Feng Ye lacks everything except money. He believes there's nothing money can't solve. If there is, it just means he hasn't spent enough.
Even when he gets dragged into an infinite-flow game, the skill he gains is related to money.
The good news: His skill connects to all sorts of shops, stocked with every kind of bizarre, world-destroying weapon.
The bad news: His wallet account has only the 100 credits he got for signing up, and the shops are ridiculously greedy. A hundred credits won't even buy him a matchstick.
The good news: A hundred credits is just enough to buy an NPC who can fight monsters on autopilot.
The bad news: This NPC was deliberately put in the shop to rip players off. Pay 100 credits and he'll work for one second. He's also a huge glutton, so Feng Ye has to keep burning money to feed him.
Feng Ye: Damn it.
In short, there is no way he's going to fight the monsters himself. Their blood is gross, and they stink. He doesn't want to touch them at all.
To clear the game, he has no choice but to return to his old line of work: making money so he can support the NPC and have him fight in his place.
But then one day, the NPC suddenly said bashfully, "You've given me so much. I have no way to repay you, so I can only offer myself..."
Feng Ye: That's really not necessary...
Bian Sinian: I know. There's a saying in the human world that rich patrons like to keep canaries. I'm your canary.
Feng Ye: ?
Feng Ye: No, do you have any self-awareness? What kind of canary eats 3,000 credits a day? You're not a canary, you're a money-devouring beast!
Credit is currency, life and death are the stakes. Welcome to a world where wealth is everything.
The Pay-to-Win Player, coming soon.
Reader's guide:
· Top, likely to be plot-driven.
· Feng Ye x Bian Sinian
· The plot contains many unreliable-narrator twists. There will be lots of clues early on, and they'll gradually come together later.
· A fictional world, unrelated to reality and not intended as an allegory. Please don't read it as one.
Theme: Money isn't everything, but without it, you're helpless.