After I Installed a Pregnancy Mod for My NPC Roommate

Also known as: Pregnant with the Center Player's Baby in a Survival Audition Game >𐋣<

Starlight Shines is a major audition-game variety show hosted by Xigua TV. Here, 66 young men will face round after round of elimination until six contestants debut as a group in the finale.

And one of those six is guaranteed to debut:

The player-controlled protagonist.

That's right. This world is just one enormous full-dive game, designed to provide a single player with the perfect gaming experience.

And He Qi is merely the most ordinary NPC among those 66 contestants. He has no role as a scheming villain, no brotherly pure-love storyline, and no destined-rivals-who-come-to-understand-each-other storyline.

He Qi hates the player-controlled protagonist. He hates his nasty yet utterly hypocritical personality, his breezy air of having everything under control, and most of all, his sanctimonious, saintly facade.

As roommates, the two are notorious for being incompatible.

But after one drunken accident, He Qi got pregnant with the player's child.

He Qi swore he would get rid of it, no matter what!

Xiao Shi thinks his roommate is pretty interesting. The guy seems to have it in for him and goes out of his way to trip him up.

He's only an NPC, but he's got such an interesting personality. Smiling, Xiao Shi teases him for fun, watching him bristle and scold him with red-rimmed eyes, calling him a hypocrite. He looks like he's about to cry, and it's adorable.

But Xiao Shi hasn't fallen for him. No matter how lifelike a little NPC seems, he's still just a string of fake data.

One day, a childhood friend came over and, with a mysterious air, plugged a USB drive into Xiao Shi's gaming pod. He claimed it was a really fun pregnancy mod that let you do whatever you wanted.

Xiao Shi scoffed and promptly forgot all about it.

But after a passionate night with He Qi, he gradually began to notice that something was wrong.

He could never finish his meals. He kept dozing off even in front of the cameras, and from time to time he'd furrow his brow as if he were feeling unwell.

Backstage at the final, Xiao Shi found He Qi in the dressing room, binding his lower belly tightly with bandages. His belly had already grown into a rounded bulge, and he was trying desperately to hide it.

He Qi's eyelids were red with shame. Crying, he shoved at Xiao Shi's shoulder.