The Young man in Online Romance (1): 

Gu Juntian had transmigrated.

He didn’t know who he used to be, only that his name was Gu Juntian.

And now, he had transmigrated into someone with the exact same name — a fat shut-in.

Looking at the piles of garbage in his room, Gu Juntian sighed.

The original owner’s life was really miserable!

The original owner was also a scumbag.

Gu Juntian had inherited the original owner’s memories, and he also knew the original owner’s future.

The original owner came from a fairly well-off family.

His paternal grandparents had worked in the education system, bought property early, and after some redevelopment projects, the family ended up owning several houses.

His maternal grandparents ran a small business, and in addition to several houses, they had a considerable amount of savings.

Both his parents were only children, highly intelligent and very capable, earning a substantial income.

Born into such a family, the original owner should have been very happy. And when he was young, he really was the pride of the family.

His parents married late, so by the time he was born, his paternal grandparents had already retired and could devote themselves fully to raising him.

By the time he was in kindergarten, he could already recognize many characters. In the first grade of primary school, he was able to read children’s books entirely in English. At school, he consistently ranked first in his class.

Up until the second year of junior high, he remained outstanding. But that year, he encountered a problem.

He could no longer get first place. Gradually, other students at his school began to surpass him in grades.

Unable to accept failure, the original owner studied desperately, sleeping only a few hours a day — but his grades only got worse.

He thought everyone was laughing at him, refused to go to school, and even refused to leave home.

He became addicted to video games, and whenever his parents tried to make him return to school, he would self-harm.

Terrified, his parents stopped forcing him. The original owner was more than happy with that and ended up staying home all day playing games.

This went on for over ten years, and now he was twenty-eight.

His paternal and maternal grandparents had passed away, and as for his parents…

Two years ago, while traveling, they had an accident and died unexpectedly.

At twenty-eight, the original owner inherited nine houses from his grandparents and parents, along with over ten million yuan in cash. Because his parents died in an accident, he also received several million in compensation.

He instantly became rich.

Since graduating from junior high, he had never studied further or worked. Before his parents’ death, his life had been entirely arranged for him.

His life skills were abysmal, and he had no concept of money.

Around this time, a company in his country launched a full-immersion online game. The original owner bought a game helmet and, relying on his money and years of gaming experience, became a well-known figure in the game.

In this game, you could spend money to improve your character’s appearance. Always shut in and overweight, the original owner spent heavily to make his game avatar look like the ideal version of himself.

He was extremely generous in the game, buying whatever he wanted. Within a year, he had spent several million.

Because of this, everyone assumed he was a rich second-generation heir, and a crowd of people flattered and praised him.

This gave him great satisfaction, and he became even more attached to the game world, even creating a fake identity for himself.

He claimed to own a large company, to be a successful businessman who could make huge amounts of money in minutes.

He also claimed he could be online for 17–18 hours a day because he hired people to play for him.

No one in the game doubted him, as his account practically shone with wealth.

It was during this time that he developed feelings for someone — a male streamer who played the same game.

The original owner was a prominent figure in the game, so the streamer teamed up with him to play, calling him “big brother” in a sweet voice while gaming.

The original owner was utterly smitten and began throwing money at him.

After spending about two million yuan, the streamer began flirting with him, which made the original owner ecstatic, and he continued to spend more.

Eventually, he ran out of money.

The more than ten million yuan in cash was gone. Although he still had real estate, the idea of selling houses was unbearable for such a reclusive shut-in.

Worried, he accidentally discovered that one of his guild members was wealthy — and seemed to like him.

So, he started a relationship with this person and began asking for money.

Sometimes he claimed his company lacked liquidity; other times he said he needed investment funds. Bit by bit, he scammed one million yuan from the other party.

Gu Juntian: “…” Are rich people these days really this easy to scam?

And this was only the beginning.

If he hadn’t transmigrated, the original owner would have kept scamming him.

After defrauding this man of two million, the man’s nephew approached the original owner, threatening to expose him online so that everyone would know his true nature, and also to sue him to recover the money.

