After losing his job, Bai Liu is swept into a relentless and nightmarish live-streamed game, a world teeming with all manner of monsters and murderous players. At first, everyone assumes Bai Liu is nothing more than an ordinary person who has stumbled into the game by mistake. Only later do they realize that the game itself, with its promise of victory and laurels, is reverently welcoming back its own deity—whispering to Bai Liu, “Welcome home.”