Has Xie Chang'an Been Deleted Today?

Xie Chang'an, the three-time champion of the whole-server poll for "Character We'd Most Like to Delete," transmigrates into the body of this good-for-nothing. On his first day, his teammates stomp him into the mud and curse, "You think you deserve to live?" Then a flood of comments from the real world appears before his eyes.

From then on, he solos a Lv. 12 Elite Boss at Lv. 5. He stands before a Lv. 25 World Boss at Lv. 8 and draws his sword. The whole server votes to delete him, and he turns the tables, getting two million people to vote to keep him. The developers spend all night changing his code, but he exploits a bug through the comments and drives them to slam their hands on the conference table.

Everyone thinks he's a lunatic using cheats. Until he enters an ancient, frozen city deep in the Northern Frostlands and sees seven ice coffins. Six hold people. The seventh is empty. His name is carved into the lid.

Three years ago, when the city fell, he was the only one left from the Seventh Squad. He made a promise: when spring came, not one of them would be left behind.

But spring still hasn't come, and the ice tide is coming again. Meanwhile, a line of code hidden in the game's backend for three years is being quietly rewritten:

"Xie Chang'an, sealed vessel. Unlock condition: deletion."

The whole server says he's a good-for-nothing. The whole server doesn't know that he's the only one who can break the seal at the very bottom of the game.

The price is deleting himself.