With the experience of participating in the nuclear fusion exhibition for the first time, "White Plum Time" finally gained its first batch of entry-level players.
There are about 100 people in the game discussion group. Mei Fang and Lin Youxi also prepared corresponding WeChat public accounts and Weibo accounts, and applied for identity authentication for the studio's name "Yuanxi Studio".
Although the popularity is still very small, it is finally the first step...
Mei Fang and Lin Youxi post update logs in the group every day, and the players are also very active in putting forward opinions and suggestions. At least one-third of the players in the group are from Baimei County. They said that "Baimei Time" made them feel deeply nostalgic for their hometown, and they were also very active and enthusiastic in making suggestions.
Mei Fang is busy dealing with her work every day, so Lin Youxi also shares some of the reply work in the group.
The Lin Youxi that Mei Fang knew was a girl who wasn't close to anyone except herself, but when talking to these players about the games they made, Lin Youxi was still quite enthusiastic.
Seeing her sweetheart gradually coming out of the autistic haze caused by losing her job and becoming more cheerful and lively, Mei Fang was happy for her from the bottom of her heart, so she worked much harder.
Although he was troubled by the daily expenses that were not enough to cover his expenses, fortunately he still had some savings to support himself, so he would have no problem making games or continuing to support Youxi...
However, Mei Fang had always forgotten about the idea of meeting Liu Xiaoyu for dinner again.
Until this day, Mei Fang came back from overtime work and it was almost twelve o'clock when he got home.
When he opened the door with the key, he was immediately attracted by the nostalgic fragrance coming from the house. At this time, Lin Youxi was wearing a white lace apron and poking her head out of the kitchen:
"Ah Fang, you're back? I've been waiting for you for a long time."
"What are you cooking? It smells so good..." Mei Fang thought, "It smells like lotus root."
"Yes, I was chatting with my friends online about games today, and we talked about how delicious the lotus root and pork ribs soup in my hometown is, so I tried to make one myself... Come, I'll serve you a bowl."
So Mei Fang sat respectfully at the dining table, waiting for Lin Youxi to carefully bring the bowl of soup to him.
"Drink slowly, I just made it."
"Ah, bah, bah, hot, hot, hot!"
"That's why I told you to drink slowly! Is your tongue okay..."
"It's okay, it's okay..."
Lin Youxi took Mei Fang's soup bowl, picked up the spoon and scooped up a small spoonful of soup, blew it to her lips, and then brought it to Mei Fang's mouth.
Seeing Mei Fang hesitate, Lin Youxi immediately teased him:
"Why, are you still shy?"
"Either I'm shy or—"
"So you don't want me to serve you?"
"How is that possible?"
"Then drink it."
Lin Youxi leaned against Mei Fang and carefully fed her a sip of lotus root soup.
"It's not too hot now, is it?"
"It's not hot anymore."
“Is it delicious?”
"Mm, yeah, it tastes good."
Mei Fang wiped his mouth and said, "I didn't expect your cooking skills to improve so quickly. You're almost as good as my mom's."
"I'm far behind Aunt Xiang. But after all, I'm what you call a genius student. As long as I put my mind to something, there's nothing I can't do."
"So, what about love?"
Mei Fang looked at Lin Youxi seriously and said, "Our God of Learning can do it easily, right?"
"Hehe, of course I can do it easily, but I just like the feeling of controlling you, so I am happier keeping you hanging like this. I like to see you begging for me but unable to get what I want. I want to torture you to death."
Lin Youxi was saying heartless words to Mei Fang, but at the same time he was blowing on the spoon to feed Mei Fang soup. In this situation, it was hard to tell who was licking whom.
Lin Youxi fed Mei Fang some soup and asked him halfway through, "Do you want to eat? I also cooked some rice in case you were hungry."
"Well... I'll eat a little, just a little."
"I'll serve it to you."
"I can do it myself—"
"No, no, you're the breadwinner for the family, and it's been so hard lately, so let me do it."
Lin Youxi patted his butt and stood up, going to the kitchen to serve Mei Fang some food.
Looking at Lin Youxi's slender figure from behind, Mei Fang suddenly felt an incredible sense of being in another world.
Such a happy life as an old couple was something Mei Fang could hardly imagine, but now she has achieved it without a partner.
Although this girl named Lin Youxi never accepted Mei Fang's confession, she still tried very hard to play the roles of wife, girlfriend and lover. They had some small quarrels occasionally, but now she is very well-behaved and docile.
It's unbelievably docile.
Lin Youxi brought over a small bowl of rice and saw Mei Fang slapping her in the face. She immediately laughed and said, "What are you doing? Do you want to be abused?"
"no… "
Mei Fang rubbed his red cheeks and said, "It's just... I always feel that it's not real. I'm worried that I'm dreaming."
