Heartbeat Hide and Seek, Game Over if Discovered

As time reached summer vacation, two weeks had unknowingly passed.

July was already more than half over.

Unlike most university students who returned home for vacation, due to filming and running some businesses, Su Mo was still living in Su City.

And Su Mo's life, as well as the lives of all the girls, had gradually stabilized.

Yun Xia's clothing store was very successful due to good fabric quality and comfortable custom-made clothes.

Besides the booming business, because Carrefour mall had relatively low foot traffic and was quite quiet.

After officially starting summer vacation, Yun Xia had already held three small comic conventions in the mall.

Although the comic conventions were small in scale, with pitifully few people at the first one—only a dozen girls from Yun Xia's convention circle.

By the most recent third convention, attendance had grown to over 60 people, and many cosplayers already considered this a convention holy land.

Even without hosting conventions, many girls came to the store to chat on regular days. Yun Xia was very satisfied with this, as this was exactly the kind of store she had dreamed of.

If 'Mo Mo's Ready-Made Clothing Store's' success relied on the low mall foot traffic to open new possibilities.

Then Chu Tianlan's 'Mo Mo Supermarket' succeeded through service and reputation.

Because the supermarket had affordable prices, and as Student Council President, Chu Tianlan paid employees and impoverished part-time students very high wages, employee enthusiasm skyrocketed. Combined with the many cute reminder signs featuring Su Mo in various outfits throughout the supermarket that brightened people's moods, customers came and went in endless streams.

Even at 6 PM every day, the place would be packed full.

With Yun Xia and Chu Tianlan's businesses stabilized, Lin Muyao and Su Mo, who were filming "The Great Wilderness Legend," also had stable lives.

Working from sunrise to sunset every day.

Su Mo's peaceful life welcomed a small change today, July 16th.

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In the morning, as the dawn sun slowly rose from the horizon, warm and gentle sunlight streamed through curtain gaps, illuminating the pretty face of a beautiful girl in a small room filled with faint fragrance.

With this ray of sunlight, the girl whimpered softly.

At the same time, an electronic synthetic system voice suddenly rang in her mind.

[BOOM, congratulations host on reaching 10 million popularity value, receiving popularity hidden reward: one Golden Treasure Box, please host continue working hard.]

Su Mo, awakening from her sweet dream, drowsily heard this notification from her little sister in her mind without much surprise.

Because recently, she had been paying attention to her popularity value growth every day.

Last night, the TV drama "July's Lie Love Song" officially entered 'Ning Mo's' finale segment, where Ning Mo in simple bridal attire fell silent in the female protagonist's arms, achieving the first lie in the storyline.

Because this was filmed during the 'Heartbeat Hide and Seek mission failure' period, a special moment when she felt guilty toward Lin Muyao,

In Su Mo's view, her portrayal of Ning Mo was unexpectedly outstanding, attracting a large batch of fans, which was within reason.

What surprised Su Mo was that with popularity reaching ten million,

the Challenge System's hidden reward was different from before—no longer Challenge Coins, but a Golden Treasure Box?

Although the Golden Treasure Box looked very high-class, golden and beautiful,

Su Mo still felt Challenge Coins would be better.

After all, reviving her little sister system required 100,000 Challenge Coins.

Although treasure boxes also contained good things, she definitely couldn't draw her little sister from the prize pool!

After silently complaining in her heart, although Su Mo was slightly disappointed, she didn't mind too much.

After all, hidden rewards were random—it was good to get them, and there was nothing to complain about if she didn't!

Just as Su Mo got up, avoiding crushing Lin Muyao's hair as she carefully climbed out of bed,

Wondering whether to go to the bathroom now to wash her hands before opening the treasure box.

Knock knock knock~

At this time, crisp knocking sounds accompanied by a highly recognizable cute loli voice rang out from outside the door, interrupting Su Mo's thoughts.

"Wife, wife, open the door! Today is the game's release day, are you home?"

Although An Xiaoqian was known as Teacher Big Car on a certain platform and had worked for quite some time with 5 years of drawing experience.

Perhaps because releasing a game and publishing doujinshi were different fields, and this was her first time releasing a game,

An Xiaoqian, whose game was scheduled to release at 12 o'clock, was very nervous today, even her voice carried some trembling.

Hearing An Xiaoqian's calls outside the door and her unusually gentle knocking,

Su Mo, who had specifically requested a day off from Director Lin today, felt somewhat amazed.

After all, in Su Mo's view, An Xiaoqian had always been a carefree, lewd black-hearted loli. This trembling and nervousness actually had some of a loli's soft cuteness.

Knowing that today she would witness the game's sales situation and that her wife Muyao was also in the room, they probably wouldn't do anything lewd,

Su Mo temporarily abandoned her mutual harm and vendetta 'tea brewing' mentality with An Xiaoqian. After changing into a simple home dress, she headed to the entrance.

As the door opened, Su Mo saw An Xiaoqian's cute face with two panda-like dark circles under her eyes, unsteady steps, and a weak appearance of being drained from staying up all night.

At this moment, perhaps due to nervousness, her two small white hands were tightly clasped together, like a lost little girl.

Seeing An Xiaoqian in this weak state, Su Mo was slightly stunned.

After all, this was the first time the black-hearted loli senior had shown such a nervous girlish demeanor!

Because An Xiaoqian's obedient appearance contrasted with her usual evil black-hearted loli image,

Su Mo's wariness decreased somewhat. She gently took An Xiaoqian's hand and walked to the small round table in the living room.

Opening the laptop An Xiaoqian had brought and looking at the backend interface showing 80,000+ pre-orders.

