[Third-person narration] [This story is entirely fictional] [Please don't apply fictional behavior to real life]
Yan Zheng has always thought of himself as an ordinary person, with an ordinary job, an ordinary life, and an ordinary family.
It never occurred to him that his world was an instance in an infinite-flow game.
Now he knows.
But the price was a floor covered in blood, and his younger brother's lifeless body lying in the pool of it.
In the distance, men laugh loudly as they savor and rate the thrill of the hunt.
They call themselves "players."
They point at his brother's corpse and call him an "NPC."
* * *
After Yan Zheng cuts open the bodies of those so-called "players," he finds the same organs and tissues as those of the species defined as "human."
So "they" and "us" aren't fundamentally different after all?
Then what gives "them" the right to sit above us and erase his brother's existence?
He looks up at the sky, blue as a glass dome, and laughs. So what should he do next?
First, find a way into that higher-dimensional world.
Second, take it down.
* * *
"Welcome, new player 602883, to the Survival Game. What is your name?"
"Zheng."
TIPS:
1. The protagonist is the top; the author considers this a strong x strong pairing, with mutual salvation.
2. I politely decline readers who define themselves by all sorts of labels and identify everything as a dealbreaker. If you don't like it, please leave. The author has no taboos and no dealbreakers. Comments that spread rumors or insults under the guise of warning readers will be deleted.
3. [HIGHLIGHT] The author really, really dislikes using "pure/impure" to define people. Regardless of gender, having exes, having had a happy, natural relationship with an ex, kissing, or even having sexual experience is perfectly normal. Even if someone has had N exes, that doesn't make them "impure." And if someone has suffered sexual violence against their will, they are a victim, not an "impure" person. [Please don't use "impure" to describe characters when posting warnings.] [HIGHLIGHT]
4. Creating is a free act, as long as it obeys the law. I don't recommend using labels like "top stan" or "bottom stan" to define any author, work, other readers, or yourself.
5. The bottom in this story is a beautiful man with a resilient spirit. He suffers terribly before meeting the top. [Warning: He is coerced and suffers a great deal of sexual violence.] The character was inspired by the Korean comic The Man's Wedding.
Theme: Hardship has shaped who you and I are today
