Apocalypse Game: The NPC Only Wants to Get Rich

Overworked office drone Shen Sanyue wakes up to find herself inside a post-apocalyptic game world.

As luck would have it, she has become a hapless NPC, owing her company five million yuan for the privilege of working there. She still has at least 72 years of unpaid labor ahead of her.

On the day the game launches, she unexpectedly binds to a Player System. Its very first quest is: pay off her debt within half a month, terminate her contract, and buy back her freedom!

Shen Sanyue opens the chat groups for the two opposing player factions she has joined and, wearing a secret identity, gets down to business.

When players lack a strategy guide, she infiltrates the NPC ranks and sells insider information to both sides!

Players from opposing factions cannot trade, so she acts as a middlewoman and pockets the difference, selling out her stock in no time!

The game forbids cross-faction parties, so she becomes a party leader and recruits without restrictions, cutting through countless dungeons until party slots are auctioned off at astronomical prices!

Making money off the players isn't enough! She won't let a single one of those upper-class NPCs off the hook, either!

But there's more to the game world than meets the eye.

Players and NPCs are disappearing one after another, while the authorities inside and outside the game keep silent. Shen Sanyue investigates in secret, only to draw the attention of multiple factions who hunt her down.

When she finally uncovers the truth about the world, she discovers that the real apocalypse is about to arrive.

Shen Sanyue: What? The world I worked so hard to build is going to be destroyed before I've even had a few days to enjoy it?

No way. She has to save the world!

[Reader's Guide]

1. MMORPG-inspired, with the main plot interwoven with dungeons. A lighthearted business-building and leveling story, featuring player chat groups, forums, and faction conflict. The heroine has many secret identities; players have nicknames, character names, and real names.

2. The heroine has a love interest, but romance takes a back seat to the plot.

3. The story is entirely fictional and for entertainment only. Please don't conflate it with reality.

Theme: Better death than a life without freedom.