Can Even Top Players Get Scammed?

Feel free to visit my profile and check out my completed novels!

My new novel, After Sharing Assets with My Favorite, is up for advance collection. If you're interested, please add it to your favorites!

This novel begins updating on December 11.

---Blurb---

(To be revised? Maybe...)

[1]

Lan Xiang is an NPC in the Western fantasy MMORPG Infinite, currently learning how to become a player.

His teacher is the server legend Chao Jinghui, whom he lured into taking him as a disciple with his tears.

When faced with a quest where one wrong choice could ruin everything, his teacher says: "Load a save!"

Lan Xiang, a game native who can't afford rewind items without premium currency, proceeds very carefully, determined not to overlook any possibility and to get the happy ending.

When faced with a boss who uses its ultimate attack like a basic attack, his teacher says: "Might makes right!"

Lan Xiang, still underage and with all his attack, defense, magic, and agility stats below three digits, trembles in fear, determined to avoid the boss's lethal attacks and kill it in return.

When an NPC he rescued praises him with heartfelt gratitude, his teacher says: "Gold and treasure!"

Lan Xiang, a shy boy born in a poor little fishing village, has learned his lesson: G-gold and treasure!

[2]

Chao Jinghui, the game's top player in both spending and combat rankings, took on a young disciple.

He could put up with his little disciple being hopelessly clumsy because the kid had a nice-looking avatar. And since the kid was so sweet-tongued, Chao Jinghui showered him with resources, treasures, and limited-edition outfits, while helping him plan his future and taking him through dungeons and quests.

He even agreed when his little disciple suggested they become an in-game couple.

After all, the couple skills and outfits really did look great.

It's not like he actually fell for his little disciple!

No!

[3]

Lan Xiang's teacher was generous. He gave him whatever he asked for, and even things he hadn't asked for.

But those things weren't what Lan Xiang cared about.

What he cared about was connected to "time."

If his teacher could rewind time without consequences, and Lan Xiang learned from him, could he one day learn time magic and return to the past to save his family from dying in a tsunami?

Then one day, Lan Xiang discovered a bug in the couple skill [Together Forever]. Using it, he could find the data stream from the past and bring back his family as they once were.

Sorry, Master!

[4]

Unbelievable: Chao Jinghui, the server legend, had been scammed.

After he and his little disciple became an in-game couple, the disciple vanished. All the gear and items he had given him disappeared, and the kid never logged in again.

Chao Jinghui cursed Infinite for three thousand words, then quit the game.

When he decided to go outside and clear his head, a little kid pitifully tugged at his pant leg.

The faithless little disciple, who looked and sounded just like his in-game counterpart, said, "Master, help me, please~"

Damn it all.

Call me Master and I'll give you my life. (Breathy voice)

[5]

Lan Xiang hadn't meant to do it, either.

He found his family, but in the real world.

It turned out that his family in the game were all based on real people: several programmers at the game company. Lan Xiang used a bug, and since he was a bug himself, two wrongs made a right, and somehow he ended up in the real world.

The moment he landed, he saw his teacher.

(Basically, it's a little story about a game legend who gets carried by a game native. The focus is on the top. The author is terrible at writing blurbs. The main story is about the top being guided through leveling up, so just read the novel!)

Content warnings:

1. The top insults everyone without distinction, and his words are very unpleasant, extremely unpleasant. The bottom gets insulted at least as much as everyone else. (But the top isn't a bad person, he just speaks harshly. He won't do bad things.)

2. BGBLGLGB and other combinations are all included, with no gender exclusivity. I enjoy reading all kinds of pairings, so that's what I write. If you can't accept it, feel free to leave.

3. (I'll add more if I think of anything.)

Theme: Love and peace