An NPC Raising Kids in an Infinite-Flow World

[Updated daily at midnight! Please add my upcoming book, The Only Two Betas at an Elite Boys' School, to your collection! Blurb at the bottom.]

Blurb:

Version One:

Tao Xiu was an ordinary NPC. Gentle by nature and fond of programming, he worked as a caretaker at a botanical garden and lived the life of an average wage earner.

He had two problems.

First, it rained black rain in this city every Sunday.

When the rain stopped, hordes of rude visitors appeared. They called themselves players, and they were always trying to steal his flowers or do strange things to him that could be called sexual harassment.

Fortunately, not one of them succeeded.

His second problem was that he had encountered a scumbag who seduced him and then abandoned him.

The man he had brought home after a black rain became his boyfriend, and they slept together.

He had always loved his boyfriend and thought he was the most perfect lover in the world. But the day after learning he was pregnant, the man disappeared.

Tao Xiu was heartbroken for a while, then carried on with his life and gave birth to the child.

As it turned out, the city had more and more visitors, becoming increasingly unlivable.

So he left with the little one and the botanical garden, taking up a nomadic life selling flowers wherever they went.

One day, they stayed the night in an ancient castle.

In the pitch-black night, rain poured down, thunder and lightning raged, and the clouds churned as a gaping abyss split open in the sky, constantly swallowing shrieking visitors.

The little one leaned against the window, gazing at the courtyard overgrown with roses. His deep red eyes shone brightly as he pointed outside and cried excitedly in a childish voice, "Mommy, look! It's Daddy!"

Darkness surged through the room. Cold, terrifying tentacles curled around Tao Xiu's slender, delicate neck and caressed the young man's soft, rosy lips.

A tall, handsome man with a sinister air stood in the shadows, his voice cold and terrifying. "Who are you? What are you trying to achieve by seducing me?"

Tao Xiu: "…"

Hah. What a bastard!

Version Two:

The Abyss of Deep Space is the most popular infinite-loop game around, with an 18+ age restriction.

Its first level is A Botanical Garden Adventure. The conditions for clearing it are simple, and the prize is an entire botanical garden full of items!

It even comes with an exceptionally beautiful boss!

Players can also try to win the boss over or imprison him, making him completely theirs and turning it into A Botanical Garden Fling!

Every player is eager to try...

But in the end, A Botanical Garden Adventure and the Castle: Abyss of Deep Space level, where the final boss resides, became levels that no one could clear...

Every player who got close to the boss was devoured by the terrifying, indescribable Mouth of the Abyss...

Version Three:

The final boss, Hoss, was handsome, but reclusive and eccentric, sinister and cruel.

After losing some of his memories, his moods became even more unpredictable, and he shut himself away from the world.

One day, a handsome young man appeared at the castle gate with an adorable child as fair as snow and jade, asking to stay the night.

Bored out of his mind, Hoss coldly ordered his servants to open the gate with malicious intent. He would show this player, who was trying to use seduction, just how foolish he was...

Later on: My wife is the best, my son is the best...

Also, could my wife please stop kicking me out of bed? QAQ

*Note: The story is set in an alternate future, with a small amount of cyberpunk elements.

The Only Two Betas at an Elite Boys' School blurb:

Version One:

After a car accident, Lan Yexing clichédly got a System and transmigrated to an alternate world with a mixture of ABO and magical elements.

He enrolled at an elite boys' school made up almost entirely of Alphas and Omegas, becoming one of the school's only two Betas.

Fortunately, in this school, where the relationships between Alphas and Omegas were more tangled than a ball of string, he was just an insignificant passerby with no heat cycle and no presence.

Unfortunately, the other Beta, classmate Qiao You, was the white moonlight whom all the school's powerful Alphas and Omegas were obsessed with.

The System's mission was to make sure that Qiao You didn't date any Alphas or Omegas before the big villain transferred to the school a year later.

Because this alternate world was a book, and the book's title was: The Villain Will Destroy the World If He Can't Have That Beta!

Lan Yexing: Heh. What a hassle. Why don't we all just destroy the world together?

Version Two:

But Lan Yexing still wanted to live.

To save the world, he began running around the many tangled love triangles centered on Qiao You.

In an empty classroom, Qiao You returned from playing ball. An Omega in heat, with a supple figure and flushed face, was about to deliberately stumble into his arms and ask him to mark them.

Lan Yexing abruptly stepped between them, smoothly injected the little Omega with a suppressant, and couldn't help mocking them. "Bro, did you pass your biology class? There's no way he can mark you. He's a Beta!"

In the hallway after school, an Alpha of noble status with a domineering scent held a huge bouquet of roses, intending to corner Qiao You and confess.

Lan Yexing intervened, only to turn out to be allergic to pollen. He sneezed repeatedly and became dizzy, transforming the confession into a scene of Qiao You carrying him in a princess carry as he raced to the infirmary.

Alphas, Omegas, and even other Betas fought over Qiao You in all sorts of jealousy-fueled battles. There were all kinds of love triangles and quadrangles, creating countless disastrous love-scene brawls.

Lan Yexing simply founded a Beta Club to deal with these incidents.

Qiao You, with his six-pack abs and smiling eyes, raised his hand innocently. "Xing, I'm joining."

Lan Yexing was speechless. "Bro, who do you think is causing all this trouble?"

The longer Lan Yexing stayed at the school, the more he realized there was more to deal with.

For instance, when he passed a dim alley outside the school, he saw Qiao You, who was supposed to be a carefree, sunny guy, smash the head of a muscular Alpha against the wall, his expression evil and sinister. He was even more Alpha than the most Alpha Alpha.

For instance, in the school bathroom, he saw Qiao You smiling brightly and innocently at an Omega, but the words he spoke were as seductive as they were cruel: "I'm so sorry, but your pheromones smell worse than a toilet."

And then there was the day a year later, when the big villain transferred to the school. Lan Yexing saw Qiao You kick all three of his legs off in an empty classroom!

Lan Yexing: Who's really capable of destroying the world, the villain or Beta Qiao You?!

But Qiao You insisted on pretending in front of him.

Even when he dragged Lan Yexing into the dorm room and pinned him to the bed, with one hand already gripping Lan Yexing's waist, he still smiled shyly at him. "Xing, may I hug you?"

Lan Yexing, his face burning red, bit his arm to keep himself from making strange noises. "Why are you even asking? Either do it or get lost, you bastard!"

Version Three:

Qiao You's view of himself: protagonist, Beta, and the owner of a pile of disgusting, rotten admirers.

He grew to hate all of it and wanted to destroy it, until one day...

A wild star fell from the sky.

Note:

Qiao You (seme) X Lan Yexing (uke)

Theme: Courage and kindness are the noblest virtues.