The game's heroine has come true? The aloof school beauty is in tears.

Lu Yuan left the internet cafe and returned home.

He's about to start playing games.

He's gotten a bit tired of playing PC games and wants something more exciting.

Have I unlocked the activation conditions?

"Unlocked".

"Let's get started, stop dawdling."

[Game Notice: This is the fourth and final simulation game.]

[Success Reward: Enter New Game Plus.]

"Wait, wait, wait, does the second playthrough mean I have to do the simulation all over again?"

"A good game will not use repetitive content to deliberately increase the player's playtime."

"Damn it, if you want to curse, just curse directly."

[Failure Penalty: The simulation game will be restarted.]

"What do you mean, you want me to play from the beginning, huh? Aren't you just trying to increase my game time?"

[Replaying the game will erase the player's memories, providing the best gaming experience.]

"roll!"

Lu Yuan shook his head, not taking the matter to heart.

Anyone who can't beat this game should just die.

It's nothing more than working and dating.

It's hard to say whether this is a slice-of-life dating game or not.

[Important note: Once activated, this feature cannot be exited. Please choose carefully.]

"Let's get started."

[Due to the high difficulty of this final level, the player's initial talent has been replaced with: Rewind.]

Players can use cheat codes to rewind time within the game.

[The game has officially started.]

Welcome to New Hope Mental Hospital, a renowned mental hospital so famous that people from other areas even associate it with the city itself.

Fortunately, you are a patient here, so you can freely visit this famous place.

[You know perfectly well that you are not mentally ill, that your behavior is no different from that of a normal person, and that you were sent here because of misunderstandings.]

Your statement was supported by other patients in the hospital, and everyone shared the same view.

So you asked them why they were admitted to the mental hospital.

After learning about the situation of the others, you took a half step back and held the iron gate in front of you.

[Because the mildest form of this condition involves putting one's underwear over one's head and attempting to glide to a landing on the 24th-floor rooftop.]

[This guy's latest plan is to do another underwear gliding test. He attributes his previous failure to not having big enough underwear, so he plans to gain weight to 300 pounds.]

You instinctively reached down, because you felt your underwear was a little small.

You feel out of place with everyone here.

Until you feel you've found a kindred spirit.

This is Monday, the second day after your hospitalization.

On a Monday afternoon, you look up at the ground beneath the ginkgo tree, where a thin girl is holding a flower.

A thin girl holding flowers stands under a big tree... This subconsciously reminds you of a classic character from one of the Four Great Classical Novels.

[Lu Zhishen.]

So you went over to her and asked: "Are you pulling up a tree?"

She glanced at you dismissively, then hugged the tree.

She was indeed pulling up trees.

You're all too familiar with that look in your eyes.

[Because you look at other mental patients with the same disdainful gaze.]

You feel you've found a kindred spirit.

In short, you inexplicably feel that she is different, and you should get closer to her.

You believe this is definitely not because she's pretty.

Even though you subconsciously glanced at her chest, it was a very full chest.

When you placed your hands on this tree, Lin Daiyu gave you a sickly smile.

You don't know what the smile is for.

That night, Monday, you died.

Your roommate, a mentally ill person who suddenly went berserk, bit off your neck.

[Should we choose to backtrack?]

You chose to go back in time.

The blackness before my eyes slowly rose like a curtain, and suddenly a rich patchwork of colors appeared.

It was a sunny afternoon, and the warm sunshine felt wonderful on my skin, just as comforting as the tranquil and peaceful scenery.

But only for now.

Because during dinner time, someone would come and bite Lu Yuan's neck.

Lu Yuan revealed an amused smile.

It's quite fun.

"Speaking of which, the mission objective this time isn't to turn me into a great mental patient, is it?"

[Objective 1 of this simulation: Escape the mental hospital forever.]

Why is it still mission objective 1?

[Objective 2 of this simulation mission: Survive.]

"Another bug in this game! How could a game with rewind functionality not survive?"