[Chinese Horror + Horror Game Mashup + Popular, Cold-Faced, Adorably Straight Male Lead + Temporarily 1v1 + Love and Hate]
Jiang Hui, 21, is a college guy.
For his birthday, he gets a deluxe bundle of supernatural rules from his parents, who have been missing for half a month, along with a complete horror game System.
At last, the two questions that had plagued him since high school are perfectly answered:
One: That blue bar in the lower-left corner is his sanity.
Two: That red bar above his head is his health.
So all this time, he’d been using the kiddie version of the System.
He discovers that he’s the protagonist of a horror game.
The kind with superhuman physical abilities, an unbelievably terrible fate, and teammates who are always trying to get themselves killed.
As luck would have it, he jogs every morning, has a terrible birth chart, and has a fearless (?) childhood friend.
Of course, that still isn’t enough to make him a proper horror-game hero. The most important things are his health locked at 1 and his mysterious ability to communicate with spirits.
That means Jiang Hui will be a fragile but incredibly hard-to-kill cockroach.
His spirit medium ability lets him see through certain beings’ eyes and glimpse their past, revealing even more hidden information.
To find clues about his parents’ disappearance, he has no choice but to return to his hometown, Pinghua County. Just a few days after moving into his family’s old mansion, the rules are broken, and strange things start happening one after another.
One old story after another comes to light, while he repeatedly travels between reality and illusion, where truth and lies blur together.
The closer he gets to the truth, the more thrilling things become.
Jiang Hui has seen every horror game cliché there is. What could possibly surprise him?
Mysteriously losing all his childhood memories of Pinghua County? Fine.
Being born with an extremely yin birth chart and destined to be a virgin boy? Fine.
Being cursed and doomed to die unless he breaks the curse? Fine.
The red bar isn’t his health? Fine.
Having a ghostly betrothal to contend with? ...Fine.
Dreaming late at night that he’s making out with his first-love ex-husband? Fine... Wait, what?!
Is this even a proper horror game anymore?
Jiang Hui has barely woken up from a steamy dream about his ghostly ex-husband when he opens his eyes to find two identical-looking young men, each holding one of his hands. Red threads are entwined around their wrists. They claim fate has brought them together and that they must enter a coffin to be married.
He’s practically at death’s door, so what’s the point of romance?! Especially with a man!
Jiang Hui, a die-hard straight man, declares that even if his parents showed up, he’d scatter ten handfuls of glutinous rice.
After all the twists and turns, the most reliable person is still his carefree childhood friend, who has been by his side the whole way.
They’re both straight guys and best bros, and he’s even found a way to break Jiang Hui’s curse.
His childhood friend, whose red health bar above his head is already maxed out, grins and reveals that their birth charts complement each other.
“Xiao Jiang, my yang birth chart complements yours. We just need to harmonize our yin and yang. Ahem... I mean, we...”
Jiang Hui, still entangled with a seductive ghost and a ghostly betrothal: ?
His ghostly ex-husband’s resentful voice sounds in his ear: “Don’t listen to him. His yang energy will overcome yours.”
Reader’s note:
1. The protagonist has a cross-dressing scene. Temporarily 1v1, no official pairing in the main story, with an equal balance of plot and romance.
2. There are multiple secret identities for the love interest, and the protagonist attracts plenty of admirers.
3. Updates follow the ranking schedule before signing, then daily after signing. There’s a backlog and a complete outline.
Theme: Keep fighting to survive.
