Hui Yun Shen × Yin Yu (to be posted after reaching 200 favorites)
National-level, icy-faced skiing athlete gong × national-treasure-level, food-loving, money-grubbing little sunshine shou
The Ice Age arrives, and global temperatures plummet to sixty or seventy degrees below zero. Humanity’s last surviving base is on the brink of collapse, short on food and clothing.
One night, the money-loving Yin Yu transmigrates into a game called Ski Adventure. Traveling with him is Hui Yun Shen, the commander-in-chief of a base in the frozen apocalypse.
Ski Adventure is exactly what it sounds like: ski for your life while dodging danger, with a terrifying avalanche chasing you. Get buried in the snow and you die. Yin Yu played the game as a kid, but only on his phone. In real life, he’s barely even touched a pair of skis, let alone gone skiing.
Luckily, Hui Yun Shen used to be a national-level skiing athlete. Yin Yu entrusts all his hopes of survival to him, determined to obey every order and follow the commander’s instructions to the death.
But he never expected there to be money on the ground.
Money is no use in the apocalypse, but Yin Yu is greedy.
How could a money-grubber like him leave gold lying on the ground? He picks it up as he runs, and even turns around to grab it while lying on Hui Yun Shen’s skis. Hui Yun Shen gives him a long, furious scolding, but Yin Yu couldn’t care less. He fills one sack, then starts on a second.
He keeps picking it up until dawn breaks and even the avalanche stops. Then he jumps off the skis, carrying two sacks of gold coins.
A magnificent, glittering shop appears before them. A huge sign over the entrance reads: “Gold Coin Exchange Supermarket.”
Just as the name suggests, the Gold Coin Exchange Supermarket will trade anything for gold coins. Thinking of the base, where everyone is short on food and clothing, Hui Yun Shen’s eyes gleam with shrewdness. He asks the shop assistant, “Can we really exchange them for anything?”
“Of course.”
“Can we get steamed buns?”
“How many do you need?”
Hui Yun Shen ignores Yin Yu’s protests and forcibly pulls the two sacks of gold coins off his shoulders. “All of them. Exchange all of these for steamed buns.”
Yin Yu leaps up and shrieks, “Aaaah, you bastard commander! My money! My money!”
Their first dream journey into the game, where they collected money, got the base a week’s worth of steamed buns, but they waited and waited for a second chance without success.
With food running short again, the two sit together, worried, and try to figure out what happened that day to trigger Ski Adventure. After turning it over in their minds, they realize everything had been as usual, except for one thing: the two, who normally slept alone, had a little to drink that night and ended up in the same bed.
Yin Yu: “Could that be why?”
Forget it. Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth. They immediately put the theory to the test, lying down in the same bed that night, fully clothed.
The moment they close their eyes, they enter the dream!
Heh heh! Yin Yu stands on Hui Yun Shen’s skis with his hands on his hips, beaming. “Poker face, looks like we’ll have to sleep together every night from now on!”
Hui Yun Shen’s ears turn faintly red. He frees one hand to cover Yin Yu’s mouth.
His voice is icy. “What nonsense are you talking about?”
Yin Yu snorts and tries to push Hui Yun Shen’s hand away. A sidelong glance reveals writing on Hui Yun Shen’s palm.
He reads it aloud without thinking: “Quest instructions: Complete challenges together to earn quest coins. The details are... carry me in a bridal hold through a wooden cabin! Hold hands as we pass through a cave! Kiss while skiing past ten clouds... What kind of ridiculous challenges are these?”
Thanks to the two of them working hard at night, the base soon has plenty of food.
The others at the base notice that although every person gets a fixed meal, Commander-in-Chief Hui Yun Shen often lets Yin Yu eat more. They also see Yin Yu sneakily knocking on the commander’s door in the middle of the night, which is always opened for him.
“Yin Yu definitely seduced the commander first!”
“It’s great to have power and influence. Even a handsome guy like Yin Yu throws himself at you...”
The rumors are all over the place, but everyone seems to agree that Yin Yu made the first move. The icy-faced commander doesn’t look like the type to take the initiative.
That is, until a mutual friend hears the rumors and asks, eyes wide, “You two are together?”
Yin Yu: “? No.”
Hui Yun Shen: “...Not yet.”
Yin Yu: “?”
Their friend stares in disbelief. “Commander, what do you mean, not yet?”
Hui Yun Shen keeps a straight face. “I haven’t confessed yet.”
Theme: As members of society, we have a responsibility to contribute to social progress and development, pay attention to public affairs, and spread positive energy.
