Chapter 1 Mingmei's Torment

Mingmei felt that encountering a player like Lu Xiaoyao was simply torture for a special NPC like her.

She had given such obvious hints!

How could she still be mistaken for a player?!

Could someone please re-iterate the official website update to her?!

As if everything was predestined, just as Lu Xiaoyao was about to drag Mingmei back to her "home," two voices suddenly came from behind them at the entrance.

"Hey! Are you guys players too?"

Lu Xiaoyao and Mingmei turned around and saw a man in a gray mandarin jacket and two girls in light blue student uniforms looking at them.

"Ah! You're the ones temporarily staying in the Zhang family's backyard!" Lu Xiaoyao immediately recognized that these three were also players.

The three of them were playing the roles of an art teacher and his two female students who were borrowing a room in the villain's house.

"You're playing the Bai family's young lady!"

The female student player with two thick braids immediately recognized Lu Xiaoyao's attire and then looked at Mingmei. "And this is...?"

"Ahem... buying boxed lunches?"

Everyone: Huh?

Buying what?

To be honest, Mingmei's line was both awkward and stiff! Mingmei herself wanted to curl her toes into the ground after saying it!

But the role requirement for this NPC was that she had to ask players if they wanted to buy boxed lunches.

If the other party agreed, it would trigger the discovery of a mysterious merchant, and they would be able to buy a boxed lunch from Mingmei, which would be very helpful for clearing the game.

If refused, well, the player would not trigger the mysterious store for the next six hours.

Mingmei could improvise freely at other times.

However, as a mysterious merchant NPC, Mingmei naturally had performance indicators. She had to sell at least one boxed lunch per game.

"What's this?"

The man playing the male teacher was still full of question marks. He looked at Lu Xiaoyao and Mingmei, and when Mingmei didn't speak, he looked at Lu Xiaoyao again.

"Didn't the official website update the game a few days ago? It added a player character who sells boxed lunches, right?"

Before Mingmei could give any further guidance, Lu Xiaoyao directly opened her mouth and said "official website update" and "added a player character," and even turned to look at Mingmei for confirmation.

Mingmei: ...

What was the point of looking at her?

Could she confirm the other party's "rumors"?

"Huh? That's not right, is it?" Another female student player with short, ear-length hair was the first to react, looking puzzled. "The official website's update announcement didn't mention adding a player character, did it? There are only five player characters in this game: the Bai family's young lady, the art teacher, two female students, and a mediocre feng shui master. When did a boxed lunch seller get added?"

Obviously, this short-haired student player paid much more attention to the official website's update news than Lu Xiaoyao.

Then, everyone saw Mingmei's originally wooden face suddenly come to life.

The bright light in her big eyes shone as she walked directly to her side, grabbed the other's hand, and said, "Miss, I see that you are extraordinary and definitely not an ordinary person. Do you want to eat a boxed lunch? I have pork chop curry and Orleans fried chicken, which one would you like?"

Hu Yue met Mingmei's persistent and enthusiastic sales pitch, opened her mouth, and finally shook her head and silently refused.

Hu Yue: This pretty young lady seems to be a little crazy.

[Gosh! I knew it! Can this tongue-scalding line be changed?]

Mingmei herself was also exploding with shame. Don't look at her with so few expressions on her face, but her inner drama was still very full.

Commonly known as, a repressed exhibitionist.

Especially after she had promoted the boxed lunch to the remaining players one by one and was rejected, the little man in her heart had already begun to be faintly irritable.

She really couldn't accept this kind of behavior that could be described as social suicide and still not achieve the desired effect!.oΓg

Even the audience watching Lu Xiaoyao's live broadcast said that Mingmei's behavior was "too immersed in the role."

[Emmm, isn't this kind of role-playing not that serious?]

[That's right, except when it's your own plot and you speak according to the system prompts, everyone else should be pretty casual, right~]

[Hey, can't you just let people satisfy their needs as a drama queen in the game hahaha?]

……

All the viewers thought she was a player due to Lu Xiaoyao's misguidance!

Lu Xiaoyao couldn't see these words in the barrage, and Mingmei didn't know that the scene just now was indeed socially awkward.

"Oh, don't worry about selling boxed lunches. After I get through the plot of resisting my parents' feudal marriage, our adventure will really begin!"

Lu Xiaoyao shifted everyone's attention to herself, and everyone nodded one after another. The players playing the art teacher and the two students also nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, we have to go do the mission according to the plot, and we'll meet at the Zhang family's later."

After speaking, the three players looked at Mingmei again, wanting to ask what she was going to do.

"I'm going to find someone to buy a boxed lunch."

Mingmei took a deep breath. Now, she had one player left, and she hadn't asked the fortune teller yet.

Everyone looked at Mingmei with more sympathy for this strange "plot."

"Your task is to sell boxed lunches, so you kept asking us like that just now?"

Hu Yue, who had been observing all along, finally noticed something was wrong. Seeing Mingmei's aggrieved expression and then nodding, Hu Yue couldn't bear it and asked, "Can I buy one now?"

It would have been great if Hu Yue hadn't refused directly just now, Mingmei thought with a sob.

Looking up at the six-hour countdown above Hu Yue's head, she silently replied, "People who have been rejected can only buy again after six hours."

Everyone: ...

Crap!

What kind of broken mission is this?!

"Will not selling your boxed lunch affect you and us going through the plot?"

"I... don't think so?"

Mingmei looked at the four people in front of her. Although she was a mysterious merchant, the game plot shouldn't be impossible to pass without buying a boxed lunch, right?

No way, no way?

These people aren't so bad that they really can't survive six hours, are they?

"Okay, everyone should first complete the plot before entering the Zhang family's mansion, and then meet at the gate of the Zhang residence~"

Watching everyone leave separately, Lu Xiaoyao still looked at Mingmei with some unwillingness, her expectant look like a little dog waiting for its owner to come home.

Lu Xiaoyao: You promised to accompany me through the plot together!

Mingmei: ...

In the end, Mingmei cruelly refused and planned to find the last player to continue selling boxed lunches!