Lin Yu used his Fraudster ability to survive a deadly game, uncovering that the humans were the outsiders before Yu Longguo killed him. He then rewound time, took control as the Administrator of a new game, and entered its next stage as players began dying.
Lin Yu survived his first Death game, investigated the Players’ world, and used his Fraudster ability to turn others’ belief into real items. He entered a second instance, Deadly Q&A, where his group solved lethal puzzles and chose a door to continue.
Lin Yu cleared the Inverted Tower by exposing Crowman’s deceptions, earning two bound Items and learning that he would face a Rank Advancement Trial early. After investigating the organizations interested in him, he entered his next Game Instance, where he had to make contradictory lies come true and find the hidden Fraudster.
Lin Yu gathered professions and investigated the deaths and deceptions surrounding Winter Mountain, uncovering Truth Company’s creation of Cha from stolen fear and souls. As the Dream Manufacturing Device drew survivors into a shared dream, Lin Yu stayed out and accepted Veil Valetti’s offer in exchange for a deal.
Lin Yu destroyed the Oil of Fear, advanced to Tier 1, and used multiple identities to infiltrate player groups and hunt Heavenly Artisan. After killing him and entering the Marauders’ base, Lin Yu arranged to draw the Marauders into a confrontation in Jiang City and asked Tycoon for support.
Lin Yu eliminated the Marauders, then entered an Instance disguised as Fluoxetine and faced a deadly banquet with six other Players. After gathering seafood and sharing in the banquet’s first dishes, he reached a contest where the Players had to wager on fighters for the Main Dish.
Lin Yu outmaneuvered the other players in the King of Gluttony contest, then helped them navigate the dessert phase and its dangerous rope cards. The final course began with the God of Revelry serving drinks that drew the guests into their flawed daydreams, and Lin Yu’s vision ended with him rejecting the honor he had won.
Lin Yu accepted the God of Revelry’s invitation without becoming his agent, then entered the struggle over a mysterious gathering in Jiang City while moving between several identities. After helping the Freedom Alliance and joining A’yu’s Marauders, he chose to act alone and returned home determined to improve Lin Zhao’s shop.
Lin Yu used the fallout from the dock battle to pursue revenge against Fluoxetine and create a new identity as Xia Yue. He arranged for Chen Zhuo and Li Nian to join him in an Instance, while Li Nian uncovered much of his deception and welcomed him to the Freedom Alliance.
Lin Yu and his companions entered the Despair Train, uncovered its rules, and gathered allies while searching for the Baron and a way to obtain tickets. Baron Coleman agreed to guide them toward tickets, and Li Nian opened the lock to Carriage One.
Lin Yu and his companions uncovered Baron Coleman’s wrongful conviction, exposed President Paris’s schemes, and fought Truth Company aboard the Despair Train. The group escaped by golden tickets while Coleman stayed behind to destroy the Despair Furnace.
Lin Yu joined the Psychology Society while investigating Fluoxetine and Xia Yue’s death, then was accepted into the Order despite his ties to the Society. The arc ended with Good Night revealing that Jiang City housed the forum and was meant to become the Player community’s central city.
Lin Yu entered a mental hospital Instance where memory resets and strange patients obscured the escape rules. After finding clues left by his earlier self and reaching the Intensive Care Unit, he encountered a young Robin as the asylum was engulfed in white light.
Lin Yu and Robin uncovered how Freud used the asylum’s memory-altering cycles to pursue resurrection, while Max’s unexplained role revealed a deeper threat. The arc left Lin Yu heading back toward the Asylum as Freud identified the entity behind Max as the Diviner, founder of the Marauders.
Lin Yu escaped the Diviner’s attempt to shatter his soul and gained Freud’s brain as an Item before joining Order’s investigation into Radish’s murder and a missing addictive Item. A dream contest with Consultant exposed plans for the stolen Item and led Fu Luo to identify Nian as a suspect behind Consultant’s identity.
Lin Yu uncovered that Grandpa Radish had arranged a staged murder scheme, then learned Shen Bingmiao was the Cyber Ghost and gained a powerful necklace from Li Hua. After preparing for his Tier 2 Instance, Lin Yu entered the Blood Country’s Glory Festival while Nian was sent into the same Instance to target his May May identity.
Lin Yu entered the Glory Festival disguised as a Rakshasa and used staged battles and Stiller’s rumors to make the claim more believable. At the Healing Place, Lin Yu recognized Jue as a fellow Fraudster and arranged for Stiller to spread the story further as tensions grew among the contestants.
Lin Yu killed Furnace Fire, then used staged events and growing Rakshasa rumors to mislead the festival’s notaries while drawing Nian into a confrontation. After Jue and Zao fought Nian, Lin Yu entered the dream world and joined them under the name Cao.
Lin Yu and his companions crossed the dream mine, outplayed Nian at cards, and Lin Yu later defeated him by stealing the pendant that powered his predictions. After Nian escaped as a Nightmare, Lin Yu refused to leave the Glory Festival, and Jiang Rong invited him to watch the remaining contests while searching for Shuo.
Lin Yu entered a Personal Trial to carry out an assassination commission, but first confronted Paris over the attack on the Despair Train and secured a favor. At Nevernight Manor, he became entangled in Huo Le’s succession struggle and received an invitation to Fire Apricot’s coming-of-age ceremony before heading to meet the family matriarch.