I Am the Only Fertile Woman in the Game

Chapter 215: Chapter 215: Discovery Chapter 215: Chapter 215: Discovery She asked the question then realized Lanze couldn’t simply respond with actions. Thus, she narrowed the scope and asked, “Did you come to the real world to find me?”

Suddenly, there was a noise from the doorframe behind her.

She turned her head to look toward where the doorframe was and excitedly asked, “Can you come out of the game world?”

‘Knock knock.’

The doorframe was tapped twice.

“Not… then why can I see you…” Qiao Suisui frowned in thought, recalling the first time she saw Lanze as a stuttering hologram, and asked, “So, are you still in the game world right now?”

‘Knock knock.’

The answer was still no.

Not in the game world, nor in the real world…

Qiao Suisui’s breathing became tense. She asked, “You don’t know where you are either, but this place can see me and also connects to your world?”

‘Knock!’

Shock appeared in Qiao Suisui’s eyes. She stretched out her arms, like a blind person, reaching toward the doorframe. But she touched nothing.

She frowned in thought, Lanze could touch things, yet she couldn’t touch him.

Qiao Suisui provided Lanze with paper and pen, asking him to write down what he wanted to say.

After a while, the paper was filled with crooked characters, resembling spells drawn by a Taoist priest. No one could discern its meaning, but Qiao Suisui recognized at a glance that the writing was in Interstellar script —

[You]

[Good]

[Question]

Qiao Suisui felt a twinge in her nose, her eyes slightly reddening. She smiled, “I am fine. How about you?”

More interrupted characters appeared on the paper.

[I]

[Miss]

[You]

Qiao Suisui looked at the floppy characters, unable to imagine how he managed to write them. She suddenly recalled Lanze sitting in front of the library’s floor-to-ceiling window, his eyes tranquil like the sea, always carrying a hint of wistfulness and melancholy in his brows, but whenever he smiled, it turned into a breeze of spring, shedding petals.

After everything she had been through, any irritation and barriers had faded away. Lanze was her first friend in that world, and she didn’t want those memories to lose their color.

Perhaps having waited for a long time without hearing a reply from Qiao Suisui, the paper began to gradually reveal more text.

[They]

[Always Wait]

[You]

[I From]

[Long time after]

[Come over]

Qiao Suisui read these words aloud, piecing them together into a sentence, and when she read ‘they’ve always been waiting for you,’ it felt like a punch to her brain.

“Are you saying… Ruka and the others?”

A simple check mark appeared on the paper.

Suddenly, Qiao Suisui found it difficult to breathe. She had thought all this was merely a game, just a setting, and once she logged out, they would become quiet like in a regular game. However, Lanze had said… they had always been waiting for her.

She mustered her courage and asked a question that had frequented her mind many times but had forced herself not to care about, “What happened after I left?”

No text appeared on the paper this time, but an image.

A sword, with a cross drawn behind it.

A snake, with a rectangular object behind it.

A sun, followed by a bullet.

A pair of gloves, with handcuffs drawn behind them.

The last thing that leaped onto the paper was a dragon, but only half was drawn before the pen hanging in mid-air suddenly dropped with a ‘snap’ onto the paper, rolling due to inertia under the table and landing on the floor.

“Lanze?”

“Lanze…”

Qiao Suisui waited for over ten minutes, but no more marks appeared on the paper.

She held the paper for a long time, guessing back and forth, only coming up with some far-fetched ideas. The sword represented Ruka, but what about the cross? Could it be that Ruka was in trouble? The snake was undoubtedly Zong Fang, but that rectangular object, Qiao Suisui could never figure out what it was. The sun represented Ash, but what did the bullet symbolize? Could it be that he had fallen into danger? The pair of gloves puzzled her, but by process of elimination, she knew it was likely Carl, and the handcuffs meant supervision and prison, indicating Carl must have encountered trouble. The last dragon represented Sang Yan, but Lanze had not finished drawing…

Qiao Suisui sat on the floor, hugging her knees, suddenly feeling a bit heavier.

Lanze’s sudden appearance had completely disrupted Qiao Suisui’s emotions.

In the following days, not only did Lin Xixi notice her restless spirit, but several low-level mistakes also happened during her internship at Zhenge.

“Baozi, what’s the matter with you?” Lin Xixi, with a face mask on, leaned against her and asked, “If you have any worries, talk to me.”

Qiao Suisui’s throat tightened, and after hesitating for a while, she said, “If, I mean if, your family and friends are all here, and your future career might also likely unfold here, but there’s a place that you always think about and care about deeply, what would you choose?”

Lin Xixi raised a finger and said, “Adults don’t make choices. I go there on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, here on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, and I rest on Sunday.”

Qiao Suisui was made to laugh by her irresponsibility, “What if you can’t have both?”

“Then it depends on what’s most important to oneself. Like me, for instance, I want my skin to be good, but I can’t quit staying up late because staying up is just too much fun, so I instinctively choose what makes me happy, even if it’s only a fleeting joy. So I pay the price with pimples, but I accept it.”

Lin Xixi sat cross-legged on the sofa, stroking the face mask on her face, and said like a master of Zen, taking it very seriously, “When people have a choice, that is actually their happiest moment. As long as you stick to your choice without regret and dare to face the consequences, you are a great adult!”

After that, Lin Xixi didn’t hear Qiao Suisui make a sound for a long time. When she opened her eyes and looked over, seeing her staring straight at her, she got a shock.

“What’s up? Need to borrow money?”

Qiao Suisui looked at her and laughed, asking, “Do you know what your charm is?”

“What is it?”

“It’s that you seem unreliable, but occasionally you’re quite open-minded.”

“Haha, I play on contrast!”

The two girls frolicked on the sofa, with Qiao Suisui lying on Lin Xixi’s legs, softly saying, “Thank you for being my friend. Xixi, you are the best person in the world.”

Lin Xixi laughed and responded, “Because you’re worth it. In my eyes, you’ve always been shining.”

Perhaps this is the meaning of friendship, no matter how many masks one may wear in front of others, they can always be themselves sincerely in front of each other and not be afraid of not being good enough.

Qiao Suisui always cherished this beauty in her heart and couldn’t bear to end it.

…

The next day.

Qiao Suisui arranged to meet Ye Xi.

“You said you want to go back to your saved file?” Ye Xi was somewhat surprised.

Qiao Suisui nodded, “I don’t want to start over.”

Ye Xi thought for a moment, adjusted her glasses, and said, “That’s impossible. Once a player logs out, the world they were in gets automatically locked, and the game’s ending cannot be changed.”

Ye Xi saw Qiao Suisui’s eyes dim, took a sip of her coffee, smiled at her, and said, “But as for me, I like to challenge the impossible.”