Last night, after receiving the text message notifying her that she had qualified for the game's closed beta and showing it off in the group chat, An Yunxiu had immediately gone to bed. She slept wonderfully—almost certainly the best and sweetest sleep she had had in a long time!
What was more, she slept straight through until noon, only waking when a delivery guy's call disturbed her:
"Hello?"
"Hello!"
"Am I speaking to Ms. An, whose number ends in 0676?"
"Your package has arrived. I'm downstairs at the address you provided."
"Will you be coming down to collect it, or should I bring it up?"
After groggily telling him to bring it upstairs, then groggily opening the door to her rented apartment and signing for the parcel, and then groggily opening it again, she finally saw the black gaming visor she had long envied and eagerly awaited inside the box.
"!!"
Only then did the still-dazed An Yunxiu jolt fully awake.
"Oh my god!!!!"
"Ah... ahhh..."
"Ahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!"
She first stared blankly in stunned disbelief for quite a while. Then, unsurprisingly, she immediately burst into cheers and laughter, hopping up and down where she stood.
Because inside the parcel was a box. The box was black and streamlined, with no printed words, patterns, or logos on its surface—only a silver curve like flowing water, stretching from the lid all the way to the bottom.
Of course, what the box looked like was not important. What mattered was what was inside!
The visor that had haunted her dreams lay quietly in the box. It was pitch-black all over, while faint blue lines upon it flickered with a captivating deep-blue glow. An Yunxiu had seen it countless times in the group chat and drooled over it just as many times!
It did not