Spring 26th of the first year

Spring is almost over, and you want to take a day off and relax.

But we can't really do nothing, otherwise the live stream will definitely lose a lot of viewers.

Oh right, it's Friday again. I think I said yesterday that I was going to give everyone their favorite gift.

Thinking about it carefully, this task is actually quite difficult. After all, sometimes you can't even understand the forms that villagers like. Maybe you should just give up and not do it, since everyone probably isn't interested in this anyway... right?

However, the viewers in the live stream are already cheering because you just promised to give everyone their favorite gifts.

[Get up, Wu is waiting to eat the pizza you sent!]

[Get up quickly and give Dr. Dog Roll his first cup of coffee of the morning.]

[Get up quickly, Mingming is eager to make money off you!]

Lying in bed, unwilling to get up, you symbolically protest, "...just 10 more minutes."

This further ignited the audience's enthusiasm for creatively urging you to get out of bed, with everyone strongly condemning your behavior of staying in bed too long.

In any case, 10 minutes passes quickly in a game. You can even pretend to interact with everyone in the live stream and subtly drag out a few more 10-minute intervals.

At 7:30 am, you finally get up, open the refrigerator door, and start stuffing the villagers' favorite food into your backpack.

Chocolate cake, pink cake, beer, parsnips...

Then they opened the wooden box and took out the gold ingots.

And the chicken coop—today the rabbit really did a great job by contributing Old Pi's birthday present—a rabbit's foot, though unfortunately it doesn't have a star on it.

Then you go to the Fruit Bat Cave—there are no peaches, Robin's favorite, and you were planning to leave right away, but luckily a visitor reminded you that oranges are Guts' favorite.

Leave the farm and go check out the traveling merchant... Great, he has Willie's favorite iridium, Granny Pudding's favorite tulips, and Hayley's favorite coconuts.

The final "receiving point" is the ranch. You've taken so much stuff from here, so today you finally have to give it back to her.

Mingming accepted the colorful fragments, lifted a few strands of her braid, looked at you, and raised an eyebrow, saying, "What an incredible gift, thank you."

You said, feeling embarrassed, "You're welcome... Where's Rika?"

Mingming said, "She's at the museum every Friday at this time. Spring is almost over, haven't you remembered yet, farmer?"

It's impossible for you to remember everything. After all, you're just a third-rate player with average memory who has to repeatedly check the wiki to confirm even the schedule of someone you're pursuing. Your ability to become a streamer relies entirely on your reasonably pleasant voice, a face that barely qualifies as a beauty streamer after adding filters, and various mods. Your game knowledge is extremely average; you're basically just a pretty face in the gaming community.

Next, you spend your time sending gifts everywhere. By evening, your favorite gifts are all gone, and you decide to go to Gus to restock.

The menu features pasta, salad, pizza, and today's specials—a perfect breakfast... Coincidentally, you just casually rummaged through the trash can before coming in and miraculously pulled out a perfect breakfast.

Sorry, Tiger, I really didn't mean to deliver leftovers from the trash can. I just realized that there were two Perfect Breakfasts in my backpack by the time I realized it, and I couldn't tell which one was which!

Friday is the busiest day at the bar, with regulars like Pierre, Robin, and Sebastian showing up.

First, you present the rabbit's foot to Pierre, the birthday boy, and then, with a feeling of 0.0000001% guilt, you give Miguel a perfectly shaped golden strawberry.

He'll be dancing with Robin at the bar on Friday nights—romantic, if Robin weren't still diligently hammering away in your barn right now.

But looking at the black man dancing to his own rhythm as if no one else was around, he seemed quite happy that he didn't have to spend the whole night cuddling with his wife and swaying slowly to soothing music.

The last gift you give today is to Robin, who missed her Friday bar date. Giving her a steaming bowl of pasta that you just got from the bar might be a nice reward for her hard work all day.

Finish.

You return to the cabin, muster your courage, pet the big yellow dog that's sleeping on the floor, and then quickly slip away.

Sigh, I really wanted to rest, so why did today still feel so exhausting?

Perhaps this is the fate of players who grind Lugu: there's always something to do next, and before you know it, you become a 627 maniac...

Tomorrow, you must continue your efforts to collect the crystal spheres and complete the museum's entire collection as soon as possible!

The longer you stay here, the more blurred your impression of the real world becomes. Not all of it, but you can't recall the details of your life. You become unconsciously immersed in running the farm and making friends with the villagers, until the brief gap when you are about to fall asleep and waiting for the settlement, when you feel a slight sense of incongruity.

You lie in bed, repeatedly choosing "no" when the "Are you going to sleep tonight?" pop-up appears, struggling against the feeling of being assimilated into the game world, trying to reinforce the impression and warn yourself to stay awake tomorrow.