Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 100

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After much searching and selection, he finally found a satisfactory designer who created a completely new layout for the Little Yi Residence garden area. The style was modeled after Lin Shuying's design in the "Festival of Lights and Decorations" illustration, and it's very beautiful.

It has a bit of the feel of "a path that seems to have no end, but then you turn the mountain and find a secluded valley."

The small courtyard space instantly became richer in content.

After three meals a day, I take my birdcage and stroll around the yard. A few flower fairies accompany me, chatting and laughing. The yard has osmanthus, plum blossoms, chrysanthemums, roses, wild roses, and more, separated by various oddly shaped artificial hills. Occasionally, there is a small pond where various fish swim among the lotus flowers.

Several pairs of swans and mandarin ducks floated freely, preening each other.

This scene is heaven on earth!

Deng Yijun was very satisfied with this and was willing to give the designer a few hundred more Star Coins as a tip.

The designer was also very happy; he loves designing and building houses. He had nowhere to put his own work after finishing his, and tearing it down and starting over was pointless.

That's why I became a designer at Qingfengyi, and I never expected that this industry would be so lucrative, allowing me to earn a lot of money every day.

Over here, someone has unlocked the storyline of Peach Blossom's three lifetimes and is completely captivated by it.

The gossip-loving players' monster camp loves nothing more than coming to the tree to look at the signs left by other players. They've even set up a special video channel to collect these players' messages and, with their consent, create videos.

Just as he unlocked 9999 message boards, he unexpectedly entered a dungeon space!

There was no temple dedicated to the Old Man of the Moon inside, only a huge peach tree. Under the peach tree was a thatched hut, and a beautiful woman dressed in a pink and white dress, with a peach blossom hairpin in her hair, sat on a branch of the peach tree.

Her long hair flowed freely, and her bare feet dangled, stirring up a flurry of peach blossoms that fell to the ground.

Below the peach blossoms is a lake, the water a strange mix of red and pink.

It seemed unsurprising that the player had suddenly barged into the beauty's room. She looked towards the monster concentration camp and asked, "My lord, you've arrived."

Monster Camp: "You knew I was coming?"

The beautiful woman gazed sadly at the lake and said, "God said that if I guard this place for thousands of years and wait for a noble person, my wish will be fulfilled. I have been waiting and waiting, but no noble person has come. You are the first person to enter this space. As a reward, I will give you some of my peach blossoms."

As she spoke, she reached out and plucked some peach blossoms from a nearby peach branch. The peach blossoms were delivered to the monster concentration camp through a magical effect, turning into a blue lucky bag embroidered with peach blossoms.

Upon opening it, one finds numerous gemstone peach petals, suggesting that he can take them to white-named NPCs such as Qiu Chuji and the Weaver Girl in the Huaxia Jianghu to craft them into hairpins and sets.

The monster camp put away their belongings and asked, "Can I get any plot clues from you?"

The plot of this "Qingfengyi" event is too obscure; no one has unlocked it yet.

The beautiful woman said, "My name is Tao Yao. Would you be willing to hear my story, Your Excellency?"

"Yes, yes!"

After he agreed, a CG scene suddenly appeared in front of him.

The first thing to do when visiting the monster concentration camp is to check if the recording is on and if the shooting angle is good.

The story of Peach Blossom's three lifetimes is quite simple: it's about a couple where the husband is forcibly conscripted into the army to fight. His wife and mother are left alone, making life difficult.

After her mother-in-law died, the daughter-in-law had no children and was forced to live off her family's wealth, leaving her with no choice but to embark on a journey to find her husband.

Upon arriving at the battlefield, she was told that her husband had died in battle and that his remains could not be recovered from the battlefield. So she went to collect them alone and found a pair of peach pit bracelets that her husband had made amidst the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. She recognized her husband's remains by these bracelets.

However, by then the remains were already decomposed and tattered, so she gathered them up with her long robe and took them back. She buried them in her own courtyard, the same courtyard where players enter this instance.

They only discovered three small mounds under the peach tree when they arrived at the monster concentration camp.

The wife, clinging to her last breath, returned home. After burying her husband next to her mother-in-law, she collapsed and never woke up again. Her life force and spirit seeped into the two peach pits she held in her hand, her flesh and blood becoming nourishment for the pits. Miraculously, the lifeless peach pits sprouted and grew.

In her second life, her husband was a wealthy scholar who traveled through this place and took a great liking to it, intending to live in seclusion here.

At this time, the place had long since changed, and it was now a wild mountain area nestled against the mountains and beside the water.

He built a thatched hut under the peach tree that was exactly the same as in his previous life, and spent his days sitting under the peach tree reciting poems and books, and also cleaning and burning incense at the two graves.

Pulled by the scent of incense and the threads of fate from a past life, Tao Yao awakens to find herself transformed into her husband's token of love: a hundred-year-old peach tree woven from peach pits.

