After dying from overwork, Xie Lianyin was bound to a Tool System.
System: You are a tool for advancing the romance plot, a part of the protagonists' games, a supervillain who interferes with their love, a clown, a watcher lurking in the gutter. You are ambitious and vicious...
Xie Lianyin: That's fine, as long as the money's good.
Xie Lianyin: Also, is your company the kind that works people to the bone? Is it 996 or 007? Do we get holidays? Are we expected to volunteer for overtime? Do we have to answer the boss after work? Please, this is really important to me.
System: ...
**
Across different small worlds, Xie Lianyin diligently played an emotionless tool, passing through the protagonists' lives, flawlessly completing every task at the exact right moment, never working overtime, logging off on time, and enjoying life.
Later, the System malfunctioned, leaving him behind in a new mission world.
His days of lying flat didn't last long. One day, Xie Lianyin was horrified to discover:
All the small worlds where he'd completed missions had fused together!
The characters who'd turned dark were all coming after him!!
The protagonists fought over him and clawed at each other, the villain held a knife to his throat with a vicious, gritted-teeth expression, and the mastermind smiled and asked, "Yinyin, where did you get so many men?"
The scene descended into chaos.
Xie Lianyin: ...
Xie Lianyin was numb.
Xie Lianyin slit his own throat and logged off.
After using the fake-death escape technique to come back to life, the System asked anxiously: [Um, Host, could you maybe go back one more time and clear all their corruption levels...]
**
In keeping with the principle that doing ten jobs separately is no better than doing ten at once, worker Xie Lianyin resolutely entered hell mode:
He took on the mission of clearing the characters' corruption levels in the fused world.
This world combined urban life, the paranormal, Western fantasy... and all kinds of outrageous romantic drama, yet somehow managed to function in a self-consistent way, like a gigantic mountain of spaghetti code.
Luckily, Xie Lianyin still had his old secret identities to rely on. Any one of them was a super big shot capable of causing a storm with a wave of his hand.
But because the characters couldn't accept Xie Lianyin's departure and were consumed by resentment, after the reboot, his secret identities developed all kinds of bizarre bugs:
[Psychological distortion: You find it hard to experience normal emotions. You only feel excitement when enjoying others' pain.
Torture the protagonist top for one hour, or else: die.]
[Pain sensitivity: Your body is extremely sensitive. Even having a fingertip touched can give you a mental orgasm, but you desperately crave others' touch.
Get intimate with the villain, or else: die.]
[Love deprivation syndrome: You crave love, you're sensitive, and you pretend to be cold and distant. You've always wanted to try living a wild, unrestrained life.
Push down the big boss and kiss him by force, or else: die.]
Xie Lianyin: ???
Is this right?!!
This can't be right!
Theme: Love this world
