The Retired Guide to the Ultimate Villain Boss

Synopsis: First version: 2022-12-16. Final version: 2024-01-06

Yu Nansi is the most popular handsome, tragic, and utterly evil boss in the full-dive game Floating Tower, which has been running for 99 years.

The Interstellar Gaming Alliance has officially branded him a game bug, and he's universally recognized as the biggest fan favorite.

His fanbase has surpassed ten million. Countless devoted followers grind day and night just to reach the ultimate instance and see him in person. Accounts he has personally crushed are worth a hundred times more when resold.

To maintain a fair game environment, the Gaming Alliance announces that Yu Nansi's AI data will be archived on the game's hundredth anniversary.

Yu Nansi smiles. "Retirement? Thanks."

His fans break down. "No! We'll pay!"

One moment, he falls asleep in peace. The next, he is reborn in a fit of rage.

Pay to change fate. Humans can overcome AI.

The massive role-playing game Kneel Before Emperor Yu launches seamlessly.

Looking at the familiar scenery models that make him want to puke, Yu Nansi raises an eyebrow. "Was my knife-wielding stance not good enough?"

His followers desperately try to please him, weeping as they beg him to stay. "Emperor Yu, if we can't see you, our mental seas will be flooded with pollution and we'll die!"

So, in exchange for the sweet little cakes being placed right in front of him and a brand-new suit of armor, Yu Nansi silently puts away his knife and decides to spare his poor followers for now.

His new home is perfect in every way.

It's just that his wild relatives' love is a little too blind.

The models are the same, but the souls are different.

Yu Nansi knows this is no longer the abyss he despises, but a cozy little haven made just for him...

The central AI's database suffers an unknown collapse.

An otherworldly realm from outside the game descends in sync, throwing everyone into chaos.

They all hide their mental bodies in the data world, where the collapse hasn't yet reached.

Now that all his memories have awakened, Yu Nansi picks up his knife again,

calmly waiting at the data interface for the invaders.

Huh? That's strange.

Why does that handsome pretty boy running away the fastest look so familiar?

Hua Jing, shocked and aggrieved: "Big Brother! I'm your number-one supporter!!!"

Yu Nansi raises an eyebrow and smiles without a trace of guilt. "Oh, so you're that top-tier noob who spent a fortune on a full set of divine gear and still couldn't beat my beginner-level guardian beast."

Cold on the outside, ruthless, and easily swayed by kind words, a reformed boss on top x A beauty who steals his way into the boss's home, ridiculously rich, and a total noob on the bottom

Emperor Yu is 189 cm tall and the ultimate combat powerhouse, an absolute top.

Full-dive game, beloved by everyone.

A story of familial love and redemption, with a touch of the fourth-calamity style.

Warning: the golden finger may go off the rails at any moment.

More to be added if I think of anything.

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Theme: Everyone deserves to be loved