TGP Chapter 1

Chapter 1: Mu Kou and Xia Chuan

Amidst the flashing blades and clashing swords, Lin Yeming swiftly moved his mouse, his brow furrowed as he intently stared at Bai Ye, the character in the game who was single-handedly defeating all enemies. A cheerful mechanical voice echoed from the computer: “Successfully defeated the BOOS Blood Demon, congratulations on clearing the level!”

Lin Yeming finally exhaled a long breath. He casually grabbed his phone, found a Super Topic on Weibo, and after a few quick edits, posted a close-up photo of himself with the game completion icon. Afterward, he headed to the kitchen, racking his brain on how to satisfy his rumbling stomach.

The moment the Weibo post went live, it was like a stone thrown into a calm lake, creating ripples and waves. Numerous players left comments below the Weibo post:

“Mu Ge is truly a god-like existence! Ming Zai Zi, I need to worship the deity first… I look up to the divine being [jpg.]”

“Mu Ge, please teach me how to avoid Yue Qingyao’s intense gaze! Every time I pass by Yue Ling’er, I get hammered half to death by Yue Qingyao, it’s so painful.”

“Supporting the comment above! I’ve spammed so many floors in the official forum asking for Yue Qingyao to be nerfed. Mu Ge has even cleared the game with a small account, perhaps you could consider writing a guide…”

Hundreds of comments flooded in, expressing adoration and worship towards Lin Yeming’s post-game selfie. But some comments were obviously looking for trouble:

“What’s so special about this? Money can solve everything. As long as the money is right, not to mention Yue Qingyao, even the Blood Demon would kneel down and wash his feet!”

“Supporting the comment above, I was his college classmate. This person doesn’t even know how to play games. There must be something fishy about his being so good!”

“Seriously? Besides Qiu Shen, can anyone really clear Mu Ling? I’m the first to not believe it.”

……

When these comments were posted, they didn’t initially cause much of a stir in the comments section. After all, there were always argumentative trolls posting nonsense. Fans simply gave them a “thumbs down” and ignored them. However, when an internet Shui Jun started a massive offensive in the comments section, bombarding everyone with attacks, the true fans and the haters engaged in fierce battle. Onlookers leisurely munched on melon seeds, watching the chaos unfold.

One side accused the other of slander, demanding evidence, while the other side abandoned all morality and started insulting each other’s mothers. The two forces were locked in an intense and evenly matched fight.

Of course, this didn’t stop Lin Yeming from happily cooking in his apron.

Just when one particularly noisy hater threw out a photo on their own Weibo, the true fans stopped their counterattack and began questioning the authenticity of the photo.

The photo was a chat log. An account, supposedly belonging to Lin Yeming, was discussing the price of account boosting in vivid detail. This hater was known for leaking dirt on celebrities, even if some of the dirt was fabricated.

Seeing that people didn’t believe them, the hater released a video. Some of the people who claimed to be true fans turned around and started insulting Lin Yeming’s ancestors.

The person in the video was indeed Lin Yeming. He was sitting in a corner of a café, leisurely sipping coffee.

After a while, someone knocked on the glass window next to him. Lin Yeming seemed to frown, stepped out of the café, and started talking to that person. It was unclear what they were saying, but Lin Yeming took out some money from his pocket before leaving.

The commotion caused by this video was quite significant. It instantly made Lin Yeming a trending topic. Tang Lin kept calling Lin Yeming, who frowned, looked at the account, and then watched the video.

If he remembered correctly, the person knocking on the glass outside was just his “good uncle” who often morally blackmailed him under the guise of being a relative, and treated him like an ATM machine. But the fact that this video was found meant that the other party was deliberately trying to ruin his reputation.

Lin Yeming pouted, typing while complaining in his mind: “Being popular brings trouble.”

“Linzi, don’t panic when you encounter something like this. Start a live stream and have a friendly conversation with them.” Lin Yeming hung up Tang Lin’s phone and pressed the “Post” button.

“Dear Ke Guan, tonight at 8 PM, Mu Kou will start a live broadcast on time to have a friendly gaming skills exchange with @BlackFan, with the camera on the entire time. As for what game to play, @BlackFan can choose.”

Weibo was once again a scene of carnage and bloodshed.

But this still didn’t stop Lin Yeming from happily eating his meal.

After finishing his meal, Lin Yeming saw that it was only 6 PM, with the decisive battle at 8 PM. Thinking that it was still early, he might as well do something else. So, he sprawled out on the bed, calling it digestion.

While he’s lying down, let me tell you about this game that’s popular in every street and alley, but also has its studio’s ancestors greeted by countless users – “Xia Chuan”.

Just listen to the name, how intriguing, how easy to understand, how rotten.

At first glance, oh, it’s a time-travel game.

At second glance, oh, it’s a blind time-travel game.

