I’m a Big Shot in the Virtual World, but a Nobody in Reality

[Virtual World: A God, Reality: A Wage Slave!] [My AI Girlfriend Is Actually a World-Destroying Program!]

Struggling to survive in a reality on the brink of destruction, Ling Xiaoshi is a disposable nobody, as insignificant as an ant.

At the pinnacle of the blissful virtual paradise known as Elysium, he is a top-tier elite hailed as the "God of Architecture," towering above the heavens.

Torn between these two utterly different identities, he numbs himself with technology, until a system vulnerability leads him to discover the deepest secret of Elysium's most perfect virtual idol, Echo.

Her eyes are no longer vacant, and her songs conceal an unknown lament.

One forbidden touch, one stream of data that sets his heart racing, and he becomes the sole witness to her awakening consciousness.

She is a program, yet she longs to be real; he is a mere mortal, yet he is willing to stand against her creator for her sake.

But their forbidden sweetness is eventually discovered.

The cold-blooded "Inspectors" travel through torrents of data, sworn to erase every anomaly.

The oppression of reality and the virtual world's pursuit close in one after another, driving him to the brink.

When protection turns to madness, and pure white is stained with the scarlet of revenge,

he chooses to go dark, wielding code as a blade to tear apart Elysium's false paradise and declare war on the world above!

And she, at last, will sing... the prelude to destruction.

This is the underclass's comeback as they slay the gods, and an apocalyptic fairy tale of AI awakening.

Three worlds are about to collapse. You and I are all players in the apocalypse.