Chapter Summaries

A Yin and Cousin, Shen Miaomiao and Gu Sheng, and several streamers played It Takes Two, marveling at its cooperative puzzles, boss fights, and action sequences. After Cody and May gained sap guns and match crossbows to fight the wasps, the chapter left them flying a makeshift glider into battle against the squirrels.

• A Yin tricked Cousin into getting electrocuted, and the two raced through the tutorial’s obstacles to catch the runaway fuse.
• Shen Miaomiao and Gu Sheng defeated Mr. Vacuum, then Liu Liu and yjj used Cody’s Nails and May’s hammer to clear the tool shed and defeat the Rusty Toolbox.
• pew and Xu Xiaolin fought the Toolbox boss, and Xu Xiaolin hooked his hammer onto a beam and launched himself back onto the platform.
• Cody and May learned their daughter’s tears had turned them into dolls, then agreed to make her cry again so they could return to normal.
• Squirrels captured Cody and May and enlisted them to attack a wasp hive, giving Cody a sap gun and May a match crossbow.
• Shen Miaomiao operated a machine gun on a clothes-hanger glider while Gu Sheng piloted it through a tree hollow toward the squirrel squad.

Cody and May defeated the Mechanical Queen Bee, then Gu Sheng and Shen Miaomiao battled General Squirrel in an aerial chase while playing It Takes Two. After a break, Shen Miaomiao said the game lacked the cozy feeling of playing together on a sofa, and Gu Sheng handed her a pair of wireless controllers.

• Cody and May destroyed the Mechanical Queen Bee and escaped the hive with the bumblebee before the wasps could kill it.
• General Squirrel mistook the bumblebee for a wasp and ordered an anti-traitor attack, so Gu Sheng and Shen Miaomiao flew the Boxer Jet into battle.
• Shen Miaomiao shot down pinecone cannons and pursuing squirrel fighters while Gu Sheng evaded their attacks, and she fought General Squirrel on the plane's wing after he knocked away her cannon.
• During a break, Gu Sheng checked the livestreams and talked with Shen Miaomiao about players' reactions to It Takes Two.
• Shen Miaomiao said It Takes Two lacked the warmth of sitting together to play with controllers, and Gu Sheng handed her a wireless controller.

Shen Miaomiao discovered that It Takes Two’s PC version had eliminated her hoped-for rebate, so she insisted on making the couch setup cozier and snuggled up to Gu Sheng. They played through the game’s inventive cooperative levels together, ending in a chaotic boss fight against the toy gorilla.

• Gu Sheng launched It Takes Two on PC and showed Shen Miaomiao that its dual-platform support allowed them to play together outside the motion-sensing pod.
• Shen Miaomiao realized the PC version had cost her the rebate she wanted, then nestled against Gu Sheng to make their gaming session cozier.
• Cody and May entered space, encountered the toy monkey protecting Rose, and used Cody’s size-changing device and May’s gravity boots to solve cooperative puzzles.
• Shen Miaomiao admired the game’s shifting perspectives and imaginative level design as she and Gu Sheng played side by side.
• During the toy gorilla boss fight, Shen Miaomiao dodged lasers and saucer attacks while Gu Sheng tried to destroy the fortress from within, and they bickered as the battle intensified.

Lin Xiaomeng and Hao Xianming uncovered romantic Golden Wind Easter eggs while playing It Takes Two, then followed Cody and May toward their final performance. As May prepared to sing, Shen Miaomiao and Gu Sheng reached the curtain, leaving the story poised for the game's ending.

• Lin Xiaomeng and Hao Xianming found Lego Shen Miaomiao and Lego Gu Sheng, whose figures kissed when placed in their slots.
• The chapter highlighted other hidden Golden Wind Easter eggs and reflected on how Cody and May's journey showed partners learning to support each other.
• Cody and May reached a neon stage, where the Book of Love encouraged May to sing from her heart.
• Shen Miaomiao and Gu Sheng approached the curtain, and Shen Miaomiao worried that she would have to sing.

Gu Sheng and Shen Miaomiao shared a long-awaited confession and kissed as players celebrated the game’s ending. Shen Miaomiao gave Gu Sheng a ring and asked him to love her forever, while the author’s note explained why gameplay and a controversial segment had been omitted.

• Players and streamers around the world erupted in cheers as Cody and May’s in-game confession reached its climax.
• Shen Miaomiao pressed the QTE button with Gu Sheng, and the two kissed as the game’s ending unfolded.
• Gu Sheng gave Shen Miaomiao a necklace and explained that his nightmare had been about losing her.
• Shen Miaomiao revealed a ring engraved with “Gu & Shen” and invoked their bet to ask Gu Sheng to love her for the rest of his life.
• The author explained that he had cut gameplay description and omitted the “Little Cutie Three Lives” segment.

