Love Bitstream: Chapter 2 - I Didn’t Do it on Purpose
Chapter 2: I Didn’t Do it on Purpose
Chi Zhen quickly set down his water cup and immediately turned on his mic. “Brothers, what happened? I was only gone long enough to boil water—what’s going on here?”
The barrage exploded with “666” across the entire screen, the livestream overflowing with joyful chaos.
Ignoring the chat for the moment, Chi Zhen hurriedly switched back to the game interface and rapidly scrolled through the chat log.
NPC story dialogue and nearby chat messages were all displayed in the chat channel. No matter how long Chi Zhen had been away, as long as he scrolled upward, he could still see everything that had happened earlier.
That was why he had confidently gone to boil water in the first place.
Once Xiao Xiu and Da Shi slowly finished their story event, he could simply come back and check the chat log to catch up.
[Xiao Xiu: Brother Da Shi, the path of cultivation is long and difficult. Once you leave, who knows how many years it will be before you return to Guangling…]
[Da Shi: Xiao Xiu… I’ve wronged you…]
[Xiao Xiu: Everyone has their own aspirations. You wish to pursue the Heavenly Dao, and I do not resent you for it. I’ve heard that cultivators are different from mortals. To cultivators, mortals are probably like mayflies, born in the morning and dead by nightfall. When you return to Guangling someday… will you still be able to find me? In the endless river of time ahead, will you still remember this fleeting moment in Guangling City…?]
[Da Shi: ……]
[System] Player [Misty Autumn Rain] has ignited the “One Life, One World, One Pair” fireworks for player [Endless Time] on Mount Zhaoyao, announcing to all beings across the six realms that the blazing love of [Misty Autumn Rain] for [Endless Time] burns without end, their lingering affection unceasing. A beauty graceful and radiant, a noble gentleman refined like polished jade. Witnessed by heaven and earth, these true feelings are hereby confessed. Fellow immortals may travel to Mount Zhaoyao to witness Immortal Misty Autumn Rain’s deep affection.
[Xiao Xiu: I heard there is a tree on Mount Zhaoyao called the Migu Tree. Carrying one of its branches means one will never lose their way. Brother Da Shi, I’ll break off this branch of Migu wood for you. I hope that when you return to Guangling someday… you’ll still be able to find Xiao Xiu…]
[Nearby] Misty Autumn Rain: Endless Time, I, Misty Autumn Rain, dare to love and hate openly. Today, I want a clear answer from you. Will you become my cultivation partner or not?
[Nearby] Endless Time: No.
Mixed in between the NPC dialogue were the conversations between Misty Autumn Rain and Endless Time, along with the system announcement. Every player on the server could see that announcement, regardless of whether they were in world chat, friend chat, guild chat, or any other channel.
Because those fireworks cost one hundred thousand spirit stones in Quest for the Azure Heavens.
In the game, spirit stones were the in-game currency. Players could earn them through quests, selling materials, or working in large-scale raids. The official game itself did not sell spirit stones, but there were always whales buying them from other players through third-party trading platforms with real money. The market price was roughly one hundred yuan for ten thousand spirit stones.
One hundred thousand spirit stones was enough to bid for a max-level high-grade piece of equipment in a major raid.
Quest for the Azure Heavens was a subscription-based game that charged fifty cents per hour, making money through game cards and the cash shop. But the cash shop sold only cosmetics and mounts. Weapons and equipment had to be obtained in-game by the players themselves.
Cosmetics and mounts gave no stat bonuses whatsoever—they were purely for appearance.
Players who did not want to spend money on outfits could simply wear the free sect uniforms provided by the system. Players like Chi Zhen, who could not bear to spend several hundred yuan on a cosmetic outfit, had spent months running around in the plain sect uniform.
Whaling could not turn someone into a top player. Buying spirit stones only made the game more convenient, but it was never decisive. Players unwilling to spend money could still obtain the exact same gear through hard work and quests.
So the in-game economy of Quest for the Azure Heavens was actually very cheap.
To the players of Quest for the Azure Heavens, fireworks worth one hundred thousand spirit stones were already unimaginably extravagant.
