(Leveling Up, Slow-Paced, No Golden Finger for the Protagonist, No Harem, Not a Wish-Fulfillment Novel. Skip if that's not your thing.) Lai Lie is a boy who longs for freedom. Abandoned by his parents at the age of two, he spends seven long years in an orphanage. He thinks his whole life will pass this way: grow up, leave the orphanage, and pursue his lofty ambitions.
But everything changes on his ninth birthday.
He discovers that the world outside the orphanage is far more complicated than he imagined. Friends betray him, his family abandons him, and monsters slaughter everyone in the orphanage.
Now homeless and adrift, he is forced to enter the outside world ahead of time, where one mystery after another awaits him.
His origins, his family, his friends, monsters, and gods will all lead him down a road of no return.
