Chapter 1 Special Welfare Event

The game company launched a special welfare event on the sixtieth anniversary of survival games: players could draw NPC roles and experience the game from the NPC perspective.

As soon as the news came out, Mingmei received an enthusiastic application from Lu Xiaoyao.

"Meimei! You're a game company executive now, give me a break, just once, just this once!" Since graduating from military school, Mingmei hadn't continued in the army; instead, she honestly returned to work for her uncle.

Although her uncle originally said the game company would belong to Mingmei in the future, Mingmei didn't really want to take over.

After all, Yan Hui's work intensity was so high, he wished he could sleep in the company all day; she couldn't do that.

"You don't trust your own luck?"

This event was also planned by Mingmei and the company's operations department. Although it had a bit of a prank element, the effect was very good. The event hadn't officially started yet, but pre-registration had already exceeded one hundred million.

During the anniversary month, all the games would really be a "massacre" for the players.

As a fun-loving player in the role of an NPC, watching all kinds of real players playing inside, while they themselves had the script in hand, was completely different from the players who knew nothing.

Players who originally couldn't even play well when they encountered normal NPCs in the game would face even more of a disaster when they encountered this group of "living" NPCs.

The effect of the game live broadcast would definitely be very good at that time.

This was especially obvious for Lu Xiaoyao. If she didn't draw an NPC, it was very likely that she would really be played to death by the NPCs.

"Can I trust that?" Lu Xiaoyao looked at Mingmei with a ghost of a smile, not knowing why Mingmei had such a mysterious confidence in her luck.

"My luck is terrible, okay?" As Lu Xiaoyao spoke, she listed the things that had happened to her while playing games. To this, Mingmei really wanted to say that Lu Xiaoyao's bad luck was Schrödinger's bad luck.

Clearly, she had explosive good luck, and heaven was feeding her, but she just couldn't grasp it herself, and in the end, she messed it all up.

Finally, she blamed herself for her bad luck. Mingmei just wanted to say: 6! (Internet slang for awesome)

There was even a Star Blog topic about Lu Xiaoyao—#My Rebellious and Unruly Silly Daughter: Never Eats the Food Given by Father Heaven#.

"You must help me, I even bet with the audience in the live broadcast that if I don't get an NPC role for the anniversary, I'll do a handstand and poop!"

Mingmei: "If you knew this would happen, why did you make the bet?"

Mingmei didn't know how Lu Xiaoyao had made such a bet.

Too outrageous!

"I know, I know, I'll go ask the technical department later…"

However, Mingmei said so, but when it came to the lottery, she didn't let the technical department staff do anything. Just like that, Lu Xiaoyao unexpectedly got an NPC—a boxed lunch seller.

Hilarious, one day the boxed lunch buyer became the boxed lunch seller.

Because of this, Lu Xiaoyao was very triumphant when she got the result in the live broadcast. Mingmei also brought this up and told Mu Chen.

Mu Chen couldn't help but laugh when he heard it, and said, "You should ask her if Julian entered the lottery, and just have them draw together."

Mu Chen smiled and promoted the path he and Mingmei had taken in the game back then. Mingmei raised her eyebrows when she heard it, thinking that Mu Chen's true thoughts were really—a good idea~

"I'll have my uncle arrange it later~" Mingmei said with a smile, "Then we'll enter the game as players and watch~ We… haven't had a date in a long time."

After saying that, Mingmei's gaze at Mu Chen gradually became resentful, especially since they were currently having a candlelight dinner, but Mu Chen's optical brain lit up again.

This light meant he had something to do again.

After graduating from military school, Mu Chen originally wanted to join the company to help Mingmei. Yan Hui had agreed, after all, this kid had a belly full of bad ideas, no, a head full of wonderful ideas!

But Mu Chen was snatched away by her second brother and entered the Huayan Star army.

