Abyssal Heartbeat: The Boss Is Luring Me In

When the final Boss of a game disguises himself as a player to hunt down the genius who sees through everything

Lin Che is dragged into the death game Abyssal Corridor, where he awakens an SSS-rank talent, [Rule Insight], from the start.

In the very first stage, he realizes something is off about a man named Lu Jiuyuan. The man knows the game far too well to be a player.

“Team up?” Lu Jiuyuan smiles in the shadows of a blood-red hospital. “I promise you won't die.”

Lin Che refuses, but when he's at his wit's end, the other man pulls him into his arms. “All talk, but your body says otherwise.”

Only later does Lin Che learn that Lu Jiuyuan is the game's final Boss, Zero, disguised as a player to find the one who can break the game.

While everyone else is escaping, they're flirting. While everyone else is terrified, they're locked in a tense push and pull.

On the Doomsday Ark, Lu Jiuyuan deliberately turns the players against Lin Che, then takes a fatal blow for him;

In the haunted school's dead of night, Lin Che is chased by a spirit summoned with a pen and hides in Lu Jiuyuan's room. As they clasp hands and chant, their breaths mingle;

In a game of Werewolf, Lu Jiuyuan takes Lin Che's place in death, pressing a hand to his heart. “Remember, you owe me your life.”

Then one day, the Boss exposes his identity to protect him, and the System forcibly recalls him to the highest level.

A game-wide announcement rings out: “Player Lin Che, defeat the final Boss to clear the game.”

Lin Che grips the [Love Lock] they acquired together and smiles up at the sky:

“Who says I have to defeat you?”

“I'm going to fight my way up, floor by floor, ”

“And bring my Boss home.”