A Beautiful NPC Trapped in a Love Polygon [Infinite]

At some point, Lou Zao began to suspect that something was wrong with the world he lived in. Strange people kept appearing around him out of nowhere, acting strangely before suddenly vanishing as if they had never existed. And somehow, he was the only one who remembered them. He tried asking the people around him for help, but when they heard about his worries, they only patted him on the head and sternly warned him: "Zaozao, never believe anything a stranger tells you." He was about to go crazy. Then one night, an electronic voice rang out of the void: [The SSS-rank instance is now officially live. The Popularity Magnet MOD has finished loading. Dear Zaozao, enjoy the game~] He woke with a start to the sound of someone knocking on the inn's front door. The players burst in, full of excitement. At last, the monsters lurking in the darkness had a legitimate excuse to appear before Lou Zao. He stood at the center of the monsters' burning gazes, so terrified he nearly fainted. So it turned out he was nothing but a cannon-fodder NPC in a horror instance. [The Castle] He is a young servant boy living in the castle. Though they call him a servant, he is really just a toy for the young masters to amuse themselves with. The fragile, tiny servant is as delicate as a butterfly, and everyone thinks he won't last two months. BOSS A is cunning and ruthless in front of the players, but acts indifferent toward him. When no one is looking, though, BOSS A disguises himself as a Border Collie puppy and rubs against his slender legs. BOSS B is capricious and unpredictable. He hacks into the cameras in Lou Zao's room and can't stop himself from sending in the tentacles he usually uses to strangle players. Once Lou Zao is asleep, they crawl into his arms. [The Haunted School] (Rule-based horror + survival game + a touch of tabletop RPG) The school rules come in two versions, forming an enormous divide between the two social classes. The young servant boy brought to school by the young masters has low status, and the disciplinary committee members are always picking on him. They claim he's broken the rules and make him stay after class for extra lessons. The punishment room isn't only occupied by the disciplinary committee members. A whole group of invisible rule-based horrors are waiting there too. Every day he is punished terribly, but he has no idea who is punishing him. Finally, furious and humiliated, he goes to the student council president for protection. The president looks at him with a dark expression. "You're right, that's too much. How do you want to punish him?" "I want to spit in his cup!" Lou Zao clenches his fists in anger, then suddenly grows a little unsure. "Would that be too mean?" Isn't that more like a reward? [The Inn] After leaving the castle, the servant boy loses his source of income. He can only work at a strange, black inn to earn a generous salary. Even before the instance's beta test began, a leaked image of a pretty NPC had already gone viral on the player forums. The pretty NPC looks completely out of place in an instance crawling with horrors. He is always so frightened that his face turns deathly pale and his eyes fill with tears. The players, forced offline by the instance and left to spy on the NPC through the public screens, are united in their resolve. They decide to bring the NPC over to their side! So they coax him: "Poor Zaozao, you must be terrified having to stay with all those monsters." Terrified by the monsters, Lou Zao runs toward the seemingly normal players. But when he pushes open the instance's gate, he sees his own pale little face on countless public screens. Reader's Guide: 1. Not a traditional infinite-flow story. All the instances take place on one giant map. 2. A fragile, spoiled, high-maintenance sweetheart. He's not stupid, just spoiled. He's not going to let people bully him forever, okay? If they go too far, our Zao'er will just kill her husband ^ ^. Don't worry, girls: aside from that one thing, Zao'er can't take any hardship at all. 3. Lots of animal and little-sister tropes. Later on, there are tons of mother fans. He's adored by everyone, and every man, woman, human, ghost, and monster loves the baby. 4. Lots of descriptions of his appearance. 5. For details about the setting, see the author's note in Chapter 1. Weibo: @Jinjiang Lou Yan Theme: Face your fears and rise to the challenge.