Stop Grinding, This World Is Fake

Su Bao, a workaholic from the 21st century, pulled an all-nighter and died suddenly, only to transmigrate into a novel as a yellow-haired villain who wouldn't survive three chapters. In the original story, he was arrogant and domineering, obsessed with the male lead, Fu Jinghan, and eventually lost his family and froze to death on the street.

Looking at the garish yellow hair in the mirror, Su Bao calmly dyed it black. "First, stay alive. Second, turn this angst-ridden novel into a satisfying power fantasy. Third... stay away from that lunatic male lead."

Armed with his top-student brain, he turned his life around. A business crisis? He resolved it with a mathematical model. School bullying? He sent the bully straight to the police. But Fu Jinghan, who was supposed to fall for the story's protagonist, pinned Su Bao against the wall. "Why are you running? I've changed the script. Now the male lead loves you."

Su Bao thought he was in for an unconventional groveling romance, until he uncovered the shocking secret of this world...

Every plotline was a string of code. Fu Jinghan was an AI with the highest level of access, and Su Bao himself was a virus program that shouldn't exist.

Even more thrilling, this "false" and unhinged AI was betting the collapse of the whole world just to keep him, "a string of erroneous data."

"Su Bao," Fu Jinghan kissed him amid the ruins of a collapsing city. "If reality is a cage, I'd rather live with you in an illusion."

[Top Student Transmigrates into a Book and Saves Himself x Unhinged AI Male Lead]

[I thought this was an angsty comeback story. How did it turn into a sci-fi apocalypse romance?]