The Goal Is to Stay Popular Before the Game Launches [Genshin Impact]

One day, Guang Mo learned that he was a character in a game with a special model. Usually, when a character was in that situation, there was a 99 percent chance they'd eventually be added to the game.

But he wasn't on the schedule at all.

His bound System quietly let slip that a character with a special model who wasn't being added to the game was very likely about to get killed off.

And not in a pleasant way.

Guang Mo: "..."

"But! As long as you maintain a decent level of popularity, make everyone too fond of you to let you die, and show the developers how valuable you are, they'll add you to the game, and everyone will be happy!" The System showed him what it had carefully prepared: an incredible secret identity with an utterly ordinary face, one of those faces lost in a sea of people.

"Just looking at it makes me feel like it won't earn anyone's affection," Guang Mo remarked.

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Players noticed that lately, nine out of ten major events in Liyue were organized by that legendary unreleased character.

Liyue's big boss had never shown his face. Players had only heard his voice, and he seemed to love having fun and joining in the excitement. His businesses sponsored all kinds of things.

Why are there so many rich people in this game? Can I be one of them?

He seems perfect as an event errand boy. Bring him out for a lap, then let him run off after he's done.

His voice is so nice. I haven't seen his face, and the only word in my head is "rich."

But at the next event, and the one after that, even though a different nation was hosting, this big boss's trading company still managed to appear in one way or another. And every event story featured an important passerby NPC with the same voice as the boss and a very similar way of doing things.

Players: ???

That was practically spelling it out, wasn't it?

The mastermind behind Fontaine's detective-themed exhibition, the investor and designer of Liyue's fashion show, the organizer of Sumeru's efforts to save the crumbling surface...

It was all him.

After all this buildup, I bet he'll have a skill that switches characters and drains their status, poisons your energy recharge, has a unique axis no one else can match, or an attack set worse than Jinjiang Tudou's servers. Pick one.

We don't know if he has a Vision, and we haven't seen his face, but I really like his personality. I'm desperate. Can someone give me something to look forward to?

Enough talk. I'd pull even if he healed the enemies! I'm already getting ready for Guang Mo C6R5.

Theme: A story about fighting tirelessly to survive, and eventually forming bonds with many people.