Chapter 166: The Beauty of Numbers
Wen Nan turned around and saw a striking notification displayed on the floating light screen above his head: [Please player Ye Jiu, confirm your identity].
Without much hesitation, Wen Nan stood up and pressed his hand onto the [Confirm] button.
Soon, the results appeared on the light screen:
[Player Ye Jiu, the settlement details for this main quest are as follows:
Completion Status: Completed;
Quest Score: 100 points;
Quest Rating: Excellent;
Extra Reward: Advanced Prize Pool Draw (5 draws, temporarily stored in the player's account, can be retained up to 15 days after leaving the instance);
Selected Target: The fresh and dewy rookie junior sister
Target Romance Progress: 99%;
Selected Target: The wolf-like and tiger-like young housewife next door
Target Romance Progress: 99%;
Selected Target: The wayward girl who clings stubbornly after being rescued
Target Romance Progress: 99%;
Selected Target: The wealthy older woman seeking a child for a fortune
Target Romance Progress: 91%;
Selected Target: The extremely cold-on-the-outside yet soft-on-the-inside female CEO
Target Romance Progress: 99%;
The next-door younger sister you watched grow up
Target Romance Progress: 99%;
Livestream Popularity Settlement: 136,836 coins;
Livestream Betting Settlement: 9,871 coins;
Livestream Tip Settlement: 31,687 coins;
Account Balance: 1,536,689 coins.]
Looking at the settlement panel for his final main quest, Wen Nan fell into deep thought.
It seemed that because he had successfully "fixed" the bug in the system, this time his quest score was finally no longer capped below "Excellent," but instead returned to normal, giving him a full score.
However... he only managed to get 5 draw chances?
Yet this wasn't a roulette wheel draw, but rather an Advanced Prize Pool draw? A prize pool like this should guarantee advanced equipment at the very least, right? So it wouldn't end up spitting out a bunch of coin purses like the previous roulette draws did. Thinking about it this way, he still made a profit.
Moving further down, his gaze landed on the account balance, and Wen Nan's expression shifted slightly.
Throughout this entire instance, he had earned a total of over 1,536,000 coins, which was vastly more than any contemporary player. However, when compared longitudinally to his own past achievements, it wasn't exceptionally high.
In his very first main quest, he had already secured as many as 700,000 coins, whereas his next four main quests combined had only yielded about 800,000 coins...
His popularity and tips were still showing a steady, gradual upward trend, but the problem lay in the betting pool.
Throughout the entire quest, Wen Nan would frequently wager a large amount of coins in his own livestream room, stubbornly sitting in the position of his own bookmaker. Yet, obviously, as the quests progressed, fewer and fewer viewers were betting on him to lose.
By the fourth main quest, the betting coins he received had plummeted to just a few hundred. In this fifth quest, for some unknown reason, there had been a slight recovery, but it still hadn't broken the threshold of 10,000 coins—not even in the same order of magnitude as those wildly profitable betting results of the past, where he easily raked in hundreds of thousands.
Why was that?
This current instance clearly had a system bug, and with such a difficult task, the viewers uniformly bought into the idea that he would win?
That made no sense...
As a rookie facing a buggy instance like this, frankly, even he himself didn't dare guarantee halfway through that he was guaranteed to win.
Where on earth did these viewers get such huge confidence?
Unfortunately, a streamer couldn't communicate or interact with the barrage comments; otherwise, Wen Nan really would have liked to have a good chat with this group of viewers to see what on earth they were thinking.
Just as he was thinking this, the prompt on the light screen shifted once again—
[The current instance "Taboo in the Office" has now completely ended.]
[Congratulations to all players! Successfully cleared!]
[Next, the instance experience point settlement will take place.]
[Please, all players, take your respective positions.]
Wen Nan raised an eyebrow slightly. Was it time for the crowd-pleasing stats-allocation segment again?
Clearly, once the clearance was confirmed, the pure-enjoyment session of leveling up and allocating points made everyone present excited and restless.
Just like the quest settlement, Huang Yan was once again the first player to receive his experience point results. As he stood eagerly at the settlement position, Wen Nan brought up the member information from the guild roster:
[Name: Huang Yan] [Level: Lv4]
[Strength: 66/1000]
[Agility: 506/1000]
[Armor: 78/1000]
[Charm: 3/1000]
Another agility-focused player.
Among all the members of the [Win-Win] Guild now, more than half had chosen to primarily invest in the agility attribute.
Initially, Wen Nan couldn't quite understand this...
If you're going to date, why run so fast? If it ends before it even begins, how are you supposed to enjoy the smooth, pleasant process in the middle?
On second thought, though, he realized his view was too narrow. There were plenty of people playing slice-of-life, map-clearing, and combat styles within a romance strategy game; one shouldn't question their point-allocation logic just because these players were "straying from the proper path."
As the guild master, he should embrace the diversity of his members.
