Nightmare World: Seven Coins To Escape! [BL]
In a world where sleep leads somewhere far worse, survival is no longer guaranteed.
They call it Nightmare World—a place made of different worlds, each one a different horror with its own twisted rules.
Those trapped inside are called Dreamers.
They are given one objective: Collect seven rusted coins. Open the Gate. Escape.
Fail…and they don’t wake up.
They disappear.
The first world Yan Zhi entered was an abandoned wooden mansion.
It began too abruptly.
Waking up in a nightmare was one thing.
Catching a person who fell straight into his arms while he was trying not to die?
A person who was clearly no Dreamer. In fact, he wasn't human at all. After all, what human could glide through the air with such effortless, gravity-defying grace?
That was a problem Yan Zhi hadn't calculated for.
— Later, in another world —
“Yan, darling,” Chu Yingxue said brightly, “I think that skeleton is calling for us.”
Yan Zhi frowned. “Skeletons don’t talk.”
The pile of bones ahead tilted.
Then it lunged, fast.
Yan Zhi tensed—CRACK.
The skeleton shattered mid-air, bones scattered across the ground.
Yan Zhi blinked. “…Did you just hit it with a tennis racket?”
Chu Yingxue glanced at the object in his hand. “That’s what it’s called in your world?”
“…Where did you even get that?”
Chu Yingxue pointed into a dark corner. “Over there.”
Yan Zhi exhaled slowly.
Of course.
Chu Yingxue turned back to him, wearing a smile that Yan Zhi had already learned to treat with extreme suspicion.
"Yan, darling," he murmured, his voice dropping into a playful, velvety register, "maybe you should kiss me. It might make escaping much easier."
Yan Zhi looked at him. "How, in any logical sense, would that help?"
Chu Yingxue's eyes curved into lazy, beautiful crescents. "A little inspiration might sharpen that brilliant mind of yours. Don't you agree?"
Yan Zhi pressed a hand to his forehead, feeling a headache blooming. "Stop talking nonsense and find the coin."
"No," Chu Yingxue replied instantly.
He floated closer, his lower lip jutting out in a pout. "Not until you kiss me."
Yan Zhi chose to ignore him.
Chu Yingxue hovered in place for a heartbeat… and then he simply let himself drop. He didn't float down; he plummeted toward the hard ground. Or more accurately, he plummeted directly toward Yan Zhi.
Yan Zhi caught him. Automatically. Effortlessly. Of course he did. As always.
"…Don't look for trouble," Yan Zhi muttered, his voice low and weary.
Chu Yingxue beamed, entirely unbothered by the rejection. He reached up, cupping Yan Zhi's face in his hands, and pressed their lips together in a quick, shameless kiss.
"My darling," he said happily, his eyes sparkling with mischief, "you're the best."
Yan Zhi froze for half a second, the logic in his brain short-circuiting. Then, he let out a heavy sigh—the sound of a man reconsidering every life choice that had led him to this exact moment.
In the background—
The other Dreamers watched the scene in exhausted, shell-shocked disbelief. "…Can you two focus on the coins for five minutes?"
Even the surrounding entities seemed to hesitate in the shadows. It was as if they were collectively wondering—"Are we not frightening enough for these two?"
*Emotionally restrained genius Gong × Free-spirited, breathtakingly gorgeous Spirit Shou who keeps breaking through his walls
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