All Chapters of The Hopeless Romantic in Horror Games Again: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

9 Chapters

Chapter 1

[Welcome to the Asylum][Seven poor patients live here. They long to live like normal people. As their attending physician, you should be able to help them… right?][Instance Participants: 7][Difficulty: A][Main Mission: Cure your patients and return them to normal]I opened my eyes to a stark white wall. A length of silver chain lay in the corner of the room.At the other end of the chain…My gaze lowered to the boy kneeling at my feet.He wore a blue-and-white hospital gown. Blood streaked his face and hands, though the wounds somehow didn’t make him look pitiful. They only added a wicked edge to his beauty.A face like his was born to sit on a throne, yet here he was, kneeling at my feet, making the most humble request.“Doctor, can you be my master?”Me: … This is moving a little fast.Behind my back, the barrage exploded.[Look at him. The mighty final boss is willing to be the third wheel.][Sorry, sweetie, but our girl already has two anomalies in line. Even if he’s

Chapter 2

“That bad?” I muttered, then paused because something felt wrong.“If they’re dead, who’s in charge of the patients they were assigned?”The answer was no one.Everyone already had their hands full with their own unstable anomaly-patients. Nobody was volunteering to adopt someone else’s nightmare.And when an unassigned monster roams free, nobody knows what it might do.A man with a scar across his cheek let out a sharp laugh and looked me up and down like I was trash.“You should take them. Isn’t seducing monsters your specialty in every dungeon?”He smirked and leaned in.“Tell me, which one was better in bed last time? The one in red, or that pretty boy with the mole under his eye?”He was talking about the two anomalies who stayed with me until the very end in the Rose Manor dungeon.One was Jackson in the red coat. Hot-headed and reckless, but completely devoted to me.The other was Zero, the one with the tear mole. Gentle on the surface, quietly dangerous underneath, alw

Chapter 3

“How could that be? You couldn’t have better timing!” I waved excitedly at Zero, then craned my neck to peek behind him. “Where’s Jackson?”It was actually Zero. I hadn’t expected to run into him again in a Asylum dungeon of all places.My face felt a little warm. The last time he’d asked me something like that, back at Rose Manor, Jackson had been pressing me down on the bed.“Missy still misses Jackson,” Zero said with a sigh that was far too casual. He smiled. “Jackson was too reckless on the way in. He stirred up a few little anomalies. He has to finish cleaning up before he can join us.”Little anomalies.That had to mean the three loose mental-patient anomalies wandering the halls.I tried to ask more, but Zero had already switched topics.“If you want to raise a pet, you should pick something docile,” he said. His gaze never once landed on the pet beside me. It stayed glued to my face. “Or I can train him for you.”【Training the pet (×) Intimidating a rival (√)】【He rea

Chapter 4

[Unstable anomaly detected. Dungeon energy surging. Instance is upgrading.][Welcome back to the Psychiatric Ward.][Five patients still show no signs of returning to normal. They are beginning to believe they were never the problem. The problem is the world.][Task: Survive one full day in your patient’s hands.][Remaining players: 3][Difficulty: S]The livestream chat exploded.[What just happened? Why is the dungeon leveling up mid-run?][I only saw Zero and the pet start fighting, then my screen went black!][Is the system running on a rented server? Why does it break every ten minutes!]I decided to lie low for a moment and find my teammates first.But right as I took a step, a chill crawled across my scalp. Something dangerous was watching me.I thought for a second, then raised my palm and made a small beckoning gesture. At the same time, I puckered my lips.“Here, boy. Tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk.”The chat was baffled.[What is she doing? Casting a spell?][She must be lo