Just as he was pondering this, he saw Huang Yan had already swiftly completed his attribute allocation—
Having hitched a ride throughout the entire quest, and with the romance targets' progress having been transferred to Wen Nan, the experience points Huang Yan received this time were a pathetic 100 points, which he dumped entirely into agility.
Yang Mingzhong, the second to enter the settlement, received an extra 100 experience points for finding the dildo, all of which he added to strength; Gu Jinxing and Hu Jiayao also received bonus contributions for key props, earning 200 experience points as well. Gu Jinxing continued to focus primarily on agility, followed by charm, while Hu Jiayao evenly split his 100 points between strength and armor. Guo Xiaofu, much like Huang Yan, only managed to secure the baseline 100 points, but for him, this score was already an extraordinary performance, and he happily dumped it all into agility.
In the final settlement, aside from Huang Yan, all the other members successfully leveled up.
Everyone was happy, and the entire settlement area radiated the joyful atmosphere of leveling up. Amidst this atmosphere, Wen Nan stepped onto the final settlement spot.
The entire refreshing area fell instantly silent, and everyone held their breath, gazing at the light screen above.
[Player Ye Jiu, the experience point settlement details for this instance are as follows:
Main Quest 1: Quest score 72 points (belonging to the 60-80 point bracket, target romance progress bonus weight *200%).
- Target "The fresh and dewy rookie junior sister" romance progress 80%, total experience points gained: 115 points.
- Target "The wolf-like and tiger-like young housewife next door" romance progress 92%, total experience points gained: 132 points.
- Target "The wayward girl who clings stubbornly after being rescued" romance progress 89%, total experience points gained: 128 points.
- Target "The wealthy older woman seeking a child for a fortune" romance progress 85%, total experience points gained: 122 points.
- Target "The extremely cold-on-the-outside yet soft-on-the-inside female CEO" romance progress 30%, total experience points gained: 43 points.
- The next-door younger sister you watched grow up romance progress 85%, total experience points gained: 122 points.
...]
Just the experience point settlement for the first main quest alone shocked everyone present.
The quests in this instance actually had bonus weight multipliers based on different score brackets?
Clearly, considering the special nature of soul puppets and soul threads, this instance had set the experience points for each individual romance target very high—after all, the system here would never have expected that even with the deliberate restrictions of soul puppets, some sucker would stubbornly insist on taking on all 6 conditions.
This resulted in Wen Nan, the man holding all the soul puppets on the map, directly securing a staggering 662 experience points in the first quest settlement!
The experience points from just the first quest alone were already higher than the total points of all the other members combined!
Even though Wen Nan scraped by on the passing line of 60 points for the subsequent main quests, they still comfortably fell into the doubled-bonus bracket, earning him several hundred experience points per quest.
Just as the members were feeling somewhat dizzy from those inflated experience points, the final main quest results popped up. Seeing that multiplier, everyone's jaws practically dropped straight from their chests to the ground—
[Main Quest 5: Quest score 100 points (belonging to the 80-100 point bracket, target romance progress bonus weight *1000%).
- Target "The fresh and dewy rookie junior sister" romance progress 99%, total experience points gained: 990 points.
- Target "The wolf-like and tiger-like young housewife next door" romance progress 99%, total experience points gained: 990 points.
- Target "The wayward girl who clings stubbornly after being rescued" romance progress 99%, total experience points gained: 990 points.
- Target "The wealthy older woman seeking a child for a fortune" romance progress 91%, total experience points gained: 910 points.
- Target "The extremely cold-on-the-outside yet soft-on-the-inside female CEO" romance progress 99%, total experience points gained: 990 points.
- The next-door younger sister you watched grow up romance progress 99%, total experience points gained: 990 points.
...]
A tenfold multiplier?!
Nearly a thousand experience points for every single target?!
This was simply... pure... numerical beauty!
Amidst the silence at the spawning point, the settlement panel continued to scroll downward—
[Side Quest "Dreamlike Date":
- Successfully triggered the side quest, gained experience points: 200 points.
- Successfully completed the side quest, gained experience points: 500 points.
Side Quest "Alluring Scenery in the Office":
- Successfully triggered the side quest, gained experience points: 200 points.
- Successfully completed the side quest, gained experience points: 500 points.
Total experience points accumulated in this trial: 9,972 points.
Please select the attributes you wish to upgrade in your attribute panel to complete the experience point settlement.]
Seeing this result, Wen Nan curled the corners of his lips in satisfaction.
Getting nearly 10,000 experience points from a beginner instance seemed... not too shabby?
Without much hesitation, he poured 9,000 of those points into his charm attribute, directly maxing it out to 10,000 points.
A golden light flashed around his body for one round, and immediately flashed for a second round.
Two levels up in a row!
What did this mean?
It meant he could obtain two additional talent skills!
Wen Nan rubbed his hands together excitedly and impatiently opened the skill panel in the system to look at his talent tree.
Soon, a brand new row of skill options lay spread out before him, waiting for his selection.