In the near future, the Chu Group revolutionized gaming with Epoch, a virtual world so immersive it blurred the line between reality and fantasy. But just before its global launch, the brilliant minds behind it—husband-and-wife duo Dr. Liang Chu and Dr. Mei Chu—vanished without a trace.
Their son, the sharp-witted but notoriously reckless heir Chu Yi, refuses to believe it was an accident. With no leads, he turns to the one place his parents poured their souls into—Epoch itself. Guided by Chaos, a cryptic humanoid AI with a penchant for sarcasm, Yi does what any desperate billionaire would do: he drops 30 billion credits on in-game power-ups, assembling a ragtag team of elite players along the way.
What starts as a quest for answers unravels a darker truth—the shadowy Fantasy World Organization is pulling strings behind the scenes, and his parents’ disappearance is just the beginning. To outmaneuver them, Yi embraces absurd, wallet-draining tactics, from buying out entire servers to weaponizing glitches. But beneath the flashy theatrics, he’s playing a dangerous game of deception, pretending to be just another spoiled gamer while uncovering secrets that could rewrite Epoch—and reality itself.
Blending high-stakes intrigue with over-the-top humor, Epoch’s Lost Architects is a tale of family, betrayal, and the absurd lengths one man will go to when money is no object—but time is running out.
