The Pure-Love System Turns a Pure-Hate Story Upside Down

886 is an outstanding new graduate System. Its dream is to be a carefree little romance System that spends every day happily shipping couples.

But sweet romances are too competitive, so it gets assigned to the angst-romance department, a place no sane person would choose.

886: ...I'm not happy.

After working through several worlds of tragic, star-crossed love, 886's stress levels exceed the limit, forcing it into early retirement.

Headquarters promises to grant this outstanding employee one wish as compensation.

886 springs back to life: My former Hosts drove me up the wall over and over again. Now I wish I could go back in time and drive every last one of them up the wall in return.

886: What goes around comes around. Your comeuppance is me. No one gets out alive!

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[World One: High-IQ, perfectionist, self-torturing Alpha gong x mature, nurturing ex-husband Beta shou (modern)]

Host Number One is a madman with a top-tier IQ, though that doesn't stop him from having a mind that works in bizarre ways. His signature move is "torturing himself." He and his partner are both renowned members of 886's blacklist, the kind of artists who never say what they mean.

They have two beautiful mouths, but never use them to talk about anything important. All they do is bite and kiss each other, putting on a whole angsty, star-crossed marital drama. It's terrifying.

886: Honestly, you two are kind of appalling.

886 grabs them by the head and forces them together: If you're not sure, ask! Come on, say it! You love him!

"The boy held the back of the man's neck between his teeth. Scarlet threads of blood seeped from the place where his gland was missing, and the blood smelled sweet."

"He pressed his nose to the fated site of his loss, searching and searching, only to discover that he would never successfully mark the man, not in this lifetime."

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[World Two: An emotionless master devoted only to the Great Way gong x a naturally gifted cauldron, dragon-natured and lustful demon lord disciple shou (cultivation)]

Host Number Two is in even worse shape. A big mouth is more terrifying than no mouth at all. His mouth is as stubborn as if it had been welded shut, and his signature move is "denying he ever fell in love." Even if you physically dig his heart out, he'll still deny it.

His partner is a perfect match: he traveled a thousand miles to offer himself as a cauldron, willingly, under the pretext of it being his natural instinct.

886: Oh, so you two have a very active life, going at it day and night.

886 takes the opportunity to hand the heart to his partner: Listen up, you heartless fool! It's saying it loves you!

"The Demon Lord's lower body transformed into a dragon's tail, winding around the man with his eyes closed and lips sealed. He writhed again and again, struggled again and again, but in the end was fated to fall back into the master-disciple relationship already defined for them."

"'Master, your eyes behold heaven and earth, and all living beings...' he breathed softly, like the most intimate of lovers, yet like an enemy spitting out the most venomous curse,"

"'Why do they never see me?'"

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[World Three: Hypocritical saintly-father villain Boss guide gong x sentinel who conspires with the villain Boss shou (guide-sentinel)]

Host Number Three is on another level entirely. He excels at skirting the line between morality and the law, claiming that he and his partner are together because "the wicked are punished by the wicked."

886: Then you're even more doomed. You're made for each other~

"At sunset, the White Tower collapsed with a thunderous roar."

"At the moment death came, the sentinel, who had been loyal to the White Tower all his life, finally understood that his fate and that of the guide in his arms, whose body was broken beyond recognition, had always led to the same end by different paths."

"The sunset glowed molten red. After the dust from the great tower dispersed, his love began to sprout anew."

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[World Four: An intermittently unhinged, sharp-tongued, ungrateful young emperor gong x a gentle, scheming, ambitious minister shou (ancient)]

Host Number Four may be a little crazy, but his partner is innocent. They are pushed together by an arbitrary, inscrutable fate (or rather, a twist of fate), which keeps raising the stakes and making them miss each other.

886 takes matters into its own hands: Hey, Fate, turn it around for me!

"The once-volatile, sinister youth wore his imperial robes and walked from one palace hall to the next."

"The stench of blood had yet to fade from the jade steps beneath his feet when he heard his subordinate stammer out the name no one in the realm dared speak: '...His conduct is outrageous. I request permission to exhume his corpse and flog it.'"

"The young emperor, master of a boundless empire, tilted his head and said nothing. He only gazed outside the courtyard, where the red hibiscus bloomed and withered again and again, until at last it faded. No one would know that he had come here."

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[World Five: Pure-love System gong x female insect shou, outwardly cold and abstinent but actually unhinged and determined to drive everyone in the original story up the wall (insectoid)]

At this point, someone might ask: Hey, 886, you're so good at teaching other people how to fall in love, but it's easy to talk. If you're so capable, why don't you try it yourself?

886: You know what? You're right.

Host Number Five is the most obedient and normal Host 886 has ever met. When 886 arrived in this world, it was already so badly injured on the job that it wanted to go crazy. It even personally took the Host's place to help him find love, and the Host didn't mind at all.

886: Huh? Why is the Host's partner the one going crazy now?

Host: It's a long story...

886: Got it. I really do have to do it myself!

"The empire's dictator looked at the unfamiliar man who had once been his husband, but had already fallen in love with another soul through that body."

"By the time he understood this, that one-of-a-kind soul was lost to him forever."

[Before You Read]

1. Gong-focused episodic story, one-on-one romance, happy ending, angst that turns sweet.

2. The feelings are strongly mutual and they dote on each other. Not suitable for readers with extreme character-loyalty preferences.

3. The characters include both good and bad people, all in a fictional setting unrelated to reality. Please don't project it onto the real world.

4. The leads in the third arc, the guide-sentinel story, are villains from the author's upcoming neighboring novel, The Sentinel Kept in Captivity. If you're interested, please add that one to your favorites too. Sending love~

Theme: Finding new hope in regret, again and again