Li Shuoxing found himself unable to delete the app.
He tried several times, but the game wasnât deleted. Instead, several âunknown errorâ prompt boxes popped up on his phone.
Li Shuoxing stopped and looked at the app on the phone screen.
The shape of the app was very simple, with a pink heart and the words âLove Barâ below. It was simple and fresh, filled with a loving atmosphere.
âŚUnfortunately, it was malware.
Forget it, why should I play a game just to get a belly full of anger?
Li Shuoxing was speechless for a moment. He put down his phone, sat back in front of the computer, reopened the document to start writing, and glanced at the time.
8:30pm.
He had started preparing to write at 3pm, and now five and a half hours had passed. His progress⌠two words.
âExtra Oneâ.
In his depression, Li Shuoxing still felt a little guilt.
He was just playing a game. How could he be unlucky enough to come across malware? It couldnât possibly be that the complaints of the myriad of readers waiting for extras had turned into a curseâŚ
A trace of coldness condensed in the empty room, attacking Li Shuoxingâs perception.
Li Shuoxingâs nerves were tight, and he unconsciously straightened his back. All of a sudden, sparks of inspiration were erupting, and he quickly typed the first line of words on the document.
When he really got into writing, the passing of time was always less perceptible.
He didnât know if he was really stimulated by the game in the evening, but this time, Li Shuoxing had a steady stream of inspiration, wasnât distracted at all, and wrote six thousand words in one go to completely finish Extra One!
After he typed the last word, he stretched hard in his seat, stretching his body which felt stiff from sitting too long, and sent the document to Panda.
During non-working hours, editors generally werenât online.
But within two minutes of Li Shuoxing sending it, Pandaâs avatar lit up.
âYou, you, you, is the sun coming up from the west? You actually finished it?!â
Li Shuoxing: â6000 words. Youâre still on?â
Panda passionately typed, âI set a special reminder to ensure that I would receive your message as soon as you send it.â
Li Shuoxing: ââŚâ How terrifying.
Panda had already downloaded the document. He looked at the new chapter, and, in his pleasant surprise, immediately made a side swipe. âWhen I came to you in the afternoon, hadnât you not typed a word yet? How come youâve written 6,000 words in the evening? Were you inspired by something?â
Li Shuoxing: ââŚâ
This guy seems a bit enthusiastic. He was the one who poured the most last time too!
Li Shuoxingâs cool author persona was almost unsteady.
He responded coldly, âNo.â
Panda wasnât reconciled. He guided patiently, âXimuzi, if you think about it carefully, this stimulus source seems to be very effective. It can make you spit out 6,000 words in one evening. Be stimulated again tomorrow, another 6,000. Be stimulated again the day after, and even if you just write 3,000, in a mere three days you could write 15,000 words. The cost-effectiveness is unbelievable. Itâs five thousand more than the contractâs requirement!â
Li Shuoxing: ââŚâ
Like hell Iâd believe you.
He looked at the screen expressionlessly, secretly rolled his eyes, and repeated his old technique of turning off the computer and escaping offline.
It was nearly midnight, almost time to go to bed.
He had nothing to do before he went to bed.
Li Shuoxing swiped his phoneâs screen, listened to a couple songs, watched videos online, and then looked at todayâs hot search. Finally, he felt a little sleepy. He yawned as he leaned against the head of the bed, squinting his eyes. His finger, which was originally pointed to the clock, once again accidentally shook, opening the game again.
This time, the little person wasnât in the room in the game.
âŚ
???
Li Shuoxingâs sleepiness instantly flew away. His head was spinning as he wondered whether the character in the game could disappear too?
At this time, the patter of water slowed down half a beat. It was only after Li Shuoxing took a closer look at the screen that he noticed a faint grey shadow on the frosted door of the bathroom.
So he didnât disappear. He went to take a shower.
Li Shuoxing sighed in relief.
Without much thought, he pressed his finger on the frosted door of the bathroom and slid it open. He saw, behind the frosted door, standing under the water, the little person naked, surrounded by soap bubblesâŚ
âSwish!â
The sound of water suddenly cut off, the nozzle was turned off, and the little person pulled the towel off the shelf to block his body.
It didnât make any difference to Li Shuoxing. It was all white anyway.
But text bubbles burst out the little personâs head like sharp knives as he repeatedly asked:
âWhatâre you doing?â
âPeeping at me showering?â
After he said those two sentences, the game popped up a novice prompt.
[Su Mingqian is talking to you. You can reply to Su Mingqian now. Your reply will affect favourability.]
W-wait a moment.
Li Shuoxing had no time to be shocked by the gameâs AI intelligence. He hurriedly poked his finger at the grey reply box that popped out with the novice prompt, but nothing happened no matter how he poked.