Because it was only a limited-time special effect item!
Sure, it created a dazzling rain of flowers across the sky and an eye-blinding spectacle of lights, complete with a 360-degree three-dimensional heart effect—but so what?!
That was one hundred thousand spirit stones!
Just as the viewers in the stream were still marveling at Misty Autumn Rain’s wealth and straightforward confession, Chi Zhen suddenly shouted aloud: “The Migu Tree! Family, we’re rich!”
The Migu Tree!
Chi Zhen finally understood why the NPCs had come to Mount Zhaoyao!
Once the story sequence ended, standing among the cloud-like osmanthus trees was a black Migu Tree, now blooming with flowers all over its branches, radiating brilliant light.
Migu Flowers!
These were extremely rare cosmetic crafting materials!
Clothing dyed with Migu Flowers would emit a faint glow, making them highly coveted among appearance-focused players.
However, the main reason Migu Flowers were considered precious was because clothing dyed with them gained a special stat bonus.
+20 Spirit attribute.
The Spirit attribute increased ultimate skill critical hit rate and accuracy.
A single bottle of dye crafted from one Migu Flower could sell for fifty thousand spirit stones on the marketplace.
And more importantly—
Chi Zhen swept his eyes over the Migu Tree overflowing with blossoms. There had to be at least a dozen flowers on it!
He had no time to continue scrolling through the chat logs, nor any time to think about gossip.
Thoughts flashed rapidly through his mind. The game reset every morning at six. Logically speaking, every Spirit Cultivator from Eclipse Shadow Pool should have been able to complete this hidden quest. Even if triggering the hidden quest depended on luck, it made no sense that nobody had succeeded all day. A money-making quest like this would definitely already be on the forums if even one person had completed it today. Other classes should already have been camping Mount Zhaoyao, waiting to steal the flowers. So why was everything still so peaceful?
No time to think about that now!
At this exact moment, the Migu Flowers had already bloomed. Players rushing over to watch the drama were definitely on their way! Mount Zhaoyao was an open-world PvP map. Players could fight, kill, and steal materials from each other there! If he hesitated even one second longer, someone could swarm him, kill him, and leave him without a single flower!
At that moment, Chi Zhen’s hand speed reached its peak. He instantly opened his inventory and swallowed a speed potion. Then he used a dash skill, leapt onto the Migu Tree, and began frantically clicking his mouse to harvest the Migu Flowers.
[???]
[666]
[Brother, are you really this desperate for money? The biggest gossip explosion on the entire server is happening right in front of you, and instead of caring about the love-hate drama between the server’s number one beauty and number one expert, you’re harvesting flowers???]
[This is the professional self-discipline of a lifestyle player. Respect.]
[I swear lifestyle players are built different. The entire server could be exploding in bloodshed and they still wouldn’t care—as long as they can gather materials and make money.]
[That’s fifty thousand spirit stones, family! If I fly over to Mount Zhaoyao right now, is it still in time?!]
The chat window in the lower-left corner of the screen still displayed the conversation that would later spark a bloody storm across the server. When Chi Zhen watched the stream replay afterward, he felt he truly deserved death. Why had he happened to livestream all of it?!
The recording captured everything clearly.
Worried about interrupting the NPC dialogue, Chi Zhen had parked his character behind an osmanthus tree, so neither Misty Autumn Rain nor Endless Time noticed him at first.
Misty Autumn Rain wore an 886-yuan cash shop outfit. Golden patterns shimmered across her white dress, making her appear ethereal and fairy-like. Her flowing white hair cost 228 yuan, paired with a delicate 68-yuan makeup set. In her hand was a 328-yuan gauze fan, complete with glowing firefly particle effects drifting around her.
At a glance, she was obviously one of the game’s star players—the center of attention wherever she walked, the topic of guild discussions, the dream goddess of male players.
Compared to her, Endless Time standing opposite seemed rather low-key. He wore only the black sect uniform of the Cangming Sect, plain and proper.
In other words, the free outfit given by the game.
But no one would think Endless Time lacked style just because he wore a simple uniform. The reason was the blade on his back.
The Kunwu Blade. A mid-grade divine weapon.
