A Guide to Reforming Game Bosses [Full-Dive]

Ian is the young and promising commander of the Empire's Third Legion. Beautiful and kindhearted, he has topped the Brain's list of most desirable romantic partners for years.

But this commander, who remains composed even when the world is falling apart, stares pensively at a screen that keeps filling with all kinds of shameless comments.

[Commander!! Is my wife finally making another appearance after two months?]

[Why is there only a back view of him in the PV!! Huanjie, let me see my wife a little longer!]

[That waist, those legs, that face, that gentle yet slightly wicked smile! Asking for the hundredth time: when does the game go live!!]

After some careful investigation, Ian finally discovers the truth: his world is an open-world, full-dive anime-style game, and he is one of its popular characters... except the game has not gone live yet.

Caught completely off guard by the truth about his world, Ian doesn't panic. But after browsing the fanworks about him in the game's community, even his usually unflappable face forms a question mark.

Is the tender and powerful, yet fragile and pitiful man in these stories and illustrations, who has become devious and sensitive because of past trauma, supposed to be him?

Wait, do these players watching everything from an all-knowing perspective have no idea that he orchestrated those disasters himself?

Well, since that's how things are...

Ian clicks the button to register an account.

If he doesn't go along with this and clear his name, won't he be wasting this advantage?

When he first meets the person the community calls the "player in person," the young deputy commander of the Seventh Legion, he sees the white-haired boy's determined expression and silently crosses out the players' frivolous image of him.

But he couldn't have been more wrong.

A month later, the game goes live. The single-player game becomes a multiplayer open world, and the players take on the identities of interstellar mercenaries. They descend on the universe like a swarm of locusts, earning the name Fourth Catastrophe.

And he, a villain working behind the scenes, is chased across the entire star system by these shameless players.

"Wife! Wife! Let me join the legion!"

"Commander, I drew fan art of you. Please, you have to take a look!"

"Wife, when are you coming to my character pool!!"

Ian is on the verge of a breakdown. "Get lost! All of you, get lost!"

Can't he just stop trying to clear his name?! Let his schemes be exposed and become a hypocrite in the players' eyes! He can't take this anymore!

But after the story spells out all his schemes in black and white, the players fall silent for half an hour. Then the forum is flooded with posts whose titles are all different but whose content is strikingly similar:

[The commander must have had a good reason for doing all this]

[What's wrong with being ambitious? This character is even more compelling now!]

[It turns out the commander's goal is actually so noble... Click here for a ten-thousand-word analysis: Why I Like the Commander]

Ian, whose tragic and beautiful character image has been upgraded once again: ...

Why had he wanted to clear his name in the first place?

· The game was single-player during closed beta.

· The protagonist is chaotic good, and the forum includes players shipping characters.

· The setting is a full-dive game in space, but it's still a gacha game, so the technology won't feel too advanced.

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