My Virtual Immortal Girlfriend Came to Life from a Mobile Game

Li Qingran had a dream.

In the dream, she was being chased by countless demonic beasts, with no light source visible in any direction. Darkness surged towards her like an inky tide.

However,

just as the beasts were about to catch her,

a melodious thunderclap echoed.

A young man, whose features were indistinct and dressed in strange clothes, appeared on the horizon.

He waved his left hand, scattering talismans like seasoning over food, and in his right hand, he brandished a spiritual artifact.

The demonic beasts chasing her were either struck down by the thunder from the talismans or pierced by the spiritual artifacts falling from the sky.

"Is it... is it the senior?" Li Qingran looked towards the sky.

She had a gut feeling that it was the senior, and he had come to save her.

Although she couldn't see his face clearly, the senior seemed much younger than she had imagined.

Before she could observe carefully, the next second, the senior had already appeared before her.

Li Qingran's heart raced, a blush spreading to her ears, and she hurriedly prepared to bow in respect.

In the next moment, a pair of strong hands held her up.

Then, he placed a square object into her hands.

The object was entirely black, resembling a brick, but not as heavy.

Three simplified characters were written on it, seemingly... "Power Bank"?

What is a power bank?

Some kind of spiritual artifact?

While she was still puzzled, the senior in front of her began to fade, like mist gradually dispersing.

"Senior? Qingran has always been grateful to you, you..."

"This is a very important item."

The senior's voice echoed through the dispersing mist:

"Make sure to take good care of it..."

...

"This one will do, the Power Bank, sounds reliable just by the name."

Chen Huaian clicked to place the order.

He couldn't afford a three-yuan fried egg, but he could blindly buy a three-hundred-yuan power bank.

After this incident, he was already scared; he must carry a power bank with him at all times from now on.

And it had to be one with a large enough capacity.

He had considered whether to change his phone, but if he did, could he transfer the "Virtual Girlfriend" game along with it? This was a virus program without even an installation package, and he really didn't know how to operate it.

Looking at the time on the computer, it was already nine in the evening.

It had been over an hour since he got home.

"Li Qingran should be awake now." Chen Huaian opened the "Virtual Girlfriend" game, and sure enough, saw that Li Qingran had woken up. The girl was huddled in a corner, wrapped in tattered clothes, hugging her knees, her vacant eyes staring at the ground, lost in thought.

Chen Huaian noticed a half-burned red incense stick at Li Qingran's feet.

[Your virtual girlfriend 'Li Qingran's' house is broken. Top up 6 yuan to repair it.]

Chen Huaian didn't even frown: "Top up!"

[Top up 88 more to get two new outfits of different styles for your virtual girlfriend~]

"Top up!!"

[Your virtual girlfriend 'Li Qingran' is hungry and feeling down. Top up 68 to... ]

"Top up!!!"

The house was instantly renovated, new clothes appeared on the bed, and various dishes of chicken, duck, fish, and fruits clattered onto the table.

If Li Qingran didn't notice such a commotion, it would be strange.

She knew the senior had come to see her.

In fact, she knew the senior had already been here earlier.

After all, the numerous lightning pits around the small house, the demonic beast remains burned to ash by lightning fire, and her already healed injuries all indicated this. The demonic beast horde had come in a very peculiar manner. Using the unburned lightning fire as cover, she circled around the small house and found the 'Beast Frenzy Lure' broken in two under a tree.

This kind of beast-attracting incense was a hunting tool used by various sects.

But the beast-attracting incense from different sects had slight differences.

For example, the Beast Frenzy Lure from the Azure Cloud Sect had azure cloud patterns at its base.

These azure cloud patterns were designs carved from certain materials in the Beast Frenzy Lure, essential for its function. If scraped off, the lure's effect would be greatly diminished. Since it was a dangerous item, the major sects naturally marked it to avoid being framed.

The person who threw the incense probably thought the Beast Frenzy Lure would burn to ashes, leaving only a bit of residue.

But they didn't expect the senior to arrive halfway and turn a 500-meter radius into a wasteland.

That person didn't come to take her life, presumably because they were also struck down and turned to ash.

"Senior." Li Qingran looked at the ceiling, her face full of exhaustion, her dry lips slightly parted, her whole being like a flower about to wither: "Senior, do you think Qingran is someone very detestable?"

The first dialogue box had just appeared when Chen Huaian chose free dialogue directly.

Having just drawn from the Lucky Koi pool, he now had over seventy Sound Transmission Talismans, feeling quite inflated.

Clearing his throat, he pressed the Sound Transmission Talisman and spoke gently: "How could that be? In my eyes, Qingran is a very polite and sensible girl, who works hard in her cultivation, blah blah... Why would you think so?"

The above was a nearly three-hundred-word essay by Chen Huaian.

But what Li Qingran heard was the majestic voice of the Great Dao: Why do you say that?!@@novelbin@@

"If not, why do the people of the Azure Cloud Sect, my senior brothers, and my master always want to kill me? Even though my dantian and spiritual root have been destroyed, even though I've been expelled from the sect and driven into Evergreen Mountain to fend for myself, why won't they let me go... Did I do something terribly wrong?"

Chen Huaian looked at Li Qingran's eyes, which were no longer clear, gradually clouded.

He could fully understand Li Qingran's doubts.

From Li Qingran's life, she was a typical giving personality.

If someone showed her a bit of kindness, she would repay it tenfold or a hundredfold.

Daoist Qingxuan took her as a disciple, and even without any formal guidance, she always regarded Daoist Qingxuan as the most respected elder.

First Senior Brother Lu Changtian took care of her when she joined, so she treated Lu Changtian as her brother; Second Senior Brother Xiao Yifeng gave her pills he didn't use, so she helped him manage spiritual herbs and acted as his test subject; Third Senior Brother Yun Zimo gave her a storage ring, so when Yun Zimo framed her, she kept silent and was expelled from the sect; Fourth Senior Brother Zhang Hanxiao helped her once during a mission, so she used most of her monthly spirit stone share to deal with the troubles he caused.

She would bloom into a radiant flower with a bit of sunshine, and even under the storm, she would still face it with a smile.

But behind that smiling mask was probably a face full of tears and scars.

The saying "a good person is bullied, a good horse is ridden" is not just a joke, it's wisdom passed down by ancestors.

Just like how he gave everything to his ex-girlfriend, only to be betrayed and cuckolded. There are too many similar stories, where the goddess you cherish and protect ends up being played with in a cheap hotel; the flower you nurtured with all your heart blooms on someone else's balcony; betrayal and backstabbing... More and more people are finding solace in cats, dogs, and virtual characters, willing to spend money, time, and energy on them. Are they stupid?

No.

They just don't want to be hurt again.

People should have a fire in them.

You, I, we, are not toys to be casually thrown into the trash.

One day, that heart full of holes will be carefully held by someone.

"Li Qingran."

Chen Huaian looked at Li Qingran, the two separated by a screen,

yet their gazes seemed to cross countless times and spaces to meet.

He stared into Li Qingran's eyes, and reflected in those eyes, was himself.

"Today, I will help you restore your dantian."

The majestic voice of the Great Dao did not cut Chen Huaian's words this time.

Instead, it conveyed them all:

"Even if your past is a mess, from now on...

it will surely be a flourishing garden!"