At that moment, it rested on Endless Time’s back, radiating a cold and captivating glow—the unique special effect possessed only by divine weapons.
Equipment in Quest for the Azure Heavens was divided into five ranks: Magic Artifact, Treasure Artifact, Spirit Artifact, Immortal Artifact, and Divine Artifact.
Each rank was further divided into three sub-grades: low, mid, and high.
At present, only three divine weapons existed on the entire server, and Endless Time’s blade was the highest-ranked among them: mid-grade.
Before reaching max level, all equipment was merely Magic Artifacts. After hitting level seventy, players could challenge five-man dungeons, ten-man raids, thirty-man raids, and unrestricted sect secret realms. These dropped Treasure Artifacts, Spirit Artifacts, Immortal Artifacts, and higher-level gear respectively.
The best equipment normally obtainable from thirty-man raids was Immortal Artifact grade, which was already the highest tier most players could hope for. Only by triggering hidden mini-realms inside the thirty-man raid and defeating the secret boss was there an extremely tiny chance of obtaining a low-grade Divine Artifact.
All raid gear was auctioned to the highest bidder after the raid ended. A single divine weapon could easily sell for over a million spirit stones.
Once removed from the raid, the divine weapon became soulbound and untradeable.
Thus, obtaining a divine weapon required the perfect combination of timing, luck, money, and effort. A player needed to be rich, hardworking, and outrageously lucky.
And upgrading a low-grade divine weapon to mid-grade required not only endless spirit stones and materials, but also mountains of upgrade quests, each more difficult than the last.
With all those stacked buffs, even though Endless Time’s appearance was plain, carrying the Kunwu Blade alone made him the coolest existence in any crowd.
At that moment, dressed in black, Endless Time stood silently beneath the osmanthus trees. Compared to the ethereal Misty Autumn Rain, he appeared cold. Ruthless. Emotionless.
[Nearby] Misty Autumn Rain: Get on YY. I have something to say to you.
[Nearby] Endless Time: If it’s unrelated to the game, then there’s no need to continue.
不離，就怕你受傷了來不及奶你……
[Nearby] Misty Autumn Rain: Is your heart really that hard? I raid with you every day, do quests with you, follow behind you on the battlefield step by step, always afraid you’ll get hurt before I can heal you…
[Nearby] Misty Autumn Rain: Every day when I log in, the first thing I do is check the marketplace for materials you need to upgrade your weapon. I care more about your gear than my own. Xiao Yu even laughed at me for being stupid, worrying so much over someone else’s weapon…
[Nearby] Misty Autumn Rain: How is that unrelated to the game? In Quest for the Azure Heavens, everything is connected to the game. All the moments we spent together, the upgrade quests I accompanied you on, the gems I socketed for you—how can any of that be considered unrelated to the game?
[Nearby] Misty Autumn Rain: And all I ask for is to be your cultivation partner in-game. I promise I won’t interfere with your real life. Even that isn’t okay…?
[System] Player [Misty Autumn Rain] has ignited the “One Life, One World, One Pair” fireworks for player [Endless Time] on Mount Zhaoyao, announcing to all beings across the six realms that the blazing love of [Misty Autumn Rain] for [Endless Time] burns without end, their lingering affection unceasing. A beauty graceful and radiant, a noble gentleman refined like polished jade. Witnessed by heaven and earth, these true feelings are hereby confessed. Fellow immortals may travel to Mount Zhaoyao to witness Immortal Misty Autumn Rain’s deep affection.
At this point, Misty Autumn Rain threw out several more fireworks in rapid succession, and the system announcements flooded the screen continuously.
Watching this, Chi Zhen’s heart physically ached.
One hundred thousand. One hundred thousand. Another hundred thousand!
Yet despite the mountains of money exploding into dazzling lights across the sky, Endless Time remained unmoved, standing coldly within the rainbow glow of giant 3D hearts.
Then suddenly—he moved.
Chi Zhen quickly set down his water cup and immediately turned on his mic. “Brothers, what happened? I was only gone long enough to boil water—what’s going on here?”
The barrage exploded with “666” across the entire screen, the livestream overflowing with joyful chaos.
