By the second day, they're already a couple and living together. MC becomes a little housewife, taking care of ML and cooking. Most of the time he's cooking, and when he's not, he just disappears hahahahaha he barely gets a line of text saying he went off to edit/play or is anxious to see ML. The ML is more of a protagonist than him, especially since he's the doctor working to "find a cure" for the epidemic, the arc's central problem.

Amid the chaos caused by the epidemic, he establishes a kind of state of emergency. It turns out that this world has been stuck in a continuous loop, and as an NPC, he became aware of it and is the one truly trying to find a solution. He knows of the players' existence and, knowing they'll become hostile later on, hunts them down. Aware that the vaccine is counterproductive, he searches for alternatives, deals with traitors and troublemakers, and maintains a rather tense relationship with the supernatural ML, who enjoys the entire situation. The General knows the truth about this world —that everyone is already dead— but still tries to save them and put an end to the loop.

There's even a scene where, out of nowhere, and through a dream, the System (? shows him the original timeline and how the ML suffered. They give ML a makeover, a tragic yet beautiful villain vibe. Meanwhile, the MC is crying uncontrollably, screaming for them to stop, and smashing the screen (when his tears touch it, they cause a short circuit). Yet, even in this moment, they keep describing his long, thick eyelashes, the whiteness of his skin, how pitiful but angelically beautiful he looked, and blah blah blah. Like... what the hell? That was ridiculous and absurd! Hahahah

Our MC seems to have been supposed to be a player, but something (the ml, I'm guessing based on summary) interrupted it, so MC is completely clueless. There's also the fact that I'm pretty sure as soon as MC was hit by the meteorite he shifted realities, so the "game" to the others is actually the reality he's been living for a bit already.

It's a little amusing seeing ML be jealous of himself since neither MC or ML have memories of the previous arc, except maybe feelings, but I also hope that isn't a recurring theme every arc.

Tan Xiao would ever regain his memories, so excited to see what happens because of it