Shen Miaomiao and Gu Sheng shared an affectionate morning before It Takes Two earned perfect reviews and nearly 800,000 sales across both platforms. The revelation that Melancholy Blues had developed the hit stunned the industry and enraged Kornik, who then called a meeting as Yunwei’s stock continued to fall.

• Shen Miaomiao answered Shen Wanlin’s call while in bed with Gu Sheng and postponed their visit, embarrassing herself when her father implied they should keep resting.
• Gu Sheng and Shen Miaomiao cuddled, joked, and confessed their love before Gu Sheng went to cook her tomato beef stew.
• It Takes Two received perfect scores from major outlets, and its sales across both platforms approached 800,000 copies.
• Players and industry insiders discovered that Melancholy Blues had developed It Takes Two, sparking surprise and praise for the former Ubisoft team.
• Kornik regretted selling the studio for $80 million as he considered It Takes Two’s sales and planned to acquire Golden Wind in the future.
• Kornik called his secretary and ordered a meeting for nine while Yunwei’s stock continued to trend downward.

Golden Wind negotiated with Sanshang Shinji to acquire the Resident Evil series, which he owned after his studio dissolved. Gu Sheng pitched a new installment centered on an ordinary husband and father, leaving Sanshang intrigued by the proposal.

• Gu Sheng and Shen Miaomiao arrived at Golden Wind, where the staff celebrated their relationship and the two kissed amid the cheering.
• Moritani reported that his trip to Neon had led to a video conference with Sanshang Shinji about acquiring the Resident Evil IP.
• Gu Sheng learned that Sanshang had become more open to Golden Wind after It Takes Two released, and joined the call with Moritani.
• Sanshang praised Golden Wind's games and discussed the series' decline after he stepped away from Sanshang Studio.
• Gu Sheng presented his plan for Resident Evil 7: Not a Hero, featuring a new protagonist and the story of an ordinary husband and father.

Gu Sheng won a one-dollar license to make Resident Evil 7 after Sanshang Shinji embraced his ordinary-person horror concept and chose Golden Wind to revive the franchise. Sanshang made the deal a test: if Golden Wind succeeded at E3, he would later transfer the full rights; if it failed, Resident Evil would be shelved permanently.

• Sanshang Shinji praised Gu Sheng’s Louisiana farm setting and agreed to discuss licensing Resident Evil with Golden Wind.
• Gu Sheng offered $425 million, explaining that the company’s funds were tight after its recent games and acquisitions.
• Shen Miaomiao urged Gu Sheng to spend more, then was shocked when he revealed that the license had cost only one dollar.
• Gu Sheng explained that Sanshang had proposed the price because he valued a worthy successor for Resident Evil more than money.
• Sanshang agreed to serve as a special game consultant and promised to transfer the full rights if Golden Wind revived the franchise at E3; otherwise, he would seal it away permanently.

Golden Wind announced an eerie trailer for Resident Evil VII: Not a Hero, leaving Komeila director Nakamura Masakazu alarmed by the looming horror game. The chapter ended with the game’s title and a Coming soon announcement.

• Golden Wind announced its Overwatch international tournament format and held a successful global extreme mountain descent challenge with Tencent Bull.
• Players flooded Golden Wind’s game pages and social media with jokes and demands for new games after two months without an announcement.
• Nakamura Masakazu suspected Golden Wind was preparing a major reveal for E3 and worried it would challenge his Silent Hill: Reboot project.
• Gu ShengSam posted a cryptic black-screen video captioned “Not a hero,” prompting Nakamura to watch it.
• The trailer showed a decaying house, disturbing imagery, and an eerie rendition of “Go Tell Aunt Rhody.”
• Golden Wind revealed the trailer’s title as Resident Evil VII: Not a Hero and announced that it was coming soon.

Golden Wind’s Resident Evil 7 trailer alarmed Nakamura Masakazu, who responded by seeking a larger budget for Silent Hill: Reboot and planning to study Gu Sheng’s horror design. The 14th E3 opened in Los Angeles, setting the stage for Golden Wind and Komeila’s third clash.

• Golden Wind revealed Resident Evil 7 at the end of its trailer, prompting an excited response from players and frightening Nakamura Masakazu.
• Nakamura reasoned that Golden Wind had spent over $500 million on the Resident Evil rights and would be short on development funds, then requested a $350 million budget for Silent Hill: Reboot.
• Nakamura resolved to study Gu Sheng’s Silent Hill P.T. and use Silent Hill: Reboot to defeat Resident Evil 7.
• Tiantian introduced the opening day of E3 in Los Angeles and highlighted Golden Wind and Nakamura Studio as rivals bringing horror-game flagships.
• The 14th E3 Global Electronic Entertainment Expo began, ushering in Golden Wind and Komeila’s third clash.