Ignoring the chat for the moment, Chi Zhen hurriedly switched back to the game interface and rapidly scrolled through the chat log.
NPC story dialogue and nearby chat messages were all displayed in the chat channel. No matter how long Chi Zhen had been away, as long as he scrolled upward, he could still see everything that had happened earlier.
That was why he had confidently gone to boil water in the first place.
Once Xiao Xiu and Da Shi slowly finished their story event, he could simply come back and check the chat log to catch up.
[Xiao Xiu: Brother Da Shi, the path of cultivation is long and difficult. Once you leave, who knows how many years it will be before you return to Guangling…]
[Da Shi: Xiao Xiu… I’ve wronged you…]
[Xiao Xiu: Everyone has their own aspirations. You wish to pursue the Heavenly Dao, and I do not resent you for it. I’ve heard that cultivators are different from mortals. To cultivators, mortals are probably like mayflies, born in the morning and dead by nightfall. When you return to Guangling someday… will you still be able to find me? In the endless river of time ahead, will you still remember this fleeting moment in Guangling City…?]
[Da Shi: ……]
[System] Player [Misty Autumn Rain] has ignited the “One Life, One World, One Pair” fireworks for player [Endless Time] on Mount Zhaoyao, announcing to all beings across the six realms that the blazing love of [Misty Autumn Rain] for [Endless Time] burns without end, their lingering affection unceasing. A beauty graceful and radiant, a noble gentleman refined like polished jade. Witnessed by heaven and earth, these true feelings are hereby confessed. Fellow immortals may travel to Mount Zhaoyao to witness Immortal Misty Autumn Rain’s deep affection.
[Xiao Xiu: I heard there is a tree on Mount Zhaoyao called the Migu Tree. Carrying one of its branches means one will never lose their way. Brother Da Shi, I’ll break off this branch of Migu wood for you. I hope that when you return to Guangling someday… you’ll still be able to find Xiao Xiu…]
[Nearby] Misty Autumn Rain: Endless Time, I, Misty Autumn Rain, dare to love and hate openly. Today, I want a clear answer from you. Will you become my cultivation partner or not?
[Nearby] Endless Time: No.
Mixed in between the NPC dialogue were the conversations between Misty Autumn Rain and Endless Time, along with the system announcement. Every player on the server could see that announcement, regardless of whether they were in world chat, friend chat, guild chat, or any other channel.
Because those fireworks cost one hundred thousand spirit stones in Quest for the Azure Heavens.
In the game, spirit stones were the in-game currency. Players could earn them through quests, selling materials, or working in large-scale raids. The official game itself did not sell spirit stones, but there were always whales buying them from other players through third-party trading platforms with real money. The market price was roughly one hundred yuan for ten thousand spirit stones.
One hundred thousand spirit stones was enough to bid for a max-level high-grade piece of equipment in a major raid.
Quest for the Azure Heavens was a subscription-based game that charged fifty cents per hour, making money through game cards and the cash shop. But the cash shop sold only cosmetics and mounts. Weapons and equipment had to be obtained in-game by the players themselves.
Cosmetics and mounts gave no stat bonuses whatsoever—they were purely for appearance.
Players who did not want to spend money on outfits could simply wear the free sect uniforms provided by the system. Players like Chi Zhen, who could not bear to spend several hundred yuan on a cosmetic outfit, had spent months running around in the plain sect uniform.
Whaling could not turn someone into a top player. Buying spirit stones only made the game more convenient, but it was never decisive. Players unwilling to spend money could still obtain the exact same gear through hard work and quests.
So the in-game economy of Quest for the Azure Heavens was actually very cheap.
To the players of Quest for the Azure Heavens, fireworks worth one hundred thousand spirit stones were already unimaginably extravagant.
Because it was only a limited-time special effect item!
Sure, it created a dazzling rain of flowers across the sky and an eye-blinding spectacle of lights, complete with a 360-degree three-dimensional heart effect—but so what?!
That was one hundred thousand spirit stones!
Just as the viewers in the stream were still marveling at Misty Autumn Rain’s wealth and straightforward confession, Chi Zhen suddenly shouted aloud: “The Migu Tree! Family, we’re rich!”
