"Wait, no, this..."
Hearing that, Natsuki Subaru was visibly taken aback.
"Ahem, forget about jumping off a building." Fang Mo coughed awkwardly. "After all, the insurance was for my daughter. Even if someone had to jump, it wouldn't be my turn..."
"Huh???"
Natsuki Subaru was even more bewildered.
"I bet Xiaoyao's biggest regret was cracking out of her shell, then getting tricked by you into becoming your daughter." The loli succubus across from him rolled her eyes. "She lived in a doghouse and ate cat food when she was little, and now she has to jump off buildings to save her dad..."
"My~ oshi~ no~ ko~~"
Fang Mo said, throwing back his head.
"W-Wait... Brother Dongwen?" Natsuki Subaru was clearly unable to hold it together anymore. "So what exactly is going on? Isn't this kid the Succubus Queen? Why does she seem to understand what you're saying?"
"Oh, let me introduce her."
Fang Mo raised a hand and pointed at her. "This is your sister-in-law. She's not an AI. She's the kind of real sister-in-law who actually exists in reality..."
"What?"
Natsuki Subaru froze, then instinctively turned to look at the throne in the distance. "B-But weren't you two just..."
"We were role-playing."
Fang Mo smiled faintly. "Sorry, I forgot you haven't played many games like this. Let me explain the setting here first."
"The setting here?"
Natsuki Subaru echoed reflexively.
"It's like this."
Fang Mo said directly, "I have so much money I can't possibly spend it all, so I decided to build the world's largest virtual internet platform."
"As you can see, the first world I designed was this one: White Earth. It borrowed some concepts from the Metaverse, removed things like instances and quests, and became nothing but a real, pure sandbox world—a diverse platform where players