20-year-old Kou Sakuta is a loser- stuck in snowy Aomori working a dead-end convenience store job with no car, no money, and no way to leave after a freak chain of misfortunes snatched his promising future from him. His only chance at making enough money to better his living situation is winning the grand prize for an online webnovel writing competition- but that's proving easier said than done. That is, until his unremarkable novel catches the eye of Seigo Kurokami, the author of the #2 trending novel on N*rou, and a friendship starts to blossom- which will shake up his depressing life in a way that neither of them expected.