Marry the NPC with Money, Wife Comes Knocking - Chapter 34

[After so many days of observation, Hua Hua has never replied to the danmaku (bullet comments). Can she not see us?]

[Hua Hua used to love replying to the danmaku during her streams. Now she doesn’t respond or thank anyone for gifts-our hearts are broken.]

[Hua Hua has really entered the game and become an electronic pet.]

[From another perspective, it’s like the dream of raising a Hua Hua has come true.]

[If this is the game ‘Yu Sheng: Romance of the Rest of Life’, where’s our male protagonist? Why is there only Su Sheng?]

Hua Suihe (Hua Hua) occasionally glanced at the danmaku. This time, she caught a viewer’s question.

That’s right, this is an urban romance game, but she had been here so long and still hadn’t seen any of the four male leads, nor had she entered the main characters’ activity areas.

Hmm… But she couldn’t remember the male leads’ faces. She hadn’t even memorized the 2D character portraits, so even if she saw them in person, she might not recognize them.

In the elevator, Su Sheng kept fiddling with Hua Suihe’s pinky finger. She could tell Hua Hua was unhappy, which made her a little uneasy. “Is Hua Hua mad at me?”

Hua Suihe snapped out of it, caught Su Sheng’s mischievous index finger, and said helplessly, “I’m not angry.”

“It’s just that you’re still too naive. There are some things I can’t explain to you yet.”

Su Sheng rested her chin on Hua Suihe’s shoulder, hugging her arm tightly. Her voice was earnest: “Hua Hua, you can tell me anything. Whatever you say, I’ll listen.”

The elevator arrived at the first floor.

Hua Suihe rubbed Su Sheng’s head. “This kind of thing needs the right time and place to explain. Right now, the most important thing is I’m hungry and need to eat. Are you coming back to work later?”

“No need, I’ve finished all my tasks.” Ye Susheng (Su Sheng) pulled Hua Suihe out of the elevator. “I’ll take Hua Hua to the cafeteria for a snack, then tonight I’m making a super lavish dinner~”

“Okay, then I’ll eat less now to save room for the super lavish dinner~”

Yi Shuang stood at the corner, a faintly glowing concealment talisman in her hand. She leaned against the wall with her arms crossed, watched them leave the library and their figures fade into the distance, then finally took the elevator up to the fourth floor.

With the chance to end the instance early, she certainly wouldn’t miss it.

That self-important fool Water Cube had no idea that Yi Shuang could sense the location of her own dagger.

Earlier, in class, Yi Shuang had lent her dagger to Jing Wen. After Jing Wen killed the Anomaly teacher, he escaped with Yi Shuang’s dagger.

Actually, killing an Anomaly wouldn’t bring retaliation from the Anomaly, because this is Free School. As long as you act within the rules, whether you’re an Anomaly or a player, anything is allowed. And by counter-killing the Anomaly, they even triggered a hidden side quest for the weekend.

The reason Jing Wen didn’t attend class in the afternoon wasn’t due to Anomaly retaliation, but because after Water Cube extracted the weekend side quest information from him, he conveniently killed Jing Wen and took the dagger.

Water Cube survived the earlier instances by acting, earning new players’ trust through small favors, then sacrificing them at critical moments to save himself.

Last time in the hospital, when he reached the eighth floor and encountered the man-eating clock, the first thing he did was push the new player with him forward as bait.

He had mastered this tactic, and this time he tried to clear the side quest the same way. But he never expected that the side quest NPC was Su Sheng-no one can survive after facing Shura Su Sheng.

See? He’s dead now.

Yi Shuang easily shattered the mirror, picked up the dropped loot, and exited the instance.

Only a week has passed in the Free School instance, and out of 120 players, only twenty or thirty remain.
Players who didn’t participate in the weekend side quest could check the points leaderboard to see who had cleared the instance and left.

A single glance revealed that only Yi Shuang had a positive score increase, which meant she was the only one who had left Free School by completing the weekend side quest. In that moment, the others all felt lucky for their own cowardice back then.

Every extra day of survival was precious.

As the number of players dwindled day by day, Ye Susheng (nicknamed “Ye”)’s nightly dorm checks became easier and easier. On days with Hua Suihe (nicknamed “Hua Hua”) by her side, she couldn’t be bothered to pick on the players anymore. She only checked the dorms once per night, and after finishing, still had time to hurry back to the dorm and sleep with Hua Hua.

Hua Suihe’s one-month substitute teaching job was about to end.

Before her last class, Hua Suihe discussed with Ye Susheng her wish to give the students in the youth class a small gift.

The school leaders never discussed extending her substitute teaching position. This made sense: Ye Susheng’s one-month system-assigned job was also coming to an end, meaning the instance was about to conclude, so this job that the system assigned her was naturally about to expire too.

“You want to give gifts to that group of… bad kids?”

Hua Suihe didn’t agree with Ye Susheng’s way of referring to the students. “They’re well-behaved in class. None of them are naughty, you can’t call them bad kids.”

Ye Susheng pursed her lips, looking unhappy.

“What’s wrong?” Hua Suihe laughed, pinching her ear. “Are you actually jealous of little kids?”

“If I’m preparing gifts for the kids, of course I won’t forget to prepare one for my favorite Ye.”

Ye Susheng lowered her head, making it easier for Hua Suihe to pinch her ear without getting tired. The soft pads of Hua Suihe’s fingers brushed her earlobe, and Ye Susheng squinted, her mood brightening.

“Anything Hua Hua gives them will make them happy.”

“Really?”

Ye Susheng replied with absolute certainty, “Really!”

“Hmm…” Hua Suihe nodded in agreement; after all, every class spent with the students had been pleasant.

With dozens of students in the class, Hua Suihe couldn’t afford any particularly expensive gifts. After thinking it over, she decided that stationery was the best choice: she could give out notebooks and pens.

Having made up her mind, she dragged Ye Susheng out to shop together.

But when they arrived at the stationery store and saw the prices, she immediately fell silent.

A single cartoon gel pen cost 200 yuan, and even the most basic plain pen cost 188.

Yi Shuang had bought a book for 56,000 yuan and said books were expensive. Now Hua Suihe realized it wasn’t just books-everything in this world was outrageously priced.

She’d thought earning 30,000 yuan a month for substitute teaching was a good deal, but in truth, she’d been earning virtually nothing. Tears pricked her eyes.

Hua Suihe clutched the 1,000 yuan in cash she’d brought from her bag. Now, faced with these prices, it felt utterly useless-she simply couldn’t bring herself to hand it over at the register.

She turned to Ye Susheng, “Ye, I didn’t bring enough money. I’ll go back and get more…”

“I brought money, Hua Hua. All the money I earn is for you to use.” Ye Susheng grinned as she handed over her salary card, stuffing it into Hua Suihe’s palm.

Hua Suihe clutched the bank card, struggled internally for a moment, then decisively stood on tiptoe and gave Ye Susheng a quick peck on the lips. “Thank you, wifey~”

She gave up on the notebook plan and decided to give everyone just a pen. Buying fifty pens cost 10,000 yuan. She swiped the card and left the shop.

“As for Ye’s gift, I’ll owe you for a day. Tomorrow is your day off, so let’s go shopping together and pick something out.” Hua Suihe leaned close to Ye Susheng’s ear and whispered, “I suspect the prices are just too high inside the school.”

After all, she’d always paid just two yuan to ride the bus, and the driver never said anything.

Ye Susheng nodded in agreement. “Mm, prices at school are way too high. The mall outside is cheaper.”