This Game Is Selling You Short

Shi Yi transmigrated into his favorite game, bringing along all the gear he'd painstakingly farmed and paid for.

The System in charge of him is very pleased. With a max-level big shot back in the newbie village, his mission should be finished in no time.

But in reality, the big shot doesn't use his perfectly good weapons, instead electrocuting slimes with scraps of metal. He sneaks into a gathering of monsters to attend the villain's festival, and while all the other heroes have climbed three mountains, he's flirting with guys in the newbie village.

System: ...? You must have something seriously wrong with you.

Only later does it realize that, sure, the big shot is a big shot, but a max-level big shot has lost all worldly desire to level up. All he wants is to find bugs and mess around with them.

System: Eavesdrop on the villain... I didn't tell you to press your face against him!

Shi Yi: Don't worry, there's a bug.

System: ...Whatever makes you happy (smiles).

During this eavesdropping mission, Shi Yi pins his favorite villain boss against the wall and showers him with cheesy pickup lines, completely oblivious to the NPC who's supposed to be carrying out the mission, watching him with keen interest.

Shi Yi has only two things in his daily routine: finding bugs to cause trouble, and exploiting bugs to flirt with his favorite great villain. Then one day, he discovers that the great villain is alive!

Just as he starts nervously following the missions, the great villain grabs him by the chin. “Why aren't you calling me ‘baby’ today?”

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Mu Li is a self-aware NPC. He knows his only purpose is to destroy the world as part of the story, then be defeated by a hero. Since the world is going to be destroyed sooner or later, he might as well kill the hero in the newbie village first.

Later, the hero takes him to the snowy mountains to freeze into an icicle, to the lava to roast sweet potatoes, to soar over the grasslands, and to the newbie village to bully slimes. With cheesy love lines arriving on time every night, he suddenly starts to think that maybe there is some point in letting this world stay.

Theme: As long as you keep an open and playful heart, the world can become fascinating anywhere