After the Cyber World Launched, My Nemesis Took Me Home

[Please add this to your collection: my next novel, a road-trip thriller about competition and combat, *Burning Gold*] Cold, tsundere younger mercenary x cunning, flirtatious older CEO *switch Cyberpunk | Full-dive VR | Superpowers | Both leads get hurt -01- Cheng Qi, a taciturn, long-suffering mechanic in District D3, was once the undisputed king of the mercenaries. No one knew that he had gazed up at the Tower to the Heavens countless times, all for a chance to avenge his family by killing Xie Zhi, head of a corporate dynasty. Then one day, her assassination attempt failed. A game system suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and players from another world invaded. Granted the dual identities of NPC and player, Cheng Qi pondered: These players look like easy pickings. So she posted quests, leveled up, and evolved... while Cheng Qi coasted to the top of the rankings on the experience points supplied by players. But why was her NPC identity always a dog?! -02- Turned into a puppy NPC, Cheng Qi was unlucky enough to be taken home by her mortal enemy, Xie Zhi. And so began her double-agent life. By day, she acted like an adorable fluffball who knew nothing, circling Xie Zhi to steal information. At night, she fought side by side with the rebel leader, silently taking down enemies beneath the neon lights. But one day, Cheng Qi was ambushed. Just as she was about to turn back into a dog, she passed out from her injuries. Cheng Qi: ...I'm done for. The next morning, she opened her eyes to find her wounds carefully bandaged. Nearby, a languid woman in pajamas was casually handling business. When she saw Cheng Qi awake, the woman didn't so much as stir. She only smiled and called her by the nickname known solely to the rebel leader: “Good morning, Xiao Xing.” Cheng Qi: “?” -03- Her identity exposed, Cheng Qi realized she'd been deceived by her mortal enemy. She sneered and walked away, tossing the ring she'd prepared long ago into the trash. “From now on, it's kill or be killed between us.” A life shrouded in schemes might finally have taken a different turn, but it was only a deeper taunt from her enemy. Later, the truth finally came out. That night, rain poured down beneath brilliant neon lights. Atop a tower 1,800 meters above the ground, Cheng Qi caught her sworn enemy just before she fell. Holding the dazed Xie Zhi tight against her, the mercenary kissed her enemy without hesitation, until blood ran freely. The ever-composed woman in power was beside herself, murmuring: “Don't you hate me enough to make it kill or be killed between us...?” As she spoke, a ring was slipped onto her finger. Cheng Qi gripped her wrist and whispered: “Kill or be killed: it also means we live and die together.” Crowds streamed past beneath dazzling neon lights. Perhaps, in those nights they walked side by side, in those flashes of lightning, amid the pounding hearts hidden in the spreading sparks, there wasn't just one person who had fallen in love #Read as sworn enemies, write as wives# #It's just a couple's way of having fun# #Cold-faced killer, surrender already# #You love her too, don't you?# Comments are now open without restrictions. Feel free to leave a message. [Game Guide] 1. They switch, and neither is a good person in the conventional sense. 2. Cyberpunk + full-dive VR game + another world. Inspired by *Cyberpunk 2077* and *Ghostrunner*, but still full of my own worldbuilding. 3. The superpowers aren't the typical kind. They're more like game skills, but there will still be fights. 4. Players and forum posts have a significant role. *Burning Gold* blurb -01- Chen Sheng was driving to clear her head, wandering along a remote border. On a night when she felt most stuck, she came across a group of corpses, found a box of gold, and encountered a badly wounded mercenary. The mixed-race woman was covered in blood and hovering between life and death. Lying on the hood of a Grand Cherokee, she smiled at Chen Sheng and asked, “Are you here to kill me?” Chen Sheng glanced at her. “I'm just an ordinary person.” So the ordinary person took the assassin along and swallowed up the eight million in gold. From the Amur River in Heilongjiang to an abandoned nuclear-industrial city in the Ural Mountains, from glittering Murmansk to the E6 highway to Kirkenes, from Hamburg's fog-shrouded harbor to neon-lit San Francisco... Only when she reached the destination did Chen Sheng realize that the ten kilograms of gold had been the least important part of this chase. -02- To find out how her friend died, the infamous mercenary Wind accepted a strange commission and ended up gravely wounded. At death's door, she gazed up at the brilliant northern lights and thought how boring it all was. Until a pair of dark eyes entered her field of vision. She never imagined that one day she would gaze into those eyes and ask softly: “If all the looks I've given you along the way still aren't enough...” “Would kissing you make you realize that I love you?” For more completed novels in the same genres, visit my author page: Superpowers: *The Girlfriend I Mentioned in Passing Came True* Full-dive VR martial arts: *After Getting Together with a Game NPC, I Became Number One Under Heaven* Theme: Our fate is in our own hands.