Heartbeat Hide and Seek, Game Over if Discovered

A single-player game's success depends on many factors, including: price factors, plot factors, game impact, development aspects, and some interesting easter eggs.

"Holy Knight Mo Mo Chronicles," although essentially an 18+ mini-game with lewd content as its main focus, created initially to relieve human stress and fully release happy elements,

After purchasing and playing through it, as the plot progressed, players surprisingly discovered that aside from the very cute defeat play of Mo Mo being violated, the plot itself was also very interesting.

Because 'Mo Mo' was originally an ordinary village girl, watching the girl transform from initial timidity, confusion, fear and terror, forcing herself to save her sister, to gradually becoming strong and even actively confronting monsters.

Whether it was Mo Mo's mental transformation, the increasingly brilliant smile after clearing level after level, or activating various interesting costumes, all gave players a great sense of achievement.

Thus, "Holy Knight Mo Mo Chronicles" sold 70,000 copies on its first day after successful release.

Now after a week, due to various bloggers' conscientious reviews and indirect promotion, sales had reached 190,000+, even receiving donations from many pirates.

This past week, "Holy Knight Mo Mo Chronicles" had the highest popularity in Steam and Baidu forums, with people not only seeking strategy guides and asking about hidden menu and H-scene locations, but also some players making predictions since the plot wasn't complete.

In short, the game release was a huge success.

With the game's successful sales and popularity,

Aside from the game itself, some other things also became popular with this game's release.

First was the creator of "Holy Knight Mo Mo Chronicles," An Xiaoqian, known in the industry as Teacher Big Car. Her pen name became popular again, doujinshi readership surged, and even game companies extended olive branches to An Xiaoqian.

Additionally, what also became popular was the beautiful girl Su Mo, who was almost carved from the same mold as Holy Knight Mo Mo in the game.

Due to the livestream on release day, plus Su Mo's disguised 'Mo Mo' name and absolutely beautiful appearance, influenced subtly by the game, Su Mo had become popular again, and her popularity value had once again increased.

With the game's release, after two weeks passed, on this day as July was about to end, Su Mo's popularity value unknowingly reached the 20 million milestone.

As for why popularity increased so quickly?

The reason was simple.

Game releases were different from TV dramas—Steam was global in nature.

This time, not only domestically, but many foreign fans also discovered Su Mo through game forums and became part of Su Mo's popularity value.

[Ding, congratulations host on reaching 20 million popularity value, reward two Golden Treasure Boxes, hope host continues working hard]

Late July belonged to the hottest midsummer period of the year.

Early in the morning, as the diligent sun began work, Su Mo, who slept with the window open, felt somewhat hot summer wind blowing into the room.

Affected by the stuffy atmosphere, Su Mo, awakening softly from her dreams, had just moved one soft, snow-white little leg down when her consciousness cleared somewhat and heard the news of popularity value increase in her mind.

Hearing this news, Su Mo felt somewhat complex.

Although popularity value increase was good,

currently, reaching 50 million popularity value to activate the Heartbeat Hide and Seek ② mission didn't seem out of reach.

But thinking that her popularity value increased because of the adult game based on her template becoming popular.

Thinking that the animation of herself being bullied by four girls would be shown on screen.

Su Mo felt something was weird and somewhat embarrassing.

However, since the game was already released and had a layer of disguise,

Su Mo ultimately stopped focusing on the game and instead focused on the Golden Treasure Boxes she had just received.

Currently, in Su Mo's system space, including the Golden Treasure Box from reaching 10 million popularity value, there were now three treasure boxes displayed.

The reason Su Mo had delayed opening the first Golden Treasure Box until now

wasn't because Su Mo felt her luck was poor and forgot about the Golden Treasure Box, or because the prize pool wasn't good.

In fact, the Golden Treasure Box's prize pool was very rich, containing many items and skills that sounded excellent, such as: time-stop watch, mind-reading eyes, calming pills, magical girl transformation serum, hypnosis books, constitution potions, witch outfits, etc., with diverse and comprehensive varieties.

After careful examination, Su Mo found this Golden Treasure Box's quality was better than the special mission silver treasure boxes.

The reason for not opening them was specifically because Su Mo discovered the Golden Treasure Box had an additional description: Opening ten boxes together can improve box quality and provide an extra treasure box draw.

Looking at this ten-draw activity similar to gacha games.

At 10 million popularity value, Su Mo wanted to see if 20 million would continue giving treasure box rewards.

If so, she'd save up to ten Golden Treasure Boxes to open together, and from the current situation, it was indeed as predicted.

Calculating this way, 10 million popularity value gave 1, 20 million gave 2, so reaching 40 million would mean having ten boxes for a wave of opening happiness.

Su Mo was quite looking forward to this.

After all, this treasure box contained many items Su Mo really liked. Whether it was the hypnosis book, magical girl transformation serum, time-stop clock, or constitution medicine, Su Mo felt they could all help her, who had been oppressed by beautiful girls recently, turn the tables and become the master!

