The Whole Internet Laughs at My Game Grinding, But I Grind Through

Framed and laid off by his company, Lin Chen overnight became the 'useless slacker' in the eyes of relatives and friends! Short videos are full of mockery about his idleness, acquaintances sneer at him, and everyone urges him to just go back to the factory and grind away. With no way out, he opens the hit holographic online game 'Huan Yu Sha Pan' to kill time, only to unlock a hidden easter egg permission left by the creator! Big shots spend money grinding dungeons and fight tooth and nail over priceless rare materials, but Lin Chen just holes up in an abandoned mining area picking up junk. Trash triggers hundredfold critical hits, game resources can be exchanged for real-world wealth, directly opening a two-way arbitrage between virtual and real! On the surface, he's a slacker lying flat, letting the whole server laugh at his luck, but behind the scenes, he's a scheming spectator, fleecing studios and capital bigwigs. He connects with a mysterious material buyer at high prices, meets two mysterious female leads, and the ancient rune metal plate in his backpack that can't be discarded hides a shocking secret about the game's rules being tampered with by capital. The more others grind, the more exhausted they get; only he gets stronger the more he slacks off, slapping the faces of everyone who looked down on him, step by step tearing open the truth of this fake world! — Description from novelcodex.org