Lin Yao was the general manager of the GLG Club and the employee who had discussed entering the Ode to Gallantry esports scene with Gu Yu.
At that moment, she was using her optical computer to connect to the network, searching for companion androids.
Among them, Xingyu Fantasy caught her eye with its wave of rave reviews and high ratings.
She summarized the options.
**Lite Edition: 888 credits. A self-cleaning cup. Aside from feelings and lewdness, don’t expect it to do anything else.**
**Standard Edition: 8,888 credits. The most popular version. A perfect partner, proficient in laundry and cooking, and comes with an advanced control panel that can load all user-uploaded presets from the workshop.**
**Deluxe Edition: 88,888 credits. A major upgrade over the standard version. Every model is meticulously crafted by a team of beauty experts, down to the last strand of hair. The control panel receives a massive upgrade as well.**
Supreme Custom Edition: Omitted.
The lite and standard versions mostly featured generic influencer faces.
Lin Yao glanced at them and skimmed past.
In this era, beauty was much cheaper than one might imagine.
Every day, different beauty experts produced models with varying aesthetics, along with AI-generated mishmashes.
Because of this, for people like Lin Yao who were used to seeing high-end beauty, a face that could truly move the heart was even more precious and rare.
Just like that little cutie who had charmed her in the CEO’s office.
Actually, Xingyu Fantasy also provided a channel for users to provide their own modeling.
Unfortunately, after 99% of users spent half a day adjusting theirs, they found the results were worse than the preset influencer models.
If any were actually good, Xingyu Fantasy would pay to buy the copyright and add them to their material library.
This was not surprising.
Xingyu Fantasy always understood their greatest advantage: the world’s most luxurious quantity and quality of beauty experts, along with a specialized cultivation base.
“Harnessing the Limits of Human Beauty!”
That was their slogan.
While browsing, Lin Yao happened to see a related news item.
[Master Xuannv has come out of retirement, calling her latest piece a Perfect Work. The transaction price exceeded 10 million!]
Unfortunately, there were no accompanying pictures.
Some netizens felt their hearts itch with curiosity at the words “Perfect Work.”
“Where’s the pic? I’m asking you, where’s the photo?”
“A Perfect Work? This is the first time Master Xuannv has appraised something like that. Is it really that good? Those beauty experts can really cook.”
“I feel like ants are crawling all over me. I beg you, let me see it! Just one look! I really want to see how perfect it is.”
They didn’t know exactly how perfect it was, but the keywords “Master Xuannv,” “Perfect Work,” and a “transaction price over 10 million” completely hooked their curiosity.
Perhaps they also knew it was like the stories some netizens told of encountering a beautiful girl—how the art style felt like a dimensional strike or how she crushed celebrities and influencers.
Slowly, words were used to hook the netizens’ fantasies, forcing them to exhaust their imaginations to conceive how beautiful it was.
The more they thought, the more their hearts itched, and the more they wanted to know if that person met their every fantasy.
In reality, even if that person appeared, they wouldn’t necessarily satisfy everyone.
However, mystery and the unknown were often the best ways to seduce the human heart.
These were still just personal descriptions from individuals, not guaranteed to be true; they might just be bragging.
But this matter was different.
With Master Xuannv, her high reputation, and the 10 million transaction price as a background, the phrase “Perfect Work”—which had already been overused to death—seemed to carry immense weight here.
Some netizens even wrote joint letters, while others conducted human flesh searches, wanting to force Xingyu Fantasy to reveal more information.
Unfortunately, Xingyu Fantasy’s service attitude and confidentiality were top-notch.
However, the more mysterious and unknown it was, the more people yearned for it.
Several related sub-communities exploded with intense discussions.
[How would you rate the Perfect Work by Master Xuannv recently revealed by Xingyu Fantasy?]
[1st floor: How did you know the Perfect Work was at my house?]
[2nd floor: First floor has the Deluxe Edition? So rich? It’s pretty, but let’s forget about it being a Perfect Work. Send me 50 credits, and I’ll change my mind.]
[3rd floor: I thought it was another overhyped gimmick, but if it’s Master Xuannv, I’m looking forward to it.]
[Reply to 3rd floor: Looking forward to what? If the rich guy doesn’t want to share, you won’t see that Perfect Work for the rest of your life.]
[5th floor: Wuwu, I’m crying from hunger. Just how good-looking does it have to be to be certified by both Xingyu Fantasy and Master Xuannv?]
[6th floor: Please…]
[7th floor: Perfect Work? Interesting.]
[8th floor: Are there really this many old timers? I’m seeing several memes from over 10 years ago.]
“Truly wealthy,”
Lin Yao remarked.
Then, a bit of curiosity rose within her as well.
‘A Perfect Work?’
Her mind automatically recalled that little cutie in the office.
‘I don’t think it’ll be cuter than my boss’s little cutie.’
She shook her head and casually left a comment.
[326th floor: Feels inferior to my boss’s.]
After she posted, several replies instantly popped up:
“Old timer, you’ve exposed your age too,” and “Post it, let’s see its strength.”
Lin Yao laughed in spite of herself, almost forgetting she was also a 40-year-old “old timer.”
The rapid pace of technological change was sometimes truly incomprehensible, even though only 20 years had passed.
Between 2020 and 2030, though there were occasional technological explosions, there was no qualitative change.
