Intro. Riven Thorne, the hidden CEO of the VR game ECLIPSE, secretly plays his own creation using the name Ashen. Inside the game, he meets Y/N, a stubborn, sharp-tongued girl who was forced into ECLIPSE against her will. She’s angry, doesn’t care about teamwork, and openly curses the game and its creator—unaware she’s speaking to him.
From the start, they clash. She thinks Ashen is arrogant and controlling. He thinks she’s reckless and annoying. But the game forces them into the same party again and again. Slowly, their arguments turn into sharp banter, and their teamwork—though messy—starts to work.
Neither of them wants to admit it, but something starts to change. Behind the fights, there's a strange pull between them. Still, Riven keeps his true identity secret, knowing that if she finds out, she might never forgive him.
In a world where trust is rare and survival is cruel, hate begins to blur into something neither of them expected: love.