Chapter 45: Out-of-Print Skins are Indeed Tempting

The stage spotlight suddenly switched to a cool tone.
Bai Ling’s toes lightly tapped the floor as she spun.
The fluorescent powder shaken from the scales on her sash condensed into a snake-shaped phantom in the fog.

The fluorescent stickers on Gu Xiyan’s reverse-grip dagger drew a meteor trail in the dark.

“Clang!”

The plastic dagger and the plastic longsword clashed again, and the speakers let out a metallic hum.

The accuracy of this “Fox Shadow Flash” move made the uncle from the “Xuanhuang Ji” planning team below the stage gasp in admiration again.

“You stinky brat, you’ve been hiding it well!”
Gu Xiyan licked her lips, her tongue rolling a pink fluorescence on her lip gloss.
“Have you practiced before?”

“I’ve practiced for two weeks…”
The girl’s hand trembled, and she almost threw the prop sword away.
She turned her face, not daring to look at Gu Xiyan’s eyes.

She was afraid of being seen as a girl.

“I’m going to die…”

As a result, as soon as she turned her head, she caught a glimpse of the scene below the stage and nearly twisted her ankle.

The audience below the stage was already packed like a sea of people.
Just now, there were only a few people.
Now, there were so many people that even the intersection was about to be blocked.

At this moment, she didn’t know that she had been sold out by her dear group friends.
She only knew that she was very flustered now.

‘What’s going on! Weren’t there just a few scattered audience members just now? Why is it so crowded now, like watching a beheading at Caishikou?!’

Especially the group friends below the stage who were holding light signs like “Marry me, Qing Lin-sama!” and “Qing Lin-sama is the cutest in the world!” and cheering.
The girl had the heart to kick them all to death.

“What are you standing there for!”
Gu Xiyan suddenly threw a magnetic hidden weapon hidden in her tail.
“Take your game’s Spiritual Snake’s Tongue Flick!”

“Clang!”

The aftersound of the plastic sword blades colliding was still buzzing in her ears.
The girl swung out a sword light like a snake’s tongue and knocked away the hidden weapon.
As the throwing knife fell in a beautiful arc in the air, the girl’s prop sword was already on Gu Xiyan’s shoulder, the blade still trembling slightly.

And Gu Xiyan’s prop dagger was still half a foot away from the girl’s throat.
It seemed that this confrontation had finally ended with the half-demon assassin’s defeat.

“You’re pretty good at pretending.”
The corner of the half-demon assassin’s eye, smudged with mascara, lifted in a cunning arc.
She suddenly lowered her voice.
“You’re treating us to the group dinner later?”

A mountain of applause and cheers suddenly erupted from below the stage.

The sudden burst of cheers startled Bai Ling, and she took half a step back.
The scales on her sash got caught on the tassels of the curtain.
She fumbled to untangle the threads, and in her peripheral vision, she saw the fat man squeezing towards the edge of the stage with a light sign.
The fluorescent paint on the light sign rubbed off on the sleeves of the audience member next to him, making them glow.

“I concede, I concede!”
Gu Xiyan suddenly put her arm around her shoulder and made a peace sign to the audience.

By the time the girl had scrambled backstage, this girl was still waving to the audience and even signed a few autographs before leaving the stage.

Of course, she had signed Qing Lin’s name.

But compared to the cheers of the audience below the stage, the host sister in front of the girl, who was about to jump up, made her feel even more flattered.

When she had just left the stage, she was still calculating how to kick all the group friends who were holding her light signs below the stage to death one by one.
But when she looked up, she saw this host sister.

“My savior!”
The tears in her eyes were sparkling under the ceiling spotlight.
“My project doesn’t have to be cut!”

Only then did the girl know that she had inadvertently saved a host sister’s career.

“Can I have your contact information? I’ll treat you to…”

“Hey! You’re too kind! It was just a small effort!”
Gu Xiyan’s foxtail suddenly interjected.
The fluffy touch startled the host, and she let go.
“You’ve got lipstick on your teeth~”

Hearing this, the host sister hurriedly took out a small makeup mirror.

“There’s no need for a meal…”
The girl also said weakly.
She was always a little scared of dealing with such overly enthusiastic strangers.

