Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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For some reason, Su Xi had been extremely unlucky recently.
She was almost hit by a car while walking, and she choked when drinking plain water.
That was not all.
Three days ago, she took part in the long-distance running event at her school’s sports meet. She was finally about to reach the finish line and was about to win the glorious moment of first place, but suddenly, for unknown reasons, she was tripped by a small stone and fell flat on her face in front of all her classmates in the stands.
Not only that, when she stood up, she felt a piercing pain in her ankle. She was covered in cold sweat and was helped by her classmates as she limped to the infirmary, only to find out that her right ankle was broken.
For the hundred days of recovery from her broken bone, Su Xi had to stay in the hospital.
It was her second year of high school at this time, and although Su Xi had two very good friends in her class, it was impossible for them to put aside their studies and visit her often.
Needless to say, Father and Mother Su were so busy with factory affairs at the end of the year that they had no time to take care of her themselves. They could only let Su Xi stay in the hospital alone and they would come to visit him after getting off work.
Su Xi was lying alone on the hospital bed, checking all the social media apps, painting the plaster black with a gel pen, and sighing in boredom.
She opened the app store and planned to download two games to play. As she scrolled through the games, she was suddenly attracted by an ancient-style game called “The Road to Becoming the Emperor: The Yandere Prince Loves You Alone”.
Damn, the name of this game is a bit embarrassing, it also looks very shoddy.
But what attracted Su Xi was the introduction of this game –
“Want to change your luck? Want to get a koi? Want to be the luckiest person in life? Then come and play this game! The unique experience will let you know what the prince’s favor is! The special experience feedback will make you a lucky koi!”
Su Xi’s eyes suddenly lit up.
It was not that she was superstitious, it was just that she had been unlucky since she was a child.
Although she had never had to worry about food and clothing since childhood, had excellent grades, and her family led a relatively stable life, disasters of varying sizes continued to occur to her.
From broken bones to small cuts on hands from spinning pencils, it happened every few days, making Su Xi almost doubt her life.
And recently, she was even admitted to the hospital.
Su Xi couldn’t help but click on the game download button, since she was free anyway.
The game was downloaded very quickly and took up very little memory on the phone, only a few megabytes. But after it finished loading quickly, Su Xi was stunned.
How could a game of a few megabytes be made so well? The eaves – even the tiles could be counted clearly, it looked just like the real thing, how many original artists must have been exhausted while drawing this?!
The first game interface that appeared was the eaves of a house with snow on it. It looked like an extremely cold winter day. There was also a hole in the eaves, letting in some cold wind.
Su Xi turned her attention to the house and found that it was actually very shabby and only the size of a palm. There was only a wooden bed with some straw and a thin blanket on it, which made people shiver with cold.
Apart from that, there was only one cupboard, which was closed, and no one knew what was inside.
There was not even a table or a chair in the whole room. It was so cold, and the wooden door was ajar, making a creaking sound.
Su Xi put on her headphones and thought, the sound of the wooden door whistling in the heavy snow was too real!
She didn’t know where to start playing the game from, so she poked left and right on the interface, trying to find a button to complete a task.
Just then, the wooden door was pushed open, and a little man in thin coarse cloth came back, wet, carrying a few chops of firewood.
Although it was a simple drawing, you could tell that he seemed very tired.
When he put down the firewood, he rolled up his sleeves to reveal a pale, weak forearm with a few wounds that might have been caused by whiplash or something else.
Su Xi couldn’t see it clearly, so she wanted to click on the zoom button, but the game interface popped up immediately –
“If you want to see the prince’s appearance clearly, you need to spend 20 gold coins. Your current account balance is only 10 gold coins. Please recharge and spend.”
Su Xi suddenly: “…”
What profiteers! You don’t even let me see the face of the game’s protagonist! And you still want me to top up?
It’s just a cartoon character, how amazing can it be?
I don’t want to watch it anymore!
After putting down the firewood, the little man immediately dragged his tired body out of the house and went outside the yard to chop firewood.
There were still drops of water in his black hair, which left water marks on the ground as he walked forward.
In this cold winter, how could this little guy be in such a mess?
Su Xi tried poking the top of the little man’s head, thinking that according to normal game rules, she should be able to click on the little man and give him a name, but who knew that another box would pop up –
“If you want to get the prince’s real name, you need to spend 2 gold coins. You currently have 10 gold coins in your account. Do you want to spend 2 gold coins to get his real name? Of course, you can also give him a nickname. The system recommends several domineering names for you, such as Long Aotian, Ye Liangchen, Xuanyuan…”
Su Xi: “…No, no, no, just his real name.”
Her gold coins in the upper right corner were deducted by 2, and a character profile appeared in the upper left corner.
The protagonist of the game was called Lu Huan. There were two lines below him, the upper one was the life line and the lower one was the physical strength line.
It was obvious that the little man in the game had very little strength left, and the line had turned into a pale 10%.
Moreover, as the character in the game kept working busily, his physical strength continued to decrease.
Su Xi was terrified at first, fearing that his strength would drop to zero in the next second and then he would die. However, she did not expect that although he only had this much strength left, he managed to hold on for a long time.
He also continued to climb up the eaves to repair the roof.
Then he went out again, but Su Xi couldn’t unlock other maps for the time being and she could only see this hut, so she didn’t know where he went. But when he came back, his clothes on the back seemed to be torn, and there were two more bloodstains similar to those on his arms. His steps were even more staggering, and he looked very embarrassed.
Based on the game introduction, Su Xi could roughly guess that Lu Huan was the illegitimate son of Ning Wang’s mansion, who was unwelcome and despised, and that her main task was to achieve imperial hegemony together with him.
But Su Xi still had no idea what was happening to him at this moment and how to play this game.
The time in the game seemed to flow faster than in reality, and it was dark in the game in the blink of an eye.
Seeing that the little game character was still busy and the game interface could not be touched anywhere, Su Xi couldn’t help feeling a little bored. Just then the nurse called her to have lunch, so she threw away her phone and limped to the hospital cafeteria.
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