The Migu Tree!
Chi Zhen finally understood why the NPCs had come to Mount Zhaoyao!
Once the story sequence ended, standing among the cloud-like osmanthus trees was a black Migu Tree, now blooming with flowers all over its branches, radiating brilliant light.
Migu Flowers!
These were extremely rare cosmetic crafting materials!
Clothing dyed with Migu Flowers would emit a faint glow, making them highly coveted among appearance-focused players.
However, the main reason Migu Flowers were considered precious was because clothing dyed with them gained a special stat bonus.
+20 Spirit attribute.
The Spirit attribute increased ultimate skill critical hit rate and accuracy.
A single bottle of dye crafted from one Migu Flower could sell for fifty thousand spirit stones on the marketplace.
And more importantly—
Chi Zhen swept his eyes over the Migu Tree overflowing with blossoms. There had to be at least a dozen flowers on it!
He had no time to continue scrolling through the chat logs, nor any time to think about gossip.
Thoughts flashed rapidly through his mind. The game reset every morning at six. Logically speaking, every Spirit Cultivator from Eclipse Shadow Pool should have been able to complete this hidden quest. Even if triggering the hidden quest depended on luck, it made no sense that nobody had succeeded all day. A money-making quest like this would definitely already be on the forums if even one person had completed it today. Other classes should already have been camping Mount Zhaoyao, waiting to steal the flowers. So why was everything still so peaceful?
No time to think about that now!
At this exact moment, the Migu Flowers had already bloomed. Players rushing over to watch the drama were definitely on their way! Mount Zhaoyao was an open-world PvP map. Players could fight, kill, and steal materials from each other there! If he hesitated even one second longer, someone could swarm him, kill him, and leave him without a single flower!
At that moment, Chi Zhen’s hand speed reached its peak. He instantly opened his inventory and swallowed a speed potion. Then he used a dash skill, leapt onto the Migu Tree, and began frantically clicking his mouse to harvest the Migu Flowers.
[???]
[666]
[Brother, are you really this desperate for money? The biggest gossip explosion on the entire server is happening right in front of you, and instead of caring about the love-hate drama between the server’s number one beauty and number one expert, you’re harvesting flowers???]
[This is the professional self-discipline of a lifestyle player. Respect.]
[I swear lifestyle players are built different. The entire server could be exploding in bloodshed and they still wouldn’t care—as long as they can gather materials and make money.]
[That’s fifty thousand spirit stones, family! If I fly over to Mount Zhaoyao right now, is it still in time?!]
The chat window in the lower-left corner of the screen still displayed the conversation that would later spark a bloody storm across the server. When Chi Zhen watched the stream replay afterward, he felt he truly deserved death. Why had he happened to livestream all of it?!
The recording captured everything clearly.
Worried about interrupting the NPC dialogue, Chi Zhen had parked his character behind an osmanthus tree, so neither Misty Autumn Rain nor Endless Time noticed him at first.
Misty Autumn Rain wore an 886-yuan cash shop outfit. Golden patterns shimmered across her white dress, making her appear ethereal and fairy-like. Her flowing white hair cost 228 yuan, paired with a delicate 68-yuan makeup set. In her hand was a 328-yuan gauze fan, complete with glowing firefly particle effects drifting around her.
At a glance, she was obviously one of the game’s star players—the center of attention wherever she walked, the topic of guild discussions, the dream goddess of male players.
Compared to her, Endless Time standing opposite seemed rather low-key. He wore only the black sect uniform of the Cangming Sect, plain and proper.
In other words, the free outfit given by the game.
But no one would think Endless Time lacked style just because he wore a simple uniform. The reason was the blade on his back.
The Kunwu Blade. A mid-grade divine weapon.
At that moment, it rested on Endless Time’s back, radiating a cold and captivating glow—the unique special effect possessed only by divine weapons.
Equipment in Quest for the Azure Heavens was divided into five ranks: Magic Artifact, Treasure Artifact, Spirit Artifact, Immortal Artifact, and Divine Artifact.
