"That's even worse."
The two tacitly returned to the game room.
Yu Nan was thinking about the game, nestled shyly on the sofa, while Lang Xi couldn't hide her joy, her mouth practically stretched to her ears.
Zhu Yao pulled Lang Xi aside and secretly asked, "Did you get her?"
Lang Xi winked at Zhu Yao and said, "Yeah, next step is to pursue you."
Zhu Yao: ? ? ? I don't quite understand.
…
A few days later, Lang Dao'er announced in a live stream that she had left Liji Studio, and instantly a flood of comments appeared in the chat.
Wow, this scene looks so familiar!
[Have most of the old folks in Tanuki Village run away by now?]
[I heard you two are married? Have you registered your marriage?]
"Yu Miao and I are not a couple," Wolf Blade explained to netizens for the first time, "Our relationship is purely financial, we're just colleagues."
Is there a new collaboration?
"We've been working together for a long time~"
Is a game about Yu Miao coming out soon?!
Is Wolf Blade going to Yu Miao's studio?!
Wolf Blade ignored him and announced that he had taken on a new apprentice and would probably give her half of the tasks for streaming games.
Wolf Blade's apprentice is named "Demon Zero".
Yu Nan complained, "Couldn't you have chosen a nicer name?"
Zhu Yao was quite shy on her first live broadcast, so Lang Xi provided her with a costume so she could interact with the audience.
Under Yu Nan's intervention, Zhu Yao's character was sculpted to look incredibly sweet, a little girl with white hair and pigtails, and a faint smile on her face.
"Um... Hello everyone, I'm Yaoling. Nice to meet you all. Without further ado, let's play a game!"
With Langdao'er attracting viewers, Zhu Yao's live stream saw a surge in traffic, and the chat started buzzing with calls for "Yao Ling sister."
Yu Nan: Hehe, good sister at 27.
What kind of games does Yao Ling like?
"I play a little bit of everything. I just started playing games this year and I don't have any particular preference."
The comment "Just started playing the game" caused a stir in the chat, with many people wailing and begging Wolf Blade to take him on as an apprentice.
Wolf Knife: "Come on, come on, key duplication is 10 yuan a piece..."
[Does Yao Ling know that the "wolf" in Wolf Blade's name refers to a wolf?]
Lang Xi: "??? Don't talk nonsense, I'm not."
The chat started urging Zhu Yao, who "only started playing games this year," to play Sekiro.
Zhu Yao blinked. She had already completed Sekiro in the past few days, but she hadn't unlocked the double hard mode.
Since the comments are suggesting she play Sekiro, then she should.
Zhu Yao resignedly opened the game, and Lang Xi considerately gave her a new save file. They fought all the way with "clang clang clang," and the chat exploded with arguments. Half of them said she was cheating, and the other half said she wasn't.
Why hasn't she died even once?! Either she's cheating or she's hiding her true strength!
[There was absolutely no cheating; anyone who's played this game can tell.]
[They must have practiced before...]
Zhu Yao glanced at the comments and seemed to understand. She really should have died, otherwise she would have missed the Dragon Cough storyline.
So, witnessed by everyone, Zhu Yao controlled Langlang to jump off the cliff.
Wolf Blade: There's no need to be so deliberate...
Comments: ...Was he being mocked?
Yu Nan: What you see is what I've already seen.
As expected of the Valkyrie's apprentice.
[Yao Ling, please make this difficult!]
The comments section exploded instantly.
[Playing with the Wolf Blade requires a lot of skill, right?]
Wolf Knife deftly flipped out a file and tossed it to Zhu Yao.
Yu Nan said indignantly, "They usually guard this save file so tightly that they won't let me touch it, but why are they so attentive to Sister Zhu?"
Wolf Blade placed his hand on Yu Nan's shoulder and gazed at her with deep affection. "My sister is so sensible, but those swords are merciless. I'm afraid they might hurt Yu Bao's delicate hands."
Yu Nan gagged, "Who are you calling Yu Bao? Don't call me that."
Wolf Blade's save file has already gone through eight playthroughs, while Zhu Yao is currently playing through the ninth playthrough on double difficulty, so it's naturally a bit challenging.
It feels like... this monster is impossible to kill? Fortunately, Zhu Xueba, who never skipped class, had already figured out all the monster's moves and knew how to deal with them, so he was able to slowly whittle down their health.
Because she died several times, the comments shouting that she was cheating disappeared, and for a moment there was only the tense and exciting knife fight.
Zhu Yao was unusually energetic, as the ninth playthrough of the double difficulty had ignited her fighting spirit. At this moment, she was staring intently at the screen, holding her breath and fighting against those elite monsters.
