43F Sunny and Cheerful Big Boy: Adding a super obscure hidden setting.
Besides the July birthday buff, players with another type of birthday will also trigger a special plotline.
44F You Are So Good, I Love You: So? How obscure is it?
45F Sunny and Cheerful Big Boy Reply: Anyway, I've read most of the threads for this instance, and not a single one mentioned it.
In other words, it only happened in the instance I went through.
This counts as super obscure, right?
46F Wish I Knew Better: OP, you big dummy, so what is it? Stop just saying it's obscure and tell us what the actual deal is.
You aren't even explaining it clearly. Just claiming it's obscure—who knows if it's real or fake?
47F Sunny and Cheerful Big Boy Reply: Of course it's real. The players who were in the same instance as me can testify. @Er Xiang @Jinxed 24 Exes to Death
I didn't add the other two players as friends.
48F Sunny and Cheerful Big Boy
To put it simply, if a female player's Eight Characters of Birth happen to match Xu Qinghe's destiny, she won't start at the tailor shop upon entering the instance. Instead, she'll start directly at the wedding.
She replaces the original cannon-fodder bride in the instance.
49F Encrypted Call: I feel a bit bad for this player. Experiencing the horror plotline of “an NPC living in my body” right at the start must have completely maxed out their psychological trauma.
50F Love is a Rare Miracle: Help! Just imagining it makes my scalp tingle.
Having your own body occupied by a strange NPC and your every move controlled by someone else is seriously terrifying!
51F Lonely Gourmet: Ordinary female players' instance: 《Wang's Tailor Shop》; this female player's instance: 《A Ghost in My Body》, 《The Xu Estate》.
52F Step by Step: Wow! It's Big Shot Er Xiang, let me bow down. WrongFocus.jpg
53F River Song in the Evening Breeze: Even though Big Shot Er Xiang showed up, my gaze is unconsciously drawn to the other player. What should I do?
54F Displaced Spacetime: This player's nickname looks like it has a massive story behind it. I really want to hear it.
...
No, you don't.
There is no story here, only accidents.
Bai Ci replied to the player on the 54th floor in her heart, then exited the thread.
Reading the forum up to this point, the doubts in her heart had already cleared up, and she finally understood where the issue lay.
For the tailor shop start, the most important clue was the Body Stitching thread. Through this thread, players could follow the trail to discover the Xu family, and then choose whether to intervene and what kind of intervention to make.
But due to her class, she had replaced the original bride right from the start.
The Body Stitching thread had appeared on her, and she had directly appeared in the Xu family. Two crucial clues were pinned directly onto her.
This way, even without any contact with the tailor shop, she could still obtain the same clues based on her own situation.
It was equivalent to her skipping a level.
She had skipped the segment of obtaining clues through the tailor shop's business minigame, jumping straight to the next step—acquiring the corresponding clues and intervening with Xu Qinghe at the same time, without delaying either.
The freedom of these instances was truly high; a single instance had all kinds of paths.
Just like how a player in the thread mentioned Xu Zhaoyue; even though he took the West Mountain brick-carrying route, he could still trigger the Xu family secret side quest by interacting with Xu Zhaoyue.
Her rest period quickly passed, and it was time for a new round of instances to begin.
This time, Bai Ci didn't wait hesitantly for the new instance to start. She added her newly acquired attribute point to agility very early on.
Without any extra buffer, after the familiar play of light and shadow and the feeling of weightlessness, she felt herself sitting somewhere, with light pop music playing in the background.
Bai Ci opened her eyes, looked around briefly, and quickly realized where she was.
She was currently inside a moving car.
It was another start inside a vehicle, but this time, she was sitting in the front passenger seat.
The universal driver's license she had acquired some time ago still had no chance to be put to use this time.
The temperature of the car's air conditioning was comfortable, carrying a faint scent of citrus fragrance that kept the interior from feeling stuffy.
Outside the window, the scenery flew backward: mountain forests, fields, and the occasional house.
Judging by this speed and the scenery outside, Bai Ci guessed that, in all likelihood, she was on another highway.
After looking at the scenery outside, Bai Ci shifted her gaze to the driver's seat beside her.
Gripping the steering wheel was a highly recognizable woman. She had fluffy, lazy, slightly wavy blonde hair that draped casually over her shoulders, shimmering with a gentle luster under the sunlight.
She possessed an exceptionally striking appearance. Although Bai Ci could only see half of her face from her position, that half-profile was already incredibly beautiful.
Her eyes were sharp and bright, her facial contours clean and cool, yet her features were delicate and soft, blending into a cool-older-sister vibe with a sense of contrast.
She wore a minimalist, gender-neutral black shirt with the sleeves casually rolled up to her forearms, revealing clean-lined wrists.
The woman kept her eyes on the road ahead, her fingertips occasionally tapping the steering wheel to the rhythm of the music, looking completely relaxed and at ease.
Since she was in the passenger seat and the woman was focused on driving, Bai Ci figured now was the perfect time to look over her various panels.
First up was her Rain's Message panel, the very foundation of her survival.
With practiced ease, her consciousness opened the panel, revealing her suspected deceased husband for this instance.
Rain's Message NPC: Sang Lan
Appearance: Androgynous appearance
Identity: Wedding photographer
Relationship with player: Lover.
Player is a wedding emcee. The two are colleagues at the same wedding planning company. They fell in love at first sight and quickly became lovers, and are currently in the adjustment phase.
Skill levels: Physicality 12, Spirit 8, Agility 10
Special Skill: None
Life Status: Healthy
Scanning all the information in one glance, Bai Ci already had a rough judgment in her heart.
After exploring and accumulating experience through these instances, she had roughly grasped some patterns.
A Rain's Message NPC whose panel showed no special skills could basically be confirmed as an ordinary NPC within the instance.
They might have screen time and participate in the main quest's progress, but they wouldn't hold the core secrets of the instance, possess extraordinary abilities, serve as the antagonist's trump card, or act as a key narrative hub. In essence, they were just ordinary people.
It seemed that the gacha pool this time only contained common cards.
Getting a practical, everyday skill actually wasn't bad either.
Closing the Rain's Message panel, Bai Ci next opened her inventory interface.
Ever since she acquired the Gluttony item, she had been intentionally cultivating a habit of opening her inventory to check her items as soon as she entered a new instance.
The good news was that Gluttony could be used in this instance.
Her combat power was guaranteed.
The bad news was that Gluttony could be used in this instance.
Just what kind of monsters and demons were in this instance that it allowed her to use Gluttony right from the start?
Rate on N.U.