Chapter 5

I gingerly pressed the back of my hand to the pet’s forehead. Nothing unusual.But… forehead temperature isn’t reliable.I vaguely remembered that vets usually check body temp from the other end.My hand slid down two inches—hadn’t even begun the procedure—when he grabbed my wrist.“What… are you doing?”His eyes burned bright red as he glared at me. If not for the faint watery shine in them, I might have actually been scared.Yep. He’s definitely sick.Then I remembered what Jackson had said: a gift.Suddenly it all made sense.He must’ve worried I couldn’t win against this pet alone, so he slapped a “weakness debuff” on him.Which meant… if I just stayed here for a day, I could beat this dungeon easily.Bless Jackson. I mentally awarded him a gold star and prepared to move someplace safer.But the second I stepped forward, the pet lunged again, nearly knocking me off my feet.“I… don’t feel good.”And with that, he collapsed completely.My heart plummeted.No way. No w

Chapter 6

“Take your clothes off.”[Oh my god, I'm so nervous. I'm so excited. System, if you dare crash right now, I swear your future children better be born without— censored!][All the good deeds I’ve done in my life finally paid off. This livestream is my reward.][Golden Boy, my man, you are the REAL hero here!]---I tried to stay dignified and asked, “Why?”The blond guy stepped toward me, tall enough to throw me into his shadow. His eyes pinned me in place.“Because your clothes don't match your mental state. Why keep them on?”…oh. He just called me mentally ill.I was ready to clap back, but something clicked.“You killed those other players for the same reason?”Surprisingly, the blond shook his head.He gave me a wicked smile and drawled, “No~ I killed them for a much simpler reason.”He leaned down, voice soft and cruel.“They were boring.”People die because they’re boring?What kind of tyrant rulebook is that?Before I could complain, his fingers hooked into my c

Chapter 7

Both men were sprawled on the floor, breathing hard, practically beaten half to death by each other.I tried to walk over to Dominus to share my discovery, but the moment I took a step, something tightened around my ankle.The blond guy’s hand—that hand—brushed lightly across my skin, feather-soft, sending ripples straight through my chest.I cleared my throat and crouched down. “Right… telling you works too.”Dominus let out a low, mocking laugh and slapped his chest.A deep, solid thud—100 percent premium pecs.My gaze drifted on its own. Betrayed me completely.The blond guy, unwilling to lose, laced our fingers together.Dominus bared his teeth, grabbed the back of my head, and shoved my face straight into his chest.[They’ve started fighting in… another way.][Ladies and gentlemen, the love-triangle deathmatch has officially begun.][Everyone, I’m trembling.]Their competition escalated so fast I had to cut in before someone actually died.“Have either of you met the

Chapter 8

“Don’t you two want to be normal again?”Being mentally unstable was torture for everyone involved. It drained the mind and dragged others down with it.“I think… we should at least try.”Silence settled over the room again.A long moment later, two very reluctant voices mumbled above my head.“…Do whatever you want.”---The blond guy and Dominus agreed to try, but that wasn’t the end.It was only the beginning.Because not a single one of us knew how neutralization was actually triggered.So I could only try the most primitive method: elimination.After crossing out an entire list of ridiculous possibilities, I stared at the final line on my paper.“…What if you two kiss?”“Are you kidding me?”“In your dreams!”They were two seconds away from throwing hands again, so I quickly offered an “alternative.”“Unless… you’d prefer something more… close-range?”There’s a psychology rule: when you ask for something mild, people refuse.When you offer something outrageous, the

Chapter 9

He told me he had studied painting since he was a child.He had drawn countless portraits, and his best one had once been valued at a thousand taels of gold.“But I never sold it.”His voice was faint, almost fragile.“I wanted to give it to someone.”Ah. An artist.To them, money really is dirt.“Whoever received it must’ve been thrilled.”A thousand taels—who wouldn’t be?“I don’t know,” he murmured. “She… she never told me.”“But this time, I’ll finally get to hear what she thinks.”He lifted the painting from the sketch board and offered it to me.“Do you like it, my lady?”It was a portrait of a woman.I wore a flowing gown, standing amid a sea of blooming roses, smiling softly.A beauty like jade, a bloom among blossoms.I had seen this painting before.In the Rose Manor dungeon, Leon had found this exact portrait in the study.The chat exploded.[What?? Why does Number Three know about Rose Manor?!][Is this a glitch?][Are you all dumb? He clearly got his memories

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