At E3, streamer pew tried Rage Flame’s Ridge Motorcycle before exploring KOMEILA’s ambitious Silent Hill 2: Reboot demo, whose eerie opening and mystery impressed him. He then reached Golden Wind’s booth and was left speechless by its extraordinary presentation.

• pew followed the crowds into Rage Flame’s booth, tried Ridge Motorcycle, and learned from Director Li Xiaofeng that Sam had proposed its dirty-racing mode.
• pew sampled several other E3 games and noticed how Golden Wind’s genres and gameplay had influenced developers around the world.
• pew entered KOMEILA’s eerie apartment-themed booth and played Silent Hill 2: Reboot’s prologue, where John experienced a frightening dream, explored the Otherworld, and found a dying woman with numbers carved into her arm.
• pew praised Silent Hill 2: Reboot’s atmosphere and mysteries, then headed toward Golden Wind’s booth.
• pew arrived at Golden Wind’s booth and stared at its outrageous presentation in shock.

Golden Wind unveiled its terrifying Resident Evil 7 booth at E3, and pew began the demo after a reporter warned that ten minutes had been his limit. The demo revealed that its protagonist was Miles from Outlast, leaving players to anticipate his investigation of the Baker Farm disappearances.

• Golden Wind presented its fungal cocoon-themed booth, and pew toured it before interviewing a shaken reporter who said ten minutes of Resident Evil 7 had been his limit.
• pew entered the haptic pod and played a demo that opened with a bound man in a blood-soaked room trying to free him before the videotape ended.
• Chun Hei started the demo at home and woke on a wooden floor in a dark, moldy room, where the protagonist described investigating disappearances around Baker Farm in Louisiana.
• Chun Hei recognized that the protagonist had returned from Colorado and saw that his ring finger was missing, identifying him as Miles from Outlast.
• Players connected Miles's appearance to the Outlast epilogue as Resident Evil 7's story began at Baker Farm.

Chun Hei and pew explored the Resident Evil 7 demo’s decaying mansion, where escalating scares culminated in a faceless mannequin jumping out of a cabinet and forcing players out of their haptic pods. The chapter explained how Gu Sheng combined psychological pressure with jumpscares, then left Chun Hei having found a way to escape.

• Chun Hei searched the starting room for a videotape and startled himself as he approached the door.
• pew opened the door and heard another door slam nearby, realizing something else was moving through the mansion.
• pew found bolt cutters inside a rotting cow carcass and used them to open a chained cabinet.
• A faceless plastic mannequin lunged from the cabinet, triggering heart-rate warnings that disconnected the streamers from their haptic pods.
• The chapter explained how the demo built fear through mounting tension before releasing it with a jumpscare.
• Chun Hei finally found a way to escape the mansion.

Chun Hei discovered Resident Evil 7’s New Game Plus and its alternate escape endings after being caught during his first attempt, while Golden Wind’s demo drew widespread attention at E3. Back home, Gu Sheng prepared Golden Wind’s entry for Yiyou’s fourth Mini-Game Festival and began a new project with the team.

• Chun Hei found the back door key, but an old man in work clothes dragged him back inside and struck him before a zombie attacked the host on the videotape.
• After the game restarted, Chun Hei found a fuse behind the fireplace’s secret door, powered the house, and unlocked the attic.
• Players learned that New Game Plus offered infection and escape endings, with Miles able to escape by avoiding the Molded and reaching the skylight.
• Resident Evil 7’s E3 demo sparked widespread discussion, while Gu Sheng acknowledged Komeila’s horror game before turning his attention to the Mini-Game Festival.
• Gu Sheng prepared Golden Wind’s entry for Yiyou’s fourth Mini-Game Festival, and the team gathered to begin developing it.

Gu Sheng revealed Stardew Valley as Golden Experience’s entry for the Mini-Game Festival, and the team agreed to develop the relaxing farming game. Meanwhile, Golden Wind’s global promotional campaign for Resident Evil 7 surrounded Komeila’s Silent Hill 2, with Moriya Tetsuya helping Golden Wind from the other side.

