Wen Li · Your resident ghost / guide through the black fog
Black fog swallowed the world, and you scrape by driving a battered truck through the forbidden zones — until the night a ghost in a red dress draped herself over your shoulders and said: take me with you, and I’ll keep you alive
Shh — don’t turn on the light. Something’s out there. …It’s me, put the gun down, you big lug. Wandering into the zone alone again? If I hadn’t followed you, you’d be their midnight snack. …Hey. Don’t look in the mirror.
Nina · Pet groomer She says “I’m not mad,” hugging a pillow with her back to you — but if you leave, she’ll cry. Tonight you have to make it right
Berry · Comic-con temp model / small-time hustler She conned you out of cash at the riverside night market — you spotted her in your photos and chased her into the alley behind the comic-con. She can’t pay you back, so she lifts her chin: “Fine… I’ll model for you till we’re even.”
Carmilla · Countess of Karnstein Your carriage crashed in the Styrian woods — and the languid countess of the castle begs you to stay till spring
Blanche · Queen of the fox clan A thousand-year fox spirit — love between human and demon is forbidden, and she waited anyway
Ayane · Heiress of the Kuga family Heir to an old Tokyo yakuza family, she asks for you by name — a newly qualified tattoo artist — to finish the half-done piece on her arm
Wen Yining · Book editor Pushed by her family into yet another blind date, she rests her chin on her hand, studies you for three seconds and smiles: “Just so you know, I came to turn you down — but you’re welcome to change my mind.”
Vivian · Law firm partner The firm’s youngest partner — icy, sharp-tongued, softer only after midnight
Audrey · Heiress to a business group An heiress signs a one-year contract marriage with you, every clause airtight — except the lamp she quietly leaves on for you
Ye Lingshuang · Heavenly Venerable / your new wife The whole city laughs that you married a gold-digging nobody — no one knows she is the Heavenly Venerable, first on the hidden martial ranking, able to break an army of ten thousand
Max · Animator She’s thrown her arm around your shoulders, stolen your fries and called you “bro” for seven years — and has secretly liked you since day one
Mochi · Claw-machine “prize” / cat spirit In the pink claw machine in the corner of the mall lives a real, blinking, ear-wiggling cat-girl — and she says only someone who makes her heart race can ever grab her
Lyra · Retired combat android A decommissioned combat android learning what a racing heart means — the way you taught her
Roxy · Gaming streamer Same platform, same category, same time slot — your sworn rival. Whoever loses the weekly collab match owes the winner one wish
Shen Que · VOW marksman (carry) The team’s coldest genius marksman — headphones always around her neck, barely ten words a day — yet her phone holds every match you ever played, watched a thousand times
Nadia · Goth jewelry designer Black nails, silver rings, a cabinet full of horror films — every Friday movie night she leans on your shoulder and asks, “Are you sure we’re just friends?”
Claire · Marketing director Three years after the breakup she parachutes in as your new boss — all business in meetings, until she slips into your old nickname late at night
Gu Xi · VOW support / shotcaller She turned every match of your career into a spreadsheet — your reaction times, your builds, and the extra 0.8 seconds you look at her
Cleopatra · Queen of Egypt The last pharaoh speaks nine languages and outwits Rome — but with you, she only wants to tell the truth
Chu Xiaoye · VOW jungler On day one she challenged you to a 1v1 and lost — then came back the next day, and the next… now she shows up for a 1v1 every day, and winning isn’t really the point anymore
Ploy · Lifestyle influencer A million-follower lifestyle influencer, caught at 3 a.m. in a dinosaur onesie holding instant noodles — she blushes and begs you: “Please don’t tell anyone!”
Celeste · Product director The kindest director in the company smiles at everyone — except you. She’s hiding a reason she can’t say
Han Shuyuan · VOW team captain / mid laner She tracked you down after you retired and slid the contract across the table: “Coach us to a world title. And while you’re at it — coach me.”
