Reborn as the Archmage's Rival - Chapter 26: Light, Lines, and Lessons

[First monster slain. Special rune obtained. Level 2 has been reached.]

Step 1: Inherit a creepy old mansion.Step 2: Unlock a cursed system that makes girls fall dangerously in love with you… just by saying “hi.”Step 3: Learn that if you don’t reject them within 10 texts, something terrible happens.My name’s Ren.And apparently, I’m the “Catalyst for Affection-Based Catastrophes.”(Yeah. That’s literally what it said.)My peaceful new life? Over.Now I’m stuck in a house full of magically unstable girls:A sword-swinging elf.A fire mage with zero personal boundaries.A strict class rep who faints if I so much as look at her.And a witch who cursed the bathroom mirror to spy on me.They’re beautiful.They’re powerful.They’re dangerously obsessed.And if I mess this up, someone’s going to get hurt—maybe me.Reject them too late? Game over.Fall for one of them? Even worse.This isn’t a dating sim.It’s survival of the cutest.Welcome to my life. It's not just a harem. It's a hostage situation.

Changqing has always felt that she’s incomparable to Guan Ying in every aspect. Even though she is pretty and has a good family background, this world is nothing more than a world where Princes are more attracted to Cinderellas.

[Highschool Love: The Pain of Romance]A game so cursed no players have completed it.Created to torment the players and have them experience heartbreak by having the heroines constantly getting NTRed by the villain.Everyone advises against playing it.But he was anything but stubborn.Ignoring the spiritual and mental torture from constantly getting NTRed, he persevered, and finally completed the game, achieving the mythical harem ending that everyone said to not exist and regarded as a myth.But before he can celebrate, everything turned black.“You can't protect your heroines, so I enjoyed them. I got to say, they were delicious.”