Although she kept running into all kinds of Jiang Xia throughout the game, thankfully, the developers seemed to retain at least a shred of decency.
—After Curacao firmly chose every option to "Reject Jiang Xia," she finally no longer had to drown in that terrifyingly romantic atmosphere. Instead, she seemed to have entered a detective route centered on independence and self-reliance.
"Looks like the developers aren't completely obsessed with romance. The only problem is, wasn't I here to make the detective character find creative ways to get himself killed? How did I end up working hard to solve the case instead?"
Curacao felt that this trash game had contaminated her mind. "Whatever. As long as I don't have to get all clingy with that thing or have any emotional entanglements with him, solving cases is fine. Besides being a high school student, the character I'm controlling has absolutely nothing in common with Jiang Xia."
As long as Jiang Xia wasn't involved, the script was barely normal.
The more Curacao played, the more she actually found some joy in solving mysteries. She painstakingly sorted through the clues and finally rooted out the mastermind. Then...
Then she ran into Jiang Xia again!
Curacao: "..."
...Well, no matter how one looked at it, it made perfect sense for Jiang Xia to show up near the mastermind.
She would just reluctantly treat this as a game based on reality.
The moment Jiang Xia appeared, the choices became frequent again. Curacao was exhausted in both body and mind, frantically selecting rejection. She finally avoided those devilish scenes, but was forced to collect countless CGs of Jiang Xia looking dejected and lost.
"Who wants to collect this kind of garbage?!" Curacao was about to lose it. Watching a detective get frustrated could be entertaining, but