After the tycoon went bankrupt, he was raised by the villainous female supporting character and beca

"Heh..." Jiang Mian rolled her eyes with a cold laugh. "If playing the victim could get you a girlfriend, then every beggar on the street would have several wives by now."

“Exactly.” Duan Jialu thought she was absolutely right. “Only incompetent men would try to play the victim with women. This man is definitely not someone to be trusted. Brother Pei was right.”

Pei Xingzhi's gaze was mocking: "Never mind him, let's go back to the living room and sit down. If he likes to get soaked in the snow, let him get soaked."

No one paid any attention to Zhou Limin, who was standing in the freezing cold. The group of people returned to the living room, chatting and laughing, and sat down side by side on the sofa.

Duan Jialu pulled out her tablet from her bag and got straight to the point: "Quickly, quickly, help me choose some wedding favors and bridesmaid dresses. I've been trying to choose at home and I'm going to go bald, but I still can't come up with anything."

“Let us artists take a look.” Jiang Mian took the tablet, leaned against Xie Zhaoyuan, and helped her choose.

Xie Zhaoyuan's aesthetic leans towards simplicity and elegance. She selected several gentle bridesmaid dresses and picked out a few practical and beautiful gifts before handing the tablet to Shen Yanhui.

"The artists have finished watching, now it's time for the fashionistas."

Shen Yan replied: "...Are you praising me or making a sarcastic remark about me?"

Xie Zhaoyuan's eyes were sincere: "Of course I'm praising you! Although we have some old grudges, I have to admit that your fashion sense and taste are excellent!"

"...Actually, I just put it together randomly." Shen Yanhui reluctantly believed her words, "But since Mr. Xie has high hopes for me, I'll give it a try."

"Why try it out in a small way?" Pei Lingxuan didn't understand. "For something this important, you should go all out and do it properly!"

"Hmph," Shen Yanhui smiled wickedly, "If I were to go all out, the wedding might turn into a coronation ceremony!"

Pei Lingxuan: "...Huh?"

Duan Jialu explained to her, "Xiao Shen's style is more queen-like. If she goes all out, the whole wedding could easily get out of control."

Pei Lingxuan: "Oh."

"Xiao Xuan..." Xie Zhaoyuan secretly poked her and tugged at her clothes, pulling her towards a corner.

"What's going on with Zhou Limin?" Xie Zhaoyuan asked in a gossipy voice.

"...What else could it be? He's been chasing after me relentlessly every day."

The mere mention of Zhou Limin ignited a nameless anger within Pei Lingxuan: "I made myself perfectly clear to him that day, but he acted as if he couldn't understand, and he kept haunting me like a ghost."

"You've already exposed his affair with Lu Yibai, and he still has the nerve to harass you?" Xie Zhaoyuan was shocked.

"How shameless of him!" Pei Lingxuan said through gritted teeth. "He told me that he was forced to cooperate with Lu Yibai. Lu Yibai is very powerful, and if he didn't agree to Lu Yibai's demands, Lu Yibai would take action against his company."

"...Nonsense." Xie Zhaoyuan didn't believe a single word.

Pei Lingxuan: "If it weren't for the fact that the evidence can't be exposed yet, I would have slapped Fu Yushu across the face with whatever he gave me long ago!"

"He won't give up until he sees the coffin... A man like that should be poisoned and sent to the afterlife!"

Pei Lingxuan was furious; her pale face was flushed red with anger.

Xie Zhaoyuan raised her hand and patted her back, gently comforting her in her ear: "Don't be angry. You still have his fatal weakness in your hands. When the time is right, he can disappear from your sight completely."

Pei Lingxuan pouted unhappily: "Can you just disappear now? I don't want to see him at all."

Xie Zhaoyuan: "Then I'll go talk to your brother and see if we can get Zhou Limin out of here ahead of time."

"Forget it." Pei Lingxuan took her hand. "Zhou Limin is the key to this plan, and I don't want to disrupt my brother's schedule. At worst, I'll just stay home for a while and Zhou Limin won't be able to bother me then."

Xie Zhaoyuan smiled gently: "Thank you for your hard work, Xiaoxuan."

Pei Lingxuan shook her head: "As long as I can get revenge, I can endure any hardship."

……

After the new studio was established, Pei Xingzhi recruited five more employees. With more members, the game's development progress immediately accelerated.

A week before Xie Zhaoyuan finished her postpartum confinement, Pei Xingzhi officially completed the first version of the game.

After three days of testing, no problems were found with the game, so Pei Xingzhi released two hundred closed beta test slots to the public, allowing the otome game to slowly appear in the public eye.

As a family member, Xie Zhaoyuan naturally got a beta test slot for the game right away and started playing it to her heart's content.

"Love Laws... This game name is pretty good, who came up with it?" Xie Zhaoyuan asked while video chatting with Pei Xingzhi and updating the game on her tablet.

Pei Xingzhi was engrossed in typing on the keyboard on the other end of the video call. Upon hearing this, he looked up and smiled at Xie Zhaoyuan: "The game name was chosen by Ye Ci. He chose it a long time ago."

"Hmm?" Xie Zhaoyuan raised an eyebrow, quite surprised. "It was actually Ye Ci who came up with it. He's a lifelong single who's never even been in a relationship, yet he managed to come up with such a good name."

"Shh—" Pei Xingzhi put his index finger to his lips, reminding Xie Zhaoyuan to keep her voice down, "Don't let him hear this, or he'll start howling in the studio again."

"Oh." Xie Zhaoyuan glanced down at the update progress bar on the tablet and immediately changed the subject. "This game is only 1GB in size? Isn't that a bit too small?"

Pei Xingzhi adjusted his glasses: "The first version of the game was released for trial operation, so there wasn't much new content. If the trial operation goes well, we'll gradually expand the game content."

"I see..." Xie Zhaoyuan seemed to understand but not quite.

The game doesn't take much memory; it updated in just a few words.

Xie Zhaoyuan registered an account and had just finished reading the game's world-building introduction and clicked into the first part of the main storyline when she was unexpectedly startled by a handsome 3D guy on the screen.

"Wow, this male lead is so handsome!"

“...Not as good-looking as your husband,” Pei Xingzhi said quietly.

Xie Zhaoyuan echoed like a sycophant: "Yes, yes, yes, my husband is the most handsome!"

"But then again, who designed the male lead's character model? The profits must be enormous."

Pei Xingzhi: "There are two modelers in the studio. The male lead you see now was created by Zheng Liyuan."

“Zheng Liyuan…” The name sounded familiar. Xie Zhaoyuan thought about it carefully and vaguely remembered that she seemed to have heard it from Shen Yanhui.

"Is this Zheng Liyuan in his thirties? Does he wear glasses and like to wear striped shirts?"

Pei Xingzhi asked in surprise, "How did you know? Have you seen him?"

Xie Zhaoyuan grinned guiltily, "I've never met him, but I've heard of him."

Pei Xingzhi frowned: "Where did you hear that from?"

Xie Zhaoyuan: "...I heard it from Shen Yanhui."