What Did the NPC Do Wrong This Time? (Infinite)

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Jiang Yuling is an ordinary student at Qingshui High School. Every day, he studies seriously alongside his strange classmates.

Until one day, a mechanical voice tells him:

He is merely an insignificant NPC in a low-level school dungeon.

But before long, players will enter the dungeon. If Jiang Yuling can make himself memorable enough to them, he can become a real person.

Of course, Jiang Yuling is tempted.

So he immediately borrows all kinds of romance novels from a female classmate whose eyeballs have fallen out, reads widely, and fills his head with knowledge.

The books say that the heroine always trips and falls into the hero's arms, successfully catching his attention.

So Jiang Yuling stakes out the most formidable pink-haired player and sets a trap on his usual route, planning to trip and fall into his arms. Instead, he trips up the pink-haired guy, who is being chased by a monster...

No problem. The books also say that the hero can't forget the heroine because she saved him.

So Jiang Yuling decides to make up for it by rescuing the pink-haired guy from the monster. But he accidentally gives him a kiss, and who would have guessed that the pink-haired guy is extremely homophobic and faints on the spot...

Well... there's still a chance. Whenever the hero and heroine fight, the books say a kiss is all it takes to make up, and they end up becoming the person each cares about most.

So Jiang Yuling takes his dungeon-clear reward and tells the pink-haired guy, "Give me a kiss, and I'll give you the reward."

The pink-haired guy grits his teeth and calls him a perverted peeping Tom, then, with his ears turning red, says he doesn't want the reward after all and gives it to him.

Everyone watching the pink-haired guy's livestream is dumbfounded. If you could get an item for free like that, what was the point of me working myself to death before? Is my life just that hard?

Later, Jiang Yuling becomes a sensation in the Divine Realm because he has the audacity to flirt with and openly pursue several top-ranked big shots, keeping multiple boats afloat at once.

The kicker is that those big shots don't just throw themselves at him, they willingly empty their pockets to shower him with gifts.

The famous force of nature from the top guild always hands her dungeon-clear rewards to him, saying she's just worried he's too stupid and will get taken advantage of.

The top guild's potion master gives him his life-saving items, presses a hand to his pounding heart, and gazes at him with heart-shaped eyes as he says, "He's just so delicate. He really needs me to protect him."

The top guild's leader keeps him wrapped up safe and sound from the moment they enter a dungeon, protecting him every step of the way. Looking at him fondly, he says he's just afraid some ill-intentioned little yellow-haired guy pretending to be decent will trick him away.

The audience looks at Jiang Yuling, a naturally devious guy whose teeth are so tough that even monsters break theirs biting him, and marvels that it really is the top guild: they've recruited every lovesick, self-deluding person with bad eyesight.

I really am not trying to hurt you / I don't get it, but I'm eager to learn / Unusual thought process / Naturally devious / A crowd-favorite handsome bottom x a top made up of various beautiful men

Both body and mind are completely pure, from head to toe.

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The dungeon designs draw inspiration from Little Nightmares, fairy tales, and mythology.

Here's another serialized novel: The Love Simulator for Someone Obsessed with Everyone

Blurb:

Yu Yang lives in a wasteland overrun by infected creatures. After becoming infected himself, he binds to a Love Simulator app on the brink of death.

The System tells Yu Yang that his only hope of surviving is to complete the dating missions in the app and make them fall for him.

One target is a mutated jellyfish, the ruler of the ocean depths, with a bell and tentacles stretching a full hundred meters. Its tentacles are poisonous, its nature is brutal, it understands only hunger, and it has no grasp of humanity.

Another is the strongest six-winged angel in the celestial realm, a genius who was born humorless and cold, a paragon of heavenly virtue who knows nothing of love and desire. The demons he has slaughtered have lived longer than Yu Yang.

The last is an aristocratic ghost trapped in an ancient castle for over a thousand years. His heart has long since twisted, his temperament is capricious, his moods are unpredictable, and his favorite thing is to destroy people from the inside out.

Yu Yang looks at the three pixelated figures in the app, their appearances blurred into mosaics, each with a target label above its head, and feels a little uncertain.

The System coaxes him, saying these affection-starved targets will be easy to win over.

Yu Yang believes its lies.

Only later does he regret it. Trusting the System so easily was a terrible mistake.

But by then, it is too late.

The first time:

Yu Yang is the caretaker of an S-rank sea monster. The research facility falls, and the monster disguises itself in human skin as his companion while they flee together.

Under the pressure of the sea monster's bizarre "eyes" staring unblinkingly at him, Yu Yang dodges its winding, clinging tentacles and cautiously asks, "Are you hungry right now? If you are, could you please not eat me?"

The sea monster sniffs his scent and makes a swallowing sound. It murmurs, "How could I? ... You smell so good..."

The second time:

Yu Yang is a demon from Hell. Carefully keeping his secret identity under wraps, he pretends to be human, performs a ritual to summon an angel, and tries to win him over.

But the angel can see straight through souls. He gives Yu Yang's two horns and swishing tail a strange look, coldly puts him in handcuffs, and sends him to the celestial prison to be watched by all the angels.

The third time:

Yu Yang is the personal valet to an aristocratic ghost in an ancient castle. The ghost pins him to the bed, and Yu Yang feels the ghost's canine teeth brush against his neck. His scalp prickling, he braces both hands against the ghost's shoulders and quietly protests, "Th-this isn't part of my job."

The ghost whispers suggestively in his ear, "Is that so? Die in bed or die out of it, pick one."

Each of them thinks he is the most special person in Yu Yang's heart. Only later do they discover there are three people who are that special.

When they learn the truth and think back on everything they've done to Yu Yang, tears stream down their faces.

Theme: What goes around comes around