The attack: a refined young gentleman on the surface, but cruel, cold, and gloomy underneath; childish around his love interest; a scheming top.
The recipient: aloof, irritable, emotionless, and a free spirit.
Zhang Yingshu X Meng Zhuyan
Top's perspective. Some characters have questionable values, so please read with caution and don't imitate them. The characters' values are not the author's.
The top and the recipient dote on each other. Readers who are strong top stans may not enjoy this.
This is a fictional world, not reality. Please don't project yourself into it or imitate anything. It is all made up.
Happy ending, but there is also an open-ended ending, because this terrible author hates illogical, forced happy endings, so there is some degree of an open ending.
Best to wait until there's a good backlog before reading. The only promise is that this story won't be abandoned.
The old chapters have been updated. I may have found typos and needed to fix them. I didn't notice them while writing, but spotted them later when I went back to check.
It may be a little mind-bending. Maybe. Probably. I think?
One more thing: Do not feed my writing into AI! I firmly oppose it! I painstakingly thought through and typed out every single word. I can't accept people using my writing to piece together their own stories. That's no different from plagiarism!
[The Existence of the Soul]
[Spring Grass, Second Blossom, Rivals to Lovers, Spatial Missions, Dark and Claustrophobic, Steel-Walled Siege]
[Perilous Survival, Timed Missions, Tension in the Air]
A simple version of the plot, because writing is fun, and writing forever is even more fun.
The top is a rich second-generation kid, currently a first-year economics student and something of a campus heartthrob.
A few months into the school year, he falls for a campus beauty. But she likes the heartthrob from the computer science department next door, so the top sees the recipient as a rival. [He'll eat his words in the end.]
The recipient is the kind of person who won't speak unless he has to, and he has no feelings for the top at first. The top keeps stirring up trouble until the recipient can't take it anymore and decides to teach him a lesson.
Then one day, the top takes the recipient's phone to see what's on it. He clicks into a forum and discovers a whole new world.
[Ding! Congratulations, you have acquired this character. Your first mission begins in seven days.]
The top can't help asking the recipient what it is, and then he gets the recipient caught up in it too.
[Ding! Congratulations, you have acquired this character. Your first mission begins in seven days.]
They part on bad terms, then enter the game space together seven days later.
Top: Damn it.
Recipient: ...Tch.
Rivals to lovers, bickering enemies, falling in love without realizing it.
Instance One: The Mayfly's Lost Heart
The world has the sun and moon, yin and yang, and ten thousand and one heart-knots. Separate, they are two; joined, they become one.
Zhang: I've got a wicked heart, you know.
Meng: Knocks him away.
Theme: The person who most wants to understand you is either your enemy or your lover.
