Su Mu is a "flirtatious connoisseur" who spends his days among society's rich heiresses. With keen powers of observation and flawless social skills, he lives life to the fullest. But a mysterious black invitation drags him into a studio at the heart of an abyss: Absolute Reality, a survival game variety show advertised as "unedited, livestreamed nationwide, and unscripted."
A business rival pays a hefty sum to buy off the production team. During a 48-hour closed-door shoot, they use malicious editing, emotional manipulation, and staged twists to frame Su Mu as a lying, promiscuous, selfish scoundrel with no shame in his desperate climb to the top. Faced with the sudden fury of thousands, Su Mu doesn't break down beneath the livestream cameras. Instead, he activates a talent he has kept hidden for years, turning every scheme against him into leverage for exposing his rivals' carefully concealed public personas.
Su Mu discovers that in this carefully orchestrated setup, every supposedly "strange" guest is hiding an identity they dare not reveal, and the coded language mixed into their camera-induced panic is the key to breaking through the walls around their hearts. He turns "complaints" into "deductions," and transforms "interrogations about public personas" into explorations of business logic. One by one, the mastermind's trump cards become stepping-stones for Su Mu's calculated ascent. As the two seasons of the show become hits, Su Mu goes from being a "scumbag" condemned by everyone to a "modern-day supreme genius" adored by viewers. But the web of information in his hands points beyond the entertainment industry to a vast game of hunting powerful figures hidden among ordinary people, and he has already begun to strike.
