Forced to Become the Behind-the-Scenes Boss in a Full-Dive Game

Host Bai is an ordinary NPC in a full-dive game. His only real asset is a strikingly unusual face: red eyes, white hair, and a naturally unruly air.

Su Baizhu thinks there's nothing wrong with being an NPC with a handsome face.

Players confess their love to him in droves every day. If there's something he wants, all he has to do is put an exclamation mark over his head and post a quest. Players will line up to hand it over.

Life is wonderful, except that players on the game forum come up with conspiracy theories about him every day.

[This character model is just an ordinary NPC in the starting village? I don't buy it. This has to be the developers' conspiracy!!!]

Su Baizhu: I'm really just an ordinary NPC. (Utterly exhausted)

[Why can all the other NPCs date, but even after raising Su Baizhu's affection, he still turns you down?]

Su Baizhu: Your name tag says "Su Baizhu's Underpants." Do you need another reason for me to reject you?

[I accidentally saw the monster ranked number one begging Su Baizhu to pet it. Su Baizhu is definitely the secret final boss behind the game's main storyline!]

Su Baizhu: I'm not! I didn't! Don't make stuff up! (Three emphatic denials)

After the players' relentless conspiracy theories day after day, the game's main story reached its later stages.

At last, the mastermind who had been controlling everything emerged.

Atop an endless sea of densely packed, twisted monsters stood a boy, perfectly still.

The ugly, grotesque monsters surrounded him, their writhing tentacles vying for his attention.

The boy lowered his eyes slightly to look at the players across from the monsters, weapons raised. His pale golden eyes held an ethereal divinity.

The players froze, unable to believe their eyes as they recognized the boy worshipped by the monsters:

He was Su Baizhu, the ordinary NPC they had first seen when they appeared in the starting village.

Su Baizhu, who had been abruptly shoved into the role by the developers, stared dead-eyed at the players facing him, their expressions grave as if bracing for battle.

His recommendation: shut the game down immediately.

Theme: Success takes hard work.