Facing this exaggerated pre-order data, Su Mo wasn't too shocked.

Because An Xiaoqian was originally a doujinshi artist with some popularity and fans.

Additionally, "Holy Knight Mo Mo Chronicles" was a side-scrolling 3A action game. Although the game operations and optimization sometimes had small problems, and the demon lord hadn't been defeated yet so the story wasn't completely finished.

Whether it was the game plot, in-game costumes, or skill enhancement gameplay, everything was interesting. Combined with the 4.40GB game selling for only 39 yuan, it was absolutely affordable.

Just as Su Mo was watching the continuously rising pre-order numbers, silently waiting for the release time while preparing to make breakfast,

hearing the commotion, Lin Muyao, who had also taken the day off to watch the game sales situation, came out of the room.

Looking at Su Mo and the nervous An Xiaoqian, Lin Muyao thought for a moment and said:

"Husband, there are still several hours left. How about we livestream playing the game for promotion? As long as we don't get defeated by monsters in specific locations, it should be fine."

Hearing Lin Muyao's suggestion, Su Mo was slightly stunned.

Although "Holy Knight Mo Mo Chronicles" was different from typical adult games and wouldn't directly enter H-scenes after being defeated,

But only entered defeat play when encountering specific monsters in specific locations.

In a sense, many indescribable scenes could be manually avoided.

Even setting aside the lewd content, just playing the main storyline was very interesting.

But livestreaming an adult game?

Something felt weird about that.

However, after thinking it over, Su Mo ultimately adopted Lin Muyao's suggestion.

After all, livestreaming the game could help her wife Muyao accumulate streaming hours, provide promotional effects, and playing single-player games was fine—it could also fulfill An Xiaoqian's dream mission.

Because Lin Muyao's Bilibili account already had nearly 2 million followers, and today was a Saturday during vacation, hundreds of people immediately flooded into the livestream as soon as it started.

Having previously challenged "Holy Knight Mo Mo Chronicles" on normal difficulty, Su Mo directly started playing on hard difficulty this time.

As Su Mo began playing the game, bullet comments gradually increased.

...

Eh? There's another loli beautiful girl in the livestream today.

What's the name of the game the streamer is playing? The art style seems a bit improper.

The person above, the streamer is the beautiful girl on the left, the one in the middle is the streamer's husband 🐶.jpg

Am I the only one who thinks the protagonist looks very similar to the girl playing the game?

...

Looking at more and more bullet comments appearing on the public screen.

Perhaps because becoming a girl made her reactions in games somewhat slower, or perhaps because the difficulty was set too high, Su Mo's controlled Holy Knight Mo Mo was defeated by a pig-headed man's club while jumping during the battle.

As the pig-headed man grabbed the fallen Mo Mo's ankle and dragged her toward the cave, the screen turned pink, and subtitles appeared:

Holy Knight Mo Mo has been captured by bad guys.

Just as the screen was about to transition from pink to black and enter an indescribable scene.

Through the mysterious code ALT+F4, the screen was cut and the game restarted.

Seeing this, all the viewers were slightly stunned.

After all, this single-player adventure game of a female protagonist alone among monsters looked improper no matter how you looked at it.

Just as everyone was surprised, An Xiaoqian took out a device and gently placed it on Su Mo's head, causing something that amazed countless viewers.

Su Mo playing the game in the livestream directly transformed into the anime image of Holy Knight Mo Mo.

The next second, something even more surprising happened to countless viewers.

As An Xiaoqian took out two more devices and fiddled with them near herself and Lin Muyao,

The two beautiful girls originally surrounding Su Mo actually became goblins and pig-headed men in the livestream.

Looking at Su Mo transformed into Holy Knight Mo Mo, gritting her silver teeth with a determined expression as she played the game, occasionally swaying cutely as her character jumped.

Watching the evil goblins and pig-headed men surrounding Mo Mo on left and right, identical to those in the game,

Some viewers found it extremely interesting.

After all, watching game characters play games had a magical feeling, and the scene was too amusing.

Another group of viewers focused on the plot and gameplay.

After all, an unreleased game was full of novelty, and the game plot seemed quite good: a village girl becomes a holy knight with fairy help, wanting to save her sister, only to discover her sister was turned into a succubus by the demon lord, and the holy knight grows along the way.

What dissatisfied these gameplay-focused viewers was:

Emmmmmmmm this game operator—Mo Mo seems kind of stupid!

Su Mo was also tearful about the viewers' complaints.

"Holy Knight Mo Mo Chronicles" hard mode was already very difficult.

She still had to endure the occasional provocations from the two beautiful girls beside her, making it feel even harder!

As Su Mo continued challenging, time quietly passed.

As time reached the 12 o'clock release time, an electronic synthesized voice suddenly rang in Su Mo's mind.

[Ding, detecting that female An Xiaoqian's created "Holy Knight Mo Mo Chronicles" has sold 10,000 copies, projected to reach 200,000 copies. Confused Life mission exceeded completion, reward remaining Challenge Coins 1000+2000]

Hearing this notification, Su Mo was somewhat surprised—it could sell this many?

Just as she was surprised, Holy Knight Mo Mo accidentally got caught by a clumsy evil mud monster that could corrode clothes.

The next moment, accompanied by Holy Knight Mo Mo's shy whimpers in the game,

Lin Muyao's livestream room was banned for the second time.

Looking at the black livestream room, just as Su Mo wanted to apologize to Lin Muyao,

Unexpectedly, the next second, Su Mo felt her body lighten as she was thrown onto the nearby sofa.

Then a happy girlish voice rang out in the room:

"Husband... no, Holy Knight Mo Mo, being defeated comes with consequences!"