Each rank was further divided into three sub-grades: low, mid, and high.
At present, only three divine weapons existed on the entire server, and Endless Time’s blade was the highest-ranked among them: mid-grade.
Before reaching max level, all equipment was merely Magic Artifacts. After hitting level seventy, players could challenge five-man dungeons, ten-man raids, thirty-man raids, and unrestricted sect secret realms. These dropped Treasure Artifacts, Spirit Artifacts, Immortal Artifacts, and higher-level gear respectively.
The best equipment normally obtainable from thirty-man raids was Immortal Artifact grade, which was already the highest tier most players could hope for. Only by triggering hidden mini-realms inside the thirty-man raid and defeating the secret boss was there an extremely tiny chance of obtaining a low-grade Divine Artifact.
All raid gear was auctioned to the highest bidder after the raid ended. A single divine weapon could easily sell for over a million spirit stones.
Once removed from the raid, the divine weapon became soulbound and untradeable.
Thus, obtaining a divine weapon required the perfect combination of timing, luck, money, and effort. A player needed to be rich, hardworking, and outrageously lucky.
And upgrading a low-grade divine weapon to mid-grade required not only endless spirit stones and materials, but also mountains of upgrade quests, each more difficult than the last.
With all those stacked buffs, even though Endless Time’s appearance was plain, carrying the Kunwu Blade alone made him the coolest existence in any crowd.
At that moment, dressed in black, Endless Time stood silently beneath the osmanthus trees. Compared to the ethereal Misty Autumn Rain, he appeared cold. Ruthless. Emotionless.
[Nearby] Misty Autumn Rain: Get on YY. I have something to say to you.
[Nearby] Endless Time: If it’s unrelated to the game, then there’s no need to continue.
不離，就怕你受傷了來不及奶你……
[Nearby] Misty Autumn Rain: Is your heart really that hard? I raid with you every day, do quests with you, follow behind you on the battlefield step by step, always afraid you’ll get hurt before I can heal you…
[Nearby] Misty Autumn Rain: Every day when I log in, the first thing I do is check the marketplace for materials you need to upgrade your weapon. I care more about your gear than my own. Xiao Yu even laughed at me for being stupid, worrying so much over someone else’s weapon…
[Nearby] Misty Autumn Rain: How is that unrelated to the game? In Quest for the Azure Heavens, everything is connected to the game. All the moments we spent together, the upgrade quests I accompanied you on, the gems I socketed for you—how can any of that be considered unrelated to the game?
[Nearby] Misty Autumn Rain: And all I ask for is to be your cultivation partner in-game. I promise I won’t interfere with your real life. Even that isn’t okay…?
[System] Player [Misty Autumn Rain] has ignited the “One Life, One World, One Pair” fireworks for player [Endless Time] on Mount Zhaoyao, announcing to all beings across the six realms that the blazing love of [Misty Autumn Rain] for [Endless Time] burns without end, their lingering affection unceasing. A beauty graceful and radiant, a noble gentleman refined like polished jade. Witnessed by heaven and earth, these true feelings are hereby confessed. Fellow immortals may travel to Mount Zhaoyao to witness Immortal Misty Autumn Rain’s deep affection.
At this point, Misty Autumn Rain threw out several more fireworks in rapid succession, and the system announcements flooded the screen continuously.
Watching this, Chi Zhen’s heart physically ached.
One hundred thousand. One hundred thousand. Another hundred thousand!
Yet despite the mountains of money exploding into dazzling lights across the sky, Endless Time remained unmoved, standing coldly within the rainbow glow of giant 3D hearts.
Then suddenly—he moved.
Misty Autumn Rain’s heart leapt.
[Nearby] Misty Autumn Rain: You…!
But Chi Zhen already knew what Endless Time was about to do. Of course he knew. He was watching the stream replay. The events had already happened.
And when reviewing the recording the next day, Chi Zhen still felt immense pain.
Really. He never expected that Endless Time—the number one player on the server, Endless Time carrying a divine weapon, Endless Time being confessed to by a girl who had spent hundreds of thousands of spirit stones—would suddenly pounce forward at the confession scene…
to steal Migu Flowers with him.
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