Summoning Players to the Grand View Garden [Dream of the Red Chamber]

[Fourth Disaster, livestreaming the chaos (and courting death).]

On the day the Grand View Garden is completed, Daiyu's spirit wanders into the Land of Illusion, where the fairies give her a splendid gift: players.

From then on, Daiyu spends every day having people grind up their favorability with her.

The sorrow and heartache of living under someone else's roof? Sitting around with a furrowed brow?

Not a chance.

If she didn't keep adding new activities and putting reins on those wild horses, the Grand View Garden would have been blown up like a firecracker long ago.

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Of the Four Great Classical Novels, Dream of the Red Chamber is the hardest to adapt into a game.

When the full-dive game Grand View Garden launched, plenty of people prepared to write ten thousand words criticizing its graphics, plot, UI, and character models.

But then...

"Raise Daiyu? I'm in!"

"You were asked to make a Dream of the Red Chamber game, not transplant the lives of ancient aristocrats wholesale!"

"Praise it! Praise it to the heavens! What a conscience the Land of Illusion company has!"

"It's flawless. Apart from the sadistic game designer making favorability hard to raise, if the rest of the game isn't fun, I'll take my head off."

We're already here, so why wait around for the original ending? We have to make things happen!

The doctor needs good needles?

Got it, time to launch a massive steelmaking campaign.

Short on pigments?

Come on, let's go mining.

New clothes?

Let's raise silkworms and make them ourselves. How much defense and health can I add for my baby?

What? You want to follow in Li Bai's footsteps and travel across the land?

Assemble! Time to explore a new map!

Wait, do we need a travel itinerary for Huo Qubing? How about we...

The game designer is too cruel. The poor girl can't even leave her own home.

The girls: "Are all you Lin family people this bold?"

Daiyu hides her face behind a handkerchief and refuses to answer.

The players made guns while smelting steel. The mines they dug were the emperor's private mines. The clothes they made were imperial robes. Is she going to tell anyone?

#The Grand View Garden Suffers a Husky Invasion#

#To Grind Reputation, I Buried Myself in My Studies in the Game#

#About How the Sadistic Designer I Cursed and the Sweet Daughter I Raised Turned Out to Be the Same Person#

A long novel with both Daiyu's and the players' perspectives. The story diverges from the original plot in the middle and later stages.

Daiyu and the other girls will be raised by the players until their character stats are off the charts, ultimately changing the whole world.

All the major characters in Dream of the Red Chamber will grow. None of the girls will be vilified.

Daiyu's love interest is not Baoyu, and Baoyu will not be deliberately vilified either.

Theme: Use your ingenuity to create a better life.