firm slaps to wake him up.

"I've got some virility pills here. Want any?" Ye Ling asks earnestly. "Once you leave this village, there's no other shop! The price will double next time!"

The boss narrows his eyes and grits out, "I. Don't. Need. Them!"

Ye Ling: "Oh, don't be embarrassed! These pills sell really well!"

The boss rolls over, pins him against the headboard, and sneers. "Whether I need them or not, why don't you find out for yourself?"

Later, Ye Ling finds out for himself.

He doesn't need them.

*

At first, the owners of the other shops all wait for Ye Ling's mall to go under.

The employees who quit laugh at him behind his back.

Later, they all beg the now-wealthy Ye Ling to take them on as underlings.

At first, his teammates fear his suitcase will slow them down and deliberately abandon him.

Later, they come back in tears, begging to buy from him at exorbitant prices.

At first, the NPCs think Ye Ling is just a dumb player with a screw loose.

Later, they secretly slip him game rewards and ask him to shop for them in the human world.

At first, the Big Boss sees this beautiful, delicate player and thinks he must taste delicious.

Later, countless tentacles wrap around the player and draw from him, and the taste drives the boss mad.

Then, after the beautiful player makes his fortune, he stops entering the game!

The Big Boss, along with the entire infinite world, truly goes mad.

Note:

1. A gorgeous, powerful, softhearted bottom who keeps everything under control × a puppy-like top who cries himself to sleep every night because he misses his wife.

2. The bottom has a golden finger, but not much of one. He relies on himself for most of the missions.

3. The top appears in every instance, but their identities keep the romance to a minimum at first. The relationship becomes clear in the middle!

Upcoming novel: The Poor Little Landlord Is Being Bullied by Tenants Again. If you're interested, tap my author page to add it to your collection:

Blurb:

On Song Zhiyao's eighteenth birthday, his parents excitedly pull out a ring of keys.

"Happy adulthood! Here's a secret: our family actually lives off rental income! We're handing you the tenants' keys from now on!"

Song Zhiyao looks up at the dilapidated rental he has lived in for eighteen years: ...?

The next day, both his parents have vanished, leaving behind only a note.

The note lists the addresses where he is supposed to collect rent.

It also includes one warning, written in bold red letters:

[Make sure you collect the rent before midnight on the first of every month!]

The first of the following month.

Song Zhiyao takes seven keys, catches a bus to the address his parents left him, and starts collecting rent right on time.

Wow.

The whole building belongs to his family.

What a waste, though. There's only one tenant on each floor.

He knocks on the door of Room 101.

A silver-haired vampire in a black cloak opens it.

"I'm starving. If I starve to death, I won't be able to pay rent. Let me have a bite first."

Song Zhiyao: "Just one bite, okay?" For the money!

He offers the pale skin of his neck to the vampire.

The vampire narrows his eyes, bares his sharp fangs, and pulls him into his arms, savoring him to his heart's content.

He hasn't enjoyed blood this delicious in a very, very long time...

Room 201.

A cat-eared young man opens the door.

His soft tail curls around Song Zhiyao's leg and pulls him onto the sofa.

"No human has petted me since I transformed... Make me happy, and I'll pay the rent."

The cat-eared young man lands right in Song Zhiyao's arms, so he has no choice but to rub his ears and stroke his belly.

He works until he's panting, and the young man purrs contentedly in his arms.

Then, suddenly, a ferocious look flashes in his eyes. He pins Song Zhiyao to the sofa, licking and biting him!

Room 301.

A newly created android lives there.

"No human is willing to love me. I have no reason to keep living."

The android looks gloomy. "Could you call me baby? It would make me feel loved."

"Baby." For the money, Song Zhiyao is happy to oblige. "Can you pay your rent?"

"That sounds so nice, so nice. Can you say it again?"

The android seems to have been switched on, pinning Song Zhiyao against the wall with one hand.

"Say it a few more times... Call me baby, darling..."

Collecting rent is way too hard!

Sore all over and parched, Song Zhiyao finally makes it to Room 701.

The door opens.

Finally! A normal human lives here!

But...

It's his sworn enemy from school, the guy who slept in the bunk above him and picked on him at every turn!

His sworn enemy looks like he's been waiting for a very, very long time.

He's so impatient that his brows are knitted in a scowl!

"Can't you get rid of those annoying things downstairs?"

His enemy shoves a card into his arms.

"Come straight to me from now on. I'll pay for all seven."

Song Zhiyao hates this guy more than anyone at school. He tosses the card back in disdain. "Hmph, just you wait. I'll kick you out first!"

The two start arguing, and Song Zhiyao loses track of time.

Before he knows it, midnight has arrived.

The instant the clock strikes, countless terrifying tentacles suddenly burst out of his enemy's body!

They coil around Song Zhiyao and drag him into the room!

Later... that night...

The tentacles wrap around him, tease him, and take him.

Not only does he fail to kick his enemy out, he can't leave either.

When Song Zhiyao leaves the rental building, he's carried to the car.

He's desperate.

Does this mean he'll have to go through this ordeal on the first of every month from now on?

Song Zhiyao soon finds out.

Once a month?

Ha, he was still too naive...

Maybe a chaotic, everyday-life kind of harem story?

Theme: Use intelligence to survive adversity.