Warning! Extroverted Players Must Not Toy with Introverted NPCs [Infinite]

[Blurb]

Yan Xu has god-tier beauty, with a stunning face and a pair of slender phoenix eyes that are cool and distant, the kind of eyes that could toy with someone to death with just a glance.

No one knows that he actually suffers from severe social anxiety and is an ultimate introvert.

After dying unexpectedly, he transmigrates into an infinite world.

The good news: At last, his toe-curlingly awkward life is over!

The bad news: Everyone in the world he transmigrated to, from the System to the players to the bosses, is an extrovert!

System: With your fair skin and beautiful looks, and your talent for speaking only a few words at a time, you’re perfect for the beautiful mannequin NPC role in our instances.

Yan Xu, sweating nervously: ...I just have social anxiety. I don’t talk much.

System: You don’t talk much! Perfect! The NPC only needs to read a script! Skr~

Yan Xu: ...This System seems a little dim-witted.

[The Mountain Spirit’s Bride]

In the desolate mountains, trees loom thick and mist hangs heavy.

The beautiful “mannequin” NPC Yan Xu diligently reads his lines to the players, his face cold and captivating.

“To be joined to Lord Mountain Spirit in a ghost marriage, one of you will need to be chosen...”

When Yan Xu is bound hand and foot, placed in a sedan chair, and carried into a lonely grave deep in the mountains, the pretty boy can barely hold back his tears. System, you didn’t tell me the extrovert players would mess with the NPCs!

Facing the instance boss with its green face, fangs, and gaping, blood-red mouth, Yan Xu is so frightened that his face turns deathly pale, but he stays calm and asks in an even voice, “Hello. Are you going to eat me?”

Mountain Spirit: ...No. I want you to be my bride.

Yan Xu: Oh. Thank you.

Mountain Spirit: ...

Player A shrieks: Aahhh! Yanyan is so beautiful, and so calm! I want to date him!

Player B sobs: Waaaah, what do you mean, mannequin NPC? He’s obviously the beautiful darling of my heart!

The instance boss, hiding beneath an ugly, fearsome face, casts a cold glance at the players. Looking at the beauty trembling before him, he reaches out and gently pinches his soft, tender cheek, then licks his lips. “Yanyan is mine.”

[The Substitute Doll]

108 exquisite dolls, each with a graceful, delicate figure, flawlessly sculpted features, and pale skin as fine as jade.

System: Find your Yanyan before time runs out~

The players go wild. Is this an instance or a special perk?

Meanwhile, Yan Xu lies among the 108 identical dolls, diligently pretending to be a mannequin.

His inner monologue: Hey, hey, System, if you can’t beat them, join them? I’m not part of your extrovert playtime!

Later, the dollmaker collects every instance item with a dark expression, all 108 dolls included, without a single one missing.

He also wipes out every lascivious look in the players’ eyes. That day, corpses litter the instance, and a cold, murderous air mingles with a cloying smell of blood that makes everyone’s scalp crawl.

The announcement screen of the infinite world reports that an instance boss has gone mad.

That night, the dollmaker pins the beautiful NPC beneath him, caresses his skin inch by inch, and bends down to whisper in his ear, “I told you. You’re mine.”

Yan Xu doesn’t know that every detail of the 108 dolls perfectly reproduces his body, including certain private parts.

Yan Xu’s expression is alluring, the corners of his eyes tinged red. Amid gasps and a dazed haze, he gazes at the god of this world. Though a little helpless, he can’t help sinking deeper.

The man’s bewitching pupils, fierce when he loses control, are reflected in Yan Xu’s eyes.

Seriously, the extrovert boss seems even more terrifying than the players!

Planned instances:

[Dreaming High School]

[The Forgotten Merfolk]

[Seamstress of the Underworld]

[Ghost Ship of the Dead]

[The Eerie Amusement Park]

Many years later

The village gossip System lounges with one leg crossed over the other, munching on sunflower seeds as it says, “You have no idea. Back then, that beautiful NPC had the whole server falling for him. The Infinite Administration’s number-one evil god, [Yu], killed without batting an eye, a true demon from hell, just retired and went back to his hometown to get married!

What do you think he had going for him? How did he leave so many people completely bewitched?”

Yan Xu strokes the big head that keeps burrowing into his arms and gives an awkward smile.

...Help! He’s just an ordinary introvert with social anxiety, that’s all.

A beautiful, socially anxious introvert, the beloved NPC bottom vs. a cruel, jealous, perverted, mad boss top

[Blurb written on 2024.6.24, screenshot saved]

Theme: Step outside your comfort zone and be brave about socializing