"I still feel like calling each other 'classmate' is a little too distant."
Nan Zhu scratched the back of his head somewhat sheepishly. The relationship between him and Wu Liang had clearly grown much closer.
Yet he was still calling him "Classmate Wu Liang," and it somehow felt a little strange.
"Mm, of course. You're my friend. Friends don't need to be so formal."
Wu Liang took a bite of his sandwich. Just as Nan Zhu had said, they had become friends now.
Moreover, he had left a good impression on He Xue, Su Qian, Ning Shuang, and the others.
That gave him an extremely favorable start if he wanted to bring them together.
"But I'm currently on a route that guarantees my death. Even if I don't bully the male lead and female leads now, I'll still die once this route converges."
"To avoid death, I have to make the male lead and every female lead reach the true ending."
With that in mind, Wu Liang chewed his sandwich as he sorted through the information he currently had.
This ACG dating game, "Who Is Your First Goddess? Heartbeat Rhythm~," had countless endings and countless routes.
And right now, he happened to be on Wu Liang's guaranteed-death route. It was the will of the world, difficult to defy.
Even if he did not interfere in the affairs of the male lead and female leads on this route, even if he became their friend—
Even if the game's plot changed drastically, the ending of the character Wu Liang would not change.
He would still die a year later. It could be a car accident, an illness, or any number of unforeseen mishaps...
"There's no other way to avoid death on this guaranteed-death route created by the game developers."
"Even if the