the villain becomes white moonlight [qw] 4.5/5 1/23/2020

Same author How to Die as Heavy as Mt Tai.

MC eats nightmares has blood of a god. He found an actor (ML) whose nightmares are based on the movies he's acted in and each one is a complete world, which will fill him up for a month or more. MC applies to be his assistant so he can eat those nightmares. 1. Youth film MC is uncle (bad guy) ML is protag 2. Court conspiracy. MC is prince raised as a girl ML is prince/king of a neighboring kingdom being raised in MC country 3. Horror (but boring). MC is a ghost cultivator and ML is protag with yinyang body. 4. Gay BE. MC is rival ML is scum gong. MC still hasn't realized ML is gay and will change the script even 100ch and 4 movies/nightmares into the story (rolls eyes). I'm ok with him not noticing once or twice but every single time... it's getting annoying. 5. EoW. MC is a clone who can purify himself of radiation and ML is strongest infected (power). No zombies 6. Interstellar. ML is alien uncle of the king and MC is human kid (MC tried to back out of the dream and got s**ked into it). 6. MC goes into ML subconscious and remeets some of the chars and then sees ML past as various nonhumans (cat, painting ghost, zombie king). Turns out ML has a nightmare bloodline and the two are a natural pair. They get together, the end. Loses.5 because there were parts in a couple of the stories that dragged on forever and I lost patience with it and the MC eq is so low I'm not sure how he functions normally.

Afterall, he did mention that he learned not to care as he grew up, but also mentioned that his bloodline weakens his emotions.

but that arc's ML was probably the most frustrating one for me cause his set-up was a hero which is my least favorite character trope (?) ever

There is a pet peeve of mine here in the second to last nightmare which is stripping a characters memory to make them more susceptible to be romanced but, it's okay since there were no OOC and MC at that time needed that wake up call

1st arc:

I love MC professionalism here, he was really motivated to deceive the ML (don't worry, nobody's hurt). MC's setting here was an aloof, emotionless president with OCD, while the ML was a tsundere bad teenager. Over time, his tsundere characteristic was replaced by his obsession regarding his uncle (MC). Don't worry, he never force him. But this love was the restrained-but-if-you-cross-my-bottom-line-I'll-lock-you-up- type. He didn't dare to directly force his uncle to stay with him in case of breaking the current peaceful cohabitation. He's quite pitiful though, unconditional love for someone with little to no emotions. I don't think they even had s*x with each other, ever. For years of living together, I think this shows ML's characters, obsession, and conscience.

I'll repeat again, the MC's excuse for his scheme was quite confusing for the ML to process. I'll quote...

“I just feel that this world is quite boring. The things I want, those things that are difficult for others to get, can be easily obtained if I want to. It is too simple whether it is money, power or fame. So I thought of raising an opponent by myself, an opponent stronger than myself, would What it feels like. “

Then, the ML use this to settle his own heart my rationalizing that in the end he was the most important person in MC's heart. Well, he's not wrong even though MC saw him as his greatest creation.

2nd arc:

The MC was a prince masquerading as a princess because of the emperor suspicion towards his maternal (empress) family. The ML was a hostage prince. I think the previous arc was better because you can see some crumbs of romance. But here? You won't find it at all. Not even a kiss 🙂. The MC still forever dense, that's quite frustrating. I hope there will be more fluffy or skinship huhu. I hope the ML will remember his dreams in reality.

3rd arc:

The MC was a ghost cultivator and the ML was a ghost king that refined by him after the ML died to save the MC. At the beginning, the ghost king couldn't remember who he was then his personality and behavior was amalgamation between 1st, 2nd, and 3rd arc ML. As a ghost, his inhibition naturally collapse. As the 1st ML, he want to lock the MC up with him. The 1st ML manifestation was quite strong. As for the 2nd ML, he was quite gentle so maybe his obsession was not manifested so severely. As he said “You are mine, you cannot look at others, you cannot leave me.” The ML even made everyone forget MC's identity and change his friends memory regarding MC's to replace his himself so his friends still think that he's alive but never meet DY (MC's name).

4th arc:

This arc was rather boring but I still like it because they finally did it here haha. The ML really gave himself a green hat. I hope after this, there will be no more denial from the MC. After all, they finally have a proper and normal working relationship.

5th arc:

Here, the ML was very cute. He's the most powerful person around but he's such a softie. The MC was a clone and finally he didn't play a villain! Hands down the mildest ML from this entire novel.

6th arc:

The MC's memory was messed up because of a problem when transferring into ML's dream. He lose his inhibition (previously he plays according to his character role), directly threatening his roomate with knife. This arc was a romcom movie.

7th arc:

Here, the MC meet all of the MLs from previous nightmares. I don't particularly like this arc, so... This one was quite underwhelming.

The last man arc, if it was a real movie it would've been rock bottom

In the dreams the things he shouldn't remember he remember, which led to confusion and emotional developments which felt fake because of circumstances