Fall in Love or Die

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Yun Suguang, an utterly ordinary background character, recently discovered something:

The world he lived in was a full-dive BL dating game called If You Don't Fall in Love, You Die.

In this game, every participant had to find a boyfriend and engage in intimate contact, such as holding hands and kissing, within a set time limit. If they failed, they would die.

Countless people eagerly joined this deadly dating game with its ticking countdown.

At first, it had nothing to do with him, a born-and-raised NPC. That is, until one day, a screen full of pink hearts appeared before his eyes.

[System notification: Confess your feelings to someone within three minutes, or your health points will drop to zero.]

[Countdown begins: 02:59]

Yun Suguang: ...This is bad.

In the final few seconds, the corner of his eye caught someone quietly reading a book.

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Su Guan: a hidden evil god posing as an NPC in the game.

Ranked number one in difficulty to romance, and never romanced by anyone.

He never told Yun Suguang that he could actually see his missions.

He turned down Yun Suguang's confession, kept his distance and even avoided him, and insulted him in front of everyone time and again, all to make him give up!

He even hoped Yun Suguang would fail his mission and die on the spot.

Later, he would even wait until the last few seconds of a mission's time limit to complete it, driven by a cruel amusement: he wanted to see Yun Suguang's face shift from despair to hope, over and over again.

He had always been good at manipulating people's hearts.

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Later, as Yun Suguang completed missions one by one, cursing the inhumane game under his breath, he had no idea that Su Guan's gaze was growing stranger and stranger. [Call the other person "Sweetheart" out loud at a party.] [Kiss the other person for three minutes in front of everyone at a gala.] [...]

Then, on the day he was supposed to finish his mission and break up with Su Guan, Yun Suguang searched the entire campus but couldn't find him anywhere.

Not only that, nobody remembered him. It was as if he had vanished into thin air.

Countless sticky, feverish gazes.

Intimate missions completed in bizarre ways.

It all pointed to one thing.

In the pouring rain, Yun Suguang saw someone in the distance, drenched from head to toe, with glowing fluorescent-green eyes.

Before he could speak, the man dropped to his knees with a thud.

Choking back sobs, he said, "You can't break up with me... If we break up... if I disappear and A-Su can't complete his missions, then we'll be together forever and ever."

"A-Su, I'll always be watching you. This is a world that belongs to just the two of us... Please don't leave me, okay?"

[System notification: Final mission: Break up with Su Guan, whose affection level is 100%, or your health points will drop to zero.]

[Countdown: 00:59]

Su Guan's legs trembled as he crawled toward Yun Suguang, sobbing and pleading, "A-Su, please... please... break up with me..."

He broke up with Su Guan only because he didn't want him to meet his death.

'He had always been good at manipulating people's hearts, never realizing that this time, he was the one being manipulated.'

A slow-to-catch-on heartthrob, gentle and good-tempered, optimistic bottom x A gloomy, possessive, insanely jealous evil god top

Also known as: I Thought This Was Just a Mission, But You Actually Took It Seriously and Aren't Best Buddies Supposed to Stick This Close?

-----Upcoming novel: Please Train Me One More Time-----

[Blurb]

This was Shi Yu's twentieth time entering this horror-game level, and his last chance to clear it.

In the year 2650, levels began appearing all over the world. If nobody entered a level within three days, it would select a corresponding number of people at random and force them inside. After a hundred failed attempts, the level's final boss would descend into reality and go on a killing spree.

The most dangerous of them all was the horror level The Way to Love Me.

The level's final boss, Chen Du, was a high school student starved of love, trapped in a quagmire and yearning for someone to save him. The first eighty people to enter had all played different roles, but he saw through every one of them and killed them without exception.

Until this final attempt:

Shi Yu went mad.

He didn't care about anyone else.

As an illegitimate son, he had been sent in by the Shi family in place of their precious child who had been missing for eighteen years. He had been killed over and over in this horror-game level, with no way to escape.

After failure upon failure, his personality grew more and more twisted.

If that was how it had to be, then they could sink into the quagmire together.

Drawing on his experience from the previous nineteen attempts, Shi Yu waited quietly at the entrance to an alley. The moment Chen Du passed by, he wrapped a rope tightly around his neck.

When Chen Du finally went still, Shi Yu crouched down to check on him, only to find him flushed and dazed, reaching out with both hands as he softly asked, "Can we do that one more time, A-Yu?"

[Unhinged bottom x Gloomy, loyal-dog top]

Theme: Hold firm to your convictions and bravely pursue love