My Virtual Girlfriend

Because this meant that all the gifts Chen Yan had given Yu Qiao Qiao were acknowledged by the system.

It also meant that Chen Yan's experiment had been successfully completed.

Through the experiments of the past two days, Chen Yan had roughly figured out the game's limits for cheating.

He found that as long as the value wasn't overly exaggerated, gifts worth tens or hundreds of thousands, or teaming up with Virtual Girlfriend to farm money, the system wouldn't give any prompts.

This was very good news for Chen Yan's future plans.

After clarifying the conclusions of this experiment, Chen Yan began to check the gains he had made over the past few days.

His wealth value was now 1582 points.

The barbecue last night had cost 269 yuan.

Today's bouquet of 99 roses cost 288 yuan. That was the price Chen Yan had obtained after insisting the florist not give any discount.

Roses just weren't that valuable outside of Valentine's Day.

Six movie tickets and buffet vouchers, all bought at the original price, cost 756 yuan.

His wealth value had broken through 1000 just like that, and if he cashed out, he'd get over ten thousand in hand!

Having a personal money-printing baby really did make earning money fast!

The thought of earning over ten thousand in just two days, pushing his plan forward by a large segment, was enough to make Chen Yan excitedly explosive!

What's so good about having a girlfriend!

Is it holding someone soft, smelling the sweet fragrance, or feeling the comfort of a touch?

None of that is as thrilling as a money farming chapter!

He truly was a natural-born game designer!

Hahaha!

After his joyous moment, Chen Yan lightly tapped the "Withdraw" button.

It was still that sweet female voice, "Payment of fifteen thousand eight hundred and twenty yuan received in Alipay..."

"Awesome!" Watching the balance in his Alipay, Chen Yan shouted with joy, drawing a crowd of puzzled stares around him, wondering what was wrong with this young man.

He must have been lovesick, or maybe lovesick, or definitely lovesick...?

...

Humming a tune as he returned home, Chen Yan turned on his computer and logged onto QQ.

Just as he was about to order some takeout, QQ pinged with a message.

Chen Yan glanced over and saw it was from a business partner in the game: Lao Kong.

Lao Kong, "Yan Zi, I haven't seen you selling goods in Treasure Pavilion recently."

Chen Yan put down his phone, picked up the keyboard, and rapidly typed a line, "I'm not doing it anymore."

Lao Kong sent a surprised emoticon, "Not doing it anymore? Did you finally lose the battle with your dad?"

Seeing Lao Kong mention his father, Chen Yan's smile faded as he replied, "No. He hasn't been around lately."

He then explained, "I've found another game to play. I'm shifting to that. No more gold farming in Journey to the West."

Lao Kong sent several exclamation marks,

"!!!"

"New business opportunity? Take me with you, bro!"

Chen Yan smiled.

I really can't take you with me.

He changed the subject, "Those game accounts and resources of mine, do you want them? If you do, I'll sell them to you cheap."

Lao Kong replied, "Of course, I want them! Why wouldn't I? I've been eyeing them for a long time!"

The two then discussed and settled on a fair price for the trade.

As they conducted the transaction in Treasure Pavilion, they continued to chat.

Lao Chen, "Are you planning to completely quit gaming?"

Chen Yan, "Yeah. I'm planning to make some money and develop my own game. Give it a shot."

Lao Kong asked, "You mean 'Hidden Guardian'?"

"Nice. Looks like you really did find a new business opportunity."

"Making that game isn't going to be cheap though, you'll need hundreds of thousands at least, right? Aren't you afraid of losing money?"

Chen Yan, chuckling, typed a few words, "If I lose money, then so be it, dreams are dreams."

After all, I have my money-printing baby, I can always earn more if I lose...

Lao Kong, unaware of Chen Yan's thoughts, sent a thumbs-up emoticon, "Our country's gaming industry needs people like you."

After chatting with Lao Kong, Chen Yan ordered some takeout and then opened the document for "Hidden Guardian" to make further revisions.

