A Dark Room? I'm Totally Into It!

A mischievous, high-maintenance uke x a possessive, overbearing older man

Li Shuo transmigrates into an extremely disturbing romance game. The male lead is an older man with an intense, obsessive possessiveness.

From the start, there's a room that is always locked, iron chains around his wrists, and a huge bed.

Li Shuo: Wait, you mean I can live in this warm, comfortable place forever, with all my meals taken care of and games, novels, movies, and TV shows to enjoy?

To keep living here, Li Shuo has to hide what he really thinks and accurately reenact the character in the game, who would rather die than submit.

So Li Shuo has no choice but to act his part. He watches as the male lead tries every possible way to tame him, putting all kinds of things on him.

...And the things he puts on him are exactly what Li Shuo likes. He can't resist them at all, but has to pretend he hates them.

[Task: Please have the player say, "Is that all?"]

[Task: Please have the player say, "My back didn't hurt at all last night."]

[Task: Please have the player escape alive.]

Li Shuo watches as the game's male lead is tortured by his teasing, driven to the brink of madness as if his body and mind are being torn apart, even though he's supposed to be the one forcing his love on Li Shuo.

Li Shuo, immersed in the "game": ...Oh no. I think I'm going to break this character.

At least he's just data.

Qi Siyan doesn't know when he came to possess a soul.

He knows he was originally data, with procedures to follow and tasks to complete.

It's absurd that Li Shuo's appearance gave him emotions beyond his predetermined programming, as if Li Shuo himself had given them to him.

You're mine, mine alone...

Don't run... Don't you dare escape. Stay with me... Only me...

You can't leave me. Stay with me forever... Let's play a game... Let's play together...

I'll make you feel so good, Li Shuo.

...Love me.

Please.

The broken program repeats itself endlessly.

In the midst of his madness, someone sees through Li Shuo's careful act of pretending not to like it.

"So you really like it when I treat you this way?"

Qi Siyan asks.

If his character breaks, the game will end...

Li Shuo doesn't want to leave this place. He doesn't want to leave Qi Siyan. Not at all.

Forcing himself to hold back, he replies, "No..."

"Liar."

That lovestruck expression of yours doesn't look like you hate it.

Qi Siyan pulls him close and bites his earlobe hard.

"Relax. Don't resist me."

Reading Notes:

1. 1v1, both leads are each other's first and only. No breaking up or switching pairings.

2. Captive-room fiction, entirely fictional forced love. In reality, it's a sweet romance with mutual devotion.

* The blurb may be revised before the novel begins.

Theme: Though the one you love lies beyond mountains and seas, mountains and seas can still be moved