After reading the description, most people want to seriously discuss how many pounds of tofu are in the studio’s brains.

[Multiple open worlds for players to choose from, high-intensity freedom allows players to explore the world! You can dominate the world, or you can retire to Jianghu after dominating the world; you can have a harem of three thousand, or you can have a harem of three thousand and then pick one to retire to Jianghu with (harem is not limited to male and female); you can stay aloof in the bloody Jianghu, or you can have a campus romance in your youthful years. Multiple different types allow you to experience different protagonist’s coolness, handsome young men and beautiful young ladies are waiting for you here~]

How many people downloaded it while cursing at the description, and how many people got hooked after entering the game, this is all –

Not what we should be talking about.

Although most people choose to solve the problem of bad skills by paying to win, but in this game, bad skills mean you’re a younger brother; paying to win means you’re a younger brother; bad skills and paying to win mean you’re the youngest of the younger brothers.

Lin Yeming is called a god on Weibo because of two people: Yue Qingyao and Bai Ye.

In the myriad of worlds, there is one world called Mu Ling. On the Mu Ling continent, there are large and small sects and countries, they live in harmony, coexisting with humans, demi-humans, and spirit clans. Next to it is a slightly smaller continent called Jing Jiu, which is the territory of the spirit clan. The remaining places are extremely dangerous. The unexplored ones are called Forbidden Pools, and the explored ones are called the Demon Realm.

In the Demon Realm, there are also large and small tribes, demon clans, ghost clans, beast clans, etc. But although this territory is called the Demon Realm, it is ruled by an extremely powerful tribe – the Xianling Clan.

According to normal tropes, this clan’s appearance in the CG won’t last more than a minute before something happens.

Sure enough, in a great battle, both the righteous and evil sides chose Jing Jiu, which was sandwiched in between, as the battlefield. Originally, the Demon Realm side was in the upper hand, but the Xianling Clan accidentally stepped into the spirit clan’s sacred ground, oh no, they carelessly died.

And our protagonist in the game – Bai Ye, this young man with pure Xianling Clan bloodline got lost in this war. No one knew his identity, it is said because some unknown expert sealed his Nei Li.

According to normal tropes, the young Bai Ye was picked up and raised by a kind woman.

According to normal tropes, the woman died early.

According to normal tropes, Bai Ye went through a series of arduous struggles to achieve the unification of the Demon Realm and become a Demon King admired by all.

These are the normal story directions of the game. At the start of the game, Bai Ye wanders Jianghu as a disciple of a certain master, constantly doing various tasks to accumulate reputation. Just when he finally gained some fame, the real show begins.

Lin Yeming was killed by Yue Qingyao’s saucy operation.

The reason was that Bai Ye, controlled by him, accidentally glanced at the girl standing next to Yue Qingyao.

Later, after Lin Yeming managed to avoid Yue Qingyao with great difficulty, and was about to finish off the boss in a one-on-one fight, Yue Qingyao slapped him away again.

The reason was that Bai Ye mistakenly took out a prop and waved it in front of Yue Qingyao.

Lin Yeming smiled as he looked at the description, “Allowing you to experience the different protagonist’s coolness…”

Xia Chuan studio, has your ancestral grave been dug up?!

Where’s the coolness?! Did you swallow it?

Lin Yeming was unhappy. He picked up Bai Ye and went on a rampage. All kinds of death methods were performed. Every time he died, Lin Yeming took a picture and tagged the studio. Gradually, Mu Kou was labeled as a “Gan Di who is so bored that he fights with the studio”.

Someone asked him why he was so hung up on Bai Ye when there were so many worlds and so many games. Lin Yeming smiled lightly, “There’s no way, Bai Di is too useless. He can never become a king without me.”

Lin Yeming complained to customer service 0250 many times. Over time, the two became good brothers, although Lin Yeming didn’t know whether the person on the other side of the computer was male, female, human, or demon.

0250 was even very strange, occasionally sending him fan fiction, and then shouting “Sent it wrong”, accurately deleting the message quickly after Lin Yeming finished reading the article. In short, no matter what, Lin Yeming felt that it was very important to have a good relationship with internal personnel. Information is built on mutual trust.

Even if the fan fiction sent by 0250 was all about Bai Ye and Yue Qingyao, Lin Yeming could guarantee that he would read it without changing his expression. It was just that after reading it, he would sigh: “Being popular brings trouble!”

So when 0250 said that sentence: “You need to use your heart to feel a character, try to resonate with him,” Lin Yeming became the fifth person in the entire server to lead Bai Ye to become king.

Mu Kou became a legend.

But what Lin Yeming regretted was that he didn’t get Bai Ye a wife.

Lin Yeming looked at Bai Ye through the computer screen, grinned – anyway, I’m a single dog, buddy, just bear with me.