On a stormy night, drama fan Lin Chen was rewatching Squid Game with his sick mother. As he worked out loopholes in the challenges, lightning struck his computer and blew it up. To his shock, he transmigrated into a real-life death game! A chip was implanted in his wrist, and 201 contestants had to fight for a prize of 40 billion won. Elimination meant death, and the organizers had already changed the rules and added traps, making the game far more brutal than the show.
Thanks to his intimate knowledge of the story, Lin Chen survived the shadow of “Red Light, Green Light,” used a clever trick involving body heat to beat the “Dalgona” challenge, and fought for his life on the glass bridge, escaping danger time and again. But when he saw blood spray before his eyes, he abandoned his obsession with being the sole winner and vowed to lead everyone out alive, both to honor his sick mother's plea and for the people each contestant cared about.
Nurse Li Yan, veteran soldier Zhang Biao, and engineer Old Han formed the core team. Undercover agent Jiang Zhien struggled with her conscience, driven by her determination to save her younger brother, while the selfish Zhao Yu secretly sabotaged them. They worked to solve the activity clasp, find the hidden marbles, and seize the control center. They had to face not only deadly challenges, but also expose the betting conspiracy of the global wealthy elite behind the game.
His mother's texts on his phone, the cost of Jiang Zhien's brother's surgery, and the team's bond forged in life and death became glimmers of hope in their darkest moments. From a sealed room on a deserted island to a global livestream, Lin Chen led everyone in breaking the rules of “survival of the fittest,” using unity and ingenuity to fight back against a capitalist hunt. Could they all make it out alive and expose the truth? And what did the anonymous invitation at the end portend, if not a new test of human nature about to begin...?
