Four bubbles were arranged one after another above the blanket, giving Li Shuoxing a momentary trance.
A sudden urge to poke the bubbles arose.
He wanted to poke the text bubbles one by one and squeeze the little person to make him spit more bubbles out…
However, this thought was a bit dangerous.
Li Shuoxing temporarily stopped his brain.
He looked at the time. It was already 8am, and the little person still hadn’t woken up.
This setting of sleeping in, how should he put it, was really very real. It even felt a little like an arrow in the knee, a vague pain…
Li Shuoxing subconsciously touched his knee and decided not to disturb the little person for now.
Since the cub’s sleepy, let him sleep.
In reality, everyone has to work and study so they can’t sleep all the time. But you’re a game character. Can’t you decide how long you need to sleep?
Having made a decision, Li Shuoxing no longer disturbed Su Mingqian. He just tugged the edge of the blanket with his finger and pulled it down a little, freeing the little person’s head so that he could breathe smoothly.
After doing that, Li Shuoxing tapped on the lottery interface.
The deep space once again spread on the screen, and a wishing bottle filled with diamond hearts was floating in the air. The lottery tickets had changed from one to two, and the doll was still sitting in its original position, looking unchanged.
After Li Shuoxing rubbed his hands and said a silent prayer, he pressed the lottery ticket and moved it to the doll.
The moment the thin lottery ticket touched the doll’s palm, the originally quiet doll suddenly moved.
It stood up from the ground, took the lottery ticket from Li Shuoxing’s hand, stuffed it into the small pocket of its clothes, then took out a basket from behind its back.
The basket was made of bamboo, with a circle of small yellow and white flowers and some green leaves around the edge, which was quite cute. However, what was cutest was the little person’s chibi avatars sporadically covering the green leaves.
Some of these avatars were smiling, some were frowning, some were aggrieved, some were cold-shouldered. The very few strokes were simple and vivid.
Holding its bamboo basket, the doll stepped forward, pattering its feet, all the way to beneath the wishing bottle. Then, it stretched its hands flat and held the basket aloft, waiting for a diamond heart to drop.
This is the time!
Li Shuoxing shook the wishing bottle and saw a vast amount of diamond hearts tumbling and shaking like a sea of sand in the wishing bottle. After a moment, a heart broke away from its brethren, rolled through the narrow passage, and fell into the doll’s bamboo basket.
A glimmer of light bloomed from the heart.
Gold, purple, blue and green, the four colours rotated in the heart successively, and then, the colours began to change rapidly and chaotically, finally stopping at gold, gold, gold, really gold—
“Shit!”
Li Shuoxing blurted out.
His retinas had clearly captured the golden light blooming, but at the last second, an intense green light rushed out of the diamond heart and engulfed the golden light, then bloomed completely.
Amid the green light, an object jumped out from the centre of the diamond heart.
It was a small bottle with a transparent liquid inside.
What’s this?
Li Shuoxing blankly poked at it, and the system immediately popped out with the description.
[Name]: Snow Ridge Buddhist Temple (5ml)
[Note]: A limited-edition precious perfume. Because it’s too precious, this is only a trial version sample.
Li Shuoxing: “…”
Li Shuoxing: “???”
No.
If you said you gave me a precious perfume, I’d barely accept it.
In the end, you gave me a sample of a precious perfume.
Do you have something against me personally? Or is everything in your prize pool so shabby?
Li Shuoxing, who hadn’t yet recovered from the regret of missing the gold item, looked at the game incredulously.
Filled with frustration, he exited the game, reopened Weibo, and forwarded the koi he’d just forwarded again, with the text experience:
“It had the reverse effect.”
Within two minutes the Weibo post was published, comments had arrived. He opened them to see:
“Hahahahahahahahaha LMAO.”
“I didn’t expect the lottery to follow the law of conservation of goodness so well.”
“Eunuch Ximu has told us with facts to behave and not be a eunuch.”
“Ximuzi, my promise still stands. 100,000 words, and I’ll draw for you.”
The comments were simply unreadable.
I have nothing to say to you!
Li Shuoxing got double depression.
He decided to return to the game, but before he did, he put “Snow Ridge Buddhist Temple” in the search bar.
He felt the name of this perfume sounded familiar, as if he’d heard it before…
It wasn’t an illusion.
Because in reality, this perfume really existed.
And it was really quite expensive…
The game designers were probably too lazy to name it, so they copied a few names from reality.
Li Shuoxing was speechless for a moment. “Well, a limited-edition perfume that costs nearly ten thousand yuan… is indeed quite precious.”
After such a delay, when Li Shuoxing entered the game again, he found that the little person in the room had gotten up at some point and was observing the perfume he’d just drawn.
Not only that, but he also held the bottle of perfume and sprayed it into the air. After carefully sniffing it, he turned the nozzle around and sprayed it on himself.
Li Shuoxing: “…Awake?”
Su Mingqian: “Yep.”
Li Shuoxing: “…This perfume?”
Su Mingqian: “It smells very nice. I like it very much.”
A +5 and a little smiling expression appeared together above the little person’s head, proving that the little person was being truthful.
Li Shuoxing: “…”
He was in a bit of a subtle mood.