Terrified, the original owner begged him not to.

He valued his online image more than his life and couldn’t bear the thought of losing his reputation.

Finally, the nephew made a demand — for the original owner to kill his online lover. If he did, the nephew promised not to expose him and would even give him a sum of money.

Any normal person would refuse, but the original owner actually did it!

He lured his online lover into the mountains and pushed him off a cliff…

Of course, the law eventually caught up with him. He ended up in prison, and his entire life story was exposed.

The original owner claimed everywhere that the murder was instigated by the lover’s nephew, but he had no evidence. Everyone believed he simply didn’t want to return the money and had killed for it.

The exposure of his real situation drove him mad.

Gu Juntian reflected on the original owner’s life.

The original owner had been too lucky as a child, and his family’s education had some problems, leaving him mentally fragile and unable to accept imperfection.

When his grades declined, he refused to go to school.

Once he became a “successful man” in the game, he fought desperately to keep that false status.

Fortunately, in the current timeline, the original owner had only scammed one million and hadn’t yet committed murder.

There was still time to fix things.

Gu Juntian couldn’t really understand the obsession with full-immersion online games.

They weren’t yet truly lifelike, and real life was still very different.

Most people only played in their free time, but the original owner spent all his time on it. Didn’t he get bored?

Well, in any case, the original owner was nothing like him.

He was the complete opposite — uninterested in games and only wanting to build a career.

The original owner had nine houses — one he lived in, eight others unused.

Before the parents’ death, six had been rented out, but afterward, he didn’t even bother collecting rent.

At first, when tenants transferred rent to his parents’ old phone account, he received it. Later, when they stopped paying, he didn’t even ask.

Even when short on money, he refused to sell property because that meant going out.

To Gu Juntian, this was a pointless way to live.

After calculating, he found the real estate was worth over ten million yuan.

The one million he had scammed from his online lover still had over a hundred thousand unspent. By selling a few houses, he could gather a full million to return to the lover.

He would also warn the lover about his nephew and break up with him.

Then, he could quit the game and start a new life.

Before quitting, he would sell the account and in-game items to recover some money.

After that, he planned to find something to do and start making money.

He absolutely refused to be a spendthrift — he would make money!

While thinking all this, he suddenly heard a sticky, syrupy voice: “Brother Tian, why aren’t you saying anything?”

Pulled back to reality, Gu Juntian realized he had been watching the streamer that the original owner liked.

The streamer was young. Though male, he was wearing a dress, styled as a woman, and speaking in a high-pitched, affected tone.

Gu Juntian was speechless.

What kind of taste was this? The original owner actually liked someone like that?

He exited the livestream and saw the desktop full of app icons, including the icon for the online game the original owner always played.

Thinking for a moment, he clicked on it.

He wondered if the online lover was online.

The lover’s in-game name was “Blue Sky White Sun,” real name Zhou Qinghao, and he was hopelessly love-brained.

Gu Juntian thought so because Zhou was far too easy to deceive.

The original owner hadn’t even pretended convincingly — no stock trading, no business experience — yet Zhou believed all the nonsense and kept sending money.

Gu guessed Zhou was an uneducated rich second-generation heir.

As for why his nephew would want him dead… perhaps Zhou’s parents had given him too much money and shares, and the nephew resented it?

While Gu was thinking this, in the headquarters of Z Country’s largest gaming company — also the manufacturer of the helmet he was wearing — one of the company’s heirs, Zhou Qinghao, was coldly addressing someone in front of him: “Redo your proposal. There are too many problems. It’s obvious you rushed it to fool me.”

The employee flushed red. “Sorry, President Zhou, I’ll redo it right away…”

“If you keep this up, I’ll have to ask you to leave,” Zhou said again.

This company, Qida Technology, was founded by Zhou’s grandfather.

Zhou’s father’s generation was mediocre, so his grandfather wanted to choose an heir from among the grandchildren.

He brought all of them into the company for fair competition, and Zhou Qinghao was the most outstanding of them all.