More importantly, if she opened eleven Golden Treasure Boxes at once,

these items might also be useful for the upcoming Heartbeat Hide and Seek ② mission!

Because her popularity value had already increased to 20 million, the 50 million needed to activate the mission was no longer out of reach.

Just as Su Mo was thinking about why the Heartbeat Hide and Seek ② mission required so much popularity value and began guessing what this second phase mission would be,

Ding dong~

At this time, a crisp doorbell sound rang outside room 1603.

At the same time, a lively girlish voice also rang out:

"Senior Mo Mo, Senior Chu and I are here to find you."

Hearing Yun Xia's voice outside, Su Mo wasn't too surprised.

Because today was the end of July, and it was the time Chu Tianlan and Yun Xia had arranged in advance for the two stores' month-end summary.

Although Su Mo was completely a hands-off boss regarding store management,

As one of the partners and the image spokesperson for both the supermarket and clothing store, Chu Tianlan still decided to hold a small meeting at month-end to let Su Mo, this absent-minded boss, know the stores' specific situations.

Just as Su Mo, wearing a chef's apron, got out of bed and prepared to go to the living room to open the door for Yun Xia and Chu Tianlan.

As her pearly white little feet just touched the ground, before Su Mo could take a step,

A soft hand first hugged Su Mo's thigh, then a soft, warm face began constantly nuzzling against Su Mo's delicate, cool skin. A soft loli voice also rang out:

"Wu... wife, don't get up so early, sleep with me a little longer."

Looking at the black-hearted loli hugging her thigh tightly, Su Mo's pearly white pretty face slightly flushed.

Wu... An Xiaoqian, this evil black-hearted loli, either by herself or with Chu Tianlan's help, had actually cracked her room's door lock last night and launched a night attack.

Looking at the currently messy bed and recalling last night's results, Su Mo with slightly trembling thighs burped.

Then with a black-lined face, she placed the equally burping An Xiaoqian, who didn't need breakfast, evil hands and face on the bed, and went to the living room to open the door.

Although Su Mo had been filming "The Great Wilderness Legend" at the crew every day for nearly a month and rarely visited Carrefour mall,

She had seen through Chu Tianlan and Yun Xia's social media that even though it was still summer vacation, both stores were very popular and should be profitable.

As the two placed performance statistics on the table, what shocked Su Mo was that although the stores being profitable was within her expectations,

Running stores was actually more profitable than imagined.

Yun Xia's Mo Mo's Ready-Made Clothing Store had actually produced a total of 1,200 pieces of clothing in one month. Excluding labor costs and fabric costs per piece, plus the adjacent dimensional store's convention revenue, total profit was nearly 100,000.

Hearing Yun Xia's account, Su Mo, as a university student who hadn't entered society, was very shocked.

After all, in Su Mo's part-time work experience, wages were usually in hundreds or thousands. Now suddenly becoming tens of thousands felt somewhat magical.

Yun Xia's clothing store had already given Su Mo enough surprises.

But after hearing Chu Tianlan's supermarket turnover, Su Mo was shocked.

Mo Mo Supermarket's monthly revenue actually reached a terrifying 2.36 million, averaging nearly 80,000 in daily revenue.

Excluding labor costs, store costs, and taxes, the remaining profit was actually 500,000.

Looking at these two shocking numbers, Su Mo was slightly stunned.

If calculated by normal profit-sharing, wouldn't she get 10+50/2=300,000?

Looking at this exaggerated income, Su Mo's shocked pink cherry lips slightly parted, her cute and adorable dazed expression making people want to stuff something in.

Because if this income could continue, wouldn't this mean she was becoming a little rich girl?

Just as Su Mo was extremely surprised, her phone suddenly rang with a clear notification sound.

'Alipay received 500,000 yuan'

Hearing this sudden account notification, Su Mo, who wasn't too bright to begin with, became even more confused. What was going on?

Who gave her 500,000?

Just as Su Mo was confusedly opening her phone to check, at this time, a tsundere loli voice rang out from room 1603:

"Hmph, wife, how can you divide money at month-end without including me? As my woman, last night's taste wasn't bad—this is my reward for you."

While speaking, An Xiaoqian imitated medieval European nobility in a very greasy manner, walked to Su Mo's side, gently embraced Su Mo's slender waist, and licked her cherry lips with an evil expression.

Facing the 500,000 huge sum deposited into her Alipay account, thinking of the 300,000 income just mentioned and the soon-to-be-settled 300,000 yuan performance fee from "The Great Wilderness Legend,"

Su Mo, about to become a millionaire little rich girl, had her deep peach blossom eyes slightly sparkle.

At this time, a thought couldn't help but surface in Su Mo's mind.

Now that she was so wealthy, perhaps she could fulfill one of Chu Tianlan's dreams and launch a dreamlike romantic fireworks display.