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[Archmage Staff Fragment? Isn't that in the hands of Nine Times a Night? I just took a screenshot to commemorate it, I can't be wrong.]

[Newbie? A one-round tourist?]

[As everyone knows, the Archmage Staff is shattered into twelve pieces. That means there are 12 fragments in total. What the streamer got is just one of them.]

[Right, 12 fragments, and the skill of each one is different.]

[The one the streamer has now is the 'Soul of Replication'. I know that one of them is the 'King of Disguise', which can ignore game rules and let you become any identity you want, whether it's a player, an NPC, or a female ghost boss.]

[So, this straight-A student Yu Shujun is likely some big shot who got the 'King of Disguise' fragment, changed their identity, became a game character, and entered this trial map?]

[Looks like it.]

[I heard that among the 12 fragments, the 9 legendary big shots currently each have one. The remaining three are missing. We saw one here with the streamer, so there are two left—either hidden in the map or held by some mysterious player.]

[Does that mean this Yu Shujun is likely one of those 9 legendary big shots?]

[Damn, what kind of insane luck is this? Watching a newbie trial map and running into two legendary big shots at once?]

[Is this going to be... a peak showdown?]

[I came to the right livestream!]

[I'm staying here, I'm never leaving even if I die.]

[Sitting here waiting for the gods to fight.]

However, Wen Nan clearly had no intention of satisfying the chat's expectations—fighting was out of the question; he was here to fall in love, not to engage in the kind of masochism that guy was into.

If things could be settled with words, he certainly didn't want to resort to force.

"What exactly do you want?" Yu Shujun calmed her emotions and asked him.

Wen Nan said indifferently, "I want to see your sincerity."

Yu Shujun took a deep breath and said, "Your main quest 1 has already been settled. You should have seen that your affection level for me is maintained at 60%. Not too much, not too little, just enough for you to pass. Isn't that... considered sincerity?"

Wen Nan shook his head with a smile, "Affection levels change at any time; 60% isn't enough. Besides, Qiqi's affection level dropped last night. We haven't settled that score yet."

Yu Shujun: "What does Qiqi's affection level dropping have to do with me? I was just telling her the truth."

Wen Nan sighed, "Little brother, if you're going to welch on the debt like this, then there's nothing to talk about."

Yu Shujun lowered her eyes to ponder for a moment, then finally relented: "Fine, I admit I do bear some responsibility, but her affection level is still maintained above 90%. It's no loss to you, is it?"

Wen Nan didn't speak, just looked at Yu Shujun in silence, giving her a look that told her to figure it out for herself.

Yu Shujun's attitude softened, "What kind of sincerity do you want, then?"

Wen Nan revealed a gentle smile, "We're all players. Meeting in the same trial map is fate, and I don't want to make things difficult for you.

"If people don't offend me, I won't offend them.

"I chose five targets for my quest, and I accidentally included you, an anomaly, which did cause you some trouble. But that can't be blamed on me. Since you chose the path of a player impersonating a character, you should have expected the risk of being targeted by a player from the start, right?

"But I have no interest in you, and I don't intend to pursue you. You surely don't want to be pursued by me either, right?

"Since that's the case, it's best we make things clear beforehand and establish a peaceful, friendly agreement."

Wen Nan paused here and looked at the person beside him.

Yu Shujun didn't speak, but she looked at Wen Nan earnestly, waiting for him to continue.

Wen Nan cleared his throat and continued, "I agree not to report your identity to the reporting center, nor will I interfere with your actions on this map. However, you must guarantee to me that from now on, you will not contact any of my other targets, and at the same time, ensure that your affection level for me is maintained above 99% until I clear this map."

"...99%?!" Yu Shujun raised her voice, "That's a value approaching a perfect clear!"

Wen Nan put on an indifferent expression, "Is it that hard? You were able to control your own affection level precisely at 60%; changing it to 99% should be quite simple, right?"

Yu Shujun said in a low voice, "It's not a question of difficulty..."

"Then what is the question?"

"Forget it," Yu Shujun thought for a moment and compromised again, "99% is fine, but you need to agree to one additional condition."

"What condition?"

"Before the final main quest is settled, lend me your equipment slot."

Wen Nan didn't understand, "My equipment slot? Aren't you a player? Don't you have your own equipment slot?"

In his spare equipment slots, he had stuffed thousands of Money Bags at once before, and the usage rate didn't even show 1%. Clearly, based on the mechanics of this game, a player's spare equipment slots basically had no limit on the number of items; it was almost impossible to fill them up.

So why borrow his equipment slot?

Yu Shujun shook her head, "I used equipment to change my identity and became a game character. In this map, all my player privileges have been revoked. Characters don't have equipment slots. The hidden items I found here can't be taken out of this map; I have no choice but to try and use another player's equipment slot to help me carry them out."

That sounded somewhat reasonable, but...

"If you put the hidden items you found into my equipment slot, aren't you afraid that once we walk out of this map, I'll refuse to acknowledge it and claim those things as my own?"

"I am."

Yu Shujun answered crisply. After she finished speaking, she unzipped her school uniform, pulled out a roll of parchment from inside, and handed it to Wen Nan.

"Therefore, we shall use an item to formalize this agreement. With the binding power of an item, any player who breaches the contract will pay a very heavy price."

Wen Nan's gaze fell upon the piece of parchment, which looked as though it had aged through the ages, and the system's notification sound immediately rang in his mind.

9527: [Hidden item detected in this map--Gentleman's Agreement Scroll.]

9527: [Gentleman's Agreement Scroll:

It can be signed by any two players, NPCs, or game characters; the content of the agreement is determined by the two participating parties and simply needs to be entered into the scroll;

If either party violates the agreement, the breaching party will be permanently stripped of the right to enter the map. Simultaneously, all of the breaching party's skills, items, equipment, commodities, and assets will be transferred to the other party of the agreement;

The scroll is bound to both accounts; once it takes effect, it cannot be revoked or altered;

Please sign with extreme caution.]

After hearing the system's introduction, Wen Nan furrowed his brows and fell into deep thought.

[This item sounds... like it's incredibly powerful.]

[Why do I keep feeling like the straight-A student is setting a trap?]

[The straight-A student looks like he's being handled by the streamer, but in reality, isn't it the streamer who is stepping, one by one, into the straight-A student's snare?]

[Don't sign it.]

[Jiu-wa, wake up! The straight-A student isn't a little lamb like Qiqi; he's a legendary-tier big shot, a wolf in sheep's clothing. If you play with him, be careful not to get eaten until there's not even a scrap of bone left!]