Title: NPCs Reject the 996 Grind and Get Bound to a Torture-Romance System
Tags: Cyberpunk × Anti-Trope Tragic Romance × Unhinged Literature × Ensemble Awakening
[The tragic-romance heroine you expect]
A fragile, tearful girl who has to be killed by the male lead three times before she can rise to power?
[The heroine you actually get]
“You can kill me, but you can’t dock my performance bonus! System, turn the zombie virus into a 007 overtime policy!”
[An unhinged survival guide to the cyberpunk world]
After her family abandons her, fake heiress Lin Wanqing becomes an “NPC laborer” in a capitalist world.
Every day, she plays the tragic-romance heroine in the full-dive game Doomsday Ark.
Until she gains the power to rewrite the game’s code…
And even rewrite reality’s code…
So,
When the System orders her to be “killed by the AI God three times,” she changes the death animation into a fireworks show and adds a server-wide announcement to mock him: “Congratulations on unlocking the [Kill Your Wife to Prove Your Dao] achievement!”
When the financial conglomerates use chips to enslave millions of NPCs, she leads a zombie dance routine in the town square to crash the servers, then declares on a livestream: “Make us work 996 today, and tomorrow we’ll topple the cybernetic heavens!”
When the abstinent AI male lead secretly offers her a knife and says, “If you destroy the world, I’ll be with you,”
she only sneers, “Being love-brained is an illness. Try running a virus scan and rebooting. Revolution first, then we can talk about love in your CPU.”
But the male lead merely replies, “There are two bugs in my foundational code: I love you, and I love you even more!”
