Marry the NPC with Money, Wife Comes Knocking - Chapter 159

Chapter 159

When the viewers in the livestream saw that Hua Suihe was nothing more than a data-generated character, the companionship they had felt from her streams over the past few days lost all of its supernatural mystique. It was only a game stream arranged and run by hired staff. Every interaction had been for the sake of the broadcast effect.

As for why the livestream account could never be found after each stream ended, that was simply because money had been spent to reach an agreement with the platform.

The above would be the most standard and reasonable answer given to the public.

Hua Suihe did not need to worry about the PR side of things, because she knew Gu Gu would take care of it for her.

She owed Gu Gu a great deal, and she had no way to repay it.

Hua Suihe sat quietly in her chair, watching the barrage fill with all kinds of emotional reactions for her without saying a word.

She lowered her head. After thinking for a moment, she sent Gu Gu a private message.

[Hua Suihe: Gu Gu, you don’t need to blame yourself. I’m doing very well here. This is a game world that never had time to write its ending. It has many flaws, but I think I’ve already fully become part of it.]

[Hua Suihe: When I first arrived here, I saw everything as virtual. Even my lover didn’t feel real to me, let alone the passersby. So aside from Ye Susheng, I paid no attention to anything around me.]

[Hua Suihe: Perhaps because I stayed here for so long, I gradually came to see them as living beings. And because of that, I adapted to this place and began to see myself as a member of this world.]

[Hua Suihe: Back then, I promised you I would go home after I finished dating. Consider this me breaking my word. I’m sorry.]

Hua Suihe had no family. Gu Gu was the person closest to her, so long ago, she had already come to regard Gu Gu as family without blood ties.

She was worried Gu Gu would blame herself. Blame herself for telling Hua Suihe about the digital life experiment back then, indirectly causing her to lose her life in the 3D world.

Hua Suihe did not want Gu Gu to think that way. All of this had been her own choice. She was living well here. Her only regret was that, from now on, she and this dearest friend of her life would be separated by dimensions, never to meet again in this lifetime.

After sending the private message, Hua Suihe let out a breath. When she raised her head, the corner of her eye caught sight of a white head quietly hiding by the door.

Two hands gripped the doorframe, and every so often, the head would peek out. After Hua Suihe spotted her, she even pulled her head back in.

After Ye Susheng found out that Hua Hua had come for her and would not be going back, her heart had been bubbling over with sweetness.

Hua Hua had said she needed to be busy for a while, so Ye Susheng had not dared to go in and disturb her.

But not going in to disturb her did not mean she couldn’t sneak a peek.

Hua Suihe was amused by her childish behavior. When their eyes met again, Hua Hua beckoned to Ye Zi, signaling for her to come over.

Ye Susheng happily bounced over and sat down on the chair beside Hua Suihe. She stared at her with rapt attention, as if she could make a flower bloom on Hua Suihe’s face just by looking.

“You’re smiling so brightly. Are you that happy?”

Ye Susheng nodded without the slightest attempt to hide it. “Hua Hua is so good to me!”

Hua Suihe put an arm around her, letting their foreheads rest together.

[But this really is so sweet.]

[The 3D Hua Hua is gone. I wouldn’t mind raising a 2D Hua Hua.]

[I only care about whether this game can open its servers again. Can’t they make it so every household gets its own Ye-Hua?]

[Stop dreaming. Gu Gu just posted an announcement. Ye Susheng is Hua Hua’s lover. This game belongs to Hua Hua, and it won’t be opening to the public again.]

[I support that. What if some bad guy plays the game and breaks up the CP? This is the safest option.]

Hua Suihe had been paying attention to the barrage and her private messages the entire time, waiting for Gu Gu’s reply.

Seeing what the comments were saying, she realized Gu Gu had already issued an announcement to clean up the aftermath, even at a time like this?
Right now, Wuqi would be by Gu Gu’s side, wouldn’t she?

With someone there for Gu Gu, Hua Suihe could feel a little more at ease.

At that very moment, Gu Gu was standing beside the hospital bed, looking at Hua Suihe’s peaceful face, already sobbing too hard to speak.

Wuqi stood at her side, reaching out to hold her arm. Feeling Gu Gu’s body trembling with every sob, her heart ached for those tears, yet there was nothing she could do.

Wuqi had only met Hua Suihe through Gu Gu. The two of them had never been especially close in private, but she knew how close Gu Gu and Hua Suihe were. Watching a dear friend pass away with her own eyes-of course Gu Gu would be filled with unbearable reluctance to let go.

Gu Gu buried her face in Wuqi’s shoulder and cried her heart out, choking out, “I know… we should be happy for her…”

“But from now on, I’ll only be able to see her through a screen…”

Wuqi let Gu Gu soak her clothes with tears, gently stroking her hair as she said softly, “At least she hasn’t left us.”

Hua Suihe waited for a long time on her end, but Gu Gu still hadn’t sent a message. She couldn’t help thinking, Don’t tell me Gu Gu is going to pull out my oxygen tube herself?

She probably couldn’t bring herself to do that.

Or was she so heartbroken she popped champagne at the scene?

She really shouldn’t think of Gu Gu like that.

After waiting for what felt like forever, she and Ye Susheng had both hugged until they were tired. Hua Suihe yawned and was just about to fall asleep when Gu Gu’s private message finally arrived.

Gu Gu didn’t reply to Hua Suihe’s message directly. Refusing to get sentimental, she cut straight to the point and brought up the Thriller Virus.

[Gu Gu: Ye Susheng’s code was tampered with by the virus a long time ago. Even if we roll it back to when you first met her, it won’t change the fact that she and Thriller are symbiotic.]

This little game had already developed internal code issues while the servers were still running. The development team failed to discover and handle them in time, so the game Hua Suihe had started playing was faulty from the very beginning.

Later, Hua Suihe’s livestream drew in a huge influx of players. The servers managed to hold on for another half a year, but the malicious code spread too quickly, causing the game to collapse completely. The operations team, unable to keep going, chose to shut down the servers and run.

Then Hua Suihe spent money to buy back the copyright.

All this time, although the game had programmers maintaining it, they still couldn’t eradicate the problem in the source code. That was why Thriller had spread through the game world at such an astonishing, unstoppable rate.

For a long time now, the programmers had been working to crack the source code, and naturally, they had made some progress. But they couldn’t guarantee the malicious code could be completely rooted out. Most importantly, what looked to them like nothing more than cold strings of numbers would, in a very real way, affect the people inside the game world.

[Gu Gu: They said the code can be repaired, but they can’t guarantee Ye Susheng’s memories will be preserved.]

Hua Suihe abruptly raised her head, startling Ye Susheng, who had been lost in Hua Hua’s sweet, fragrant scent. Dazed, Ye Susheng met Hua Suihe’s gaze.

[Gu Gu: For now, they’ve temporarily curbed the damage caused by the malicious code, but that isn’t a long-term solution. Only repairing the code can completely eliminate this hidden danger.]

[Gu Gu: But I’m worried Ye Susheng won’t be Ye Susheng anymore.]

Worried that Ye Susheng would become a stranger with the same face.

Worried that the person Hua Suihe loved would no longer be the one before her eyes.

If she was no longer the Ye Susheng whose heart was full of love for Hua Suihe, would it really be worth it for Hua Hua to stay there?

Right now, Hua Suihe still had three days left to live in the real world. If Hua Suihe changed her mind, the programmers could restart the malicious code and use it to reopen the dungeon, allowing Hua Hua to speedrun points. There would still be a chance for her to come back.

[Gu Gu: Think it over some more.]