[Game development + livestreaming + one female lead + heartwarming and heartbreaking + System]
Indie game developer Jiang Mo is on the verge of bankruptcy when he gets bound to the Tear System: every genuine tear players shed for his games can be exchanged for inspiration.
Qin Tang, the sharpest-tongued game streamer on the internet, has never shed a tear on stream in her five years as a creator, until she opens his heartwarming little game, which has sold only eleven copies, and cries for three hours straight.
[Special individual detected: tear glands sealed for nineteen years. Settlement multiplier: 100x.]
[Exclusive feature unlocked: Echo. You will hear the words she never said out loud.]
Before going live, she declares, "They call this healing? Give it ten minutes. If it doesn't cure my high blood pressure, I'll cure its creator."
After the stream, eyes red, she tells the camera, "Evening Lamp Studio. Jiang Mo. Tomorrow at two in the afternoon, I'm coming to see you. Have tissues ready. You're paying me back."
The next day, wearing sunglasses, she knocks on the rolling shutter. "I'm here to find the bugs."
Later, when a major studio copies his game, he exposes the knockoff in public, bugs and all;
when the platform bans her livestream, he makes a game that gets ten million people to press "Allow Crying" on her behalf.
Later still, the whole internet is asking: They said this was a healing game, so why does everyone who plays it cry?
She calls him a fraud, then places the first order.
