(Launching in October) A seme-led anthology. A gentle, aloof white moonlight seme and a domineering, arrogant, calmly insane Long Aotian uke. The seme may be forced, but he always remains in control.
#There is a kind of character who wants nothing, whose life is as brief as a butterfly's.
#Their purpose is to soothe the protagonist's wounds and ease the ruts in his heart.
An unexpected incident causes the protagonists to turn dark and mad after the white moonlight dies, and one small world after another collapses.
System 1101 finds the deceased white moonlights: Their guidance went wrong. This time, they must uncover the protagonists' true regrets and eliminate the risk of their turning dark before logging out.
Strangely, the male leads who would have grown twisted and dark while the white moonlight was alive, then destroyed the world after his death,
are now obedient to an absurd degree in front of him.
All they ask in return is to be called “good boy.”
The white moonlight says: I think I've found the reason he turned dark.
“Is it because of me?”
* Arc One: [Fallen Moon] Song Chiyu × Duan Yanze
Beta white moonlight in an ABO authoritarian world × cruel alpha politician twisted by unrequited love
Song Chiyu is very satisfied with being a beta. He doesn't have to worry about turning into a monster in heat.
When his friend becomes an alpha, he feels sorry for him.
Duan Yanze has looked up to that bright, untainted figure since childhood, yet could never reach him.
His greed slowly grows until he locks Song Chiyu away... locks him up and marks him with his scent.
The day he is imprisoned,
Song Chiyu sees the original plot sent by the System. Barefoot, he walks over shards of glass and faces his longtime friend for the first time:
“Do you intend to use me to vent your base desires?”
Later, after Duan Yanze has held himself back again and again, just before he is about to cut out his own gland,
Song Chiyu kisses the back of his neck. Like moonlight brushing over him, he sighs softly:
“If you're worried about hurting me, you can tie your hands up.”
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Arc Two: [The Social Set] Zhuang Yue × Qin Fuli
Art-above-all genius director seme × down-and-out actor uke, his muse
Zhuang Yue encounters that striking, austere, beautiful yet indifferent man at a farewell party in Cannes.
Strong, languid, black hair hanging low, he has a numbing, dizzying air of falling. Zhuang Yue has found his muse. He half-keeps the man, making him pose for one explicit photo after another in humiliation, while spending a fortune on resources for him.
Then, once the man returns to the top, Zhuang Yue shakes his head with regret: The man's old verve has lost its charm.
He fails to find another muse.
His former muse refuses to leave the stage, locking Zhuang Yue in a room plastered with the man's private photos. Though he holds a high position, Zhuang Yue is left panting in misery:
“You wanted to see me at rock bottom. What about now? Do you have your inspiration?”
System: I'm too late...
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Arc Three: [Understanding] Interstellar future * Shang Qiaoqing × Fu Yanxing
Gentle diplomat with a strong sense of responsibility and clear boundaries × gloomy, calculating imperial heir
As a Federation diplomat, Shang Qiaoqing should not interfere in another country's domestic affairs, much less let his heart soften and rescue one of the imperial heirs, who is temporarily deaf.
He gives the man a false identity, never noticing that the man watches his lips every time and understands the lie.
On the day they part, he watches the man leave. But at the banquet, the crown prince who was supposed to host is nowhere to be seen. The second prince, returned after going missing, takes control of the palace. Amid the System's screams, he grips Shang Qiaoqing by the throat:
“I want to hear the tremor in your voice when you tell the truth.”
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Arc Four: [Worship the Divine] Post-apocalypse * Shi Jianxi × Tan Yi
God gazes down on the world, compassionate purifier seme × sinister, damp pathogen uke, a weapon of mass destruction
The gods show mercy to the mortal world, yet look down on everything. Shi Jianxi cannot bear to harm the innocent, but he also refuses to leave any living pathogens behind. He and Tan Yi make a pact: If Tan Yi has not been purified in three years, Shi Jianxi will personally end his life.
The System says that three years later, Tan Yi will escape, and the virus will sweep across the world once more. Shi Jianxi is considering whether to break his promise.
Before the apocalypse comes, chains are locked around the god's ankles. The pathogen kneels at his bedside, almost in prayer:
“Out of devotion to you, I should end my own life with my hands.
If I obey my base desires, I want to use the whole world to threaten you.
The first leaves me unwilling, the second irreverent. You must teach me which I should choose.”
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Arc Five: [Judgment of the Dao] Cultivation * Ling Zhiwei × Ying Wu
Compassionate senior disciple, a paragon of the righteous path, as bright and noble as the moon × patient, well-behaved little junior disciple, a seed of demonic destruction
The immortal sects prophesy that a demonic seed will descend, and the calamity that will ravage the world for a thousand years cannot be prevented. At the same time, the senior disciple of Fuxu Mountain brings back a little junior disciple covered in wounds.
The moment the demonic seed inside the junior disciple is exposed, Ling Zhiwei sighs. “The calamities plaguing the world arise from the greed of all sides. He alone should not be blamed. Yet I have seen the decree of fate, and it demands that I sacrifice an innocent child who has done no wrong. Forgive Zhiwei, but after years on the path of cultivation, I cannot accept this.”
He lets the junior disciple go and volunteers to accept punishment.
But just before he can destroy his own cultivation and face the tribulation of saving the world, he is dragged into the abyss of sin.
“You were wrong, Senior Brother. I am guilty. I want to confine this thousand-year calamity to you alone. Will you take the tribulation for the world and stay with me for a thousand, ten thousand years?”
…To be continued.
That's all for now. I'll add more when I get inspiration. Most of the settings will probably be modern urban stories set in different eras.
[The white moonlight truly is a bright moon hanging high in the sky: gentle, beautiful, and clear-headed.]
Theme: A family must be well before the world can be well.