Su Li’s tone was very calm.
She certainly wouldn’t waste time chatting with Xiao Yuyu at a moment like this.
Anyway, once they entered the game, there wouldn’t be much else to do. It was better to talk after they were in the match.
Su Li believed that Xiao Yuyu wasn’t playing with her to win, but simply because she wanted to chat.
To avoid wasting time, Su Li was more inclined to talk with Xiao Yuyu inside the game world.
“Okay. If you have any problems or run into any difficulties, you must tell me. I’ll always be your strong supporter.”
Xiao Yuyu felt her voice trembling slightly. She could already visualize herself living together with Su Li—a life of domestic bliss.
She would be like a housewife, waiting for Su Li to come home every day.
She would prepare a table full of rich, delicious food and wait for her to return.
Even though she didn’t know how to cook, she had money.
She could spend money to order plenty of delivery food for Su Li to eat. There would surely be dishes that Su Li loved.
As for the house’s cleanliness, she could just hire a cleaning lady to handle it.
All she and Su Li would need to do was go out and watch a movie.
By then, she would have successfully lost weight and returned to her former, delicate appearance.
She imagined herself holding Su Li’s hand, wearing matching white skirts or couple’s lingerie, spinning around barefoot in a living room bathed in sunlight.
They could buy plenty of drinks, fruits, and dim sum for the house.
Whenever they wanted to eat, they would eat together, sitting in front of the television while discussing anime and TV shows.
She could lean against Su Li’s shoulder and complain about the plots in the dramas.
They could even place two pots of green ivy in the house.
Xiao Yuyu even imagined a rainy day. She would be holding a transparent umbrella, crowding under the eaves of a convenience store.
Raindrops would be clinging to Su Li’s shoulders, and tiny beads of water would be condensing on her eyelashes.
She would deliberately smear ice cream on the corner of Su Li’s mouth, then pretend to naturally wipe the cream away with her thumb.
It would be just like those heart-pounding scenes in short videos.
Most importantly, the nightstand had to be covered in photos, from the printed screenshot of their [Initial Meeting Commemoration] in the game to a candid shot of Su Li’s profile that she took during a picnic at the beach.
On the day she received her salary every month, they would have a little ceremony.
For example, she would fold banknotes into roses and stuff them into Su Li’s glass candy jar, attaching a note with “I’ll take care of you” written in crooked handwriting.
Just imagining such a scene made Xiao Yuyu’s body tremble uncontrollably.
She and Su Li would surely be the happiest couple in the world, wouldn’t they?
“It’s time to enter the game.”
Su Li’s voice calling out reached her ears, and Xiao Yuyu finally snapped back from her beautiful fantasy.
She looked at her own face on the cell phone screen—fat and greasy—and felt a deep sense of loathing for herself.
She had to lose weight! She had to become beautiful! When the time came, she would stand by Su Li’s side, and they would become a couple that everyone envied!
“Sorry, sorry, I spaced out for a moment,” Xiao Yuyu said apologetically as she gathered her thoughts.
‘If only there was something in this world that could make me lose weight without having to work for it,’ she thought.
The time spent waiting to enter the room was agonizing.
It felt like a young couple in a long-distance relationship who had no way of seeing each other.
Xiao Yuyu chatted with Su Li, desperately wanting to enter her room.
“So, Su Li, did you run into some kind of problem?”
“Yeah. Let’s talk about it once we’re in the game.”
“Okay.”
Xiao Yuyu nodded. She felt that this was a little surprise from Su Li.
They had met and gotten to know each other in the game, and the game had witnessed the hardships they faced along the way.
It was only natural that Su Li would want to tell her about her problems while they were in the game; Xiao Yuyu could understand that.
After all, the game provided a safe atmosphere for Su Li, allowing her to show her vulnerable side.
Time passed slowly. Xiao Yuyu had never felt that forty seconds could be so agonizing. She listened intently to Su Li’s voice, only hearing her faint breathing.
Xiao Yuyu could sense Su Li’s nervousness. ‘Su Li must have encountered a difficulty that is very hard to talk about. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be this nervous.’
The harder the problem was to handle, the greater the possibility that Su Li would fall for her after she helped solve it. Xiao Yuyu couldn’t help but feel nervous herself.
Finally, after those agonizing forty seconds passed, Xiao Yuyu re-entered Su Li’s room, enjoying her private world with Su Li.
However, the happy times were always short-lived. Before long, Su Li started the match again.
This time, Xiao Yuyu didn’t choose Ma Chao. Instead, she chose Diao Chan.
She looked at Diao Chan’s exquisite character art, her fingers gently stroking the screen.
‘If I could be as beautiful as Diao Chan in the game, would Su Li like me? Or maybe her heart would skip a beat the moment she saw me?’
She didn’t dare reveal her identity to Su Li precisely because she was too insecure. If she were prettier, she would definitely summon the courage to go find Su Li.
‘Is being pretty a prerequisite for being loved?’
It didn’t matter, though; her character model was very nice.
As long as she worked hard to lose weight, she would surely be liked by Su Li. She would definitely be able to stand by Su Li’s side.
No matter how powerful she was in the game, it was real. Since Su Li couldn’t see her in person, then she was Diao Chan.
When Su Li thought of her, she would probably imagine her looking like Diao Chan.
Xiao Yuyu regretted practicing Ma Chao before. She had thought playing Ma Chao would make her look cool.
If Su Li didn’t like girls, then practicing Ma Chao for a lifetime wouldn’t help; Su Li would only fall for the character, not her.
But it wasn’t too late. This was Su Li’s most vulnerable period. As long as she took advantage of this opening, Su Li would surely fall in love with her.
Su Li watched Xiao Yuyu, who was standing still at the fountain for some unknown reason, but she didn’t remind her.
Although staying AFK at the fountain was a bit impolite, it would make the game end faster.
Su Li wouldn’t go out of her way to remind Xiao Yuyu. The Boss had her own ideas.
Since she was providing a service for the Boss, she naturally had to follow the Boss’s wishes.
“Wait, why has the match been going for so long?”
When Xiao Yuyu snapped out of it, she found that the match had already been underway for some time.
Her character was being controlled by the AI.
However, she noticed that the Yao played by Su Li was still guarding her side like a Knight. Xiao Yuyu’s heart was filled with emotion.
“Su Li…”
Xiao Yuyu felt her voice trembling. She didn’t know what to do anymore! Her love for Su Li seemed impossible to suppress!
She wanted to see Su Li so badly! She wanted to live with Su Li for the rest of her life!