The Beloved One Who Cleared the Wasteland World

[This novel is complete]

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Blurb:

Shen Tinglan transmigrated.

He landed in a wasteland world full of danger.

The unreliable System told him: You need to find teammates and form a squad, then eliminate every pollution-source boss in the Northern War Zone to clear the game and go home.

System: Just give it a try. It's easy.

Shen Tinglan glanced up at the hideous monsters flying wildly through the sky.

Shen Tinglan: Huh? Seriously? Me? I'm supposed to fight monsters?

I'm just a college student passing through!

To get home, Shen Tinglan went to great lengths to find teammates and worked diligently to clear the pollution sources.

In the third year, he successfully beat the game.

The moment he opened his eyes, he was back in a peaceful, cozy university campus.

Shen Tinglan: !

Finally!

But not long afterward, the wasteland world he had cleared suddenly descended upon his own. The azure sky turned black with smoke, and polluted monsters surged onto campus.

Only then did Shen Tinglan realize he'd been playing a demo version.

In this blood-soaked new world, the old order was completely shattered. Humanity, raised in a greenhouse, was helpless against the sudden invasion. People were devoured by monsters, eroded by pollution sources, assimilated, and driven step by step into the depths of despair.

Everyone except Shen Tinglan.

He picked up his long saber and once again stood at the pinnacle of humanity, just as he had before.

When he first arrived in the wasteland world, the System gave Shen Tinglan no golden finger at all.

One life from the start. He had to scavenge for equipment and teammates.

The wasteland world was full of danger, pollution sources blotted out the sky, and humanity had precious little room to survive.

Shen Tinglan's teammates were all a little off, too:

A taciturn squad leader with a twisted heart, a seemingly aloof deputy whose mental stability was always about to cross the warning line, a young master with a prince's disease who acted like the whole world owed him a billion yuan... and poor, helpless Shen Tinglan himself.

Shen Tinglan: ...

This was, this was an impossible situation!

Shen Tinglan had to fight monsters and eliminate pollution sources, while constantly monitoring his teammates' mental states and trying to fit into the team.

He soothed the deputy's mental energy to help him relax his guard, took the self-destructive squad leader in search of hope for survival, and constantly had to smooth the ruffled feathers of his hot-tempered partner.

...Well, he thought, he must have done a pretty good job.

That meant he was one step closer to going home.

Later, Shen Tinglan returned to his original world before he had a chance to say goodbye to his teammates.

He thought he would never see them again.

After the wasteland world descended, Shen Tinglan had an "unexpected reunion" with his former teammates.

Only, their mental states seemed even worse than before.

Shen Tinglan: ?

I worked so hard to get their heads on straight!

The squad leader's self-destructive tendencies had grown more severe and started spreading to those around him. Anyone who got close to Shen Tinglan would suffer, too.

The deputy's mental energy was constantly on the verge of collapse, and he began hallucinating. Everyone he saw looked like Shen Tinglan.

His partner had become even stranger and more irritable. Wherever Shen Tinglan went, he had to follow, and he wouldn't let anyone else near him.

Shen Tinglan: ...

Hello, 110?

I went back home for a trip and found all my teammates had gone crazy!

The useless System quietly told him: I told you ages ago that there was something wrong with your teammates.

Shen Tinglan: Hello?

Weren't you the one who told me to find my own teammates?

A prickly young master puppy gong / a gloomy ghostly gong / a master of tea-arts squad leader gong / a gentle older gong x a gorgeous shou with a perfectly stable mental state

Reading Guide:

1. Lan's mental state is as stable as if he'd been dead for ten years. His way of thinking isn't quite like a normal person's, and he occasionally gets a little absent-minded.

2. Everyone's romantic interest in the shou is unmistakable. There are no other romantic interests, and this story has no secondary couples.

3. All the gongs will get their moments, so don't worry.

4. All the gongs are pure. All of them. Even the ants passing through my stories have to be pure.

5. For more detailed reading notes, see the author's note at the end of Chapter One.

6. Why aren't the gongs' names listed with the main characters?

The unified answer: There wasn't enough room to list them all. Listing just one would make it seem like I was playing favorites. (rubs forehead and smiles wryly.jpg)

This Aristocratic Academy Is All Wrong

Lin Shuiyan was a pretty face with nothing else going for him.

...That's what the book said.

The original story was a fantastical danmei novel that piled on every explosive trope imaginable: melodrama, N* relationships, love triangles, a class system, and more, yet somehow ended in a straightforward 1v1 happy ending.

Lin Shuiyan was neither the main shou nor the main gong. He was the main gong's childhood friend, and the academy's famously... universally disliked student.

Lin Shuiyan: "?"

Who was universally disliked? Me?

In the story, he would eventually fail to win the main gong's love, then turn against the main shou, only to meet a miserable end at the hands of the main shou's countless harem members, numbered one, two, three, four, and beyond.

The System narrated the plot up to that point, then said to Lin Shuiyan, "You have a chance now. Work with me, and once you complete the mission, I'll make sure you get a happy ending."

But...

Lin Shuiyan: "I refuse."

