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Before you start this story I recommend at least reading this part of my review if nothing else because I think the summary is a tad misleading:The story is mostly a world/empire-building novel with a romantic subplot on the side. At least the first 50 chapter focus on MC building his kingdom, the next 50 deal with MC trying to integrate NPCs and Players into one harmonious existence (NPCs die for real, players respawn) and the romance happens in small bits in between the kingdom building. If you know of anime, it's a bit like Sword Art Online or Overgeared where NPCs are basically sentient but only exist in the game world with both the real and VR game worlds co-existing.—————Our MC's a bit blackbellied and very focused on his kingdom while our ML is the obsessive yandere type. Not the "little black room" type but "takes MC's used teacup and preserves it" type, it didn't bother me because ML also thinks of MC as a god like existence, but if that is something that concerns you then be wary at the very least. I honestly really liked MC's world building schemes, and it's refreshing that the game world MC transmigrated into remains an actual game world. It gets really interesting to see how MC cautiously tries to instill loyalty amongst the players so that the players wouldn't turn his kingdom to ruin and mu*der his citizens (players think it's a game, for MC and co, it's their actual lives) along with dealing with the fact that he's dead in their world but can meet again with his family in the game world (and whether or not they think he's just a bunch of code).Now, the bad. I don't have many complaints honestly because it's still currently on-going, but I do think this story is one that shouldn't get binge-read because it gets to be a lot sometimes. There's also this part where MC, who was a famous singer before he transmigrated, opens up this digital bubble tea shop in this separate online internet-world in an effort to raise money for his kingdom. The problem for me is just, why bubble tea?? He already recorded a few songs to sell online (like iTunes sort of deal) that were selling, has a past as an accomplished singer, and his powers deal with singing, so why start a bubble tea store?! It's not a huge deal breaker, I just think the author could have used these chapters to strengthen the singing aspect but alas.Overall, it's a bit of a refreshing take on "transmigrated into a game" and kingdom-building because the game-world stays a game and MC will later on be forced to deal with players who very much see it as a game. While not perfect, it's very interesting and I highly recommend giving this story at least a shot.edit: some people have dm'd me asking for a link to free raws but I buy on jjwxc, so please stop asking me. I don't usually mind but when you get 20 messages with just "link to free raw's please", it's a bit annoying.