Actually, I'm a Male Model - New Book Request Monthly Votes

Huai Xu refers to summer, and is also another name for the fourth month of the lunar calendar.

Chu Huai Xu was born on the first day of the fourth lunar month, hence his name.

The game he was currently playing was called "Borrowed Sword."

It was now 2045. As a young member of the 20s generation in this era of rapid technological advancement, he only needed to stick a wired patch to his temple, close his eyes, and he could immerse himself in an incredibly lifelike game world.

These days, time-travel web novels were no longer popular, because time travel itself was no longer a rarity.

For many people, games like this were essentially equivalent to time travel.

The only difference was that reality had laws to restrain people, while different games had different rules to restrict player behavior.

In some games with higher freedom, you could even marry NPCs or other players and have children, with every step faithfully simulated.

As the gaming era developed to this point, the companion industry had also undergone a certain degree of transformation.

After all, early game companions might just play games together and voice chat.

At their most suggestive, they might flirt a little or breathe heavily for you.

Anything more required meeting offline.

But by 2045, games were so realistic that you truly felt like you were there, as if projected into another world, with extremely high freedom. So companions were a bit like male or female models actually clocking in for work.

Or rather, it was a bit like the local guides that suddenly became popular years ago?

Except local guides accompanied you when you traveled or went on business trips to another place, while now the accompaniment took place in the game world.

And Chu Huai Xu was an excellent male model, oh wait, no—a companion!

Relying on his own ability, he navigated among various female bosses, earning five-star reviews from all of them, sometimes even eating soft rice with a hard attitude—that definitely took skill.

Fortunately, someone like him walked the straight path, using his abilities for work as a diligent male model.

If he used them in real life, he'd be a total scumbag.

Right now, he was actually free and wanted to test his luck by creating an account in "Borrowed Sword."

"Borrowed Sword" had borrowed the blind box concept from a certain large gambling company, so game accounts also had a blind box element.

Every account had to be purchased with money.

After opening an account, what kind of starting situation you'd get, which newbie village you'd be in, and what the initial beginner tasks were—everything was unknown.

Although the game had good balance in terms of starting situations and didn't have overly overpowered ones, different people liked different things, right?

Moreover, the game had been out for five years, and veteran players had figured out some tricks—certain starting situations were more popular.

Besides, for some well-funded game guilds, instead of opening blind boxes, it was better to directly buy accounts that had already been opened, for strategic purposes.

Therefore, some new accounts could be resold for a profit, and account opening gradually became popular.

Chu Huai Xu had a habit of opening three accounts at the beginning of each month.

He was pretty lucky in this regard and had made a bit of money from it.

Most importantly, he had stable client resources among female guild management—they were the best buyers for accounts. One woman who treasured him even paid above market price.

And today's account should sell for a good price.

Because as soon as he logged in, he was being chased by a stubbled man, carrying a large amount of silver notes—clearly a strong main quest character.

"The early main quest is very clear. Many guilds love buying this kind of account." Chu Huai Xu knew the ropes well.

But who would have thought that today, right after logging in, he seemed to run into a problem.

—He couldn't log out!

"That doesn't make sense." Chu Huai Xu was baffled.

He had played "Borrowed Sword" for so long and knew exactly how stable the game was.

"Borrowed Sword" did everything well, with an excellent gaming experience—it was currently a top-rated game.

How highly rated?

Even the "planner's mom" was still alive and well in many players' hearts.

Unlike some games where even if the planner had ten moms, they wouldn't be enough to die.

This was the first time Chu Huai Xu had encountered such a serious problem—he couldn't exit the game.

Besides that, many of his game functions seemed to be unusable too.

Including some basic functions.

For example, he couldn't listen to music while playing anymore.

"At least brightness adjustment is still here."

Just now, he swiped upward with two fingers, and the whole world brightened a bit in his eyes—that was using brightness adjustment.

"But how come even pain adjustment is gone?" Chu Huai Xu was speechless.

He tried pinching himself hard, then winced in pain.

"No way! This is absolutely 100% pain!" He was completely stunned.

In Sword for Hire, the maximum adjustable pain index is only 8%.

Most players set it very low; only a few niche enthusiasts with unusual preferences crank it up higher in-game.

Many people set their pain index to near zero.

Plus, Sword for Hire has an extremely high degree of freedom—as mentioned before, even marriage and childbirth are possible, truly pregnant with potential. So the legendary pain-free motherhood can actually be achieved in the game.

"But this pain... it's too bizarre." Chu Huai Xu frowned deeply.

The game's cap was only 8%, which made no sense.

He looked at the corpse of the Stubbled Man on the ground and couldn't help but suck in a sharp breath.

"In other words, if I'd slipped up just now and he'd actually slashed me, the pain would've maxed out instantly?"

"If such a bug really exists, how many players would be driven away?" Chu Huai Xu could already foresee that.

Next, he checked all his game functions and found that very few were still usable.

Even the AI Customer Service was unreachable.

And that AI Customer Service had been trained by him for ages—it was already shaped to his liking.

Even stranger, Chu Huai Xu could normally check the time, and he knew the game timeline in Sword for Hire had reached Xuan Calendar 1997.

But now, when he checked the time, it showed Xuan Calendar 1990!

"That's just fucking insane!"

"Is the game broken or what?"

The rain kept pouring down. Chu Huai Xu held his oil-paper umbrella, standing on the forest path, the more he thought about it, the more wrong it felt.

He was, after all, a male model who'd consumed tons of novels, anime, and films.

"Did I fucking transmigrate into Sword for Hire?"

He opened his Character Panel and checked his basic game character info.

Then, in the character template column, he spotted something off.

His template wasn't marked as Player—it was marked as NPC!

At that moment, Chu Huai Xu's world collapsed.

"Fuck, I worked so hard to latch onto rich women, put so much effort into being a male model, got ranked second on the Sword for Hire Companion Must-Eat List by all the sisters, and I haven't even spent the money I saved!"

"I was supposed to take Sister Yun's commission tonight, too."

"This lightly mature woman, long-separated from her husband, married but barely widowed, with that mature older sister voice—she couldn't sleep last night and sent me a voice message to book a game session tomorrow night. She was clearly planning to extend the time!"

Chu Huai Xu couldn't help but look down: "Shit!"

The night rain was irritating, the night rain was irritating.

Under the oil-paper umbrella, Chu Huai Xu's mood grew even more Irritated.

He walked over to the Stubbled Man's corpse and slowly crouched down.

—Then raised his hand and slapped him across the face!

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