Online Game: Zero Realm

[Traditional MMORPG]

Lin Chen is a 27-year-old who life has just ground into the dirt.

Unemployed, dumped, and in debt, he has only 200 yuan in cash and tens of thousands left to pay on his credit card.

His fate begins to turn the moment he walks into an internet cafe.

He meant to find a proper job, but applying for one dead end after another has him questioning his whole life. Society thinks 27 is too old to hire. Who can he even complain to?

Li Ziming, a gamer in the next seat, offers him a cigarette and points him toward a way out: “Bro, you can make money playing games, too.”

Half convinced, Lin Chen puts on a VR headset and enters Zero Realm, a fully immersive virtual reality game.

And wouldn't you know it, he gets absurdly lucky the moment he logs in. The one point of Charisma from the registration bonus triggers a hidden main quest.

While other players are fighting tooth and nail over a single Crazy Chicken, he's already heading off alone to have tea with the Heroic Goblin Chief.

While other players are being chased all over the newbie village by the big guilds, he's already teamed up with Chen Xiaoyu, a little NPC girl, to grind the dungeon boss, the Mountain Spider King, into the dirt.

Overnight, his credit card is paid off, his rent is covered, and he's got several thousand yuan left in his pocket.

In the game, Lin Chen is first on the level rankings, dominates the equipment rankings, and becomes the first person in the country to change classes. System announcements spam the screen as if they cost nothing.

Looking at his account balance, Lin Chen makes the boldest declaration of his life: “I won't date again until I'm financially independent

unless the woman pays for everything!”

The lovesick loser that life had beaten down disappears, replaced by a man who slaughters his way through every other man in the virtual world.