CH 3

C3 – Card Bonus

“I won’t marry him.”

“How can they do this to me?”

Gu Siyin whimpered while embracing Liu Yuan tightly. She complained randomly about being aggrieved and wronged, with a few words of apology mixed in.

Liu Yuan stroked her back and whispered comforting words into her ear as if coaxing a child. Eventually, the girl’s voice faltered, and she fell into a deep slumber. In the meantime, he inferred the plot’s progress from her words.

Pool Feather Mountain Manor was a novice village of ‘Upper Center’. The first checkpoint in the game was a quest that players mockingly referred to as ‘the scandal of Pool Feather Mountain Manor canceling the engagement’.

As the youngest and most favorite daughter of the manor lord, Gu Feidao, Gu Siyin grew up to discover that she was to be betrothed to a partner — the former genius of the Xue family, the loser Xue Zhui.

Enemies of the Xue family had crushed Xue Zhui’s Dantian, turning him from a martial arts genius to a loser. As a consequence, the marriage contract had almost been abolished. However, recently, Xue Zhui became a disciple in the cultivation sect, Water Moon Dock, and came to propose marriage again.

For the Pool Feather Mountain Manor, a major power only in the pugilistic world, a refusal would bring tensions and risks. However, Gu Siyin, who had been coddled since she was a child, didn’t want to marry him and insisted on nullifying the engagement.

Amid this situation, a series of events unfolded, bringing to light hidden secrets of the manor after a thousand years.

The players’ initial character setting was that of immortal cultivators who had lost their cultivation base due to injuries and were temporarily recuperating at the Pool Feather Mountain Manor with concealed identities.

While recovering his strength (quests like the beginners tutorial, killing innocent chickens, ducks, dogs, and leveling up), the hero also passionately interacted with the villa residents (with NPCs interacting and familiarizing themselves with the game interface functions). A sequence of twists and turns would follow, leading to Gu Siyin’s “inquire information” quest.