Chapter 1 After Getting Off the Game

After logging off from the game, Mingmei looked at the 4.5 academic points she earned and rare smile graced her lips.

Although it wasn't a perfect score, she knew that ordinary people couldn't achieve this score.

Even if they did, wouldn't they have to spend money in the game to buy lunch boxes? Her 4.5 points were pure profit.

Thinking about this, Mingmei couldn't help but laugh, "Right, Guigui..."

Speaking halfway into the air, Mingmei suddenly froze.

She remembered that the Guigui NPC assistant system was only with her when she was online playing games.

Mingmei suddenly realized a problem she hadn't noticed before.

She seemed to feel a little bored all alone.

After a brief moment of melancholy, Mingmei looked at her schedule, which reminded her that she had an offline class tomorrow morning, a large lecture with several majors together.

Compared to the small class of a dozen people during the first two days of school, tomorrow she would likely experience a "big scene" with hundreds of people.

Ming, a social-phobe and lazy bum, shuddered.jpg

Thinking that she would be surrounded by people in all directions, Mingmei couldn't help but shiver and vowed to get up early tomorrow morning to grab a seat in the classroom.

She wanted to sit in the last row!

She thought that sitting in the last row would allow her to look down on the entire class, and surely everyone wouldn't turn around to look at her during class, right?

The idea was good, but in reality, something seemed to have gone wrong...

"Am I seeing things...?"

Bai Xiao, from the mecha combat department of the Imperial Central Military Academy, thought she must not be awake when she entered the large classroom for the general knowledge of mecha class and saw two glowing figures in the last row.

"No, no, I shouldn't be in the game right now, right? I definitely came out of the game pod before going to bed yesterday..."

Bai Xiao looked again, unwilling to believe it, and then her face was written all over with—"I'm seeing ghosts!"

She was now increasingly suspicious that she had entered the game. Why were the villain Boss and the mysterious merchant from the game appearing in reality?!

"What are you spacing out for?" Hu Yue came up from behind Bai Xiao and shouted, patting her shoulder.

"Look..." Bai Xiao secretly pointed in Mingmei's direction, and as expected, the next second she heard her friend Hu Yue exclaim "Holy crap" in surprise.

"Young Master Zhang and that lunch box seller?"

Hu Yue was dumbfounded, and Bai Xiao, who had seen Mingmei and the villain in two consecutive rounds, was even more dumbfounded.

This was not just Young Master Zhang and the lunch box merchant, but also the tyrant and his handmaiden!

Ah!

"Oh my god, the CP I ship has broken the dimensional barrier..." Bai Xiao murmured blankly, and then her eyes shone with an unusually frightening light!

Goodness knows that after she left Lu Xiaoyao's live broadcast room last night, Xingwang pushed her a CP post based on big data.

Ho~

Was she, Bai Xiao, the kind of person who was enthusiastic about gossip and shipping CPs?

I'll just take a look, just one look. Bai Xiao muttered in her heart, and then clicked to enter.

From then on, Bai Xiao seemed to have opened a new door...

From the beginning, Mingmei sat in the back of the classroom.

Looking at the students coming in, then looking at her side with a ghostly horror, and then exclaiming "Holy crap."

And now, there was even a scene where a classmate was looking at her with a strange light in their eyes, Mingmei really had the urge to cover her face and skip class!

Mingmei's face was wooden at the moment, but she was frantically chanting in her heart to calm down!

Unfortunately, in the end, her heart still exploded!

It's crazy!

Why do a group of people still turn around to look after sitting down?!

Mingmei inwardly cried out that she had miscalculated and glared resentfully at the man sitting next to her.

Who told her that she had thought of everything last night, except that the person sitting next to her this morning was actually a man with a face that looked exactly like the villain Boss in the game!

Help!

It was still understandable if a classmate who looked like the mysterious merchant was just a coincidence, but what was it that a classmate who also looked very much like the villain Boss appeared on the scene!

Mingmei's ears had already heard some crazy, soft screams—"Wow, the CP I ship has broken the dimensional barrier!"

Mingmei: …

Broken dimensional barrier, my ass!

If she could break it, she would have climbed out of the optical brain and told them "You guys wake up! Data and real people have reproductive isolation!" when everyone was shipping CPs.

However, speaking of this, Mingmei couldn't help but look at the man next to her, who looked very similar to the tyrant in the game and even more outstanding in appearance.

Looking at his familiar hairstyle and the familiar white silk on his shoulders, Mingmei suddenly remembered who he was!

Wasn't this the man she had been staring at for a long time when school started, but he hadn't looked up so she couldn't see his face?

Now she had seen his face, but it was going to scare her to death, okay?!

Could it be that besides her, there were other real people playing NPCs in the game?

"Hello."

Just as Mingmei was wondering how the other party had grown to look like this, the other party suddenly spoke, and the gentle voice of a young master inexplicably made Mingmei overlap him with Young Master Zhang.

How could this person have the clear and moist temperament of Young Master Zhang, but just looking at his face, he gave her the illusion of a tyrant?

Was it the special aggressiveness given to him by his striking features?

Mingmei couldn't figure it out. Obviously, Young Master Zhang and the tyrant's faces were the same, but she could easily distinguish the two.

However, when it came to the person in front of her, Mingmei always felt that either she or the other party had a problem.

"Hello…"

In a second, countless thoughts flashed through Mingmei's mind. Hearing the other party greet her first, she still maintained a calm and even somewhat aloof expression, saying, "Hello. My name is Mingmei, classmate, what's your name?"

"Mu Chen."

"Mu... Chen? Ah Chen?"

Mingmei blurted out this question subconsciously, which made a trace of surprise flash across the other party's face. He asked, "How do you know my game nickname?"

Mingmei: …

Good heavens?!

The player in *Thorn Emperor* who was impersonating the tyrant was the person in front of her?

Mingmei blinked her eyes, thinking that she couldn't directly say that she was the lunch box merchant.

"Speaking of which... I think you look very familiar." Before Mingmei could speak, Mu Chen spoke first, which made Mingmei feel nervous.

"I also think you look familiar..." Taking the initiative, Mingmei suddenly turned her head to face the other party and looked directly into their eyes, saying, "You look like the villain Boss in the game."

"Is that so?" Mu Chen smiled and bent his eyes, raised his hand to touch his face, and said very naturally, "Maybe I sold my portrait rights to Hualan Star Silicon Game Company as the basis for the game character modeling, and recently I also found myself a bit famous~ It seems that there are people who recognize me everywhere."

Hualan Star Silicon Game Company was the company that produced the *Ancient Blue Star Survival Guide* series of escape games.

Mu Chen's voice was not low, and the crowd sitting around with their ears pricked up immediately exchanged glances with each other upon hearing this news.

So, the modeling in this game also refers to real people?

"Now that you mention it, I also remembered that you look a lot like the mysterious merchant in the game~ Could it be that you are the same as me?"

"Yes!"

Mingmei was also struggling with how to explain her situation, but there was no reason for her not to take the ladder that the other party handed over. Besides, she was not afraid that this was a trap, anyway, she still had her uncle!