I Vowed to Pursue a No-CP Career in a Full-Dive Game, but Ended Up in a CP Anyway

No CP is the best!

With that in mind, she chose to create a male character in this game: a brilliant, charismatic master detective.

No one in the game could have guessed that someone with that sort of personality was a woman.

After the detectives worked together to solve a major case, they gathered at a bar to drink and chat. She fit in naturally, slinging an arm around the other detectives as they jokingly chatted about women, then happily toasted each other's corny jokes.

She had long hair.

Her white hair was conspicuous.

It made her appearance easy to recognize.

The detectives clinked their beer mugs together amid the laughter and asked, "Hey, Enzo, why do you keep your hair long, anyway?"

"Well..."

"He" swirled his glass under the lights, already looking a little drunk.

"My late wife... had hair just like this."

"Sadly, it wasn't white. It was red," he said, seemingly offhandedly.

But the other detectives immediately understood what he meant.

He was keeping it long to remember his late wife?

The mood grew a little somber, but then she naturally started telling them the story of "his" life with his late wife.

Of course, she made it up on the spot.

But the detectives listened intently and comforted "him" in their own ways.

Great. Maybe next time, a bunch of people won't invite me to a Playboy event.

His cool eyes still held their usual nonchalance.

It was just that Chinese players like white hair.

Also, as a female player, she was used to having long hair. My head can be cut off and my blood can spill, but my hair has to stay long.

But she seemed to be the only one among this group of detectives, most of whom were in their twenties, who had ever been married.

As long as "he" was okay with it, the detectives teased "him" about it all the time.

They said things like how "he" had escaped the fate of being single and was destined to take a different path from them.

Sure, sure. These detectives are destined to be alone, and I'm the one special case.

Poor single guys.

She thought this and didn't pay much attention to their teasing.

Until one day...

"Elaine?" She stared at the red-haired woman who matched her description perfectly, completely dumbfounded.

And, just her luck, the moment they met, the woman had amnesia.

How am I supposed to keep my no-CP status now?

Back then, I never imagined that later, Elaine, whom I raised as my daughter, would wreck my detective account, imprison me, and give birth to a son.

That son was my alternate character.

Little by little, I went from playing the game to the game playing me.

The main text is in third person.

The game is set in a weird, technologically advanced version of the modern West?

Since this is a romance route between a female player using a male character and Elaine, it's hard to define the sexual orientation, but it ended up as a romance story. (Now that there are more options for sexual orientations, I've moved it into that category.)

The player's presence is still pretty faint, and the story mainly follows the game characters. It's a full-dive game, after all.

Although I selected the game tag, this might just be a romance story wearing a game as a costume. Otherwise, the urban romance tag just feels odd.

A heads-up: Because the story includes imprisonment, the romance has yandere elements that may make some readers uncomfortable.

But since it's a game, the player has already thrown caution to the wind, given up on achievements and character stats, and chosen to stop struggling and lie flat. So the imprisonment probably develops as something both sides are willing to accept.

Yeah, she's lying there so completely that she's practically lost her personality. Readers, don't imitate this in real life.

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I quietly enabled paragraph comments, then spent ages staring at the settings page to figure out what conditions readers had to meet to post them. After a while, the author silently shattered.

Why isn't there an option to let anyone comment?

I checked the page over and over. The only options were "Favorite the story," "Favorite the author," "Like score," and "Subscription percentage." I couldn't find an unrestricted option anywhere.

I tried searching on my browser, Xiaohongshu, and even BS to see what was going on, but I couldn't find anyone with the same problem.

In the end, I could only choose the condition of a like score of 1, tears in my eyes.

Favoriting the story gives you 10 likes, and posting a comment worth 2 points gives you 2 likes. If you'd like to leave paragraph comments, you can use either of those methods to raise your like score.

I hate this so much. How could I set a requirement for comments from readers who are kind enough to leave them?

Theme: The case for getting hooked on games.