Chapter 8: Conquering the Girl

By the second day, Lu Yusheng had completed the first renovation of the internet cafe.

Because of limited funds, she simply laid carpets and cushions on herself and another private room upstairs with a window, which could barely serve as guest rooms.

In addition, a long bar counter was exchanged next to the main entrance, where the only computer in the store is currently located.

The system copied the data from her previous computer and also installed the online store as an embedded software.

After doing all this, she realized the importance of money even more deeply.

But opening an internet cafe like this might have a significant impact on the indigenous people. Perhaps we should start by testing the waters to the extent that they can accept first.

However, before Lu Yusheng could continue planning according to the concept of the screening room, a new guest had already quietly arrived—

She quickly stood up and said, "Hello."

He was a young man with a short beard. He hadn't seen the shopkeeper at first, but looked to his left when he heard the voice.

Seeing her greet him, he nodded awkwardly before asking, "Is this an inn?"

Lu Yusheng shook his head: "No... but there is a room upstairs that you can stay in."

"oh."

The man nodded, seemingly unconcerned about the issue.

Then he asked, "Do you have any wine?"

She shook her head again. The reason she only thought about opening an internet cafe when she had such a powerful system was because the system could basically only be used to exchange for items or general merchandise related to running an internet cafe.

Hu Tiehua was genuinely disappointed, but he was also extremely thirsty, so he asked again, "Do you have any tea?"

Lu Yusheng initially thought that this wasn't a teahouse or restaurant, and it would be good enough if they could provide some plain water. But then he thought that larger internet cafes should usually have vending machines, so he bent down and opened the online store to search for some information.

I typed a few keystrokes on the keyboard, and finally clicked "search." Sure enough, I found products like Iced Tea and Wangji.

"Yes, do you prefer black tea, flower tea, or herbal tea?" She breathed a sigh of relief; it seemed she could finally open for business.

Hu Tiehua was taken aback: "Is the herbal tea already cold? Then give me the cold version."

"Actually, they're all served cold, it's just a name..." Lu Yusheng knew he had misunderstood, but after thinking about it carefully, he realized that the drinks weren't that different, so he agreed, "Fine, I'll just get you the herbal tea."

Then she bent down and fiddled with it for a while, and a drawer near her legs popped out a few centimeters.

Lu Yusheng pulled it out, and the drink he had just ordered was lying inside.

As she handed it to the customer, she quickly calculated in her mind: "Six coins."

Hu Tiehua took the cold cylindrical object, shook it vigorously, and sure enough, it contained liquid.

It's quite novel.

He examined it closely but couldn't find a way to open it, so he looked at Lu Yusheng and asked, "There's no opening, how are we supposed to drink from it?"

The latter then took it back, placed his thumb on the pull tab, hooked it, and lifted it, and the can opened smoothly.

"It's quite convenient."

Hu Tiehua did not misjudge her actions. After casually sighing, he tilted his head back and took a sip.

Glug-glug-glug

The canned drink didn't contain much; he felt like he only swallowed four or five sips before it was empty.

As for the taste... it's hard to say. It has a tea flavor, but it's also sweet.

It can't compare to alcohol, but it's not bad to drink.

"Give me another drink."

Hu Tiehua spoke again, and took out a small coin from his pocket, placing it on the marble bar.

Lu Yusheng stood there stunned, not taking the money. After hesitating for four or five seconds, he finally spoke: "I... can't find the change."

She exchanged the remaining hundred taels for RMB yesterday to top up her online store, and the few taels of silver she had left were obviously not suitable for finding smaller denominations now.

"I see..." The man still looked lazy, but his words were more extravagant: "If you can't make change, then don't bother. Just give me two more bottles of this tea."

"Okay, okay!" Lu Yusheng hurriedly took the money and continued to place orders through the system.

Three bottles of herbal tea soon reappeared in the drawer.

She took them all out and placed them on the side closest to Hu Tiehua.

The other person didn't take it, but instead looked at her with a face full of curiosity: "Your stomach... it seems to have been glowing since just now?"

What's the meaning?

She quickly looked down.

She had previously drawn the curtains on several windows because the glass would reflect light onto the screen, so the room was now completely dark, and the light from the screen was reflecting off her white dress.

And as she kept changing the interface while shopping, the colors on the clothes also flashed.

Lu Yusheng awkwardly explained, "Ah... this is just... something I was playing around with. The clothes were a light color and the print got on me by accident."

Hu Tiehua became even more curious. Since he couldn't see the contents of the computer behind the bar from his position, he pressed on, "What are you playing?"

After thinking about the previous two guests' reactions, she kindly suggested, "Let's not talk about it. People here might not be able to accept something so new."

These words further fueled his competitive spirit: "What haven't I seen all these years of traveling around the country? Show me!"

Lu Yusheng looked him up and down: "Are you sure?"

The latter responded with a snort through its nose.

"Okay." She then moved aside and called the person behind the bar.

Hu Tiehua sat down in front of the computer as instructed, but the beautifully designed desktop wallpaper with stars made him feel completely lost: "Um, what do I do next..."

Lu Yusheng chuckled inwardly, but still patiently explained, "Look at the two columns of icons on the left, just pick one that looks good and click on it."

After all, she couldn't stay at the bar forever, so no one else could open the system store page, but there was no need to worry about him clicking the wrong game.

Hu Tiehua did as he was told, with Lu Yusheng watching from behind. Finally, the mouse hovered over a game featuring anime girls, with the words "School Idol Fantasy Girl" written in black gothic font.

At first, she didn't realize something was wrong. Later, when she saw the game page in Traditional Chinese, she vaguely remembered that the official version of the game had been shut down long ago, and only the Traditional Chinese version was still barely surviving.

Looking at it this way, it just so happens that this is the only game on her computer that they can understand, and that's probably why he clicked on its icon.

Why was it taken down?

While she was agonizing over this, the game reached the loading screen. Only when the character portraits of four beautiful girls with distinct styles appeared did she finally remember...

The game was boycotted when it was first released because two of the four main female characters available for romance were purely villains, and the other was an ungrateful cousin.

Back when she played the game, she sent countless gifts, created countless chance encounters, and made every choice in the direction that was advantageous to them during every plot divergence, but in the end, it all went to waste.

Only the remaining one, named "Huixue," could be considered an angel in comparison to the others. However, she was completely relegated to the sidelines, with pitifully little screen time, making her one of the few conscientious acts of the production team.

Recalling his own dark and hopeless days as a simp, Lu Yusheng shuddered and hesitated before saying, "...How about we forget about it and I get you something else?"

"What's wrong?"

Hu Tiehua immediately turned around and looked over, forcibly suppressing all the questions.

“Um…” Lu Yusheng wanted to advise him to switch to another game, but then he thought that most novice players probably wouldn’t get so hooked on virtual characters so quickly, right?

Moreover, if he plays this kind of strategy-based visual novel, he won't have to worry about not being able to find opponents like in other real-time battle games.

Moreover, this game doesn't have any major flaws like the NTR (Netorare) archetype; all the female characters are simply scumbags.

So she abruptly stopped herself and turned to say, "...No, I just wanted to remind you that this is a story-driven text-based strategy game, and...don't get too carried away."

She emphasized the words "game" and "don't get carried away" in her sentence, but whether the young man took it to heart is unknown.