Welcome to the Misogyny Game

Having failed to lure the kitten, Liu Chaoque pretended to read a book. The biography she picked up was by a foreign author, and to be honest, she was somewhat disappointed.

She recalled reading Walden to learn English, but the self-introduction and some strange things in the beginning deterred her. In addition, the uninhibitedness of foreigners made her decide to read "My Suffering and My University" or "Me and the Temple of Heaven" instead.

The most memorable scenes are Shi Tiesheng stepping on caterpillars and Shi Tiesheng as a goalkeeper. Yu Hua is indeed the best frenemy.

I thought he was a tragic novelist who wrote "To Live," and even the animated film he directed, Xiao Fugui, was shrouded in a tragic color. But in reality, he is such a funny person. Is this the legendary author with a contrasting personality?

While waiting for Tian Qing to arrive, Wen Xia glanced at Liu Chaoque and saw her holding "To Live" in her hand, grinning and secretly laughing.

It just doesn't look right.

Wen Xia was a little cold, but luckily she had "Chronicle of a Blood Merchant" on hand, so the two of them started reading the book seriously.

Liu Chaoque retracted his bared teeth and began to study the descriptions of top-tier angst novels frame by frame. Angst novels are not just about love and romance. Sometimes, reality is even more angsty than in novels: the pressure of housing, the successive departures of relatives, wanting to save loved ones but having no money.

She remembered Grandpa Fugui, whose entire family was left with only a mentally challenged son. He was over fifty years old and had endured all the hardships.

I also remembered the abducted child who, after years of searching, finally returned home.

What about those children and mothers who haven't returned yet? Do they still have family members waiting for them? Will they have the chance to call out "Mom" again?

As Liu Chaoque watched, a deep sorrow welled up within him.

When Tianqing arrived, this was the scene he saw: his girlfriend was reading a book with a serious and focused expression, and next to her was a little girl in a pink shirt wiping away tears.

He called out to Wen Xia, who snapped out of her grief, smiled, and said, "You've come."

Liu Chaoque was still engrossed in his own world, oblivious to the fact that there was another person in the library, and that person was Wen Xia's rumored boyfriend.

It wasn't until Wen Xia patted her shoulder that Liu Chaoque subconsciously flinched, pulling herself out of her thoughts. She looked up, followed Wen Xia's gaze to the extra man, and calmly nodded, acknowledging him.

"Should we go outside to talk?" Wen Xia noticed that Liu Chaoque was still clutching the book "To Live" and felt something was off. Besides, the library prohibited making noise, so if they had something to say, they should go outside.

"Oh." Liu Chaoque nodded. "Okay."

The three of them arrived at the small pavilion outside the library, while Nan Chu was still on his way.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, Wen Xia took the initiative to say, "Let me introduce you. This is Tian Qing, my boyfriend."

Then she introduced Tianqing, "This is my good friend, Siman."

"Hello," Si Man said calmly.

"Hello." Tianqing nodded.

Wen Xia looked at this and then that, then slapped her forehead, realizing that things were getting serious.

She first said to Brother Tianqing, "Brother Tianqing, I'm sorry, my friend is a little shy around strangers."

He then clasped his hands together and said to Liu Chaoque, "Please, please, this is putting me in a difficult position."

Stop acting all aloof right now, it's making me really awkward! Wen Xia was exasperated.

Liu Chaoque reluctantly looked at Tian Qing again, smiled awkwardly, and said, "I heard that you and Xia Xia met in a game."

Liu Chaoque declined to comment on the man's appearance, mainly because she was usually surrounded by good-looking men. Although she wouldn't admit it, her aesthetic standards had indeed risen several notches.

This person is just an average person. To be honest, he's only somewhat good-looking. Although he doesn't look like the kind of person you'd expect from a college student, he's really quite unremarkable in appearance.

She barely passed the looks test, so it all comes down to character. Good character adds points to average looks, but if he's bad, isn't that her comfort zone? What she likes most is to give him a few hard punches.

"Hmm." Tian Qing smiled and looked at Wen Xia gently, his eyes almost radiating warmth. "It's a coincidence. I never expected that Xia Xia and I would end up talking while playing a game together."

It must be admitted that although he was unremarkable, he had a pair of amorous eyes, like a fox.

“Yes, yes.” Wen Xia’s face lit up with happiness as she spoke. She took Liu Chaoque’s arm and said, “You have no idea how surprised I was when I found out that Brother Tianqing was also playing Monster Catcher.”

"Then I saw his ID..."

"No." Liu Chaoque interrupted her, asking in confusion, "Weren't you playing 'Jianghu Help' together? Is that 'Catching Demons' a collaboration game with the TV series 'Catching Demons'?"

The two looked at each other and burst into laughter. Wen Xia said, "That demon-catching game, well, it's a scam disguised as a way to get red envelopes."

