The Third Lighthouse

Apocalyptic Fantasy / Light Ensemble Cast / Mutual Salvation

Unhinged giant cat, calculating, flamboyant and unruly, a smiling tiger who is fiercely protective, has an unconventional way of thinking and is full of tricks, a guiding lover, adores mint-flavored food, professional child-raiser, gong

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Dog-like bibliophile, cool and reserved but actually sharp-tongued and deceptively innocent, cherishes his life, values affection and fiercely protects his own, high combat ability, likes plants but kills every one he raises, combat genius, master of survival, human weapon, shou

Never mind, cats and dogs are great! (cheering)

Books say that whoever loves something forms a bond, and bonds often make the cruel go soft and leave the wanderer grieving.

Meier knew from the very beginning that he was different from everyone else.

The White Tower Project had long since placed its stakes on the gambling table: pay a price, gain power.

To escape that wretched game, he sold his “self.”

To stay alive, fifteen-year-old Meier became “Blackbird,” the madman in the old district of Mist City whom the black-market crowd called “the guy who'll risk his life for money.” Then, by chance, he stepped into an unpredictable game of chess and barely survived.

The White Tower Project, forcibly halted years ago; Test Subject 001, who vanished without explanation; and the uprising army formed beneath the apocalypse: everything before him seemed to be connected by countless threads.

Meier tried to find, among thousands upon thousands of books, what it meant to be “human,” and to find a way out of his withered life.

Until that person's figure entered his silent world.

Young Meier had always instinctively placed himself in the position of the one praying, never knowing that, among the countless converging timelines and through innumerable cycles of death and rebirth, those blue eyes were Jiang Yu's third lighthouse in the apocalypse.

From a combat genius renowned throughout the organization to a fugitive who killed his family and betrayed his friends; from a companion of nearly five years, both mentor and friend, to a prisoner facing execution, Jiang Yu's name became “taboo” in an instant, appearing on a wanted notice issued after the turmoil had barely subsided.

Meier thought it was utterly absurd.

He vanished without warning, and Meier had even accepted those mysterious deaths as fact. Now they were telling him that his mentor had gone away for two years and turned himself into a death-row convict?

That was until Jiang Yu's former “mentor” came to find him.

“What exactly are they trying to do?”

As the middle-aged man's sigh faded, an absurd possibility surfaced in Meier's mind.

Mutated black insects, the White Tower Project, supernatural abilities.

They want to create a god in the apocalypse.

The same people can have entirely different fates depending on the choices they make. Across countless cycles, that cold voice kept echoing in Meier's mind:

[Congratulations on unlocking the Corruption Route - Ending 1: Promiscuous Love]

[Congratulations on unlocking the Escape Route - Ending 1: The One and Only Loyalist]

[Congratulations on unlocking the Rebellion Route - Ending 2: Dancing Together]

Countless reloads, countless restarts. It seemed some force kept pushing him to chase an elusive figure and walk toward that predetermined ending.

Until the familiar voice sounded again:

[Congratulations on unlocking the hidden ending - The Third Era]

The Silly Version

After his kill was stolen for the Nth time, Xia Chen kicked open the door to Jiang Yu's break room, cursing:

“Jiang Yu! Can you do something about your little brother? I only stole his kill once! It wasn't on purpose. Look at him! I'm not going to meet my performance target this week!”

They both turned around. Meier stood off to the side, looking perfectly nonchalant.jpg

Jiang Yu clicked his tongue:

“Our little Meier is always so polite, okay? Why don't you look for the problem in yourself? Have your combat skills improved all these years? How many black insects have you killed? Has your salary gone up? You're a grown adult, and you're still picking on your junior, ”

Xia Chen pointed at him with a trembling hand. “You, you, ”

Bai Wei's gloomy voice came from behind him:

“Need the electric-shock medical pod? Five hundred yuan per session.”

Xia Chen: (furious) Damn it, don't make dirty money off me!

Content notes:

1. Light ensemble cast, with a small amount of second-person narration. Characters serve the plot. From a real-world perspective, Meier is mixed French and Chinese.

2. The main couple are both growing and changing, especially the shou. The gong is a guiding lover. I like characters who develop and change; it makes them feel more vivid, hehe. (fidgets with fingers)

3. Some supporting characters also have couples, and there is a main group. The story includes BL, BG, GL, and other orientations. There won't be any extreme scenes, but some what-if routes get pretty intense, such as the mutation and corruption routes. The shou's thinking may also differ somewhat between routes. These will be marked in the titles, so feel free to skip them if that's not your thing.

4. Same world as I Will Grow Wild, a parallel world.

5. My writing is average, the values are questionable, and I'm just letting loose. I wrote this for fun, QAQ. Please let me know if I've missed anything that should be mentioned.

Theme: The path to saving the world