Chapter 463: Change Back and I’ll Make You a Game
Thanks to Little Snow’s sudden interruption, Bai Feng didn’t want to stay in bed anymore either.
He simply climbed out of bed and headed to the study, where he saw Little Jiu—aka Shui Miao Miao—laying on a cushion, engrossed in her game.
“Didn’t you stay up all night playing again?” Bai Feng leaned over to take a look.
He then realized it was a strange new game he’d never seen before. The creator of this game seemed to be a hardcore *jianghu* (martial arts world) fan, who had tweaked and optimized the *jianghu* setting to make a standalone *jianghu*-style game. Honestly, it looked pretty fun.
“Hmm…” Little Jiu nodded simply. After she whittled down the boss’s last bit of health, her face instantly turned bored, and she tossed the Image Retainer aside.
“Playing games is boring. Why don’t you cultivate instead? Have you paid off your debts?” Bai Feng teased.
“Who do you think is to blame for this?!” Little Jiu suddenly looked like she’d blown her top, pouncing on Bai Feng.
“Come on, make me a new game already. It’s all your fault I can’t enjoy other games now!” she howled.
Bai Feng reached out and caught her, giving her tail a quick stroke.
“Then put down the game for a while. Use this time to cultivate. Maybe you’ll want to play again someday!”
“I don’t care! It’s all because of you I look like this. You gotta take responsibility!” Little Jiu declared passionately.
“…Sounds like I’ve done something weird to you,” Bai Feng muttered, pinching her adorable little face.
Could she also have snuck a peek at Shui Miao Miao’s secret stash?
Suddenly, in a poof, Little Jiu transformed into human form.
She lunged into Bai Feng’s embrace, begging, “Please, I really can’t live without the game you made! Just make one more for me to play!”
Bai Feng: …
Ever since Little Jiu bumped herself to human form and begged him last time, she seemed to have lost her bottom line. Once she did it once, she did it again. If he recalled correctly, this was now her third time using her transformation to plead.
As for why she did it the second time… she had cleared a game and stared at the accumulation of her cultivation hours, then transformed into human form and begged him all day long. He didn’t agree that time, of course.
“Your resolve not to use human form before?”
Though he was teasing, he still reached out to ruffle her hair and soft ears. Maybe it was psychological, but he felt that human-form ears felt even more fantastic to the touch.
“Hmm… Well, um, you know, don’t pinch my ears while I’m talking!”
Little Jiu quickly shielded her ears with her little hands, but made no move to hide them.
“Then let me touch your tail,” Bai Feng offered.
“…Then you’d better just touch my ears instead,” she replied.
Watching her tilt her head closer again, Bai Feng couldn’t help but complain inwardly—how long has it been? Why are you still jealous of your own tail!
“I think you should just change back.”
Though Little Jiu looked silly, she was still a genuine Nine-Tailed Fox. Her fox form was fine most of the time, but in her transformed state, seeing her cheeks flush red while being patted and her strange muffled groans—it was a little… disturbing.
“Why?” Little Jiu suddenly lifted her head. “I—I’ve agonized over this for a long time, summoned all my courage to use my transformed form!”
“Can’t tell at all,” Bai Feng said bluntly. Just moments ago she seemed so straightforward when whining in her fox form.
“Ugh!! You really are… such a tease,” she was initially furious. But then she noticed Bai Feng’s shifting gaze, and her anger disappeared instantly, replaced by a slight smirk.
“Huh? Could it be that the youngest peak master of Heavenly Sword Sect, the young genius array talent who became a formation master at such a young age, has fallen for me?” she said with a sly smile. “I suppose I can understand it now—after all, I am a noble Nine-Tailed Fox~”
“…You’re asking for a beating,” Bai Feng warned.
“Eh? Did my words hit the mark and make you angry?” she teased.
Bai Feng glanced at the arrogant Little Jiu. She often got conceited over certain things, but back then, she was still in fox form, which made her kind of cute. But now, in her transformed state, her red-faced cheeks and the strange muffled sounds she made while being patted… actually made him feel a little…
He reached out, resting his hand on Little Jiu’s face, and gently squeezed her cheeks.
“Ugh… Let go, or I’ll—”
Before she finished her protest, Bai Feng’s hand moved to her ears, shimmering with a faint layer of spiritual power.
“Wait, wait! That’s not okay! No… I was wrong! Don’t—”
A few minutes later…
Little Jiu, lost in her dazed state, was lying on Bai Feng’s lap, panting softly. Bai Feng was taking the opportunity to stroke her tail.
“You, you…” Little Jiu, just regaining a bit of strength, wanted to say something, but when she saw Bai Feng’s gaze, her ears twitched violently as if electrocuted. She hurriedly looked away and lowered her head.
“All right, just change back to a fox,” Bai Feng said.
Little Jiu turned her head aside. Though she wasn’t Bai Feng’s match, she still had dignity—especially after that over-the-top stuff she just endured. No way was she going back to being a fox now!
“If you change back, I’ll make you a game,” Bai Feng promised.
Almost immediately, he saw Little Jiu—still lying on his lap—transform back into her fox form.
“Really?”
She immediately lifted her head, her body still a bit weak, but she struggled to stand up anyway.
Bai Feng was a little exhausted but nodded confidently. He’d never lie to Little Jiu about this.
“Really. This time, it’s not a big game like before. It’s a smaller one, but I think it’ll be pretty fun. Plus, I can whip it up quickly—enough for you to play for a good while.”
“Even a small game is fine!”
Little Jiu didn’t mind at all. Honestly, as long as Bai Feng was willing to make the game, that was enough. From her own experience, Bai Feng understood game design much better than most other creators—no wonder her interest in other games was completely shattered after just one of his games.
From now on, she wouldn’t have to daydream over games every day without wanting to play!
“Go ahead and cultivate. Once the game is ready, I’ll tell you.”
“Okay!!” Little Jiu obediently nodded and then hurriedly ran over to her cushion to start cultivating.
Bai Feng shook his head helplessly. Little Jiu only gets so motivated when she’s playing games.
As for the game plan, he already had an idea. He planned to bring over the *Suo Guo* survivor game, tweak it a bit—simple, fun, and quick to develop. With his current skills, he could finish it in just a few days, enough for Little Jiu to have a good time.
And even if she got bored, he could keep tweaking characters, weapons, and maps, stalling her for a while longer.
Only thing to change was the cultivation system—since *Suo Guo* survivor was a hack-and-slash game that was easy to die at the beginning, but after unlocking most weapons in the mid-game, death became less frequent. So he planned to switch to a stage-based cultivation system—after accumulating a few hours of cultivation, she could start a new round.
He was determined to make Little Jiu work hard on her cultivation this time.