She was shocked, and even more shocked that her husband would come back to live here again in this lifetime.

For the next ten years, Tao Yao diligently cultivated herself, using the incense her husband burned daily to transform into a human.

The two fell in love at first sight!

They soon became husband and wife.

But their peaceful days didn't last long. Her husband's parents came and forcibly broke up the marriage. They brought in a Taoist priest, who said that the two were destined to be together in their past lives, but a mistake had occurred, causing one to become a demon and the other to be reincarnated, thus ruining their future lives.

To separate this marriage, the red thread can only be cut with the golden scissors of the Three Immortal Maidens; otherwise, it will sever the future marriage prospects of the wealthy scholar.

The husband's parents prayed to the Temple of the Three Immortal Maidens and received a pair of golden scissors. They took them back and cut the thread of fate binding the two of them together.

Even after their marriage was severed, the couple's love remained unbreakable, and they were inseparable. In desperation, the elders threatened the scholar to leave by burning the peach tree. The husband was helpless; he couldn't move the peach tree, and Tao Yao herself couldn't take her true form with her.

But if the original body dies, she will also die.

The two were forced to separate.

The two had promised to go to the underworld together, but alas, they met again!

The scholar's parents were so frightened by the sight of the child on the beam that they fainted. Realizing what had happened, they hurriedly went to find Tao Yao.

Little did anyone know that Tao Yao had already gone to her death, burning her own demon tree to ashes with a single fire, her soul long since departed for the underworld.

The scholar was devastated upon learning this and vowed to go down and find the person, even at the cost of his life.

At this point, the Taoist priest said, "Your red thread has been broken; you will not meet again even in the next life."

"You're lying to me! I'm going down to find her! Why can't you tolerate us, husband and wife? We haven't done anything immoral or gone mad, why do you have to separate us!"

The Taoist priest said, "Humans and demons are different. She has lived for a thousand years, while you are only a hundred. How can you be entangled?"

The scholar calmed down and begged the Taoist priest to tell him how to rekindle the red thread of fate, but the priest refused to tell him.

Finally, the scholar became a Taoist priest and it took him more than fifty years to learn the method to mend the broken red thread: using his three souls as the guide, merits as the thread, and blessings as the mechanism, he could re-weave the broken thread.

In her third life, Tao Yao waited in vain for her husband to come to the underworld, so she wanted to return to the mortal world. But how could a dead person return to the mortal world? She failed several times in her attempts to cross the river of death. Finally, her journey was discovered by the soul ferryman on the banks of the Naihe River, who was deeply moved after hearing her story.

He then asked Tao Yao to agree to one condition, in which he would help her return to her family.

Tao Yao agreed, but she could only be resurrected as a peach demon.

The original thing is still her peach tree.

The roots of the thousand-year-old tree run deep, and it survives even after a wildfire. This was the peach demon's only chance to revive, and fortunately, the fire she set was small, and there was a lake below, which preserved a bit of the peach tree's life.

The peach demon, who had come back to life, took more than fifty years to transform back into a human. When she went to find her husband again, she could no longer find him.

She had heard from some strange tales that a Taoist priest used the three souls as a guide, merit as a thread, and fortune as a means to continue a marriage. Upon hearing this, she wept bitterly and wailed for three days and three nights in front of the Taoist temple where her husband practiced Taoism.

Even the monster concentration camp was stunned; what a tear-jerking little story!

"Ugh, designer, are you kidding me?! Are you trying to persuade us to stay together or break up?!"

It's truly rare to see someone fill a mountain of knives during a romance event...

The third life is the story quest that players need to complete, and they will receive many rewards while completing the quests, such as hairpins, clothing, and ornaments.

Tao Yao's mission is to find the fragments of her husband's memories in the red thread, piece together the three souls, merits, and blessings he sacrificed, and also to find the Naihe River to collect his other soul fragments.

Different choices made during this process will lead to different story endings, depending on how the player chooses.

After unlocking the dungeon, you will know the items that will drop, including peach blossom hairpins, peach blossom sets, peach blossom couple guests, and peach talismans.

There aren't many items, and they're very easy to obtain.

This is a smokescreen set up by Lin Shuying; as long as players collect all the items, they can choose to complete the dungeon.

Of course, collecting all the items and collecting all the dungeon quest items are two different things.

Perhaps collecting all the reward items but not all of the husband's soul fragments, or even not collecting any fragments at all, will unlock a different story ending.

A player only has one chance to achieve one ending; once a player achieves this ending, they cannot achieve any other ending.

When Lin Shuying set up the copy, she thought that in a person's life, there are many things that one can only choose once.

People say life is like a play, but life is neither a play nor a game.

She wanted Qingfengyi to be something unique, full of dreams, and with value beyond mere entertainment.

