Yang Qingzhou is an amateur Taoist priest from a family of Taoists. He's also an avid player of high-freedom immersive xianxia games, and a veteran gamer who turned one such game into a dating sim.
Now he has one piece of good news and one piece of bad news.
The good news: He finally got what he wished for.
The bad news: He finally got what he wished for...
Before transmigrating into the game, he'd spent over two months successfully winning over Fang Zhishen, the mysterious, roving character with the highest difficulty rating, whom no one had ever managed to win over since the game launched. And he'd managed to get...
A bad ending!
Heavens knew how much effort he'd put in over those two months to win that character over, only to be told at the end that after all that work, there was only one possible ending, and it was a bad one!
Yang Qingzhou was so furious his blood pressure shot up. He deleted the game and went straight to bed. But when he woke up, he discovered...
He had entered the very game he'd just deleted!
And...
He was back at the beginner's village where the game began.
The moment he saw the beginner's village, Yang Qingzhou felt as if his world had collapsed. Getting transmigrated into a game was one thing, but why had all his progress been wiped too?!
The affection he'd worked so hard for over two months to build up!!!
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Yang Qingzhou diligently starts doing quests and following the story, but soon realizes that things seem different. Why do the people here seem like real, living humans?
Why, after he leaves the beginner's village, does someone he hasn't even had the chance to win over again take the initiative and ask to travel with him?
Why has the story changed?
Why...
Does it seem like he can't return to his own world?
After entering the game, he is forced or chooses to travel through one place after another, reaching one ending after another, all while that cold, deep voice keeps ringing in his mind...
[Congratulations, player, you have achieved a happy ending: Forever United]
[Congratulations, player, you have achieved a happy ending: Hearts as One]
[Congratulations, player, you have achieved a happy ending: Two Hearts, One Body]
[Congratulations, player, you have achieved a happy ending...]
[Congratulations, player, you have achieved...]
[Congratulations, player...]
[Congratulations...]
No...
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!!!
I want to go home! I want to go home! I want to go home! I want to go home! I want to go home! I want to go home! I want to go home!!!
I want to... go home... go... home...
After failing to get home yet again, he gives up and lies flat. Then Fang Zhishen, who has been by his side all along, suddenly smiles and says, "Do you think that if you reach an ending, you'll be able to leave like you did before?"
"A-Zhou, isn't it nice to stay here? You can do whatever you want. The life and death of everything in the world is in your hands. If you want something to live, it lives. If you want it to die, it dies. Don't you like that? A-Zhou, don't you like it?"
Yang Qingzhou's response: I like your grandpa!
He does everything he can to escape Fang Zhishen, but soon discovers...
No matter how far he runs, he always ends up somewhere familiar, as if trapped in a strange loop that has no end and is made entirely of endings.
This bizarre loop is composed of all the places he knows so well.
The umpteenth time he returns to the starting point, the voice that had been gone for so long suddenly speaks behind him...
"A-Zhou, are you trying to get out?"
Yang Qingzhou: "..."
"A-Zhou, don't you know?"
Know what...?
He slowly turns around and meets Fang Zhishen's utterly expressionless face, showing not the slightest hint of happiness or anger. In an extremely deep, sinister voice, Fang Zhishen says, "You can't get out, because... this is an... incomplete game world."
[Congratulations, player, you have achieved a happy ending: Together, Knowing and Keeping Each Other]
Yang Qingzhou looks at the fake world before him, draws his sword, and glances back at Fang Zhishen. "If you're going to keep me trapped here, then I'll kill you."
Fang Zhishen looks at the sword embedded in his heart and says, "Too bad. I can't die right now."
Yang Qingzhou doesn't think that's a problem. He thinks: Then I'll kill you thousands and thousands of times. Sooner or later...
You'll die!
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Sunny and cheerful at first, a little unhinged later, Taoist priest by family tradition bottom x somewhat gloomy, sly, black-hearted nonhuman top
[Blurb written July 22, 2025]
Reader's guide:
1. Slow burn.
2. The hatred is a slow burn too.
3. There is a little faux-replacement romance.
4. Happy ending.
5. Readers of pirated copies aren't my readers. Please don't come looking for trouble. Any luck and fortune you wish to bring me trouble with will instead go to readers of legitimate copies.
