Ye Zhou only believes in one thing in his life: no one will treat you unconditionally.
She has known it since she was a child. Her parents were divorced, she was dependent on others, and she was living alone. Twenty years of life were like a long low-temperature burning, burning her into a stone that would not burn, would not hurt, and would not look forward to anyone.
Then she was pulled into a copy called "The Place Where Dreams Begin".
A dilapidated classroom, a bloody desk, a note saying "See you at the same place after school", and an NPC named Ji Yanche. He would appear at the end of the corridor when she was lost, hand her a bottle of just-cold water, and use his body to block the fire in front of her from the predator's claws. When his gray-blue eyes looked at her, it was as if he were looking at something very important.
Ye Zhou didn't believe him. She doesn't trust anyone.
But the secrets of the copy were peeled away layer by layer - campus bullying, the locked equipment room, the fire on June 6th, and a boy who knelt down in the flames and held her hand and said, "You are the one who deserves to be loved."
He is not an NPC. He is the boss in the infinite world who has cleared eight dungeons and spent more than 10,000 points for her. He is the little golden retriever she picked up when she was twelve years old and has been together for a whole year - Thirteen.
He changed from a dog to a human being. Learned to walk, talk, use chopsticks, and wear clothes. She learned to become stronger in this world where she could die at any time, and accumulated enough points just to wait for the day when she was involved in the dungeon, so that she could stand in front of her and say -
"I will wait for you in reality."
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She was the light he had guarded in the darkness for many years.
He was the only warmth she finally dared to believe in this world.
Intention: There will always be someone who will love you across mountains of swords and seas of fire