If I had to pinpoint a reason, it would probably be the persistence of an idealist.

The monster concentration camp has a great fondness for gossip, so they continued down this storyline in its entirety.

However, while he was collecting story fragments, another player unlocked one of the endings first.

This lucky person is none other than the leader of the Fate Princess Bird Alliance.

She came to unlock the message board every day as if completing a task, and before she knew it, she had unlocked 9999 pieces. After entering, Tao Yao felt that she was kind and lovely, and even recognized the divine light on her body, believing that she could help her get what she wanted.

So he used all the items he could get from that instance to ask the leader of the Bird Alliance to grant his wish.

The leader of the Bird Alliance was very pleased and received the item, followed by a system notification:

[Do you wish to fulfill Tao Yao's wish? Friendly reminder: You haven't collected all the necessary quest items. Please choose carefully, as you only have one chance to select in this instance.]

【Yes】

【no】

The leader of the Bird Alliance looked at the lucky goldfish and pointed out that the goldfish was in a very good mood after seeing the lake, and its luck value was increased by 20%.

With such good fortune, what can't be accomplished?

She will definitely be able to unlock the ending she wants to see.

So she decisively chose 'yes' and then entered the CG screen.

In the story, Tao Yao receives help from a benefactor and directly revives her husband.

However, the husband did not have three souls, only seven spirits. A person without three souls is like a living dead. The seven spirits govern the seven emotions and six desires, while the three souls govern life, death, movement, and sitting.

The three souls are the Heavenly Soul, the Earthly Soul, and the Human Soul, also called the Fetal Light, the Refreshing Spirit, and the Ghostly Essence.

Without the blessing of the fetal light, there is no vitality, no thought, no peace, and one is prone to many disasters and illnesses.

Without the earth spirit, there is no thought, no virtue, a flawed nature, recklessness, and an inability to restrain greed and killing.

Without a soul, one neither eats, defecates indiscriminately, nor behaves like a human.

Such a husband would be better off dead than alive, but Tao Yao couldn't bear to let him die, so she used her demonic energy and essence to continuously infuse her husband's body, attempting to maintain a little bit of his life force and awaken some of his consciousness.

At least I know who she is.

Thirty years passed in this way, until the demonic energy was exhausted, the peaches withered and the leaves fell, and the soul was completely scattered.

Without Tao Yao's care, the husband became greedy and reckless, killing and cannibalizing, committing countless heinous acts. In the end, he was beaten to death and suffered endless torment in the underworld to repay his karmic debts. Finally, unable to bear it any longer, he destroyed his seven souls and vanished from the world.

As it dissipated, a red thread drifted by, one end tied to his heart, the other empty. A peach blossom flew and flew, turning into starlight and scattering away.

A tear of blood streamed from the corner of the husband's transparent soul's eye and fell onto the red line.

When it completely disappeared, the red line fell down and entered the flames of the Flame Hell, burning for a moment before dissipating.

In the eerie scene of the underworld, a sea of ​​fire burns, and a line of words appears:

Love without substance is unseen and untouched. Love with substance is thought and longing. The red thread never breaks, a bond cultivated life after life, yet a single change of course leads to nowhere.

Since ancient times, countless verses have been sung about love, but what words can fully express the emotions of this world? In the end, it all fades away, scattered and unattainable, even when sought.

Even the leader of the Bird Alliance was dumbfounded. What was going on?!

She quickly posted this plot to the chat channel:

"Aaaaaah, I can't unlock this storyline, I'm so sad, waaaaah~ video."

Players clicked on the video and saw that the two had no next life, vanishing into nothingness. Their hearts, like the last peach blossom, were shattered into pieces.

"OP, kill me! Aaaaaah, why did you post this kind of plot? I'm going to cry!"

"My Taoyao, my beautiful Taoyao!"

"Oh my god, she waited for him for three lifetimes, and the few moments they were finally together were filled with such suffering, ahhhhh!"

"I don't love you anymore, I don't love you anymore, okay? Waaaaah."

At this point, another player also uploaded a video.

"I unlocked this storyline, is that alright? (Video)"

In the video, the husband isn't a living dead, but rather a mentally challenged person. This is because the player has collected all three of the husband's souls and some of his spirit essence, but not all of it.

Although her husband was simple-minded, he adored Tao Yao and stayed by her side like a child. They lived together for a hundred years, and after that, Tao Yao used her cultivation to exchange for a chance to be reincarnated.

Little did she know that the soul that repaired the red thread had disappeared, and thus the red thread between the two had broken.

Though there may be no karmic ties in the next life, in this life we ​​are already companions. If one possesses a heart of gold as bright as the sun and moon, one can attain enlightenment through nine lifetimes of arduous cultivation.

"This isn't good either; their red line has been broken!"