Feng Ling did not hesitate when she chose to stay.
As the leader of the Nameless Society, she was just like her companions who had long since come to see the Nameless Society as their "home." In truth, she had already given up on the Real World... or rather, the Real World had given up on her first.
In that ordinary world where the sun rose and set, no one was waiting for her to return. Even her beloved mother had died long ago. She had been only five that year, when her mother died trying to stop that debt-ridden drunk from selling her.
Feng Ling sometimes wondered why, when she first met Su Bai in the game, she had been so reluctant to wake from her role as an "ordinary girl." Perhaps it was because, in that game, she had a father and mother, and an ordinary, warm life. Perhaps it was because that was a regret she could never make up for.
But now, she was no longer that child who had been abandoned by everyone and had chosen to abandon everything in turn. She had a new family-not "subordinates," but a true family.
Establishing the Nameless Society had not been easy. Especially after other players learned that the organization consisted of people who had willingly abandoned the Real World, problems came one after another. Far too many players burdened with enormous debts, owing millions or even hundreds of millions and too afraid to return to the Real World, wanted to join. Dangerous criminals with records who were wanted in reality also kept slipping into their ranks.
From the initial chaos to the order that came later, the members had gone through countless clashes and adjustments before gradually coming to understand one another and pulling together. Once the