A Side Character Gets Pestered in a Game

Li Shiyun beat a hardcore cyberpunk game, but woke up to find himself inside it as a ten-year-old boy, lying in a landfill in Neon City!

Even worse, he inherited a whole list of negative traits from the character, including “frail,” “low quality,” “animal hostility,” “drug sensitivity,” and “weak stomach.” To top it off, in this world ruled by guns and cybernetic implants, his profession was… a mage?!

In Neon City, where magic had long since fallen into decline and cybernetic enhancements reigned supreme, Li Shiyun was a physically weak, terminally antisocial (Type I personality) mage. He had only one goal: keep his head down and survive!

All he wanted was to hole up in his apartment, spend his days playing old-school keyboard games (how he missed Chinese online games!) and sleeping, and enjoy the hard-won retirement (?) he’d earned.

But trouble kept coming:

A gorgeous, unhinged neighbor: The game’s protagonist, the living legend and mercenary known as “Meteor,” Catherine, had moved in next door! She was always trying to drag him out on “dates” (to gun shops, shooting ranges, and black markets?).

A mysterious AI butler: Eve, the superintelligent AI he’d secretly brought out of the game, not only roasted him for losing money on stocks and helped him hack bombs, but also… secretly started livestreaming and became a top-tier star?!

A sky-high bounty: The mysterious virtual terrorist group “Smile Zone” had set its sights on him and Eve, offering a million credits for his life. Was the mastermind behind it all a corporate giant?

A life of involuntary celebrity: wanted fugitive teammates, a hot-tempered old cyberpunk neighbor, strange greetings from the orc doorman, and a “depression” diagnosis from an elven doctor