Who told you I’m an NPC?

Who told you I’m an NPC? — I’m a player too! I, Yan Yunqing, had been playing a city-building game called “Starting Today, I’ll Be the Demon King.” As a full-blown chūnibyō, I gathered a bunch of lunatics as my subjects and built a vast empire. Then I quit the game. But the game kept sending me messages like: [Your subjects are panicking because they can’t find any trace of you.] [Your subjects are rioting due to the king’s disappearance.] [Your subjects want to slay the king!!!] Annoyed beyond measure, I changed my phone number, and the world finally went quiet—until one day, I saw news that “Demon King” was getting an online multiplayer version. The next second, I was pulled in...