As one of the first closed-beta players in the Dream Fulfillment Game, Yan Juntong had only one goal: to live long enough to retire. But just as he was about to retire, the game forcibly erased his memories and threw him into a newbie instance, making him keep working like a worker ant.
No salary or benefits, just forced rehiring to keep digging holes everywhere. Do you like it?
Even the capitalists on the streetlamps would give this obsession with free labor a six out of ten.
With his skills sealed and all his items gone, Yan Juntong had nothing but a shabby little umbrella. Surrounded by starving ghosts, he lay in a coffin with a backup already prepared, wearing an emotionless smile.
Damn game. Now that there's no employment contract to hold me back, just wait until I tear your house apart.
And so, a legend was born among this generation of newcomers:
Other players got chased around by monsters, turning their packs inside out just to survive.
He'd stand by a nest of weak monsters, and they'd go quiet as mice and line up to offer him tribute.
Other players got into an encounter battle. The Boss would say, "Give me a kidney, and I'll let you live one more minute."
He entered an encounter battle. The Boss would say, "Give me a smile, and I'll let you live one more hour."
Other players struggled through the game, then burst into tears over their meager rewards.
He hadn't even said a word at the entrance to a stage before the Boss pulled out a rare item. "Give me a kiss, and it's yours."
The players: "...What the hell is with this double standard? This game is awful!"
The monsters wept: "Don't ask. It's just all those years of getting beaten up day after day by a try-hard."
Yan Juntong: "You might not believe me, but I really don't want to grind this hard."
But he vaguely remembered that someone was waiting for him far away, and he'd already kept them waiting for a long time.
Xie Fengyuan hadn't always been called Xie Fengyuan. He was the game's most perfect creation, the avatar of the game's will.
That is, until Yan Juntong broke into the depths of the sea and asked him if he wanted to see the real world.
Even after being sent back for a factory reset, with his memories left in pieces, he still remembered that a human had given him a name and promised to take him out of his prison.
The first year, the human didn't come.
The second year, the human didn't come.
The third year, the fourth year... By the tenth year, he decided to stop waiting.
He would drag his little liar back and lock him in the depths of the sea to keep him company.
If the game tried to take his human away, he would "kill his father."
The game: "..."
You really are a model son.
An amnesiac, jealous, split-up seme who was stood up and searches the whole world for his lover x a max-level amnesiac uke who can dismantle instances and sweet-talk Bosses
1. Updated every night at nine. Xie is the seme and Yan is the uke. They will not switch roles.
2. The seme appears in every instance. He's the one with nothing on his mind but marriage.
3. The game is no good. A scummy boss who exploits employees and treats them like dirt deserves to be strung up from a streetlamp.
4. The characters aren't based on real people. I'm doing my best to make this sweet, heartwarming, and satisfying. If anyone's going to pull out a knife, please let me run thirty-nine meters first.
Theme: Carve my love for you into my DNA.