[I feel like this story veered off course, and my writing skills aren't good enough. I really love the two leads, so I might switch to a different setting and start over. I'll let everyone know once I've decided. Bows, orz]
Shen Fuqiu had someone he admired: Yin Yuefei, a top-level Esper and leader in the Empire's Special Operations Unit. He was known as the Empire's demon. When his sword left its sheath, pollutants were reduced to ashes.
To follow in his idol's footsteps, Shen Fuqiu left the remote north for the bustling city. He wanted to enter the pollutant hunter competition held every three years, awaken his Esper powers, and fight side by side with his idol.
On the day his Esper awakening failed, before Shen Fuqiu could even sink into pain and despair, time suddenly rewound to three days earlier.
Shen Fuqiu: Is this for real?
So he trained harder, took care of his health, and tried to awaken his powers again. He failed once more.
Shen Fuqiu: ...
Then he heard the transmigrator's inner voice.
[Oh, come on! I refuse to believe I can't avoid the plot where the protagonist fails to awaken and catches the villain's attention. Time to rewind again!]
After failing to awaken for the Nth time, Shen Fuqiu remained expressionless, while the transmigrator shrieked beside him.
[Ahhh! The side effects after the protagonist fails to awaken are even worse than in the original. How are they going to attract the villain even more now?!]
Shen Fuqiu, who had hoped to use the transmigrator's ability to defy fate: ...
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Yin Yuefei stood by the window, gazing down at the final match. The black-haired youth stared at his opponent with a fierce look, each strike aimed to kill, wild and untamed, like an uncut gem.
It was hard to imagine that in front of him, the youth was cold and disgusted, unwilling to spare him a word.
He wanted to be the one to shape him, to claim him all for himself, body and soul, and keep him firmly in his grasp. But Shen Fuqiu was too guarded, and he had yet to get close.
Then Yin Yuefei unexpectedly obtained a fragment of an Esper ability and used it on the black-haired youth. Shen Fuqiu's resolute thoughts rang out like an explosion:
[I won't let anyone insult Yin Yuefei!]
[I won't let anyone steal Yin Yuefei's glory!]
[If anyone wants to kill Yin Yuefei, they'll have to step over my dead body!]
Sensing the gaze on him, Shen Fuqiu looked up mid-battle and saw Yin Yuefei staring at him with a slow, elegant smile. His eyes flew wide.
[! As expected of my idol. He's watching the transmigrator too. He must have noticed something's wrong!]
◆The plot exists to serve the ship. All the settings are part of the leads' play, so don't take them too seriously.
◆This is an alternate setting. Don't look for real-world logic in fiction.jpg
◆The transmigrators pull out all the stops to play matchmaker (not).
◆Former aloof beauty, now humanoid calamity, seme x cold-faced, cool guy, devoted fan uke
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Next novel: Career-Minded Straight Guy, But a Heartthrob [Quick Transmigration]
Blurb: The massive dating show "Love at First Sight" is recruiting contestants from around the world. They range from the sons of powerful families, research professors, and top-tier stars to assembly-line workers, delivery drivers, and unemployed slum dwellers.
Regardless of status, rank, family, or background, they'll fall passionately and faithfully in love in front of hundreds of millions of viewers.
They'll have their memories sealed and enter a series of virtual worlds, roleplaying according to the basic settings. The hundred contestants can follow their hearts and let romance unfold however they like.
The reality show's guiding principle is that true love must be written in the stars and last until death. Any couple that fails to stay together in a world doesn't qualify as a beautiful romance that lasts forever!
Jiang Biewan, from the slums, got lucky and won a spot. He rubbed his hands in excitement. His chance to get rich had arrived!
During the group filming of their declarations of love:
"I don't have much ambition. I'm happy to be eliminated in the first round."
"If I can get a good job from the exposure after I'm eliminated, that's enough."
"Dating...?"
Jiang Biewan smiled shyly, with a very realistic sense of his own worth.
"I don't think any woman would want an unemployed guy like me."
[The Noble Academy's Errand Boy]
He was the most eye-catching and most notorious of the academy's top students.
His excessively beautiful face caught the attention of the elite. They saw how quickly he submitted to the school's rules and served them without dignity, then lost interest in him.
Crook a finger, and he'd come scampering over, eager to please. Toss him something, and he'd clutch it to his chest like a treasure, his dazzling smile almost breathtaking.
What else could that be but love?
The elite knew all about their feelings for him. They despised his shallowness, but when they saw him getting involved with a mixed-blood aristocrat, they couldn't help protecting him.
Mixed-blood aristocrat: "Make way, startup capital numbers one, two, and three."
The elite: ?
Jiang Biewan guiltily looked away.
[The Rich Second-Generation Clinging to the Weird's Coattails]
When the Weird Game arrived, Jiang Biewan became nothing but a pretty face, useless except for his money.
The people he'd once rejected had all become top-ranked big shots. They loved and hated him in equal measure, and declared that if he wanted to survive, he would have to beg them.
Even waving money around, he couldn't find a single person willing to take him into a dungeon. In a fit of anger, Jiang Biewan entered one himself that very day.
The big shots were stunned. Before they could use their items to rescue him, Jiang Biewan walked out alive.
He'd met a weird being with a disorder that kept it from recognizing itself. It didn't eat humans. Instead, it ate other weird beings.
Jiang Biewan tricked it into thinking it was a vampire, a branch of the human race, and shamelessly got its contact information. Now he could call it for a quick substitute run whenever he entered a dungeon.
He'd just taken the trick a little too far, and now every night it pinned him down to drink a little blood from his neck.
[The Cold Palace Prince Amidst Warlords]
With a weakened imperial clan and feuding lords rising everywhere, Jiang Biewan wore his shabby prince's robes and thought that not becoming emperor would be a waste.
The prince in the cold palace had little power, so he personally set out to recruit talent: a noble-born young man famous for his literary skill, a low-ranking soldier with extraordinary martial prowess, and the young master of a medical valley who helped the sick. He went out of his way to win them over one by one.
He talked about the future with the noble, trust with the soldier, and used a sob story on the young master. He said recruiting talent wasn't important; he just wanted to be friends.
Now that they were friends, surely they wouldn't just watch him fight alone?
Whoever he spoke to was his closest, most trusted person. He looked at people with those sincere eyes of his, and no one could bring themselves to doubt him.
It worked well. The only downside was having to comfort his bodyguard and strategist at night.
"Don't worry. You're the one I trust most. I'm planning to get rid of the others once they've served their purpose."
After N worlds, countless viewers flocked to the video of Jiang Biewan's love declaration to leave comments.
[You said you'd be eliminated in the first round. You turned the dating show into your personal performance!]
[You say no woman would want you? Take a good look at yourself: fair-skinned and beautiful, broad-chested and slim-waisted. What woman wouldn't want you?]
[Other people work out too much and attract the same sex. You attract the same sex whether you work out or not.]
[How do you manage to make money the moment you enter a new world, while driving the big shots to the brink of despair?]
[Career-minded straight guy, but a heartthrob]
Theme: Love can transcend everything.
Please, please write some more. ??·??·??*????
Wow!! Whose voice is that at the end? Is it the one thanking you? 💪