The Pretty Player Gets Targeted by NPCs

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[This novel is set in an infinite game. Everything is data, and there are no real deaths or crimes. Please do not imitate anything. This is a feel-good power fantasy with no regard for logic, so don't overanalyze it.]

Xi Xi was pulled into a strange game. He drew a role at random and discovered he had been assigned the identity of a criminal.

...But he was a law-abiding citizen!

The roles other people chose: an inconspicuous invisible man, a strong and burly man, an innocent college student...

The roles Xi Xi chose: a beautiful young mother holding a three-month-old baby, an antisocial young man in a wheelchair, a person in a vegetative state...

Weak, alluring, unusual.

Everyone mocked him, saying he'd be the first eliminated, but he just smiled and raised his cleaver.

In the eyes of the audience, he was an incomprehensible lunatic!

In the eyes of the players, he was the strongest opponent!

In the eyes of his companions, he was a trustworthy friend!

But in the eyes of one NPC, he was the sweetest thing in the world.

Zhang Jianhua: "She's my wife. I have to protect her."

Alden: "He's my salvation, my god!"

Kim Jeong-u: "A hateful little liar. Don't think you can hide from me."

Kelan: "Big brother loves you most."

Advance Reader Copy Break

The Useless Insect King Becomes a Tyrant

Luci Wang was the most useless emperor the insect empire had ever known. He was timid and had abysmal combat skills, a disgrace to insect history. Yet because he carried the Insect King's genes, he somehow held the throne for a hundred years. When the next Insect King was born, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and immediately went to sleep.

But he never expected that when he woke up again, he would... once again be the emperor?!

Li Luci, the most terrifying tyrant of the Yuanmeng Empire. After inheriting the throne, he slaughtered his own siblings, filled his harem and abducted beautiful women, listened to treacherous ministers and executed loyal ones, and squandered the nation's wealth on a life of excess...

His crimes were too numerous to list.

And yet, seated in that supreme position, he could indulge every ambition.

The ministers thought the nation was doomed and prepared to give their lives for it. They never expected Luci Wang to arrive.

Treacherous minister: "Your Majesty, we are certain to lose this war. We should kill Pei Qingji, offer his head to the Xingluo Empire, cede the land north of North Swan Lake, and pay thirty billion star coins. That should secure peace and stability."

Luci blinked in confusion. Xingluo, fallen stars, a name like that could only foretell an empire's downfall. Unwise, unwise. Not worth relying on.

Scheming consort: "Your Majesty, I dreamed of a divine realm last night and have drawn a picture of it. If Your Majesty were to live there, you would be the equal of the gods."

Luci shrank back, avoiding her slender hand. No, he was a good-for-nothing. He didn't deserve such a fine place.

Scheming servant: "Your Majesty, I heard there's a luminous pearl in the South Jiao Sea with powerful health and sleep benefits. Why not send someone to find it for Your Majesty to admire?"

Luci: A luminous pearl? Is it valuable? His old palace had three hundred embedded in it. They did nothing except glow.

Later.

Pei Qingji knelt on both knees, his eyes red-rimmed. "I am willing to become Your Majesty's sword and conquer new lands for you. I only ask that Your Majesty temper me a little."

Chi Xin stood with disciplined composure. "My devotion to Your Majesty is as bright as the sun and moon. Would you join me to admire the flowers in spring and the moon in autumn?"

Ye Chuluo gazed at him with intense affection. "Your Majesty can only be mine. If you so much as look at someone else, I'll get jealous and upset."

Luci swallowed nervously, trembling. Help... someone save me! I only want to be a useless emperor and keep lying flat.

Theme: Become self-reliant and strong, and you can forge a way forward even in desperate circumstances.