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“She laid me bleeding in the dust, freeing me from the sorrow of separation; yet I took the dagger-like glance of her eyes for kindness and affection.”[1]
[Player Name: Gu Mingyue]
[Entering game...]
Age 0
: Awww, the baby’s here!
Age 22
No one expected the new head of the Gu family to be Gu Mingyue, a young woman from a collateral branch.
Whenever this innocent young woman looks at you, she wears a warm, bashful smile. She knows nothing of her ancient family’s secrets.
Everyone is wondering how long this poor lamb will last as head of the family.
Her ambitious younger twin brother covets her position; her powerful subordinates see her as a pawn in their schemes; and her calculating marriage partner regards her as nothing more than an exquisite ornament.
[Congratulations, player, on earning the achievement: A Young Person Has Joined the Office]
[At the time, no one yet knew she would become the center of this age.]
Gu Mingyue: She has no idea what’s going on. She’s just a hardworking player.
But why do the titles above her head keep getting stranger the more she plays?
“Best Friend of the Dragonkin,” “Agent of the Tyrant’s Will,” “Unspeakable Monster of Power”... and “Golden Consul.”
[Congratulations, player, on collecting all the medals of honor!]
They say that from sacrificial pawn to ruler above all, obedience was never a virtue she upheld;
They say that winning hearts and expanding her realm made her ideals more compelling than her ambitions;
They say that in the age of the gods, she was the eternal leader of humankind;
[Your renown has spread across the land, and your glory will live forever in the annals of history.]
But why do her younger brother, subordinates, and fiancé always gather around her with such sinister looks, tirelessly grinding away for her while badmouthing everyone else?
TIPS:
1. A multiple-playthrough game. The heroine is a player with a golden finger.
2. BG, all male leads are C.
3. Comments on individual paragraphs are enabled.
[1] The Collected Lyric Poems of Hafez
Theme: Building a harmonious, happy family