Theme: Do no evil and practice all good. May evil stars never shine upon you, and may auspicious gods always protect you.
Xiaozhou lost his memory and was deceived so that he didn't know what the world was like (x)
So cool, old Fang, forcing Zhouzhou to swallow his own flesh is too bad (yelling) Poor Zhouzhou was forced to be Hannibal for a while [Qingpants]
Lao Fang and Xiao Zhou are both crazy about each other to show respect (x)
Hey, this snake is so crazy and silly, it's so funny
No wonder Lao Fang is so crazy, uh,, beyond his reach. He gets crazier and miserable and crazier. Although there were early signs of male ghosts, now he is completely a living male ghost [Knock on Wooden Fish]
Crazy is really crazy, Lao Fang, when the time comes for the crematorium, you will be the one crying [Three Flower Cat Head]
Lao Fang left it here and beat the nooks for wood. If the gear broke, Xiaozhou hated him, so he went back to beat him again.
[Orange Candy] The plot is so exciting, madam, come on www
I am used to reading the important points first to get a general understanding of the story, and then read the full text. Looking at it now, although it is despicable, the so-called ancestors of gods and the way of heaven deserve to die even more.
One said that no one would harm future generations, but he took action after watching Zhou Awakening's soul be killed. A person who seems to be for the world, but actually harms and controls others for his own goals. Regardless of whether it is set like this or why, a truly righteous person would not do these things. What is the difference between such behavior and high-sounding behavior?
I don't know what other reasons there are, but now it seems that the way of heaven only knows how to develop in the planned direction, and it does not hesitate to do evil things for this purpose. The gods talk about protecting the world and guarding the way of heaven, but in fact they are generous to others at the expense of their own descendants, regardless of whether the other party has awakened, and only make amends afterwards. In this way, the person who was hated before seemed innocent, although he was not innocent at all.
But it turned out that Zhou didn't hate them at all. Only Zhou now hates this weird world. Poor cub [crying]
Finished spreading flowers,,,, this old Fang is really haunting Xiao Zhou like a ghost,,, looking forward to the extra chapter ww
Xiaozhou lost his memory and was deceived so that he didn't know what the world was like (x)
So cool, old Fang, forcing Zhouzhou to swallow his own flesh is too bad (yelling) Poor Zhouzhou was forced to be Hannibal for a while [Qingpants]
Lao Fang and Xiao Zhou are both crazy about each other to show respect (x)
Hey, this snake is so crazy and silly, it's so funny
No wonder Lao Fang is so crazy, uh,, beyond his reach. He gets crazier and miserable and crazier. Although there were early signs of male ghosts, now he is completely a living male ghost [Knock on Wooden Fish]
Crazy is really crazy, Lao Fang, when the time comes for the crematorium, you will be the one crying [Three Flower Cat Head]
Lao Fang left it here and beat the nooks for wood. If the gear broke, Xiaozhou hated him, so he went back to beat him again.
[Orange Candy] The plot is so exciting, madam, come on www
I am used to reading the important points first to get a general understanding of the story, and then read the full text. Looking at it now, although it is despicable, the so-called ancestors of gods and the way of heaven deserve to die even more. One said that no one would harm future generations, but he took action after watching Zhou Awakening's soul be killed. A person who seems to be for the world, but actually harms and controls others for his own goals. Regardless of whether it is set like this or why, a truly righteous person would not do these things. What is the difference between such behavior and high-sounding behavior? I don't know what other reasons there are, but now it seems that the way of heaven only knows how to develop in the planned direction, and it does not hesitate to do evil things for this purpose. The gods talk about protecting the world and guarding the way of heaven, but in fact they are generous to others at the expense of their own descendants, regardless of whether the other party has awakened, and only make amends afterwards. In this way, the person who was hated before seemed innocent, although he was not innocent at all. But it turned out that Zhou didn't hate them at all. Only Zhou now hates this weird world. Poor cub [crying]
Finished spreading flowers,,,, this old Fang is really haunting Xiao Zhou like a ghost,,, looking forward to the extra chapter ww