"It's not really a dream, but it's definitely not real either."
Lin Youxi handed the prepared meal to Mei Fang, "Just think of it as a game of playing house. We used to play it often, but back then you and Yuanyuan always played the roles of father and mother, and I played the role of daughter. Now I just play the role of wife."
Lin Youxi said these words with a calm coldness, and with a "bang" Mei Fang was pulled back from her beautiful fantasy to the broken and cold reality.
Of course Mei Fang doesn't think so.
"Even if you say it's just a game, I will play the role of a good husband, take good care of you, and always protect you."
"You are so greasy. How can any girl like you if you tease others like this?"
"Is this... greasy? I'm just speaking my mind."
"I believe you are sincere."
Lin Youxi sighed as he spoke, then smiled and patted Mei Fang's shoulder, "Eat quickly, or you won't be able to sleep if it's any later."
"Um."
Lin Youxi sat cross-legged on the sofa, holding her chin and watching Mei Fang eat heartily, her eyes becoming gentle.
"Wouldn't you like to eat something?"
"Just looking at you makes me full."
"Do I eat in such an exaggerated way?"
"whee."
Lin Youxi leaned on Mei Fang's shoulder and took a short rest while looking at the chandelier on the ceiling.
When Mei Fang had almost finished eating and was about to clean up and wash the dishes, Lin Youxi suddenly grabbed Mei Fang and wouldn't let him leave.
"Why... you're working so hard cooking, so I must do the dishes, right?"
"No... I'm not talking about washing the dishes."
Lin Youxi crossed her legs and smiled at Mei Fang with narrowed eyes: "I want to invite some friends to my house this weekend, is that okay?"
Mei Fang couldn't help but smile when she heard that. "This is your home, you can invite whoever you want. But you actually have other friends, which really scared me. Are they your former colleagues at Penguin?"
"No... it's someone you know."
"Someone I know?"
Lin Youxi nodded. "It's Liu Xiaoyu and Yue Xinyi, your old high school classmates."
Mei Fang was originally very happy when she heard that Lin Youxi wanted to invite others to play, but her expression changed immediately after she heard the names of these two people. "Why did you invite them? It's a bit embarrassing. I haven't chatted with them since then."
"Didn't you promise Liu Xiaoyu that we could have dinner together if we had the chance? I thought I could help you save some money, so we can eat at home... It's a good opportunity for them to see my cooking skills."
Seeing that Mei Fang was still hesitant and unwilling, Lin Youxi jumped up, hugged Mei Fang from behind and comforted him, "Didn't you have a crush on Liu Xiaoyu before, but she looked down on you? This time I will perform well in front of them, let them know that you are living a happy life, and give you face, so that she will envy you to death."
"I didn't have a crush on her before."
"Yes, yes, yes. If you say it's not, then it's not."
Mei Fang turned around and knocked on Lin Youxi's head. Lin Youxi playfully stuck out her tongue and then hugged Mei Fang.
"Also... I'm also promoting 'White Plum Time'."
"Promote 'White Plum Time'?"
"Liu Xiaoyu is the editor of the well-known game review media 'Game Peach'. She told me that she wanted to do a feature article about 'White Plum Time' and wanted to help us promote it. I thought this was a good thing, so I invited her to our house for an interview. How is it, how is it?"
"Um… "
Faced with such a lively and enthusiastic Lin Youxi, Mei Fang really had no mood to interrupt her thoughts.
"This is your home, and you are also the producer of 'White Plum Time', so you have the final say."
"Don't feel so wronged, haha! He is your old classmate, so you should meet him more often, talk to him and say hello to him."
While Lin Youxi was talking, Mei Fang suddenly picked her up high.
"What the hell...what are you doing?"
"I always feel like you have been plotting against me since I entered the room. I said you made soup for me today and fed me soup, you must have bad intentions."
"How can this be called ill-intentioned? Ah Fang, you are too sensitive, hahahaha—"
Mei Fang held Lin Youxi up and spun around for a few circles, then slowly put her down and took her back to the sofa by her arm. Lin Youxi pulled Mei Fang to lie down directly, and she let Mei Fang press down on her like this, and their breaths conveyed warmth to each other.
"Want to kiss me?"
Lin Youxi held Mei Fang's cheek, and Mei Fang nodded gently.
"Then why not kiss?"
Mei Fang was also very frank:
"I just finished drinking the broth and my mouth tastes bad."
"But I won't dislike you."
Lin Youxi pinched Mei Fang's cheeks and said, "If you don't get intimate with me now, you may not have the chance to get intimate with me in the future, okay?"
As she spoke, she began to move around Mei Fang's body and act recklessly.
