Free-spirited, beautiful gamer × calm, highly intelligent researcher
Qing Kui travels between virtual and real worlds in search of her parents, who disappeared inside a game.
Only when the truth gradually comes to light does she realize that her parents’ disappearance was a trap designed from the start to lure her deeper into the game. And the will behind the game that set the trap turns out to be the friend who has accompanied her for years.
He used her parents as bait, drawing her step by step into the maze.
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To study the game’s anti-addiction system, researcher Shi Du chooses Qing Kui as his subject and accompanies her on her search for her parents. But their uncomplicated friendship as teammates doesn’t last long. He falls for her.
As they get closer to clues about Qing Kui’s parents, Shi Du stays clear-headed, certain that the game is virtual. Qing Kui, on the other hand, gradually comes to believe that the feelings they share in the game are real.
So when the game’s will sets a trap, “I can give your parents back, but you have to stay here and never leave the game”, Qing Kui doesn’t realize how dangerous the price is. She agrees almost without hesitation.
Shi Du gives everything he has, raising barrier after barrier in the code to block her path.
“Qing Kui, I absolutely won’t let you go in.”
Qing Kui takes up a weapon conjured from thin air. “I understand. Then let’s fight.”
If she truly can never come back…
“At least let me kiss you once more before the blade touches your lips.”
One-on-one romance, happy ending. She doesn’t stay in the game.
Note: Social Game is both the name of a full-dive game and the company that made it. It’s abbreviated as SG.
Theme: True clarity means knowing why you stay, and knowing for whom you’re willing to return.
