Scammed Out of 80 Million in an Online Romance

Xia Fuguai is a textbook big shot from Beijing's elite circles (Jinjiang exclusive: youth edition, stripped-down version)

He is chaste and rich, always carries prayer beads, and smells of sandalwood. He's nearly twenty and still a virgin, single as a tree.

Though he can be a little awkward, our young Mr. Xia is much more fresh and unconventional than all those big shots from Beijing's elite circles churned out on the assembly line.

He's a genuinely disabled big shot who can race around in his wheelchair, though only his third leg can occasionally stand at attention. His mental state is worrying, and he was diagnosed with severe delusional mania at a young age.

While other guys his age are partying on yachts with young models, he prefers inviting youthful boy bands who sing and dance to his house to chant the Diamond Sutra backward. He closes his eyes and taps away at the cyber wooden fish on his phone, fully immersing himself in the experience.

Young Mr. Xia is gloomy and world-weary. His hobbies include, but aren't limited to, eating vegetarian and praying to Buddha, reading books and admiring paintings (cultivation novels from a web-fiction site and shonen battle manga), watching a bald iron tree bloom, teaching his little parrot to swear like a sailor, and getting into passionate online arguments with brainless trolls.

The most dramatic chapter in Xia Fuguai's nineteen years of life was when he fell in love online and married a twenty-nine-year-old man in a game, then got swindled out of a full eighty million yuan.

He was just about to spend a hundred million yuan on a wedding for the ages in the game when his cyber-husband vanished with the exorbitant dowry he'd given him.

Xia Fuguai: My heart is closed to love. I'm tired of love. Online romance is never true love. I'm such a damn idiot, it's honestly adorable.

The angrier he got, the more Xia Fuguai decided to buy the game company outright and track down the despicable older man through its backend data.

The older man was named Gu Muchen, the only actor in the Chinese entertainment industry to have won every major award. He had the restrained, old-school cadre vibe of a man who soaks goji berries in his thermos.

Xia Fuguai, darkened version: I'm gonna make him recite sutras upside down until his lips catch fire (clenches fist), then choke him to death with goji berries I've soaked myself!

In twelve years since his debut, Gu Muchen has never been caught up in a single scandal. He has almost no gossip surrounding him, and relies solely on his acting skills, with over a hundred million fans across the internet.

But in his private life, he's a gaming addict, obsessed with I Shall Never Become an Immortal for years. During summer vacation, while he was filming, he even lent his account to his ten-year-old nephew to do his daily quests.

What Gu Muchen didn't know was that his little nephew had pretended to be in an online relationship to coast through the game. He got his gaming friend to put together a full set of gear for him, becoming a notorious top-tier freeloader on the server.

After filming wrapped, Gu Muchen logged in himself. Seeing the screen full of