"… "
Mei Fang grabbed Lin Youxi's arm and didn't give her the chance to continue messing around.
"It's time to take your medicine. I'll feed you the medicine."
"Phew... What a bummer. I don't want to take medicine anymore."
Lin Youxi's reckless energy was instantly swept away.
"Be obedient and eat what you are supposed to eat."
"I am much better now, and I can stop taking the medicine slowly."
"I have consulted the doctor, please don't lie to me."
Mei Fang said seriously, "You can only stop taking the medicine after the doctor personally agrees that it's okay. The last time we went to the hospital for a checkup, the doctor said that you have to take it for at least another year to see if you should stop taking it."
"Ah... But the medicines are very expensive... It costs tens of thousands a year."
Lin Youxi said coquettishly in Mei Fang's arms, "I have no money, no job, I'm already a useless person... I don't want to waste money anymore."
"You don't have money, so I'll buy it for you. You have to keep eating."
Mei Fang said seriously, "I will support you. Didn't I tell you that?"
"Humph... I don't want to touch your wife's book, that's for your wife!"
"Aren't you playing house and pretending to be my wife?"
"That's just playing house."
"If you want to act, you have to act to the end. Don't be stubborn."
"Huh..."
Mei Fang found Lin Youxi's medicine, poured a cup of warm water, and then pulled the reluctant Lin Youxi to sit in his arms.
When he took out the pill, he was slightly stunned. "Does this look like a lithium carbonate pill? Why does it feel different from the previous model..."
"That's because I bought a new brand. The effects are the same."
"You didn't buy the cheap ones on purpose to save money, did you?"
"No, no! This is just a promotion... a little cheaper. If you don't believe me, I'll call you the order."
As Lin Youxi spoke, he was about to take out his cell phone to show Mei Fang, but Mei Fang waved his hands repeatedly.
"That's not necessary... You wouldn't go to such lengths to avoid taking medicine."
"That's right, how can I bear to leave Ah Fang?"
Lin Youxi took the medicine with great effort under Mei Fang's comfort.
"Ah Fang, let me tell you..."
"Um?"
After taking the medicine, Lin Youxi soon fell asleep in Mei Fang's arms.
That night, Lin Youxi had a sweet dream.
She dreamed that she was pregnant and lived in a spacious and bright flat, overlooking the beautiful night view of Pengcheng.
At this time, Mei Fang, dressed in a suit and looking radiant, appeared in front of her. He put down the briefcase he carried to work, squatted down, leaned on Lin Youxi's belly, and talked and laughed with her, discussing and imagining the baby's future.
But then there was a flash of blood, and she saw her beloved Mei Fang lying in a pool of blood from a car accident, staring at her, struggling with his eyes wide open. She wanted to rush over and touch Mei Fang, but then she felt a sharp pain in her stomach, accompanied by a heart-wrenching pain, and she almost fainted from the pain.
It was a monster with distorted facial features, three hands and four legs. It screamed miserably like a monster, with my blood-soaked belt wrapped around its body. It called out "Mom" in an unclear voice and crawled towards the pale and terrified Lin Youxi.
“Mom…Mom…Mom…”
"Mother… "
"You... don't want... me... anymore?"
Lin Youxi woke up from a nightmare-like hellish dream, with the horrifying scene vivid in her mind. When she woke up, the person sleeping beside her was no longer there. The terrified Lin Youxi suddenly let out a heart-wrenching roar.
Mei Fang, who was preparing breakfast in the kitchen, rushed over after hearing the news. Before he could ask any questions, he was hit hard by Lin Youxi as soon as he got closer. Lin Youxi's punch hit Mei Fang directly in the eye, and there was no sense of severity at all. Mei Fang's eye was swollen immediately.
But after beating Mei Fang, Lin Youxi showed no sign of letting go. Instead, he grabbed Mei Fang's hair and stared at his head, saying:
"Why abandon me... Why abandon me!"
"I love you so much... I love you so much!"
"Okay, okay... I didn't abandon you... How could I abandon you..."
Mei Fang wanted to do her best to comfort Lin Youxi, but Lin Youxi's frenzy showed no signs of stopping. Last night, Lin Youxi, who was still a virtuous wife, punched and kicked Mei Fang madly. Today, she was like a demon banished from hell, bestowing endless torture on her sweetheart, Mei Fang.
"Okay... Youxi, stop being like this. I'm hurting you... Doesn't your hand hurt?"
Mei Fang didn't care about the bruises on his face and kept comforting Lin Youxi to calm her down.
"You chose it... You chose it!"
Lin Youxi continued to torture Mei Fang.
The horrific scenes in her nightmares became the trigger for her to vent her emotions.
The torture of the beloved seems to be endless.
I will continue with 18 later, the second update in a row.
(End of this chapter)