"Huh?" Liu Chaoque asked, "So you were tricked?"

Wen Xia patted Tian Qing: "This guy spent money on in-game purchases. I didn't. I came here specifically for the red envelopes. I wasn't going to spend a single cent, but I didn't get any. There's no such thing as a free lunch." She sighed.

Tianqing, who was being photographed, said somewhat aggrievedly, "Isn't this to increase our combat strength?"

"Some games require spending money to increase combat power," Liu Chaoque agreed.

"But as for the game itself, I don't even know what to say about it. It's still like a chat game. The interface is terrible, the characters are terrible, and the only thing worth trying to get is the skins. But those skin fragments never came out again." Wen Xia felt like she had wasted her time when she talked about this.

"So you decided to quit the game?" Tianqing sighed. "When I logged in, I noticed that my junior sister, who was usually very active on the public chat, hadn't messaged me all day. At the time, I didn't know it was you and thought you had quit. Then the next day, you posted a few more messages, and then there was no more news. On the third day, you said goodbye to everyone on the public chat, but you didn't say goodbye to me!"

"You're still talking about me, you screen-peeping monster! Back when your teammate sold me a few gold coins, you were quite active. I thought a few gold coins as a dowry was too cheap, so I decided to marry you for 80 gold coins. But after that, you disappeared from the public chat, while I became familiar with your teammates."

"Moreover, although I said I would marry you, you were already in a relationship at the time. I felt like I was a mistress, and I couldn't get over that moral hurdle. Otherwise, I would have sent you an invitation long ago."

Wen Xia said, "Later I thought about quitting the game. The 15 gold coins I had saved were useless. I could buy those lanterns with gold coins, so I thought I would look for you on the game and send you a lantern, but you didn't do that."

"What's the point of this?" Tian Qing said helplessly. "It's obviously a flashy but impractical thing. What can it do besides selecting the most beautiful courtesan? It can't increase combat power, and it can't be used as a skin."

"Moreover, the romance in this game can also increase combat power. I set up this romance for that ring. Apart from the in-game currency I spent on the romance and the time I spent clearing dungeons, I have no other regrets. Besides, my romance partner is a guy."

"Isn't the gender on it female?" Wen Xia asked, puzzled.

"But when you first came here, weren't you a man? So you're a man?" Tianqing retorted.

“That’s true.” Speaking of this relationship, Wen Xia patted Liu Chaoque: “Let me tell you, I encountered a really speechless thing in that game.”

Liu Chaoque said, somewhat bewildered, "I have a question."

"What? You said?" Wen Xia said.

“Didn’t you discover that Tianqing was also playing this game? But from your descriptions, it seems like you didn’t know each other back then,” Liu Chaoque said.

"This?" Before Wen Xia could finish speaking, Tian Qing said, "Let me answer this."

"It's actually very simple. Xiaxia only found out that I was Wangsheng after she quit the game. I was a little disappointed when I saw that Xiaxia had stopped playing. After all, her 80 and her confusing gender really piqued my interest. I was waiting for her to say that she would come and marry me. I didn't need 80. I had 20. I told my teammates that I would be happy with 8 gold coins."

“But she broke the contract.” Tianqing sighed. “Later I asked Jin Cancan, and she told me that because I was kept banned, she felt that playing games was meaningless. I browsed the forums and found that people who didn’t spend money might not even have an account anymore. Suddenly I also felt it was meaningless, but the team needed me, and I spent so much money. I really couldn’t let them go.”

“Yeah, did you spend money on it?” Liu Chaoque agreed wholeheartedly. “Like my dress-up game…”

"How much money have you spent on dress-up games?" Wen Xia asked, puzzled as to why she hadn't told her.

"It's nothing." She smiled. "After Xiaxia found out you were Wang Sheng, did you two get together?"

Although she was smiling, her heart was bleeding. Ahh, my Shining Name, my fishtail, my Sea King outfit, my fox tail, all gone! My 2000 yuan! I wonder what new outfits Shining Name has released now, boohoo.

Oh right, did she not check in on the 17th Daily Check-in today? Liu Chaoque thought, "Should I log in later and check?" She immediately turned the page on her sadness.

The obsession of a veteran player.

"No." Wen Xia gave an embarrassed smile: "I kept it a secret."

Tianqing was speechless: "Really, Xiaxia, I have to say something to you. I was wondering why you were looking at me like that those few days. I thought there was something on my face."

He told Liu Chaoque, "Xiaxia was staring at me with a complicated expression, especially when I logged into the game."

Liu Chaoque: "Haha, I can imagine that."

"However, during one gathering, Xiaxia revealed that she also plays the game of catching monsters." Tianqing couldn't help but laugh when he thought about the scene: "When everyone asked me what I've been playing lately, she subconsciously replied: catching monsters."