Only the system prompt kept refreshing:
[To unlock the chat function, please increase favourability to 5.]
[To unlock the chat function, please increase favourability to 5.]
[To unlockâŚ]
After thirty seconds of anxious silence, the little person had dressed in his blue and white striped pyjamas, and a third text bubble appeared above his head.
âPervert!â
At the same time, -50.
Total favourability points: -123.
Li Shuoxingâs eyes instantly turned black.
Damn it⌠What did I do wrong!
Anxious and angry, he suddenly sat up on the bed and glared at the screen, hating that he couldnât cross through to grab the little personâs ear and explain. But this expectation was too absurd and obviously impossible to realise.
âWhat else can I do? There should be another way. I unlocked the water feeding function this afternoon. This gameâs AI is quite highâŚâ
Li Shuoxingâs eyes suddenly caught the kettle on the table.
With a flash of inspiration, he tapped on the kettle and a cup of water appeared again.
Li Shuoxing selected the cup, but this time, he didnât drag it to the little person. Instead, he used it as a pen tip and wrote in the air:
S-o-r-r-y.
While writing the word, Li Shuoxing kept watching the little person.
He saw that numbers were coming out from the little personâs head from the moment he lifted the cup.
-1-1-1-1-1-1âŚ
The negatives made Li Shuoxing panicked. He couldnât help but say, âWhatâre you deducting for? Look carefully, I am saying sorry to you!â
His voice just fell, when suddenly.
+1.
Li Shuoxingâs complaints stopped.
The slowly rising â+1â was rare and precious, and even brought Li Shuoxing into a trance that his efforts hadnât been let down⌠No, this was nothing. How could he be moved by such a little thing.
He quickly shook his head, shaking off the trance in his mind, and no longer looked at the game that made his chest tight. He quickly turned off his phone to wash and sleep.
Before going to bed, he still recited in his mind:
This game is too evil.
When I get up tomorrow, Iâll go out to wipe my phone!
Completely delete this broken gameâŚ!
Perhaps it was because he thought about some things before going to bed. Throughout the night, Li Shuoxing, who normally slept well, had chaotic dreams one after another. No matter which chaotic dream, there was always the little person and his cold âpervertâ.
Finally, the sky brightened.
Li Shuoxing opened his eyes wearily. He didnât forget what happened in his dreams once he woke up. On the contrary, he remembered everything in the dreams more clearly.
He was silent for a couple minutes, not getting up or washing his face. He stretched out his arm, fished his phone from the bedside table, lit up the screen, and opened the game.
Emotion was the first driving force of human behaviour.
Now, Li Shuoxing was grumpy from getting up. His teeth itching to open the game, he rolled up his sleeves, ready to beat the little person!
But, just as he opened the game, the narration box popped out one step before he could see the little person.
Li Shuoxing squinted and found that there was a long string of content in the narration box.
[Su Mingqian is checking the window.]
Su Mingqian: âWhere am I?â
Su Mingqian: âI canât see outside.â
Su Mingqian: âŚ
[Su Mingqian returns to the bed and curls up.]
Su Mingqian: âThe doors and windows are locked. I canât leave.â
Su Mingqian: âŚ
[Su Mingqian buries his head in the quilt.]
Su Mingqian: âŚ
[Su Mingqian gets up.]
Su Mingqian: âIs anyone there?â
Su Mingqian: âŚ
Su Mingqian: âAre you there?â
Su Mingqian: âŚ
After he scrolled through the whole long text box, it was all Su Mingqianâs ellipses. At this time, there was no sound at all, a row of ellipses representing his full inner drama.
âThis⌠isnât right.â Tired, Li Shuoxingâs professional sensitivity was touched in a flash. He dragged the scroll bar back to the beginning. âLooking at these words, I always felt that thereâs a hidden background. Could it be that the âloverâ appearing in the playerâs hand isnât here voluntarily, but forcibly detainedâŚâ
What is this R-18 darkness unfolding?
Li Shuoxing felt a little puzzled. He thought for a few seconds, then gave up thinking.
Why am I thinking so much?
I came to vent my anger!
He carried out his purpose of opening the game. Bending his fingers, he first knocked on the little personâs forehead. Then, he rubbed the little personâs face. And then, he rubbed the little person, who had fallen on the bed because of his strength, from the head to the foot of the bed, and then from the foot to the head of the bed, rubbing him into a ball. The little person quickly lifted the quilt and hid himself in it, only showing the top of his hair and a pair of grey eyes.
Having done all this, Li Shuoxing had finally let his anger out.
He was about to exit the game when a text bubble suddenly appeared above the little personâs head.
âYouâre here.â
+1.
Li Shuoxing stopped.
He stared at the screen, watching as that bit of favourability rose all the way, turned into a super small pink heart, and poured into the favourability pool, completely at a loss.