"Ouch! It hurts so much!"
"Don't chop me, I really didn't plan to start a harem! I just wanted to give everyone a home! What did I do wrong?"
On a gentle rainy night, bamboo leaves rustled as they fell.
Accompanied by a bout of headache, Xu Yuan woke up from his sleep and opened his eyes.
"Where... where am I?"
As he regained consciousness from the pain and his pupils fully focused, he couldn't help but freeze as he took in his surroundings.
He was undeniably astonished.
After all, everything before him was far too unfamiliar.
The walls, ornately carved from expensive and smooth green jade, came into view. The Formation on the window woven from the Tianshan Snow Silkworm's treasure silk refined the scant moonlight into wisps of white, fluffy Spiritual Energy. On the stone table, a thousand-year-old Purple Sunk Wood Lamp swayed gently in the wind, making one feel as if they were in the Immortal Realm.
Wait a minute, something's not right!
There was a ninety, no, a hundred percent chance something was off. Why did this scene look increasingly familiar?!
Seeing the handsome young reflection in the mirror, Xu Yuan's pupils constricted, and it was at this moment, as his headache subsided slightly, that he remembered something.
He was starting to understand everything!
I... transmigrated?!
Xu Yuan remembered that just before he transmigrated, he was playing a single-player cultivator game called "Yandere Fairy, Don't Kill Me!"
There were a total of five fairy characters in the game, each one fond of the protagonist, and each one a yandere!
Having been single for more than a decade, Xu Yuan had no other hobby than to watch the yandere girls turn dark, holding their faces with flushed cheeks and giggling madly at him.
So ever since he bought the game, he worked on it day and night, his health deteriorating by the day.
Until one day, on a whim, he tried to start a harem in the game.
Despite the fact that the official guides explicitly stated there were only five main storylines plus a very special chaotic one, with no harem route.
After all, could it still be called yandere if you can start a harem in it?
But Xu Yuan thought, for a game like this, it's impossible not to have an easter egg harem route.
So he worked hard all night, unlocking all sorts of possibilities, ahem, endings, but none were successful.
Then, after failing hundreds of times, he finally resigned himself... and joined the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect.
If I can't unlock it, can't I just use a cheat tool?
No choice there, who asked for his hobby to be partying?
However, he did manage to cheat it out.
But just when he was looking at the screen with a satisfied smile as five beauties of different charms gathered on the bed,
He spaced out for a moment, and their originally joyful faces suddenly changed, their eyes piercingly staring out of the screen at him, scaring Xu Yuan so much his heart skipped a beat.
And after that skip, there was no chance for it to beat again.
"So, did I get scared into this? Or is it...?
Xu Yuan felt a vague unease in his heart. Unlike other transmigrators, he wasn't happy about becoming the protagonist of the game; instead, he felt nervous and fearful.
After all, it's common knowledge in yandere games for the female characters to have the upper hand and be in a strong position within the relationship with the male protagonist.
Not to mention "Yandere Fairy, Don't Kill Me!"
The game designers, who seem to have had a cerebral infarction, not only made each heroine's cultivation talent far surpass the protagonist's, but they also gave each a cheat tool.
Heart Voice, rebirth, simulator...
The main theme seems to be making the protagonist's death as miserable as possible.
The yandere characters in the game also continued the fine tradition of other yandere games. Once the protagonist is found to be two-timing or is seen as unable to fall for them,
The yandere heroines would either kill the person he liked and then imprison him, using him as a furnace, focusing on having his body even if they can't have his heart; or they would completely devour him, even merging their souls.
Some even destroy his physical body, erase the soul's memories, recreate a body inside their own, and then gradually instill the idea that he can only like her as he grows up. If there's a deviation, they would start over until he becomes a person who only has her in his heart, a real bunch of psychos.
However, upon realizing he transmigrated into this yandere game he was familiar with, Xu Yuan actually felt his tense nerves relax.
Although the heroines were yandere, it wasn't a big deal.
After all, yanderes are fine as long as you're loyal and don't betray them, usually nothing too terrible will happen.
Because of the overwhelming talents and cheats of each heroine in this yandere game, whichever main storyline the player chooses, that heroine will get a significant boost to suppress the other heroines.
So, Xu Yuan just needed to figure out the current phase he was in, whether he had entered a main storyline, and whose storyline it was.
Once he determined whose storyline it was, he just had to cling to her coattails.
What? You say the other heroines definitely won't agree, and what if they fight each other?
Ah? What can I do?
Of course, I'll just munch on seeds and enjoy the show, cheerleading and rooting for my official wife.
Why should I care about anyone else? Besides the main storyline, keep the other yanderes away!