"At the time, I wondered if Xiaxia had seen my game interface. Then I asked her if she wanted to play together, and she strongly refused, saying no. I thought to myself, this girl's reaction is strange." Tianqing stroked his chin: "In the end, I found out that she was Qiuxia, the one who quit the game."

“Qiu Xia, my name has the character ‘Xia’ in it, you should be able to recognize me.” Wen Xia snorted.

“My little ancestor, there are so many Xia in this world, I can’t possibly recognize people just by the name ‘Xia’,” Tian Qing said helplessly.

Wen Xia reluctantly accepted his explanation.

"That's great." Liu Chaoque said with a smile, "It must be a special fate that brought you together in a very unpopular game. Although you didn't become a couple in the game, you got together outside of the game. Congratulations, congratulations!"

Wen Xia said, "After this person found out that I was Qiu Xia, he dragged me into that game, saying that he had broken off his romantic relationship and wanted me to form a romantic relationship with him, and also to introduce me to his friends and relatives in the game."

"Although this is something I once wanted to do, I don't want to play that game. I formed a romantic relationship with him in the game, and I had to log in every day to do tasks for him. But I don't like this game, and I don't want to spend any time on it. I really don't want to be a fan of a place where you have to pay money to achieve freedom of speech."

"This place is full of chat logs with extremely high levels of explicit content, private messaging is impossible, and there are so many censored words. I really don't want to play anymore. Otherwise, wouldn't all the romance quests he did for that ring be completely pointless?"

Liu Chaoque whispered, "Actually, you could say he's a widow."

Wen Xia: "No wonder you're my sister! Yeah, you're going to have to live like a widow."

Tian Qing: "There's no need to be so blunt."

However, Liu Chaoque thought that perhaps Tian Qing also wanted to make up for his regret.

Tian Qing said earnestly, "But I gained something more important than combat power. Regarding the combat power increase from the wedding ring, I still want others to know that I have fallen in love with a girl who is saving up gold ingots to marry me."

"Not only in the game, but also in real life, you are warm and lovely, like a little sun. I love your smile, and I love the way you look at me with adoration." Tian Qing gazed earnestly at Wen Xia: "I love you the most."

At this moment, his score is soaring, and he is shining brightly.

"I like you too." Wen Xia smiled shyly.

"Sigh." Liu Chaoque leaned against Nan Chu, scratched her foot, and sighed, "Why are there mosquitoes everywhere?" "This is youth."

Nan Chu, arriving late: "Have I jumped straight to the finale?"

Nan Chu was holding a book in her hands, it seemed she had come to visit Wen Xia's boyfriend and return the book at the same time.

Liu Chaoque's gaze shifted to Nan Zhu's hand, and he narrowed his eyes: "Nan Chu! Didn't you say you'd be here soon? You still have time to take this book?"

Nan Chu chuckled awkwardly, "I haven't been to the library in a thousand or eight hundred years, so I just happened to be here."

She quietly asked her, "Is this her boyfriend? Are you finished talking?"

Liu Chaoque also whispered, "Hmm, it seems they are truly in love."

Nan Chu: "What do you mean?"

Before Liu Chaoque could answer, the shy Wen Xia finally noticed the extra person in the pavilion. She looked at Nan Chu and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Nan Chu picked up the book and casually raised his hand: "I came to return the book. I saw the three of you in the pavilion on my way here, so I came to check on you."

Liu Chaoque: It has this function too? That makes perfect sense.

Wen Xia had no doubts. Since Nan Chu also knew about it, she would generously introduce Tian Qing to her.

Nan Chu asked, "Is your surname Tian? Who is Tian Aiguo to you?"

Tianqing: "Ah, you know my dad?"

What's going on? Liu Chaoque and Wen Xia were completely bewildered.

"Well, how should I put it, you might have to call me aunt," Nan Chu said awkwardly.

Tianqing suddenly realized: "No wonder your name sounded so familiar, it turns out you're my aunt."

“Nan Chu, are you his aunt?” Liu Chaoque pointed to Tian Qing, then to Nan Chu.

"Yes." Nan Chu nodded: "Although he is called nephew, he is considered a member of our collateral branch."

This is quite a large family.

“My aunt was once a holy maiden of Miao territory,” Tianqing said.

A holy maiden from Miao territory? Who? From Southern Chu?

“I didn’t like being in this position, so the clan chose someone else,” Nan Chu said calmly.

"Wow, this is truly a place where hidden talents abound," Liu Chaoque thought. "So, are there really not many ordinary people in the main characters? By the way, does Wen Xia have any hidden identity?"

Since Wen Xia's boyfriend is Nan Chu's nephew, if Tian Qing really bullies Wen Xia, Nan Chu can still use his status to suppress him.

But seriously, there are a lot of mosquitoes here.