After Failing to Win Over the Wanderer

Notice: Successfully win over any one of the following candidates to return to this world.

Candidate One: Wanderer

Candidate Two: Scaramouche

Candidate Three: Kabukimono

An Yuan, who had won over all three in turn: Will someone tell her why these three candidates are clearly all the same person!?

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On her eighteenth birthday, An Yuan received a huge "surprise": she was struck by lightning and left in a vegetative state.

The timely appearance of the dating System gave her hope of regaining her health.

But the System was extremely peculiar. There were no affection ratings or progress bars, only a handful of tasks. Completing them counted as a successful conquest.

Task One: Hold his hand

Task Two: Hug him

Task Three: Kiss him

Task Four: Witness his happy side

Task Five: Witness his sad side

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When she first met the Wanderer, An Yuan completed one of the tasks. It seemed she would soon return to her own world with a healthy body.

The truth did indeed give her a great deal of confidence. He treated her as someone special, mocking her with his words but still granting her wishes, and secretly following her when she went out to protect her from the shadows.

She almost became lost in it all. But as time passed, she just couldn't complete the final task, until one time, half asleep and half awake, she heard him call her "A-Yuan."

An Yuan: ...

It was true that this was her name in the real world, but she didn't go by that name in Teyvat!

An Yuan was devastated. Was she really just a substitute???

Conquest of the Wanderer failed.

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Scaramouche had a much worse temper than he did as the Wanderer. He didn't recognize her, perhaps because she had a different face this time.

In any case, she couldn't let him mistake her for a substitute again.

But this time, she discovered that even getting close to him was incredibly difficult.

He gripped her by the throat, convinced she had ulterior motives. He truly wanted her dead.

Conquest of Scaramouche failed.

In the brief moment before she was sent back to the System's space, she seemed to hear him calling her "A-Yuan" again. He was frantic and completely unlike Scaramouche...

She thought... Being a substitute was awful.

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Just as expected, Kabukimono was him too, but... why was Kabukimono so obedient and adorable!!!

Must give him a sniff first!

"Can I call you A-Yuan?"

"...Why?"

"Because your arrival feels like an answer to my wish, making it so I'm no longer alone."

An Yuan thought it over for a long time, then finally understood: So I was a substitute for myself???

He was like a blank sheet of paper, letting her fill it with her colors. She effortlessly came to occupy his entire world.

Conquest of Kabukimono succeeded.

At the very moment she should not have left.

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An Yuan returned to her own world and, just as she had wished, regained a healthy body. The System and the conquests seemed like a dream from the four years she had been unconscious.

Until the Wanderer found her.

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Perhaps she knew, or perhaps she didn't, that half of the dating System's existence came from the Wanderer.

It was all for the sake of their meeting and getting to know each other.

Their story was like a closed loop they could never escape. Without the System, they would never have met, and without their meeting, the System would never have existed.

The Wanderer preferred to call it fate.

Theme: Love can overcome any hardship