Qi Xun -ML.

Prince Tang - ingame Guy. He "fell in love" with MCs second account and crazily chase him. There is no real reason why he fell in love and has history in s*upidly chasing people. No threatening charakter, just a fun extra.

He Yiming – MCs previous crush and a senior student... and a real ass hole. He realized MCs crush and played with him, dating a girl that is MCs nemesis, trying to force a kiss on MC and thinking he could get him with a finger sniping.

High school class monitor whose name I don't know - he was a crush MC told his finds on wechat about. When his phone got stolen by his seat mate he took screenshots and exposed MCs sexuality to everyone which started a year of hell and ab*se for MC. It's never made clear if the guy was involved.

Xu Jingsen - First rate pe*vert that was leading in abusing and humiliating MC back in high-school for being gay. Rich and spoiled family background. Pops up 2 years later (present time) more insane than ever and wants to ab*se and r*pe MC. Didn't end well for him.

Everyone else are just friends or enemies.

both MC and ML have 2 identity in game and although they were forth coming in it to each other, some misunderstandings there of each other hating the other's other identity. And they had a lot of "rivals-in-love" added into the mix that added to the drama. While it was very entertaining at the beginning. It was actually a bit much because, their relationship was only a DAY OLD. So like, I didn't even understand how ML could like MC so much to withstand these ridiculous external factors. Felt like their relationship needed to weather the internal part before these external part can come in. Also, MC himself had a lot of IRL issues. On to next spoiler.

MC is the "easy to fall in love" kind of chara. Doesn't sound much but there's this lovers quest in the game where the game somehow shows them all their past crushes or what-not and their current lover will be able to see. ML then finds out MC had over 10 past crushes and is in shock (ya who wouldn't) and gets quite insecure. Like MC will like anyone who is just a little nice to him because he is in love with the idea of love (?). A friend of his says it's because MC wants to see the good in people instead of the bad and so when he does it, it's easy to like someone (but then won't he like all his friends romantically too lol?). Anyway, I feel it isn't deeply explained because many can be superficial crushes and not deep love and hey, I think many people can have multiple crushes over time right? But ML is very understandably insecure because what if MC easily likes someone else. Anyway it gets resolved when MC explains he won't be like that when he is in a relationship and while he easily likes others, he does look at things like compatibility. I just thought from a certain perspective, MC might look like a slag man for love, jumping from one man to another. But author tries to explain it and it's rather well explained, I think.

The MC has two characters he plays in the VR MMORPG. One of them he plays "normally" or should I say, with more socially accepted behavior. The second avatar is for stress relief, and he doesn't censor himself because he doesn't care how people perceive him while he wears the throwaway account

Near the beginning of the book, the MC is constantly put down as a lady-boy in the MMORPG VR world due to the feminine looks of this second, spare avatar and his habit of flirting with men and whatever unfiltered shenanigans he gets up to. I find it sad that this sassy persona of his is so unloved and denigrated by the masses, since this is probably the truest manifestation of his inner desires. So what if he likes to dress girly? So what if he flirts? So what if he wants to fall in love? Even the ML takes one look at this avatar and says "that can't be my precious baby, there's no way *my* BF could be so unrestrained.

He only does a 180 when he realizes MC is the one behind this apparently awful ladyboy. I'm not saying that a person has to love every single thing about another in order for it to be true love, but the second avatar seemed to be a big part of the MC's personality that he was forced to hide in order to fit in.

After the two meet IRL, this second sassy persona seems to have evaporated. Whatever. Dear ML, Have fun enjoying your precious shy wifey that is neutering themselves to fit in.

Another thing I don't understand is how everyone accepts the MC after he gets with the ML when basically everyone has an oPINIon on his ladyboy ways. Even MC himself doesn't seem to have trepidation upon have his controversial avatar associate with his main when he seems pretty concerned about distancing himself at the beginning of the book. He's still the same person, right? Why are people suddenly like, ohhhh I guess the ladyboy isn't so bad if ML over there likes him.

???

Given that there are headsets that can directly pull people into an immersive VR world using some vague brainwave tech, you would expect the setting to be somewhat futuristic, but other than the VR headset, I don't see any details of other advancements. The mobile phone is still a mobile phone. Cars are still mundane cars. At least as far as the author describes. Maybe the cars fly and the phones have holographic projectors and the author is failing to describe them properly. Who knows. There is nothing in the text to suggest that this isn't taking place in a modern 21st century setting. They're even using weibo ffs. Okay fine, let's put aside why there are only advancements in the headsets, but why are people only using them for entertainment? It's a huge waste of potential imo.