Error! The Player Is Hacking the Rules!

[The story opens in early October. Thank you, sweethearts, for adding it to your collections! ᧔ෆ᧓]

You Zhen is a game designer at a small studio. He keeps to himself and dislikes socializing.

Then one day, while heading home late after working overtime, he gets pulled into an infinite game.

The roulette wheel turns, and an outrageous skill lands in his lap: [Mechanic Rewrite]

Skill restrictions: Using the skill costs health and mana. The higher your bond level with the dungeon monsters, the more you can alter.

After reading the fine print below, the smile on You Zhen's face freezes. ???

You've got to be kidding. Spending health and mana is bad enough, and now he has to grind monster affection to unlock permissions?

And so a bizarre scene unfolds in the game lobby.

Other players: fighting desperately, scheming against one another, staying three meters away from monsters, struggling with all their might for the slimmest chance of survival.

Meanwhile, You Zhen takes a deep breath, walks up with a blush, and timidly asks the monster, “Hi... um, would you like to be friends?”

The livestream audience: Is this a joke? Do you think this is make-believe?

Then, in the next second, the monster lowers its head, actually takes his hand in its own, and gives it a gentle shake. “Hewo, fwiend.”

He thought it was just a fluke, but in the following livestreams, his play style veers completely off the rails.

In an exam dungeon, everyone stares at blank test papers, sweating bullets. You Zhen calmly picks up a red pen, raises his hand, and rewrites the verdict, scoring a perfect mark.

A lethal spike trap activates with a roar. You Zhen lightly edits the values, and the deadly metal spikes covering the ground instantly turn into a soft, harmless meadow.

The ultimate scripted death scene arrives, and the System displays a red countdown to death.

You Zhen lifts his eyes, his voice calm and flat. “This clause is void.”

The dungeon's main storyline rips apart on the spot. The inevitably fatal ending is forcefully overturned, and System alerts flood the screen in a frantic chorus

[Error! Player is rewriting the rules!!]

The livestream chat erupts in a sea of question marks:

“What the hell??”

“???????? What kind of absurd way to play is this?”

“Are we even playing the same dungeon?!”

After finally maxing out his permissions, You Zhen plans to coast until he clears the game.

But to his utter surprise, while clearing a dungeon one day, You Zhen accidentally clicks a pop-up and is pulled into a hellish nightmare-level dungeon.

He looks up and runs straight into the ultimate BOSS from the rumors, the one no one dares approach, and even the System fears.

The man looks frail and delicate, yet an aura of world-destroying oppression coils around him.

Afraid his health won't hold out, You Zhen suppresses his panic, hesitates for a moment, then awkwardly tries to break the tension. “How about we sit down first?”

The man slowly raises his eyes. After a moment's silence, his low, husky voice answers, “All right.”

The next second, the man raises a hand and slowly begins undoing his shirt.

You Zhen's pupils quake, and his whole body freezes in place. His ears turn bright red, and he frantically waves his hands to correct the misunderstanding. “Wait! Not that! I meant sit down! Just sit down normally!! I didn't mean for you to do anything else!!”

A socially anxious, clear-headed, sweet-looking-but-dark mechanic master uke x a frail, crazy, domineering wife-loving seme

2026/4/18 (tenth revision)

[Reading tips:]

* The uke protagonist really is socially anxious, but being shy outside the game has nothing to do with being a social butterfly inside it.

* He really panics when trouble strikes, but his in-game plays are truly outrageous.

* The entire story is set in a fictional fantasy world, with no real-world parallels.

* The full story is expected to be around 1.2 million words. Not sure if more dungeons will be added later.

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Theme: Perseverance leads to victory