I Slammed the Top-Ranked Beauty to the Ground, Then My Tenant Came Knocking with a Knife

[Full-Dive VR Game] [One Female Lead, 1v1] [Bickering Couple] [Hardcore Skill-Based Gameplay] [Everyday Urban Life] [Sweet Romance] [Climbing the Esports Rankings] [Rise of an Ordinary Guy]

Freshly unemployed Lin Che is holed up in a rental room that costs 800 yuan a month. He puts on a discounted headset and enters the hardcore full-dive VR game Divine Nexus. To scrape together his rent, he picks the universally derided Mechanism Scout class. Using terrain exploits that defy common sense and underhanded tactics, he takes on a forbidden-zone field boss far above his level. In a moment of crisis, he uses a passing hooded assassin in black, a god-tier player, as a human shield. Not only does he steal the core source stone, he also pins Youhuang, the server's one and only number-one player, in the mud and kills him by blocking his escape.

Their private chat explodes. The server's aloof top-ranked demon king sends him a bloodcurdling curse: "You're. So. Dead."

Even stranger, the moment he logs out, his sharp-tongued neighbor Gu Qingmian, who lives next door in real life and always wears a poker face, suddenly shows up with a cleaver and pounds furiously on his security door...