They are surprisingly domestic, with the MC drinking, watching soap operas, and lazing around, and his son, the 'high school student' coming back home to cook, clean, wash his clothes, then sneaking out in the middle of the night to investigate what are basically scenarios in IF novels.

They had already been in a relationship, in love, cohabitated, etc, before the novel even started so their relationship didn't really have to develop. The gist is that the ML died in the game due to the last scenario, disappeared, then popped back up years later without his memories; so of course the MC decided the ML's better off without remembering him and doesn't make contact.

The ML regains his memory around 3/4 of the way into the novel but there are not many scenes of them interacting.

end of the novel, like the last 3 chapters + extras so we didn't really get to enjoy the chaos of the reveal. Add the fact that the MC's identity is only revealed to his son and his friends, and the few people in the team who were there to witness it, then kept up in wraps afterwords.

MC didn't lie that his ex-boyfriend (ml) work at Special Investigations Unit, its just that ML kinda died and like doesn't remember anything, so MC by default said they broke up. Even when ML ask, MC just answer it vaguely

MC introduce ML to our protagonist boy, who I forgot his name, as his new stepfather, our boy short-circuited because of shock. The family of three moved to the house where MC and ML used to lived before they went into the game

• This is not the usual unlimited flow novel, more precisely this story takes place after the collapse of the unlimited flow game.
• MC is the number 1 player in the game who has finished the game with 3 other people. They defeat the strongest monster (aka the creator of the other monsters) causing the collapse of the entire game and returning all surviving players back to earth.
• Spoiler

  The 3 people with MC are ML, the barber, and Shi Bu. MC and ML fight the final boss, and ML kills it, sacrificing his life in the process. To save himself, the game forcibly resurrects the final boss (0), as a result of which ML is also saved. ML lost his memory, was picked up by SIU and treated. MC looked for ML all over the earth, but when they met ML didn't know him, so MC left ML, stayed and adopted a child who also came from the game but had no place to go home. And from that point the story begins in chapter 1

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• Chen Jing, the child adopted by MC, together with two of his friends investigate the origins of strange creatures that have begun to spread across the earth. They did it while hiding from their families (including MC). MC pretends not to know even though he sometimes helps them secretly if he happens to be around.
• ML becomes the team leader at SIU, whose job is to deal with strange creatures that appear on earth. And MC, after his separation from ML, experienced a very relaxed life, gossiping with neighbors, doing assigned tasks such as looking for a lost cat, and drinking until the early hours of the morning. However, his assigned tasks are often related to strange creatures, so they often come into contact with the ML or his adopted child.
• Only a few know MC's real identity and MC also hides it well. So when it was nearing the end of the story where they fought "0" and the MC's true identity was revealed, everyone was shocked.
• ML get back his memories (before them meet "0". And after they killed "0" MC and ML are back together, living together with Chen Jing, and MC returning to his old way of life, despite being restricted from drinking by both of his family members

He and his friends doing all things Research and Action was to make a More Better Life and less Dangerous future for their Family's sake and safety😭❤️

Everyone mentioned in the story plays a specific role too so there aren't many loose ends... Though I would like to know why he decided to let the mermaid king live? XD but him having the guy work in an aquarium was HILARIOUS

After a brief chat, ** switched to official language and said, “During all those incidents, you happened to be present each time, cooperating well with the investigations and assisting us significantly.”

Jiang Yujin smiled, “As a citizen, that’s only natural.”

**looked into his eyes and said, “But I have some questions.”

--such as the non-deaths. I suspected with Liu Cheng but not with the mermaid

The story starts of MC and his adopted son, Chen Jing, living together. CJ was an underaged player of the game and was adopted by MC after the game ended. CJ doesn't know that MC was also a player. Only a few people know his identity as 001, the game's top player.

Even though the game has ended, monsters (called strange species) within the game are appearing in the world. CJ and his friends are secretly trying to find 001 and the root cause for the monsters.

MC ends up bumping into these monsters and also an organization called Zero. Zero is researching the monsters and doing illegal human experiments.

SPOILER...

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ML was player 002. He and MC were a couple before entering the game and met again in the game. However, ML was parasitized and ended up killing himself. This resulted in the game ending and scattering the players all over the world. At that time, MC believed that ML was still alive so he went around the world searching for ML for years. Until one day, MC's friend found out that ML was found by the Special Investigative Unit (SIU) and had been in a coma until waking up recently. But ML had lost his memory.

MC moved to the same city as ML but didn't contact him. This went on for years until the start of the novel. ML discovered the truth and pursued MC.

Later, it was revealed that Zero had found the "mother" of the strange species and that it was the root cause for their occurrence in the world. Zero initially wanted to profit from the "mother" but ended up being taken over by it since it can easily parasitize and control others.

In the end, Zero was destroyed. ML, MC, and son lived together. ML and son spoiled MC and worked together to curb MC's alcohol intake. 😝