As a True Liquor, I Raised a Bottle of Fake Liquor

[Check out my upcoming novel, The Max-Level System Reborn as a Washed-Up Star's Cannon Fodder. Blurb below.] [Police Academy Squad and Akemi survival bonus chapters, happy ending] Nanae took a friend's recommendation and downloaded a raising-sim mobile game. When she opened it, she saw a lonely mixed-race boy with blond hair and dark skin sitting in a room. The moment he looked up, her heart melted. Nanae: Kid, with a face like yours, from today on, Big Sis will never let you live another day of hardship! (shouting) Zero: ...? Who are you? She spent six months playing the game day and night, raising the boy from eighteen to twenty-three and seeing him graduate from the police academy and go his separate way from his friends. Satisfied, Nanae packed her bags and returned to Japan to take over the family business. On her first day back in Japan, her father's trusted subordinate, Gin, introduced her to the members of the Organization. Nanae stared at the boy she'd maxed out in all five stats and affection, whose profile even listed his identity in big letters as Public Security (undercover). Her kid was standing right in front of her. Eyes + pupils + quake + shock #How I, a genuine criminal, somehow raised a fake one with all my heart# #My mobile-game kid is actually living in the same world as me. Is that even scientifically possible?#+ [Reader's Guide] 1. Zero's personality at eighteen is my own interpretation. OOC warning. 2. The story starts in the mobile game and later moves into reality. There is a younger-to-older relationship dynamic (from Zero's point of view). 3. The police academy program is four years. Many details are my own additions. Bonus chapters where the police academy squad and Akemi survive! *Upcoming Novel* The Max-Level System Reborn as a Washed-Up Star's Cannon Fodder After helping dozens of Hosts reach the peak of their lives, System 76 claimed the number-one spot in the system world with a 200% approval rating. But pride comes before a fall. A bolt of heavenly lightning struck, and she accidentally transmigrated into the Host she was about to bind to: a cannon-fodder supporting actress in an entertainment-industry novel. In the book, she throws herself at the male lead, only to be mocked by the entire internet. Burdened by scandals, she is about to go insane and meet a hasty end. Her countdown to death has only three days left. System 76: ...(curses) Bad news: To stay alive, she has to trade popularity points for her life. Good news: System 76 opens her phone and finds that the trending topics are full of familiar faces. The lightning fused the worlds where the Hosts live! - Netizens notice that Qi Rou, who has always been an outcast in the industry and shunned by everyone, seems like a completely different person lately. A rebellious top-tier star bends down on the red carpet to lift her hem, without a trace of impatience in his eyes. A cool, aloof esports champion obediently goes to bed early at a single look from her. A youthful singer-songwriter follows her around on a reality show, fussing over her like a devoted dad. An elusive award-winning actor goes out of his way to sit with her in the back row at an awards ceremony. A photo of them whispering together sets the trending topics on fire. Haters: [??? Were all the big shots hexed at once?] Meanwhile, gossip-loving netizens read their conversation from their lips: [Wait, who did that rising young actress get together with? If there's gossip, let us in on it!] Trending that night: #TurnsOutTheAwardWinningActorLovesGossipToo# #TheyAllShowAnotherSideOfThemselvesInFrontOfQiRou (Explosive)# Later on... At the All-Star Games, Qi Rou hits a perfect ten with every shot in the shooting event, taking first place by a landslide. Behind-the-scenes footage from a shoot goes viral. She delivers a five-minute monologue in one flawless take, leaving the whole set stunned. Her almost otherworldly stills take off online, and she is hailed as having the most beautiful CGI-model face... Netizens: What were people even hating on her for before?! Where can we find a gorgeous, dedicated young woman like her? - After awakening one day and binding to a System, Gu Yiming's first move is to break things off with his childhood sweetheart and fiancee, so she won't become a stumbling block. Unexpectedly, she doesn't cling to him as the story says she should. After leaving him, she only gets better and turns her life around. His missions keep failing, and his popularity keeps plummeting. Gu Yiming angrily demands of his System: Aren't I supposed to have the protagonist's script in my hands?! Qi Rou, who has heard everything: The protagonist's script? Is that supposed to be something special? ...Could it be that everyone you're dealing with is a final-boss-level veteran who's already cleared the game? (doge) Gu Yiming's novice System: (trembling, eyes shut, pretending to be dead) But they're all senior veterans... It can't win, it really can't! Theme: Even in the darkest places, keep your heart turned toward the light