I always feel like today’s cub is a little different from yesterday’s cub.
He seems to be a little more unrestrained?
Li Shuoxing thought of the hidden task he’d completed yesterday.
It turned out that the difference in favourability points really affected the little person’s behaviour.
This game had finally succeeded in redeeming itself. It was indeed a love game.
However… if negative favourability triggered the little person to escape, then a positive number under five hundred should be a mode of peaceful coexistence. Now that it was over five hundred, the little person was more unrestrained and casual with him. If the favourability increased further, like exceeding eight hundred or one thousand, would the little person’s attitude go up another level, like sticking to his leg and unable to be torn off?
Li Shuoxing really wanted to see that scene.
Just…
He took a look at the favourability pool in the upper left corner.
Trash game, it’s too damn hard to add favourability points!
After the daily insults, Li Shuoxing wasn’t angry anymore. In fact, he was happy the moment the little person expressed that he liked the perfume.
What’s the purpose of playing the game?
To raise a cub.
What’s the purpose of the lottery?
To draw what the cub likes and wants.
Since the little person likes it, whether it’s gold or green, genuine or sample—
“No no, it doesn’t matter if it’s gold or green; it’s just a colour anyway. But there’s still a difference between genuine and sample. When the sample runs out later, I’ll have to buy the genuine one. Mm… The game store should sell the genuine, right?”
Li Shuoxing didn’t visit the store for now.
He still had an unused lottery ticket in his hand.
Opening the lottery page again, Li Shuoxing’s mindset shifted. Instead of pursuing the golden light, he started pursuing another fun item that would allow him to unlock some new postures for the cub.
With a calm mind, he used the lottery ticket.
With a calm mind, he shook the wishing bottle.
A diamond heart fell into the basket again.
The four colours flashed as before.
Li Shuoxing calmly looked at the screen and saw a golden light rush out of the heart and a shiny ticket pop out of it.
Li Shuoxing, who wasn’t prepared for failure last time, was again not prepared for success this time.
He was a bit dazed and didn’t know whether he should celebrate. After all, this prize for this draw looked even stranger than the last one…
“Considering this game’s nature…”
Li Shuoxing hesitated for a few seconds. Instead of celebrating, he tapped on the ticket first to see what it was.
[Name]: Plane Ticket
[Note]: This is a plane ticket for an unknown destination. Using this ticket will open an arbitrary door in the courtyard. When Su Mingqian passes through the door, he will reach the unknown destination. It’s time for your lover to take a trip.
“This…” Li Shuoxing looked at the note and was puzzled. “Since the function is to open an arbitrary door in the courtyard that leads to anywhere, wouldn’t it better to just call this thing an arbitrary door? Why call it a plane ticket?”
Now wasn’t the time to complain.
Li Shuoxing studied the plane ticket more closely.
A door appears in the courtyard.
Make the little person pass through this door.
Arrive at an unknown destination.
Embark on a trip.
Emm…
It looks familiar.
Like a certain game that’s popular.
Mum and dad go online for five minutes, pack up the cub’s luggage, and the cub goes away for three to five days, only sending back postcards, while mum and dad have to stay at home and worry:
Has the cub been hungry and cold outside?
Has the cub been bullied outside?
Has the cub been cooked and eaten outside?
Along with his speculation, Li Shuoxing’s expression became more and more complicated.
What I want to draw is something that’ll let me watch my cub play capriciously under my eyes, not something that’ll send my cub away and turn me into a cub-watching rock <sup>1</sup> 望崽石 is a play on 望夫石 (lit. “the stone gazing out for her husband”), which may be referred to as the Amah Rock . It is a rock shaped much like a woman carrying a baby on her back who is watching for the return of her husband. !
This game really never fails to disappoint when it comes to disappointing!
Li Shuoxing was so angry that he opened the system’s email function.
This function was only opened yesterday. When he opened it, he found that the email address book had a built-in recipient with the ID 001. It must be the game’s customer service or admin!
Li Shuoxing opened the email, edited the content and formally protested to the game, “What is the meaning of the plane ticket you gave me? I will never accept it, never let him out to travel! If he starves, freezes, is in danger or is bullied, who’ll be responsible? You guys? I’m not asking for an amazing design. Can you give me something normal? Let me raise my lover well?”
He finished editing and hit send.
The email was sent.
Then, the light screen beeped and an email suddenly appeared.
Su Mingqian: “?”
A question mark slowly rose from his head.
It was the first time he’d seen such a thing on the light screen.
He tried tapping on it, and the email opened.
The entire content of the email that Li Shuoxing had just written appeared in his sight.
Su Mingqian: “…”
Su Mingqian slowly read the sentence in the email: “‘Never let him out to travel’…”
At this moment, his mind became chaotic.
And amidst the chaos, hope rapidly took root and sprouted, growing into a big tree.
Su Mingqian: “Ximu, is this an email from you?”
Su Mingqian: “Ximu.”
Su Mingqian: “I want to travel, I want to go out and see.”
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望崽石 is a play on 望夫石 (lit. “the stone gazing out for her husband”), which may be referred to as the Amah Rock . It is a rock shaped much like a woman carrying a baby on her back who is watching for the return of her husband.