"Okay okay okay, stop barking! I'm doing the quest now!"
Rabbit-J smacked her mouse in frustration and yelled at the scrolling barrage of comments.
[If you're not loyal to Luo, then you're just NOT loyal!]
[Does playing Genshin offend you that much??]
[Brothers, the other streamer Yue-Yue-ma already finished this quest, and let me tell you—]
"User InvestigatingYeLuoElementarySchool has been banned."
[Good. Good job.]
[Spoilers must die.]
[That ID is insane.]
"Good work, mods. Not totally useless after all."
Rabbit-J praised her staff, then controlled Lumine and continued the story.
She narrowed her bright eyes.
"Hm? I smell chaos brewing."
She absolutely refused to believe a man as handsome as Ye Luo could be a true villain.
Someone that good-looking must have a tragic backstory.jpg
—Just kidding. She could accept a handsome character turning evil.
Like the Doctor — his actions in Sumeru were rotten to the bone.
Rabbit-J disliked him, even hated him at times.
But she could accept the existence of an irredeemable antagonist in a story.
As long as HoYo didn't try to wash him clean, she was fine.
So even if Ye Luo turned out to be a villain, she could accept that too.
Madara? Loved.
Dottore? Popular since day one.
Ultimately, it all depended on how HoYo wrote him.
Just don't mess up the handling.
With a complicated mood, Rabbit-J pressed forward.
The barrage, however, did not have complicated thoughts.
They just wanted entertainment.
[Hurry hurry hurry, skip the useless dialogue]
[You think anyone wants to watch THIS?]
[Kid… slow down]
[Who asked you??]
[Lao Da, I miss you (crying)]
"Impatient, all of you. Let's appreciate the story. Kids these days… too restless."
She sighed like an old granny, but still ignored the chat and played on.
Rabbit-J refused to believe someone she adored that much could be bad.
Following the plot, she tailed Ye Luo all the way to his destination — a tavern.
Except…
The name on the building was simply Cat Café.
'…So plain.'
Rabbit-J muttered internally as she accessed the next cutscene.
The game skipped the part where Lumine picked a lock with a piece of wire — obviously, that wouldn't pass a 12+ rating.
Better to let players imagine it.
She saw the new CG and exhaled in relief.
"Thank goodness this isn't like infiltrating the cathedral for the Sky Lyre… I still have trauma from that."
Yes — she was a certified button-mashing hand-cripple.
Stealth gameplay?
She'd rather play Dynasty Warriors.
[Stealth? No, no— Musou-style full slaughter!]
[If you kill everyone, no one can report you.jpg]
[Huh? You call that stealth??]
[Isn't it??]
As soon as the CG started, Ye Luo's resigned voice entered her headphones.
[Bro… is this… the illegal kind of operation??]
[Wait, is this STILL a 12+ game? HoYo's not afraid of lawsuits??]
[Didn't know that while being a Sumeru scholar by day… secretly he's running… "that kind" of place]
[Could be a pet shop, guys. The sign literally says CAT CAFÉ]
[Ah?]
[Ah??]
[Ah?? *10086]
[One of my favorite Genshin player dialogues: "Ah?"]
Rabbit-J noticed it too, and hearing Ye Luo's lines, her lip twitched so hard she almost laughed out loud.
Especially—
"You're already in this line of work, why pretend to be pure?"
If she didn't clearly see the giant CAT CAFÉ sign outside…
she honestly might think she opened the wrong app.
Like… something steam-powered and pink.
"You've definitely got a side job, don't you?
Just wait till I catch you."
She already predicted the awkwardness of the upcoming scene—
Ye Luo and Lumine staring at each other in mortified silence.
She could feel second-hand embarrassment through the screen.
Thank goodness Paimon was there to lighten the mood.
Otherwise, Lumine might have faked her death on the spot.
And, sure enough—
Lumine sat beside Ye Luo, ears red to the tips, sinking into the chair like she wanted to evaporate.
"HAHAHAHA— I CAN'T— this is killing me!"
Rabbit-J zoomed the camera in on Lumine's flustered expression and screenshotted it immediately.
This was the first time she'd seen Lumine embarrassed in a cutscene.
Absolutely adorable.
[I'm dying. Lumine, just do it like the pros — once you're used to it, you can take the lead]
[Last time he was running a Sumeru tutoring class, now a cat café. Next time he'll get arrested]
[Ye Luo got completely countered]
[The Demon King Lumine will bring a million troops to raid the café!]
[Aaaaah bad-boy Ye Luo is so cute, I'm getting wet]
[Sorry, already shot]
[Know the heavens, ease the heart]
[Ye Luo: "I nearly got mass-reported."]
And honestly?
From the way it sounded at first, it was VERY easy to misunderstand.
Within minutes, certain "pink websites" had uploaded edited videos of his lines.
Views skyrocketed.
Ye Luo was about to become explosively famous in that… ecosystem.
Players were stunned that HoYo dared put such misleading lines in a 12+ story.
Must be desperation from declining player count.
But players?
They loved it.
"MORE! GIVE US MORE!"
Meanwhile, artists everywhere jolted awake—
pens ready, tablets warming—
and began drawing Ye Luo from every angle.
"You're done for.
I'm making dōjinshi for you!"
Even if nobody wanted them—
just his personality alone made him worth drawing.
Worst case?
They could keep it for… personal use.
Or upload it to free sites for everyone to enjoy.
ps: Can people… actually enjoy their own spicy art? (A question that has haunted A-Luo for ages.)
Also thank you for the votes (hint hint) QAQ
And here's a shout-out to a fellow author—
(the promotional blurb stays omitted here for canon consistency unless you want it included)
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