[Revised before the story began. The core "romance missions" setting remains unchanged.]
[No standard infinite-flow elements. It's all about romance, making money, and being so gorgeous everyone dies of envy.]
Cast down to the mortal realm by a god, the apple, a symbol of victory, passed between various factions for many years. Then the benevolent mask of the Lord God shattered. The global infinite game began, and the apple was discarded like trash.
No one knew that, in the dark mire, a palm-sized beauty had been born from the apple.
Soon, the apple was swept into the infinite game: Top Lover.
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Yuan Zhaozhao, the little princess who owned an entire planet, spent her days eating, drinking, and having fun.
Unfortunately, her planet was so small that she was its only inhabitant.
One day, the princess was tricked by a fellow who called himself the "System."
She was about to embark on a romance trip through another dimension.
[Players, welcome to Top Lover]
[Game rules: You will be randomly assigned one NPC lover. Complete livestream interaction missions to earn bonus Romance Points. Remember: if you don't fall in love, you die ^^]
Yuan Zhaozhao: ?
Isn't this damn well a survival trip through another dimension?
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As the game went on, the players worked out a set of rules.
The Lord God wanted perfect love, and each instance was like a set for a TV show. The secret to clearing it was to please your NPC lover.
Inside the instances: faithful, honest, and willing to sacrifice everything for love.
In the real world: affairs, cheating, and using money to humiliate people.
The repression inside the instances gave way to debauchery in reality, like a carnival at the end of the world.
The high-ranking viewers watching the livestreams signed up to experience being doted on by players as NPCs, while looking down from on high and mocking humanity's hypocrisy.
Just like the struggle over the apple years ago, this was nothing more than a second game to pass the time.
But then a girl named Yuan Zhaozhao shattered those hypocritical rules.
She didn't let loose in the real world. She went wild right inside the instances ;)
In the Love Idol Audition instance, she had no money to save her NPC first love, who was destined to die young, so she turned her grief into motivation: she dated the idols, didn't even spare the mentor boss, and did whatever it took to claim center stage. Ambitious as could be, she eventually gave the position to some timid pretty boy. Don't ask. He looked like her first love;
In the Survival Couple instance, she was too weak to save her NPC first love, who was destined to die young, so she turned her grief into motivation: she dated the big shots in the instance, flirting with one for fruit and another for steak, then another and another. Along the way, she also saved a group of players who were nearly starving to death. Don't ask. She couldn't bear to watch anyone starve to death like her first love;
In the Heart-Pounding Dating Show instance, she lost her memory and forgot her NPC first love: she dated the male contestants and received more heart-fluttering messages than she could handle. But on confession day, she ran away with the female contestants. Don't ask. She'd remembered her first love;
In the Endless Daydreams instance, she…
Capricious, greedy, and cunning.
Yet so real and full of life that no one could look away.
Livestream viewers: […Interesting. Not sure yet. Let's take another look.]
Later: [Damn, the wife's first love is such a loser! If you can't do it, get out of the way and let me be the NPC first love who dies young! (frantically voting.jpg)]
A certain Lord God, the NPC first love who kept getting cheated on, nearly lost his position, and was treated like a disposable tool: "."
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After arriving in another world, Yuan Zhaozhao understood one thing: everything cost money.
During a brief stopover, she saw the dazzling array of goods in this other world.
Compared to her old home, where there was only one apple tree, this place was terrifyingly huge.
How could a princess go without an energy cannon, a crystal bracelet, or a particle rose?
Love Idol Audition, Survival Couple, Heart-Pounding Dating Show, Endless Daydreams…
As long as she completed interaction missions and earned enough Romance Points, she could exchange them for the other world's currency, or even buy high-plane goods from the Lord God's shop.
Even better, the so-called interaction missions weren't limited to assigned NPC partners. She could do them with any player or NPC in the game!
Yuan Zhaozhao: I have to make this money! I'll work two jobs, five jobs, a hundred jobs!
From then on
The other contestants acted out their roles in a state of constant fear, terrified of being eliminated or taken out by the Lord God. Every day, they put on tragic romances and competed to see who had the most miserable story.
Yuan Zhaozhao alone made money like crazy, interacting with countless players and NPCs. She made survival-game romance thrilling and seductive, like a shameless flirt.
Yet her stunning face and flirtatious romance experiences had the audience screaming nonstop.
She was never eliminated, and her rank kept soaring.
Yuan Zhaozhao: Don't ask. I'm just naturally bad luck for husbands ;)
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Later, Yuan Zhaozhao reached the top, becoming the top lover adored by the entire federation and its strongest player.
Countless big shots from the instances whom she'd played for fools scrambled to find her in reality, soon to discover that she was the apple they'd once thrown away. They'd be handed a script for winning back their wives at any cost.
But right now, Yuan Zhaozhao, the apple in human form, was still only palm-sized.
She opened the Lord God's shop out of habit. The considerate Lord God had already stocked it with the item players needed most.
[Growth Nutrient: Restores your body to normal size and grants an SSS-grade constitution and SSS-grade mental strength]
[Bonus item (cannot be unbound): One immortal Lord God lover]
Reading guide:
1. A cheeky, money-loving beauty, paired with a romance-obsessed shard of the Lord God. She'll have romances in the instances at various stages, including with shards of the Lord God and with players.
2. The lovers assigned in the instances are merely mission partners (acting partners), not real romantic partners. Neither party is bound by a contract.
3. The Romance Points system can be compared to the dating-show section of my previous book. There are absolutely no horror elements, just romance and making money.
4. The blurb was screenshotted on 2021.12.13.
5. Infinite-game elements added on 2023.3.4~
Theme: Be happy every day (●°u°●)??"