Cultivation Cyberpunk Gal Game

Lü Yuan had learned this set of etiquette from Lin Qi, who had thrown it in not long ago when he asked about the conditions and associations of the Fire Virtue "Acting Method."

As for where she had learned it, Lin Qi had of course fobbed him off by saying she had found out about it through an opportunity.

Lü Yuan had not pressed her for details, but her answer to his first question had left him somewhat disappointed.

Lin Qi had told him that the associations of the Five Virtues within each megacorporation differed according to the True Lords it possessed.

She did not know what they were like here, either.

It even seemed that there was no True Lord of Fire Virtue here at all, so Fire Virtue was scarcely seen.

That answer had disappointed Lü Yuan for a time. After all, he had traded for a disadvantageous position for his Dao lineage merely for a sixth-grade cultivation method.

And a future in which he could not use the "Acting Method"...

Thinking about it later, it really was not much of a bargain. He might even have come out a little short.

In the end, though, he still trusted the choice the Immortal Book had given him. After all, Lord Immortal Book surely had a deeper reason for having him make that choice.

So Lü Yuan had turned his attention to the latter matter. He had practiced today's kneeling countless times in private.

It was the most impeccable etiquette for a lowly beast to pay homage to a Heavenly Dragon Person. As the saying went, a man had gold beneath his knees, and now was the time to cash it in.

So Lü Yuan knelt without the slightest hesitation or humiliation. On the contrary, he did it with such ease that he was just short of rushing up to hug her thigh and lick her boots.

After all, she was his biggest backer at present. If he did not cash in now, when would he?

But before he could fully kneel, the voice, neither quite cold nor quite gentle, sounded again:

[I don't blame you for letting your thoughts run wild, so there's no need for this-]

"As you command."

Lü Yuan thought she was a little too gentle, but he did not dare disobey.

He respectfully straightened up, not daring to raise his head. He was obedient enough to be called Mingyang City's number one lackey.

He waited expectantly for her to speak, explain the reason, and answer the many questions he had accumulated over the past few days.

Of course, Lü Yuan could not be sure she would deign to clear up his doubts.

In the end, he was only at Embryonic Breathing, while the one before him was the master of all Mingyang City.

What would my lord say next?

That was the question Lü Yuan was pondering.

He had many ideas and many possibilities in mind, and he was devising a response to each one.

Meeting his backer for the first time, he wanted to make as good an impression as possible.

Even if he could not get his questions answered, he still had to try to obtain something that would let him reveal more of his "talent."

But suddenly, a baffling question sounded by Lü Yuan's ear, interrupting his thoughts. It was completely outside his expectations.

This time, the voice was no longer speaking to him from within his mind. Instead, the near-perfect prosthetic body before him had opened its mouth to ask.

And the question itself left him at a loss, unable to react.

She asked Lü Yuan, "Do you like it?"

Those words alone made cold sweat pour down Lü Yuan's face.

Her voice was pleasant to hear, and its faint trace of coolness even made his heart flutter a little, since he had not been neutered.

Yet Lü Yuan had no idea how to answer.

Like it... what else could she mean?

Say I like it? Wouldn't that offend my lord? But say I don't? Wouldn't that offend her even more?!

Never mind why she'd ask something like that. The question itself is a straight-up death sentence-

"Of course I like it..." After thinking it over, Lü Yuan finally raised his head and gave what he believed was an appropriate answer:

"How would I dare say I don't like all the great kindness you've shown me these past few days, my lord?"

He thought that had to be the most reasonable answer.

Otherwise, could the woman before him really be asking whether he liked her?

But this time, it seemed he had actually guessed wrong.

For next, Lü Yuan saw the corners of the Purple Mansion Great True Person's eyes seem to crease slightly.

She seemed a little displeased, dissatisfied with his answer.

His thoughts were then confirmed, because she spoke again, looking straight at him.

"That's not what I asked." [Radiant Heavenly Sun] Li Yelan rested one hand against the side of her face and said softly:

"I'm asking whether you like the way I look."

"Or rather, Lü Yuan, out of all the prosthetic bodies before you now, is there one that catches your fancy?"

After she said that, Lü Yuan, lost in bewilderment and utterly dumbfounded...

Saw all the prosthetic bodies that had been busy with other things stop what they were doing almost at the same time.

Then they slowly turned their gazes on him.

Holy shit, I'm drenched in sweat...

What kind of bizarre dating-game development is this? Am I playing some kind of cultivation cyberpunk gal game?

Everything that's happening now is completely different from what I imagined!

How could a Purple Mansion True Person ask a question like that? She's not following the script at all-

Lü Yuan desperately wanted to complain, but he could not, and he had absolutely no idea how to handle the situation. All he could do was freeze up.

He really was out of options. If he was punished for this, he would accept it.

After all, weren't both questions death sentences, whichever way he answered?

"Don't you like any of them?" Li Yelan asked again when he did not answer for a long time.

"No..." Lü Yuan did not dare go against his conscience, so he steeled himself and answered.

Li Yelan understood. "Then they're not to your taste?"

Lü Yuan had never been so at a loss, but since he had already forced himself to answer, he simply gave up on himself.

"That's not it either..."

"If it's neither, is it because I'm not pretty?" Li Yelan stood up, her shadow falling over Lü Yuan.

"Even less so..." Lü Yuan's legs were going a little weak. Who could keep their legs from going weak in a situation like this?

After hearing that answer, Li Yelan finally moved.

She walked around the desk and gradually approached Lü Yuan, a breeze from somewhere stirring her long hair.

As it swayed, it made Lü Yuan's neck itch a little.

She bent down, looking down at him from above in a posture Lü Yuan had never imagined.

The part he should not look at hung right before his eyes, covered by only that thin layer of clothing-

Making him step back involuntarily.

But before Lü Yuan could retreat any farther, a hand had gently caught his chin, stopping him from moving.

"Then why won't you answer?" Holding this almost intimate pose, Li Yelan asked Lü Yuan, whose heart was practically about to leap out of his chest.

If Lü Yuan had not been so young and his cultivation so low, the scene would have looked for all the world like a pair of illicit lovers flirting.

How did things end up like this?

Lü Yuan did not know how to answer that, and he had even lost the will to live.

The only thought in his head now was, Could she have summoned me because she's into little boys?

And specifically into Top-Grade Pseudo Spirit Roots?

But that's not right. The last Top-Grade Pseudo Spirit Root was a girl!

Then... could she swing both ways?

And why would the Four-Dharma Great True Person, [Radiant Heavenly Sun] Li Yelan, have a personality like this...?

And just as Lü Yuan still did not dare speak-

A slight smile appeared at the corners of Li Yelan's mouth as she looked at a face she knew so well.

Whether now or in the future, you really are always the same, bullying the weak and fearing the strong...

She murmured softly to herself in her heart, laughing at it and thankful for the chance to do it again.

"All right, I'll stop teasing you."

Suddenly, Lü Yuan heard the most pleasant words of his life. Then, under his astonished gaze,

Li Yelan released his chin and, as Lü Yuan watched in confusion, gently pinched his cheek instead.

That cheek she knew so well.

Sadly, though, on the face that had not yet been weathered by life, what she hoped to see after witnessing that future was not there yet...

That burning passion, that courage to love and hate-