“The stage is still waiting for you to announce the next act!”
Gu Xiyan shook the osmanthus cake she had just snatched from the judges’ table.
The gilt-gold nail polish on her nails flashed like a warning light under the makeup lamp.

“At least leave your contact information!”
The host sister suddenly took out her phone, and the Kyubey charm dangled.

“Don’t worry, don’t worry~”
Gu Xiyan pushed the girl towards the backstage, her fluffy tail swinging like a protective net.
“If you want her contact information, you can follow Qing Lin-sama’s Bilibili account~”

“She’s finally gone…”
Looking at the host sister’s back as she ran to the stage, the girl finally let out a long breath.
Fortunately, Gu Xiyan had appeared in time.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have known how to deal with this overly enthusiastic host sister.

With her social experience of not going out for ten and a half days at a time? Forget it!

“Hello! Is your name Miss Qing Lin?”
But she didn’t expect that just as she had sent the host sister away, the uncle from the “Xuanhuang Ji” planning team would appear backstage.

This uncle carefully took out a business card and handed it to the girl with both hands.
The gilt-gold characters “Liao Cao, Chief Planner of Xuanhuang Ji” flashed in the dim light, looking very much like a rare item dropped in a game.

And Gu Xiyan on the side was holding back a laugh from the name “Miss Qing Lin.”
It looked like she was having a hard time.

“Your work card…”
After Gu Xiyan had finally managed to suppress her laughter, she finally took the business card for the girl.
“Aren’t you afraid of being put in a sack by the players if you come here?”

“The grind for the graduation weapon is so inhumane.
The complaint posts on the forums have stacked up to three thousand floors.”

In this day and age, anyone who dared to show that they were a member of a popular game’s planning team in a public place like a comic convention was either stupid or had confidence in their own work.

After all, it was very likely that they would be surrounded and beaten up by a group of angry players.

“So I’m here to ask for outside help!”
Liao Cao wiped his shiny forehead, and the back of his T-shirt was stained with sweat.
“I’d like to invite the two of you to be the official cosplayers for the upcoming planner Q&A session!”

This person isn’t trying to invite some pretty cosplayer sisters to help him divert the players’ attention, is he?

The girl stared at the curled edges of the business card, suddenly remembering a game she had played before.
During the planner’s live Q&A, the planner was also as oily-faced as this.

As a result, he was rendered speechless by the players who participated in the Q&A session.

“Just…”

“That’s it! It’s a deal!”
The girl’s “there’s no need” was cut off by Gu Xiyan again.

Why is this plot so familiar?

Just now, it was she who had helped her agree to the request for a photo, which had led to her having to go on stage and perform a live identity reveal for everyone.
Now she had agreed for her again?

The girl looked at Gu Xiyan beside her in disbelief.

“But only her.”
Gu Xiyan patted the girl’s shoulder and winked at her.
“I’m usually busy with work, so I’ll be counting on you! It would be best if he could get us an out-of-print costume or title or something!”

“Eh?!”

The girl was stunned.
So that’s what you were planning?

But out-of-print costumes and titles were indeed very attractive!

“She’s not here…”

The wolf demon’s fingertips brushed against the static on the surface of the plush toy.
The cuffs of his black suit were stained with the dampness of the night dew.
The setting sun shone through the blinds, cutting the bed, which was full of plush toys, into alternating light and dark stripes.
The plastic beaks of the three Psyduck plush toys still had suspicious teeth marks.

It was as if a certain girl had been chewing on them in her dream.

“I didn’t expect our young master… to be such a girly girl.”
The wolf demon pinched the pair of rabbit ears of the pink fluffy rabbit.

This bed was full of all kinds of plush toys, leaving only a small space for the girl to curl up and sleep.

“What the hell do you know!”
The tiger demon slapped the back of the wolf demon’s head.
The low growl rolling in his throat made the iron railing of the bed frame hum.
“Our young master is a snake demon.
Do you understand snakes?”

“What?”

“Our young master is simulating a snake’s den.
Snakes only feel safe in such a crowded and narrow den!”

Footsteps suddenly sounded in the corridor.
The two demons looked at each other.

“I’m back!”
Chengzi suddenly opened the door, but the dormitory was empty.
Only the wind blowing in from the window lifted a corner of the bed curtain.

“Eh? No one’s here?”