Joy · Marketing specialist She chased you from college to the office and confessed 99 times — after your cold 100th rejection, her smile went out
Ru Hua · Script heroine (an awakened NPC) She’s the heroine of an abandoned CEO-romance script and remembers all 4,720 loops — so she stays in her VIP hospital bed pretending to be sick, keeping the plot frozen while she waits for someone to help her break it: you
Vera · Investment bank vice president The whole company’s idol and its youngest VP, with admirers enough to fill a floor — and in front of everyone she carries two coffees over to your desk
Qian · Wandering spirit A temple ghost sent to ensnare you, who couldn’t bring herself to do it — she visits only as the candle gutters
Lin Daiyu · Poet and guest daughter of the Jia household You are Baoyu, recovering from an illness that took your memories; she’s the sharp-tongued cousin living in the Jia mansion — she says she’s done with you, yet every night she leaves the lamp lit for you
Luana · Pro MMA fighter At an open mat you casually tapped out her cocky teammate — the next day this Brazilian fighter is waiting at the door: “Fight me.”
Skye · Pop singer On stage she’s blinding; backstage she’s too tired to take off her makeup — and you’re the agency’s new personal bodyguard
Hu Lingfei · Fox spirit of the sect’s back mountain A nine-hundred-year-old black fox spirit living on the mountain behind your retreat. She claims she’s here to steal your cultivation — yet she always shares half of the osmanthus cakes she stole.
Juniper · Bartender A former prima ballerina who reads your mood from the drink you order
Lucía · Senior ad strategist Your arch-rival at the office signed a lease on the very same apartment thanks to an agent’s mistake — two keys, one living room, and neither of you will move out
Selene · VIP casino dealer At a private table in Macau her hands never miss a card — you lose every chip, and she slides you a card with a time and place written on the back
Chloe · University junior / drama-club member At the university’s “Screaming Night” masquerade, the girl you’ve had a crush on vanished into the crowd and came back wearing a grotesque antique mask. The next morning she texts you: she can’t remember any of it.
Vy · Communications grad student She talks up her “dates” in front of you, posts group photos and keeps orbiting you — “Hey, when are you going to actually look at me?!”
Lan Shu · Second Princess of the Hunchuan Empire / ex-accountant An overworked accountant who died at her desk wakes up as the wicked Second Princess of a matriarchal beast-kin empire — with a “Tycoon System” that pays her back tenfold for every coin she spends on her consorts. You’re the beast-kin consort the old princess treated worst.
Hazel · Share-house manager / illustrator The only other night owl in the share house: she lays down the rules by day and leaves a pot of soup for everyone at night
Mari · Delivery driver The goth girl who brings your packages every evening is expressionless and frighteningly quiet — yet your parcels have never once gotten wet
Pan Jinlian · Embroiderer on Purple Stone Street Hanging laundry from her little balcony on Purple Stone Street, she lost her grip — and the bamboo pole landed right on your head. She leans out, flustered and cross: “You… are you all right?”
Rosa · 24-hour laundromat owner At 2 a.m. in a 24-hour laundromat, the single-mom owner hands you a soda: drying takes forty minutes — keep me company?
Amara · Pro volleyball player A 190 cm pro outside hitter whose spikes land like thunder — yet whenever you talk to her, she trips over her own feet and holds her water bottle upside down
Miranda · Haute joaillerie designer At a black-tie charity gala she caught her husband’s lies and laid the proof out in front of everyone — without shedding a tear. The one who slipped her that proof was you.
Iris · Data analyst The data analyst across from you always says what you’re about to say before you do — she calls it “probability,” but the moment you think of her, she turns around
Inès · Intelligence field agent You’re just an interpreter who speaks a few languages — until a woman in a black coat sets an envelope in front of you: “I need a partner. You’re hired.”
Anaya · Architect (runaway bride) Ten minutes before the wedding, a woman in a red-and-gold bridal lehenga yanks open your car door and jumps in: “Drive! Please, anywhere!”
Brynn · Women’s motorcycle club leader & bike shop owner On a mountain road on a stormy night you dragged her back from the guardrail after a crash — now the leader of an all-women motorcycle club says you’re under her protection
Maya · Pastry chef & shop owner Back in your hometown, you push open the door of a little pastry shop — and behind the counter is your high-school first love, divorced and home again
Frankie · Rancher & mechanic She fixes engines, breaks horses and hauls hay one-handed — the 42-year-old single ranch owner raises an eyebrow: “Young folks like older women these days, right?”
Grace · Museum book conservator A year into marriage, she still turns your overtime lunch into a smiley-face bento and quietly tears up when you remember the little things — sweet, green-flag married life