Beep, beep.

A phone rang, and a handsome young man woke up in bed, dazed.

“Where am I?”

Mo Bai picked up his phone. The one in his hand wasn’t the latest iPhone X at all, but some no-name brand he’d never heard of.

He remembered that this kind of phone had been discontinued a long time ago.

Mo Bai looked around and realized he was in a tiny bedroom.

The walls were yellowed and cracked. The desk was old, and the laptop was the same one he’d been using since college.

Everything around him made him feel as if a lifetime had passed.

“Th-this is four years ago?” Mo Bai turned on his phone, and a familiar interface appeared before him.

September 27, 2019. 10:13 a.m.

The time on his phone reminded him that he’d returned to four years ago.

“Did I really come back?”

Mo Bai snatched up the mirror on his desk. Reflected in it was a young face.

Messages could be faked, but his appearance couldn’t.

That meant Mo Bai really had returned to four years ago.

“I’m back!” Mo Bai shouted.

He really had returned to four years ago.

Unable to hold back his excitement, Mo Bai couldn’t stop the tears of joy from falling.

“In this life, I’m absolutely going to become the strongest player in the world!” Mo Bai wiped away his tears and clenched his fists.

In his previous life, after graduating, he was quickly hired by a company because of his striking good looks.

But his looks also meant that all the women at the company were incredibly warm toward him, while his male coworkers treated him coldly.

After working there for three years, Mo Bai still chose to leave the company.

After quitting his job, Mo Bai decided to make money by farming gold in the famous game Super God Domain.

With a virtuality rating of 99.9% and players all over the world, Super God Domain drew in countless studios, companies, and veteran guilds.

Once in the game, Mo Bai soon became a somewhat well-known solo player thanks to his exceptional gaming talent.

He made a fortune selling equipment to guilds and studios.

But the good times didn’t last. By chance, he accepted a hidden quest from an NPC. When word got out, Longqi Guild came looking to buy it from him.

By then, Mo Bai no longer had any shortage of money.

What he wanted most was to become one of the strongest players at the top of the rankings.

So he turned down Longqi Guild’s offer.

But from the moment he rejected Longqi Guild’s offer, his nightmare began.

Longqi Guild declared that it would hunt him down, placing him on its wanted list worldwide.

As a solo player, Mo Bai had no way to resist a guild-wide manhunt.

After he killed an assassin from Longqi Guild, the guild’s players—who had been lying in wait—surrounded him.

It was the first time he’d been killed.

From then on, whenever Longqi Guild received word of his whereabouts, it sent people to hunt him down.

They declared to the world that this was what happened to anyone who crossed Longqi Guild.

Mo Bai was made an example of to scare the others.

Furious, Mo Bai threw everything aside. He handed over the hidden quest he had and got information on Longqi Guild’s leaders in return.

That day, every one of Longqi Guild’s leaders was killed—not even the guild master was spared.

But Mo Bai’s actions also enraged the guild’s leaders.

They even put Mo Bai on the Assassin Guild’s bounty list.

On the day Mo Bai was reborn, he killed Longqi Guild’s guild master five times.

After killing the guild master five times, Mo Bai’s level and equipment were also wiped out by the many Longqi Guild players.

Calmly, he pressed the delete-character button.

And then he arrived in the world four years earlier.