Fang Zhiyi frowned deeply—this content was completely different from the rules he had set!
"Hello, Mr. Fang," a foreigner with blond hair and heavily accented Mandarin approached. "Our country has already visited yours." He seemed to search his mind for the right words before settling on the simplest gesture—rubbing his thumb against his index and middle fingers.
Fang Zhiyi understood. These guys were sharp! They even knew to pay upfront!
"OK, GOOD, GOOD!" Fang Zhiyi gave him a thumbs-up. Just then, he caught sight of the protagonist's white moonlight, Ning Yi'an. She looked somewhat weary, but when she noticed Fang Zhiyi's gaze, she offered a faint smile.
"We paid too!" someone raised their hand.
"And me! Me!"
"We didn't pay, but we offered our latest technology to co-develop with the Xia Kingdom."
Fang Zhiyi nodded repeatedly. Suddenly, a tall, gaunt figure with a sickly gray complexion emerged from the shop behind him, dressed in a uniform dominated by red with yellow accents.
"Interns! Still standing around chatting? Do you not want this job?"
Fang Zhiyi turned in surprise. The eerie figure took one look at him and immediately recoiled, adopting a humble tone. "Boss! What are you doing here?"
When Fang Zhiyi didn’t respond, it seemed to have an epiphany. "Ah, you’re giving them a pep talk, right?" It then turned to the players. "Listen up! Here, whatever the boss says is law!"
The live chat erupted in amusement.
"Bro Fang probably didn’t expect this horror game to be set in his own store."
"Home turf advantage! Doesn’t that mean they’re doomed?"
"Not this time, I think. Rumor has it delegates from other countries came specifically to negotiate."
"What a shame."
"We paid! Fang Zhiyi has to guarantee our city’s safety!"
"Damn, you heartless monster, what about the players’ safety?"
Fang Zhiyi counted the participants—this time, there were forty-four players. Some countries had only one representative, others two, seemingly random.
"Hey, how many branches do we have now?" Fang Zhiyi asked the shop manager beside him.
The manager replied respectfully, "Including those in preparation, we have twenty branches."
"Expansion’s that slow?"
The manager grimaced. "Per your requirements, all new employees must undergo training, warehouses must be fully equipped, and we need to establish logistics. This pace is already fast, boss."
Fang Zhiyi hummed. "No worries. We’ve got helpers now—put them to work."
The manager nodded eagerly. "Got it! I’ll assign them right away!"
Fang Zhiyi glanced down the street. This eerie world was truly bizarre—the dilapidated buildings stretched endlessly, the city shrouded in gray. Some areas were enveloped in thick mist, its contents unknown, but every supernatural being feared it.
"Bro Fang! Bro Fang!" Fang Zhiyi turned to see Cheng Xiang waving at him. "What’s up?"
"Can I skip delivery duty?"
Fang Zhiyi raised an eyebrow. "Delivery?" He looked at the manager, who quickly explained, "These interns will only train at our main branch and two nearby locations, requiring twelve people. The rest will handle warehouse management and deliveries."
Fang Zhiyi studied the hopeful faces of the players. Spotting a few differently colored manuals, he snatched them up—"Warehouse Keeper Guidelines" and "Delivery Personnel Rules."
He strode a few steps into the street, scanning the surroundings under the group’s puzzled gazes.
"Host, this area is also surrounded by mist," Xiao Hei remarked.
Fang Zhiyi narrowed his eyes. "So the mist is that thing’s lackey?"
The manager stayed silent, not daring to interrupt the boss’s inspection, leaving the interns standing awkwardly.
Suddenly, a clerk came running down the street, panic-stricken. "Bad news! Bad news!"
Fang Zhiyi turned. "What’s wrong?"
"That—that guy—he’s talking!" The clerk flailed, struggling to articulate.
Fang Zhiyi motioned for him to lead the way but paused to order, "Keep them waiting." The manager nodded furiously as the clerk guided Fang Zhiyi down another street. The players stayed put, exchanging uneasy glances with the manager. They didn’t dare wander—even if Fang Zhiyi seemed in control, who knew what "unforeseen circumstances" might cost them their lives?
After crossing two streets, Fang Zhiyi saw the mist—it seemed to demarcate the game’s boundaries, sealing off the entire road. At the mist’s edge stood another branch, one Fang Zhiyi had always considered poorly located, too close to the main store.
In the shop’s display window hung three grotesque corpses. Two were troublemakers who’d refused to pay and were beaten to death by Fang Zhiyi; the third was the original convenience store owner.
After the main branch’s display of corpses scared off customers, Fang Zhiyi decided to distribute them among branches—both as décor and a warning. The strategy worked well.
The former owner’s corpse hung here. Now, his shriveled lips twitched, emitting sounds.
"Rule 12: Deliveries must satisfy the customer, or it’s dangerous."
"Rule 13: For unreasonable customers, delivery personnel must avoid them and report to the manager immediately."
"Rule 14..."
Fang Zhiyi scowled. After all this time, the corpse revived just to recite rules? No—he realized. In the original game plan, this guy was the dungeon’s final boss.
"So killing him actually freed him early, huh?" Fang Zhiyi smirked smugly.
Xiao Hei crossed his arms. "Host, sometimes you don’t need to flatter yourself."
"Come on, if I hadn’t killed him, he’d be controlled by that puppetmaster, like the hospital director."
The corpse trembled slightly, as if trying to slip free from the rope.
Fang Zhiyi waved a hand. "Tie it tighter. If customers ask, say it’s a new exhibit—viewing only."
The clerks nodded vigorously.
"Oh, and you’ll be getting a few interns. Don’t kill them." Fang Zhiyi’s gaze swept over them. "If they die, you’ll be the next decorations."
"Yes, boss!"
"Xiao Hei, your plan’s no good. The mastermind’s too slow—it hasn’t even noticed I’m onto it."
"Then what do you suggest, host?"
"Let’s raise hell."
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
