The cover is still a draft, and the theme overlaps with Amphoreus. I need to think about how to write it, and there's a good chance... I won't write it at all. (Hey!)
Anyway, add this to your collection at your own risk!
Ordinary college student Dan Heng takes a friend's recommendation and starts playing a full-dive game: Honkai: Star Rail Online.
The game recently added a new dungeon called Xianzhou Luofu.
So Dan Heng logs in.
But right from the start, some black-haired lunatic calling himself Blade comes charging at him with a sword, yelling about how his family has been wiped out for five generations. Is Dan Heng supposed to put up with that? The little Azure Dragon immediately summons Cloud-Piercer and fights back, but as they battle...
Blade: You still say you aren't Imbibitor Lunae! Where did you get that weapon?
Dan Heng: Starter equipment.
Blade: ?
Dan Heng: That... or the in-game shop?
Blade: ???
Former craftsman Yingxing, now Blade of the Stellaron Hunters, spent half his life forging Cloud-Piercer. He's so furious he's about to become Mara-Struck. Wait, he already has.
...Hang in there, Uncle Blade!!
But he isn't the only one Dan Heng accidentally torments. When Dan Heng returns as a player to the era of the High-Cloud Quintet...
→ Jingliu, a max-level player with a perfectly balanced build, comes to spar with the little Azure Dragon. She grips her sword and watches Dan Heng accidentally trigger a skill, squirt water at her like a little duck, then buff his defense and land a perfect counter...
The Sword Champion of Luofu starts questioning her life.
→ After losing a bet, Jing Yuan shouts to the crowd, "Browsing Luofu Miscellany is so fast!" Then, true to his word, he launches into a rendition of "Chasing the Dream, Cloud Knights." Dan Heng suddenly falls silent, remembering that in eight hundred years Jing Yuan will be a composed and shrewd general.
Oh, Jing Yuan already likes surfing the internet. Never mind, then.
[Dan Heng's guilt -1] [Jing Yuan's embarrassing past +1]
→ What? Yingxing likes Baiheng?!
Teacher Dan Heng, busy racking up achievement points by putting the Vidyadhara elders in their place, stuffs himself with novelty snacks and starts a warp jump, racing to the Artisanship Commission.
Yingxing: Bro, I think I like Baiheng. Sigh... But I know I'm not good enough for her, blah blah blah. (One hundred words of an old man's rambling omitted here.)
Dan Heng: It's okay, Yingxing. Don't lose heart. Actually, I also...
Yingxing: ?
Dan Heng: If we're bros, then let's both like Baiheng!
And that's not all:
[If we're bros, let's drink together and admire the moon!]
[If we're bros, let's wear matching couple earrings!]
[If we're bros, let's exchange tokens of love!]
[If we're bros, let's sleep in the same bed!]
With a dragon stretched out in his bed, Yingxing sits bolt upright in the middle of the night. Why does something feel off?
Ah, I almost forgot the most important one:
[If we're bros, come and kill me!]
Blade: ...So, how are you still alive?
After finally getting his wish and stabbing Dan Heng through the chest, the ghostly man freezes up.
Dan Heng, with one HP left: I watched an ad to revive; I'm an avatar of the Aeon of Permanence; I've got a lock-HP cheat... Pick whichever one you like and believe it.
It's okay if this run falls apart!
Luofu Looping Game, would you like to restart? :)
Before you read:
Pairing: HengBlade, Dan Heng (Dan Feng) x Blade (Yingxing)
No breaking up or reversing the pairing.
The story gets a little unhinged, but it has a perfect happy ending.
Very important warnings:
1:
HengFeng 1.5-person theory [Highlighted]
2:
For exaggerated comedic effect, everyone is out of character while retaining their core traits. Yes, I added a lethal dose of OOC to reach the pinnacle of absurdist art. Ahem.
3:
The relationship is unhealthy along the way. There is pure love, but I've added some dark, mutually destructive violence so you know this is HengBlade!
5:
A huge number of settings have been changed, so many it's terrifying! I can't hide it anymore: I'm actually a fictional history scholar XD
Theme: "The world's shackles are but a dream; formless, featureless, and without self."