As a game designer, Chen Yan had high standards for his work.

So whenever he had time, he would open this game design document and revise it.

He couldn't remember how many times he'd revised the game over the past five years.

Gradually, it had become an obsession for him.

In the past when he revised it, he always did so with the thought, "The more I improve it, the more chance it'll have to become a reality one day."

It was somewhat naive, somewhat laughable, somewhat helpless.

But now, he had begun to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Half a million, a million.

These were previously unattainable amounts for Chen Yan, but now... perhaps with a few more feeding sessions and some well-prepared gifts, he could manage it.

Before, Chen Yan felt making games was nothing but an unrealistic fantasy.

But now, Chen Yan had the confidence to bring his dream to life!

"Tap, tap, tap."

Time passed with the clicking of the keyboard.

In a blink, two hours went by.

Chen Yan let out a sigh of relief, took a sip of water, double-checked the amendments he made, then closed the document with a smile on his face.

Perhaps the bizarre events of the past two days had given Chen Yan plenty of inspiration, leading him to optimize several side quests in the game.

After the adjustments, Chen Yan felt his game was one step closer to success.

He set the keyboard aside, opened the "Game Strategy" notebook, pondered for a while, and wrote the number 1,000,000 and encircled it.

This was the short-term goal Chen Yan set for himself.

Having figured out Yu Qiao Qiao's personality and the system's limitations, he decided to earn one million yuan first before starting on his game development plan.

The reason for this goal was because starting a gaming company costs money, and additional funds might be needed during game development.

Preparing just a few hundred thousand could mean running out of money mid-development...

So, aiming for one million was safer.

And to earn a million from Yu Qiao Qiao, he first had to spend ten thousand on the girl.

Chen Yan leaned his chin on his hand and twirled his pen, recalling his interactions with Yu Qiao Qiao over the last two days.

Overall, this girl was kind-hearted, naive, a bit clueless about the world, easily swayed, and not very opinionated, but she also had her own principles.

Such a person is not easily accepting of others' kindness, let alone expensive gifts.

Just like now, she was still incessantly trying to contact him, wanting to return this morning's gifts; he just hadn't given her any attention.

Today's success was unexpected and not a typical case.

So he had to come up with a good method, a subtle, reasonable way to spend the money on her...

But what method could that be...?

The room went quiet for a time, with only the sound of Chen Yan's pen spinning.

After a while, an idea struck him; he jabbed the pen onto the notebook, "Got it."

He got the inspiration from today's events.

He felt... it would be hard to spend money directly on Yu Qiao Qiao.

But if he started with her close friends, like... her whole dorm mates, it seemed much simpler.

If he only offered to treat Yu Qiao Qiao, she might flatly refuse.

But if he invited the whole dorm on her behalf, it'd be hard for Yu Qiao Qiao to say no.

After all, she was easily swayed; even if she didn't want to go, her roommates might convince her.

There was no need to worry about recouping the costs.

There were six people in Yu Qiao Qiao's dorm, even if he footed the whole bill, he'd still earn double. Profitable!

If the system judged this as part of the "Virtual Girlfriend" expenses, then he'd be making a fortune!

Thinking of this, Chen Yan felt his plan was entirely feasible.

He continued to ponder.

To invite those girls reasonably, he had to gain their trust first.

Chen Yan thought he might need to address this morning's mess first...

Otherwise, Yu Qiao Qiao might not even want to see him again.

Her roommates would be mindful of her feelings and might reject him too.

With this thought, he had another moment of clarity and made up his mind.

He picked up the pen and began drafting the plan swiftly.

Soon, a comprehensive "feeding" and "shopping" plan for Yu Qiao Qiao and her roommates was fresh off the press.

Looking at the plan on his notebook, a trace of a smile crossed Chen Yan's face.

"Hopefully, Qiao Qiao and her roommates will enjoy my surprise...."