Entertainment Savior

March 2000, outside the WEMADE game company in Guro District, Seoul.

A handsome sixteen-year-old boy, with a bank card containing only a hundred million won, took a deep breath, ready to enter and negotiate the copyright deal for a half-finished online game called "Legend."

If he succeeded, he could soon leave this country and return home to start his own business.

Who could have imagined that just ten days ago, he was a penniless trainee shackled by a contract akin to slavery, having only just crossed over into this world.

Ten days—enough for a person of high intelligence to shatter the chains of servitude and earn the first bucket of gold in his life.

Gu Cheng's thoughts drifted back to ten days prior.

...

Why am I so dizzy?

Gu Cheng barely managed to open his heavy eyelids, feeling his vision lagging, much like the cheap VR headset he played with as a child.

His head throbbed painfully, his forehead clammy and wet.

He slowly raised his arm and instinctively touched his forehead.

Instead of the expected VR headset, his hand encountered a soft, delicate hand.

Startled, the owner of the hand quickly retracted it.

Slender, tender fingers, like fresh scallions, brushed across Gu Cheng's palm, and he could clearly feel the calluses on her fingertips.

Then his hand found a handkerchief, seemingly stained with blood.

At last, Gu Cheng recognized reality: this wasn’t VR—he was truly dizzy from an injury!

“Could it be that Xiao Ju and the others, after stabbing me