Aaron had Wave Over Heaven practice an internal energy cultivation method, then found somewhere deserted and logged out of the game.
He had purchased a month—thirty years in the game world—but naturally, he could log out whenever he wanted during play.
He ordered takeout. Before long, a delivery drone dropped it in through the balcony.
When he opened it, the braised pork rice was impeccable in color, aroma, and taste. It tasted quite good, yet was filled with a craftsmanless precision.
Clearly, it had not come from human hands, but was a product of mechanized production.
Aaron shoveled down a mouthful of rice. Finding it tasty, he set it aside and logged onto the player forums for Sword Moves the Jianghu.
On the forums, a few posts would always appear sporadically, only to be deleted soon afterward.
Aaron's eyes and hands were quick. He clicked open one:
[I'm 'Yuan Yuexin,' reporting a Sword Moves the Jianghu executive for cheating me out of my money and body!]
The poster was a female player who called herself 'Yuan Yuexin.' She had included her game snapshots and nickname account, making it seem fairly credible.
Aaron continued reading and found the whole process rather comical.
It turned out this heroine Yuan had no interest in upholding justice. Instead, she was lovesick to the core. She had entered a martial arts world to find romance—and had set her sights on a high-level NPC, handsome as jade and graceful as the wind!
It was already 2077. So long as both parties were willing, there was nothing much to say about such a thing.
Some people had even married and built families in games, with more than a thousand descendants between them... and quite a few of those involved high-level NPCs. The most absurd part was that