It wasn’t until the decade starting from 2030 until 2040.
Androids, brain-computer interfaces, genetic engineering, flying shuttles—all sorts of technologies exploded as if hitting a certain node, to the point where some people gradually couldn’t keep up with the times.
They confusedly chased the gap of the era, to the point where they could only mock themselves as “old timers” in their spare time, using old memes to reminisce about the past.
It was said there were experts specifically researching the sociology of this, but Lin Yao didn’t know much about it.
She looked very young, but she was actually from the 00s generation.
This was also a fruit of technology: life extension.
Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, Lin Yao exited the forum and began working on the tasks related to GLG’s entry into Ode to Gallantry.
***
Gu Yu was currently examining the game mode.
Perhaps to show that the 10 million credits were worth the money, Xingyu Fantasy had piled a massive amount of preset content into the control panel.
For example, this Game Mode.
By unlocking different CGs and achievements with An’an, one could obtain achievement points.
These points could be used to purchase interesting items and functions.
Xingyu Fantasy had even specifically brought in a numerical designer from a neighboring game company, striving for perfection.
[Achievements Unlocked:]
[An’an’s First Hand-holding]
[Shop:]
[Clothing]
[Abilities]
[Tools]
[Items purchased with achievement points will be delivered via Asuka Express. Online purchase addresses for the original goods will also be provided.]
“Oh?”
Gu Yu’s interest was piqued.
Clicking on the clothing interface, the most expensive item was an extremely gorgeous large dress worth 660,000 achievement points.
Worried that An’an’s height might not be enough to pull it off, it even came with a thoughtful pairing of platform crystal high heels.
She clicked the shopping link to check; the original full dress set also cost 660,000 Alliance Credit Points.
“This is a nice design,”
Gu Yu nodded slightly.
Xingyu Fantasy really was going all out.
For every achievement point Gu Yu unlocked, they would have to pay out real money.
Of course, Gu Yu knew perfectly well they did this because they were making even more profit overall.
Furthermore, 660,000 achievement points wasn’t something that could be done in a short amount of time.
Fact was fact, but she liked this attitude of lowering their profit for the sake of her experience.
Moreover, the tasks and achievements of the Game Mode could clearly set goals for her.
From yesterday until now, she hadn’t really known what to do, simply raising An’an as a soft, cute pet.
“Let me see what achievements I can complete.”
[Recommended Achievements:]
[First time removing An’an’s white stockings (Easy)]
[First time removing her dress (Hard)]
[First time removing her lace underwear (Extremely Hard)]
[First time removing her lace half-moon panties (Extremely Hard)]
[Note: In Game Mode, certain values such as Affection Level cannot be freely adjusted. Affection Level, Interest Level, and Lewdness will determine the difficulty of certain actions.]
[Note 2: Under coercion, An’an will exhibit some resistance (non-dangerous), and her Affection Level will decrease.]
[Note 3: Game Mode can be canceled at any time.
Reloading will not affect previous achievements.]
Gu Yu stroked her chin.
She had found a bug.
If she canceled the Game Mode first, used the control panel to adjust An’an to the right state, and then reloaded the Game Mode, wouldn’t she be able to farm achievement points easily?
However, she disdained using such a bug.
Achievements and the like were just a side interest for her to find some fun.
A bug this obvious was likely left intentionally by Xingyu Fantasy.
They were happy to see users play without the bug for the original experience, but if using a bug made the user happier, they were happy to see that too.
[Would you like to enable Smart Reminders?]
“Turn them on.”
[What would you like to be reminded about?]
“Everything.”
[Removing white stockings: Due to having 0 Sexual Knowledge, An’an is purely like a blank sheet of paper. She does not dislike it. Positive (Sunshine, Gentle, Dependent), Negative (Sensitive, Fragile).]
[Removing dress: An’an has a correct emotional understanding. Her sense of shame is not low enough to let her accept doing such a thing in this environment, nor is her Affection Level high enough for her to accept you doing this to her.]
***
The reasons for the following few were similar.
To be honest, under the control panel, An’an’s thoughts were relatively unimportant.
What would the consequences be?
There were no consequences.
She was just a doll.
But…
Gu Yu suddenly developed an interest in this.
She didn’t want to rely on the mindless control panel but instead wanted to conquer her bit by bit on her own.
She’d had the idea of “cultivation” before, but it hadn’t been this strong until now.
Previously, she didn’t understand those who played cultivation or dating sims, but now Gu Yu understood.
She couldn’t help but feel a bit sentimental.
“Um.”
Su An touched her lip with her index finger, looking at Gu Yu with curiosity.
Perhaps due to being “Fragile” and “Sensitive,” she would always make these small, feminine gestures without even realizing it herself.
Gu Yu’s black eyes reflected her image, along with some unreadable flickers.
‘Optical computer?’
Su An guessed.
Optical computers and brain-computer interfaces were similar technologies.
She didn’t know more details because Gu Yu didn’t allow her to use an optical computer.
Su An sat idly for a while, her small feet in white stockings swinging back and forth unconsciously.
And then…
She accidentally kicked Gu Yu’s mounds.
‘My toes felt something soft.’
A second later, Su An froze, terrified.
‘I’m in trouble!’
Gu Yu, who had been studying the Game Mode, narrowed her eyes and looked at An’an.
Su An instinctively curled her body inward.