System: "?"

Lin Shuiyan had always thought the people around him were a little strange.

Then one day, the System showed up with a book and told him that the world he lived in was just a book.

Well, that seemed to explain a lot.

He started reading the original story.

Everyone knows that every aristocratic academy has an F4.

F1 was the lofty, cold, germophobic student council president, who always put everyone down with an air of superiority. After meeting the main shou, he was drawn to the latter's unique aura.

His germophobia disappeared, and so did his aloofness. Even after resorting to confinement and coercion, he failed to win the main shou's heart and ultimately lost out with regret.

Lin Shuiyan: "?"

Who?

Is this supposed to be the F1 who acts like everyone's mom, is the school's famous discipline committee member, and even nags me when I don't wear my uniform properly?

Lin Shuiyan was stunned.

F2 was a playboy who'd been frequenting places of wine and women since childhood and had seen it all. At first, he treated the main shou like a plaything, but later fell in love for real. He could stab himself over and over without earning even a glance from the main shou.

Lin Shuiyan: "?"

Are you talking about the F2 who's been allergic to alcohol since he was little, has to report to his parents every time he goes out, gets just 800 yuan in pocket money a week, and was too timid to even go to karaoke with me?

Is this a bootleg copy of the book?

F3 seemed gentle but was actually a cold-blooded hypocrite. He was the first to offer the main shou a helping hand, then kicked him aside when he was down, ultimately embarking on the classic journey of chasing his wife to the crematorium.

...In real life, though, he was a problem-solving maniac who ignored the outside world and devoted himself to books, always wanting to drag Lin Shuiyan into studying hard alongside him.

F4...

Lin Shuiyan couldn't keep reading.

It felt like he was reading an explicit romance novel about people he knew.

So when the System proposed working together,

Lin Shuiyan flatly refused.

Your aristocratic academy and my aristocratic academy don't seem to be the same.

I've downloaded the anti-scam app, okay?

Until the day the story officially began, when the main shou walked onto campus.

As Lin Shuiyan watched from the sidelines, munching on snacks, he saw the main shou walk up to him, pull him into a hug, and kiss his cheek.

"I've wanted to see you for so long," he said.

Then Lin Shuiyan saw the F1, F2, F3, and F4 beside him all wearing the most terrifying expressions he'd ever seen.

...So they really were just like the twisted characters in the book.

Lin Shuiyan: "..."

Wait, System, I think I'm ready to cooperate after all.

#There's definitely something wrong with our aristocratic academy!

[Little Skit]

Every melodramatic story has to have a villain.

And the villainous cannon fodder in this story was Lin Shuiyan.

Before meeting him in person, the System had always thought he'd probably be another brainless idiot.

After seeing Lin Shuiyan with its own eyes,

System: Tsk...

He's this gorgeous. What's wrong with being a little villainous?

Even after Lin Shuiyan refused, the System stuck around, trying to persuade him.

Over time, as they spent more time together, the System's idealized image of him gradually crumbled.

Lin Shuiyan: a little devil who looks like an angel.

He's bound to get caught out sooner or later!

But when the way everyone looked at Lin Shuiyan began to change, the System panicked.

System: Kid! Run! This is going to end badly!

Lin Shuiyan didn't care.

The System shut its eyes, unwilling to watch any longer.

It screamed inwardly: My kid's innocence is about to be lost today!

But...

When the System saw one after another of these favored sons of heaven practically begging to be Lin Shuiyan's dog, it began to question its very existence.

#What's better than being Lin Shuiyan's dog? Being Lin Shuiyan's dog on your knees.

#When your wife's slap comes flying, the first thing you notice is her fragrance.

#Every day, I examine myself three times: Have I kept myself pure? Have I greeted my wife? Have I killed my romantic rivals?

A gorgeous shou who's so beautiful he can be villainous, overbearing, and unreasonable, and that's perfectly fine x countless aristocratic young master gongs, from one, two, three, four, five, and beyond.

Note from 2025.8.6

Reading Guide:

1. All the gongs are pure, all of them! Pure in body, mind, and brain! There is absolutely no flirting between any of the gongs! None!

2. The main shou is also a gong, but he's definitely not a weak gong or a pretty-boy gong, okay? No way! He's a handsome gong who can pick Shuiyan up with one arm!

3. The shou is a pure crowd-pleaser, with an extremely high level of attention, even higher than in my previous novel. "Universally disliked" is just the setting in the book. There's no way he'll actually be universally disliked. Nobody could dislike him.

4. I wrote this because I had no food to eat, so I made myself a plate. If this isn't your thing, feel free to move along. Let's respect one another, thank you!

5. I like strong, beautiful shous, so Shuiyan isn't the traditionally sweet and soft baby type. He's impressive in his own right, just very pretty. That doesn't mean he's weak, okay? Neither the gong nor the shou is allowed to be weak!

6. I haven't decided how many gongs there will be yet, but they'll all get their moments. They're all adults, so no need to choose.

Theme: Keep a positive and healthy state of mind, and strive to be an upstanding young person full of positive energy.