The Zerg were badly hurt, but her brother was still alive and kicking and could go anywhere. In addition, Huayan Star had only started for a few years, and many constructions and outer planet defenses had not been built yet. The transfer from Hualan Star to Huayan Star as the star field center still required various processes.

There was a shortage of manpower in this process, so Mu Chen was really busy every day after being snatched away. Although the two were on the same planet, they still couldn't see each other every day when they were busy.

Even when Mei Shi was muttering about when the two of them would get married during the New Year, her uncle spoke first, saying that she had to deal with the company and was busy with her career.

Her second brother then followed closely, saying that Mu Chen also had to help him manage the border defense affairs.

Young couple: 6 (Internet slang for speechless)

When you get busy, do you never care about the life or death of their young couple?

……

Time passed quickly to the day of the game's anniversary. Mingmei and Mu Chen made an appointment. With Mingmei's game permissions, the two directly entered the game where Lu Xiaoyao was.

Coincidentally, it was the hotel game where she and Mu Chen had swapped roles back then.

"Brothers! Look, in this game I'm the boxed lunch selling NPC, hahahahaha!" From the day she was drawn as an NPC, Lu Xiaoyao had been enjoying it, and today she was even more smug when she entered the game and started broadcasting.

She wished the live broadcast room was full of envious tones.

However, what surprised Lu Xiaoyao even more was that Julian was actually in the same game as her, playing the role of the villain boss.

"This game… I thought it was unethical when I first played it. How could the boxed lunch seller and the villain boss be husband and wife?" Lu Xiaoyao stroked her chin and chatted with Julian face to face before the players arrived.

"I remember when we played this game, the boss sold boxed lunches and the landlady was a killer."

After so many years, Julian still remembered the scene of being killed by the NPC with Mingmei's face.

But, how come the roles were swapped now?

"What do you mean? You want me to be the killer?" Lu Xiaoyao poked Julian's chest with her finger and said pitifully, "Would you… would you be willing?"

"I wouldn't."

Julian grabbed Lu Xiaoyao's hand and gently kissed the back of her hand. Instantly, the barrage unanimously sent out—【Ewww!】

【Ptooey! Get lost, lovebirds!】

【Ahem! Um, why is my daughter's love so greasy?】

【Just a greasy trick between young couples!】

【Speaking of which, I didn't think the NPC couple was greasy before!】

【Yeah, I was really into that couple back then!】

【Could it be—】

【Looks?】

【Ah, as expected, looks are very important.】

【Isn't our baby cute either?】

【No, the previous boxed lunch selling NPC, really, was a cool and aloof beauty, and pairing her with a crazy, gloomy handsome man was so much more exciting, right? Lu Xiaoyao's style—a silly sweetie with a refined scum, um… doesn't fit the game.】

"Where am I gloomy?"

Mu Chen, who was walking up the mountain towards the hotel with the players, connected to Lu Xiaoyao's live broadcast room in the background, just like Mingmei. As a result, he didn't expect to see such a comment.

"Um, they're talking nonsense~" Mingmei shook their clasped hands to let Mu Chen not be angry.

"I'm not angry, they're just jealous~"

Mu Chen had just seen that there were already people on the barrage who missed how comfortable it was to see the boxed lunch selling NPC with Mingmei's face.

Because of the game's memory suppression, the other players who entered the game felt that Mingmei and Mu Chen looked familiar, but they couldn't say why they looked familiar.

However, Mingmei didn't add these restrictions to herself and Mu Chen. They entered the game just to watch up close.

Soon, when Mingmei and Mu Chen appeared in Lu Xiaoyao's live broadcast room, Lu Xiaoyao's live broadcast room exploded as expected.

Before Mingmei and Mu Chen could react, Lu Xiaoyao herself stretched her head over and shouted, "Do you want to buy a boxed lunch?"

After saying that, she winked at Mingmei secretly~

Lu Xiaoyao: I'm being so obvious, aren't you going to buy one?

Mingmei's lips curled up into a mischievous arc, and she opened her mouth and said, "No, I don't like eating boxed lunches."