As expected of the Valkyrie's apprentice.
[Want to see the Demon Zero Fight mod]
[Random monster mod?!]
Wolf Knife chimed in, "We can try the mod tomorrow, it's too late today, I'll end the stream after playing for a bit longer~"
Just as Zhu Yao was about to say that she could write a little longer, she heard Lang Xi lower his voice and say in her ear, "Madam, update the story."
A chill ran from the soles of her feet through her body and up to the top of her head. Zhu Yao shivered and almost forgot what she was writing!
Her manuscripts are in grave danger!
Finally, the live stream ended after Zhu Yao challenged the Ghost Xing Department, and Zhu Yao gained countless fans.
Everyone knows that the Valkyrie "Wolf Blade" has taken on a disciple named "Demon Zero," whose skills and techniques are comparable to Wolf Blade's when the show first started.
Yu Nan glanced at Zhu Yao's account and saw it gain followers rapidly.
One swipe, one number; hey, that's so much fun!
"It's so good to have data."
"What, are you envious?" Lang Xi raised an eyebrow. "I'll create an account for you called Yu Miao. You can play the game yourself, and the more people find out you're bad at it, the more attention it will generate."
"The game producer who had been silent for a long time turned out to be a complete novice at making games."
"No way," Yu Nan raised her hands in surrender. She had already been criticized so harshly, and if others found out how bad she was at playing games, there would probably be even more doubts.
Zhu Yao went back to her room to write her novel, and Lang Xi followed Yu Nan into the study.
Yu Nan saluted in the manner of the Young Pioneers in elementary school, "Boss, let's play a game, I'm happy to follow your instructions."
Lang Xi didn't stand on ceremony with her and sat down casually in the chair in front of the workbench, leaving Yu Nan standing beside her. "Give up your 'Hidden World' for now and do a few small games first."
“It’s ‘Lost Garden’,” Yu Nan muttered softly, “Why did you give up?”
"Let's put the big productions on hold for now. After all, for every game developer, the first 10 games are most likely to be pieces of shit. You don't want to turn Lost Garden into shit, do you? I plan to make a few small games first to test the waters and get the team working together."
Yu Nan didn't persist. Three years was enough for her to face reality and realize that Lang Dao'er was right.
"Then what should I do?"
"Let's catch up on our studies first. Let's read the books I recommended to you."
Lang Xi recommended two books on game design: *Doom* and *The Art of Game Design*, as well as some on drawing and composition such as *Framed Ink*, and on film such as *Film Aesthetics* and *Film Poetics*…
Yu Nan placed an order and prepared to cram for the knowledge, while Lang Xi went to bother her new apprentice Zhu Yao.
"Good apprentice, I'm coming to catch up with you!"
"Good master, don't you want to spend a little more time with Yu Nan, whom you just got together with?"
"No," Lang Xi said with a look of disgust. "I'm fickle. Now that I've won you over, there's no need to see you again."
Zhu Yao was speechless and choked with emotion. "Then I absolutely cannot agree to that."
"So you really care about me, Demon Master~"
"Yes, we've become sworn brothers today, so from now on you'll be my second brother."
Lang Xi couldn't help but laugh, "Who's the older brother is still uncertain, I'm 27 too."
Zhu Yao was somewhat surprised, "I thought you and Yu Nan were the same age."
Lang Xi pulled up a chair for himself and sat next to Zhu Yao, watching her type. "Her brother and I are the same age. We were college classmates and started a studio together abroad."
Zhu Yao, who doesn't have any classmates as friends, was a little envious. "You two must have a great relationship to be able to start a business together."
"Not bad? I only stayed because of Xiaoyu," Lang Xi seemed to think of something funny. "Yu Nan was especially cute in college, adorably silly, and a crybaby."
Yu Nan cried when she went to college? Zhu Yao was a little surprised.
Lang Xi squinted, looking at the void in front of her, as if recalling something: "I had high hopes for Yu Nan from the beginning. She could get so anxious that she cried because she couldn't fix a bug in the engine, and she would study it day and night without eating or drinking."
"She's actually quite slow and doesn't learn things quickly. Sometimes you tell her things but she still doesn't understand. You want to point her in the right direction but she's incredibly stubborn and won't turn back until she hits a wall."
"But some people succeed simply because they are too slow to realize that it is impossible."
Lang Xi winked at Zhu Yao: "There are people like this, and the greatest innovation has emerged."
Author's Note:
Happy Dragon Boat Festival in advance!
Chapter 43 Lang Xi's "Harem"