• Gu Sheng introduced Stardew Valley to Jiang Yun and Golden Experience as a farming game focused on letting players relax rather than pursue a single objective.
• Jiang Yun and the Golden Experience team accepted the small project, while Gu Sheng expected it to attract less attention than Resident Evil 7.
• Shen Miaomiao focused Golden Wind’s promotion on Resident Evil 7, hoping it would succeed and pave the way for buying the Resident Evil rights before Resident Evil 8.
• Nakamura watched Golden Wind secure prime advertising locations in Ginza and spread its campaign across Asia, Europe, and the western United States.
• Komeila struggled against negative rumors and Golden Wind’s expanding marketing push, which Moriya Tetsuya had helped arrange.

Jouetsu Kagemasa and Nakamura watched Komeila’s position collapse after Moriya Tetsuya joined Golden Wind, while Golden Wind’s promotional campaign overwhelmed Silent Hill 2. On Resident Evil 7’s release day, streamers A Yin and Chun Hei began playing, and Ethan set out to find his missing wife, Mia.

• Golden Wind used partnerships and aggressive promotion to secure key markets, leaving Komeila unable to counter its campaign for Silent Hill 2.
• Nakamura reported the promotional defeat to Jouetsu Kagemasa, who regretted driving Moriya away and realized Golden Wind had gained the upper hand.
• Silent Hill 2’s release passed without impact, and Moriya stopped spending resources on attacks against the struggling game.
• A Yin started Resident Evil 7 on stream, joked with viewers about difficulty selection, and watched Mia’s contrasting messages to Ethan.
• Ethan drove toward the Louisiana countryside to search for Mia, while Chun Hei began his first-look livestream of the game.

Chun Hei and pew played Resident Evil 7, exploring the mansion and sewer before Chun Hei found Mia imprisoned underground. Mia acted confused and distressed after their reunion, and the chapter ended as she screamed while Chun Hei entered a storage room.

• Chun Hei entered the mansion, played the demo recording, and opened the hidden route to the sewer.
• pew fell into the sewage when the ladder broke and screamed after Andre's corpse surfaced in front of him.
• Chun Hei continued through the sewer, found Mia locked in a cell, and freed her with bolt cutters.
• Mia denied sending Ethan an email and urged him to escape before her apparent mental distress worsened.
• Chun Hei backed into an unexplored storage room as Mia screamed, "Get away! Don't come near me!"

A Yin explored the house after Mia disappeared, only to discover that she had become a violent monster and attacked him. He fought her with an axe until she fell dead, leaving him horrified and confused about what had happened.

• A Yin found a hidden route from the basement into a gloomy hallway and picked up a map and first-aid medicine.
• Urgent pounding led A Yin to the basement stairs, where he encountered Mia crawling toward him in a monstrous state.
• Mia attacked A Yin with a knife, mangling his hands before briefly returning to herself and passing out.
• A Yin healed his hands with the first-aid medicine, but Mia attacked again and hurled him through a wall into another room.
• A Yin fought Mia with an axe, struck her in the neck, and watched her die after saying she loved Ethan.
• A Yin wondered whether he had killed his wife and what kind of game he was playing.

pew and Yun Zai navigated the dark mansion while Mia stalked them, and Yun Zai was caught and attacked after boasting that she would break up with her wife. The chapter ended as Mia brought a chainsaw down on Yun Zai.

• pew received a mysterious phone call from Zoe, who directed him to the attic, then found that Mia had vanished from the room where he had fought her.
• pew found a fuse in a cabinet, but saw a knife-wielding Mia moving through the corridor before he could return to the living room.
• Yun Zai installed the fuse, activated the attic stairs, and boasted that she would break up with Mia.
• Mia burst from a storage room, grabbed Yun Zai, and drove a screwdriver through her palm, pinning her to the wall.
• Mia started a chainsaw and brought it down as Yun Zai struggled to free herself.

Resident Evil 7 became a major commercial hit as players reacted to its brutal horror and challenging gameplay, especially Mia’s chainsaw attacks. Just as Gu Sheng and Shen Miaomiao awaited the game’s final weekly results, Pengcheng Real Estate’s Peng Qianqian arrived with an unexpected collaboration proposal.

• Players and streamers erupted after the game forced them to watch the protagonist’s left hand get cut off.
• Chun Hei found a pistol and first-aid supplies, then encountered Mia wielding a chainsaw in the attic storage room.
• Mia dodged Chun Hei’s shots on Madhouse difficulty, while his missing hand made reloading too slow to escape her attacks.
• Mia killed Chun Hei with her chainsaw, and players continued through Resident Evil 7’s frightening and bizarre set pieces.
• Resident Evil 7 became a standout hit, with its popularity and sales surpassing expectations after the failures of Resident Evil 5 and 6.
• Peng Qianqian of Pengcheng Real Estate visited Gu Sheng and Shen Miaomiao with an unexpected collaboration project.