Full-Time Boss

Full-Time Boss is a virtual MMORPG web novel by Bao Yue Liu Guang, serialized on Qidian from 2016 and completed at roughly 1.48 million Chinese characters. The story is set in Sky Vault World, a game with an unusual payment model: it charges neither for items nor for playtime, but for "templates." Monsters, guards, mercenaries, adventurers, heroes, even a dungeon's final boss—any role can be played, as long as the player is willing to pay. The protagonist, Xiao Yu, is a professional gamer who begins as the level-60 Flame Lord Lagrios, seizing Flame Gorge and making a living by hunting adventurer parties for gear and profit, treating his boss post as a legitimate trade. As adventurer guilds mount raids and new storylines unfold, he must face the occupational hazard of being "knocked down," and after each defeat he switches identities again and again: starting from low-tier monsters like goblins, advancing toward ever stronger templates, and ultimately becoming the final boss who rules a dungeon. The novel takes another perspective: instead of adventurers grinding monsters and leveling up, players experience how monsters and bosses evolve, build power, and take part in the game world's power struggles. It captures the fun of MMO stats and dungeon mechanics while using the "boss" identity to explore strength and weakness, victory and defeat, and ways of being. This entry refers to Bao Yue Liu Guang's long novel and has nothing to do with Butterfly Blue's The King's Avatar.