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Chen Jinji is a top-level grinder in the full-dive online game Cultivation Grand Realm. Everyone thinks he lives in the game day and night because he loves it.
But he's actually a poor soul trapped inside the game. He can't leave until he ascends within it.
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If he wants to escape the game, he has to work even harder at cultivation!
Chen Jinji painstakingly farms dungeon materials for his cultivation techniques, painstakingly levels up, and painstakingly maxes out the life skills needed to break through his state of mind.
As the game's most famous grinder among ordinary players, he has no interest in romance.
That is, until the game's most famous whale starts pursuing him.
Chen Jinji: I'm on the heartless path. I've never loved anyone. I'm busy.
[System]: Player Jin Mingqing has sent you 99 sets of Innate Phoenix Feet.
Chen Jinji: Hello, big brother. Please ignore everything I just said. The Great Way lies in the heart. If you say west, I won't go east. From now on, if anyone bullies you, I'll cut two of them down with one sword!
Jin Mingqing: Then will you date me?
Chen Jinji: I overstepped, bro.
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Jin Mingqing has an online boyfriend. He won't even get into how good-looking or charming he is. All that matters is that Jin Mingqing likes him like crazy. The baffling part is that his little online boyfriend refuses to meet him in person.
Jin Mingqing has made all kinds of guesses, and promised his little boyfriend that he would accept him no matter what he was like in real life.
His boyfriend hesitates, then says pitifully, "Then, bro, come take a look. My body doesn't even have a pulse in the real world yet."
Jin Mingqing: ?
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A love story between a grinder and a whale, and also the story of poor Chen's ascension.
Chen Jinji is the shou, and Jin Mingqing is the gong.
Theme: You may not be able to defy fate, but you must do everything in your power.