Tang Xiaoxiao: "It's too late to sing, let's skip it. My family is asleep and I don't want to disturb them. I'll send everyone some red envelopes in the game later, to celebrate the New Year. I'm staying up all night to finish up all the quests I've accumulated. What about you two, when are you logging off?"

Gang leader: "I'm staying up all night too, let's do it together later."

Deputy: "I can't. My wife makes me go to bed by 10 o'clock, otherwise I have to sleep on the sofa. Sorry, haha, I have to log off after grabbing a red envelope."

Tang Xiaoxiao smiled and praised, "That's a good man," then switched back to the game interface and typed in the guild channel: "Red envelopes will be sent out at the guardian statue in five minutes. Don't miss out!"

Wow, this expert is truly amazing! He hasn't shown up for months, and the moment he does, he's giving out red envelopes!

"Xiaoxiao's here! Long time no see."

"Yes, we all thought you had given up on the game."

[Xiaoxiao]: I haven't quit the game, but I guess I'll be online much less often in the future because I'm too busy in real life.

"My career is still the most important thing."

"Xiaoxiao, you're a rich and beautiful girl, do you have to work so hard? It's true that the more outstanding a person is, the harder they work."

[Xiaoxiao]: I have no choice but to play to support my family. I'm going to play all night tonight. If you haven't cleared a dungeon yet, ask me to team up with you later.

After sending that message, she stopped looking at the chat box, moved her character to the statue, opened her backpack, and sent a guild red envelope.

While everyone was scrambling to grab the items, she logged into Han Yunqi's account in the background.

"Godslayer" can be run multiple times on one computer, but because the game uses a lot of memory, running multiple instances requires a high computer configuration. If the configuration is not sufficient, forcibly running two instances will most likely cause the computer to crash.

Tang Xiaoxiao's computer was certainly powerful enough, so she logged into Han Yunqi's account and joined his team.

Having been offline for so long, both of them had fallen behind in levels.

After everyone finished grabbing the loot, her team was already full. Tang Xiaoxiao didn't waste any time and went straight to the quest NPC, leading her team into the dungeon.

After a night, Tang Xiaoxiao stretched and yawned. It was almost dawn, and everyone in the team logged off to rest. Her character and Han Yunqi's character had leveled up five times in one night, which was quite fast.

After turning off the computer, Tang Xiaoxiao saw that the sky was already showing signs of dawn. Afraid that her lack of energy during the day would arouse her parents' suspicion, she simply went back into her online space to take another nap.

When I woke up again, I was full of energy.

Tang Xiaoxiao rarely travels back and forth between the space and the real world like this. Even though time flows faster in the space, and one night in the outside world is equivalent to two or three months in the space, making full use of every night would give her a lot of extra time. However, it could easily have a psychological impact on her. Doing it occasionally is fine, but doing it often might cause her to become mentally unstable and lose track of time.

I glanced at the wall clock; it was a little past six in the morning. Since I couldn't fall back asleep anyway, I decided to go to the kitchen and make breakfast.

When Mr. and Mrs. Tang and Tang Xinxin and her daughter got up, the dining table was already full of fragrant food.

Thick, simmered vegetable and shredded pork porridge, plump, white steamed buns, crispy fried dough sticks, fragrant and delicious multigrain soy milk, tempting fried dumplings, perfectly cooked poached eggs, and several plates of various side dishes—a dazzling array that makes one's mouth water.

The elderly couple ate with satisfaction but also a touch of sadness. Their daughter was so capable; they wondered which rascal would end up with her.

After the family had a hearty breakfast, Tang Xinxin drove away; she still had to get back to the shop to keep busy.

The elderly couple stayed behind. They had already agreed to spend the Spring Festival at Tang Xiaoxiao's place this year, so they decided to stay a few more days. With nothing else to do, they could go out and visit other people's homes and reconnect with their old neighbors in the village.