Chapter 7: Chapter Seven: Did the Design Team Spy on My Browser History?!

“Design team, I suggest you change the game’s name from Genshin to ‘Money Grab’—it’s more accurate!”

Watching the download progress bar, Tanghao’s mother immediately lost interest and couldn’t help but start complaining.

The game was already in internal testing, yet the official website still hadn’t been built.

In the entire Xia Nation’s gaming circle, this wasn’t unheard of, but it was rare enough to count on one hand.

Game companies that couldn’t even be bothered to build an official website.

Definitely not a legitimate company.

According to Tanghao’s guess, this was surely a tiny workshop with no more than five employees.

The reason they refused to build a website was simple.

On one hand, to save on upfront costs.

On the other, they had no real faith in their game—just wanted to make a quick buck and vanish.

Regardless of which reason you considered.

The game currently downloading, Genshin, had already begun to disappoint this gaming blogger.

He’d burned the midnight oil all night.

He didn’t want to waste any more energy on a garbage game.

Thinking of this, Tanghao’s mother had completely lost the urge to try it; he casually picked up his mouse, ready to close the download window.

But when the cursor moved to the top-right corner, a look of confusion suddenly crossed his face.

His hand froze mid-motion.

Thirteen percent downloaded?

If he remembered correctly, at least ten minutes had passed since he started the download.

Why was it only thirteen percent?!

Last night he hadn’t visited any suspicious websites.

Logically speaking,

There shouldn’t be any slow network issue!

Moreover,

The previous games he’d downloaded had all loaded at normal speeds.

After frowning in thought for a moment,

Tanghao’s mother suddenly realized.

This wasn’t a network speed problem—it was because the game’s content was huge.

If that were truly the case,

Then this game called Genshin didn’t seem like a typical quick-money scam.

“Damn! I want to see what kind of game this really is!”

Tanghao felt he must be insane—unexplainably fixated on a 2D anime game.

He was now completely wide awake.

Moments later,

He got up to wash his face, then boiled a pot of hot water. After finishing, he returned to check—the game still hadn’t finished downloading.

So,

He went downstairs to his favorite breakfast shop and had a proper meal.

Before returning to his room, Tanghao brewed a cup of black coffee, determined to see this Genshin game through to the end.

Fortunately, the game finally finished downloading.

He took a large gulp of coffee to wake himself up, entered the internal test invite code, and waited quietly as the game loaded.

“Nothing special here!”

As the game loaded, Tanghao’s mother silently gave it a mediocre evaluation in his mind.

Aside from the door that briefly opened, he hadn’t noticed any major highlights.

After a brief loading period, the game began its main sequence.

At the same time,

Tanghao’s mother sat up straighter, gripping his mouse.

Ready, as he had with previous games,

To carefully read the sect (class) descriptions and then create a character.

However,

The next second, he was completely stunned.

???

What the hell!

Where the hell was the character creation interface?

Countless question marks involuntarily popped up above Tanghao’s mother’s head.

While he was still bewildered, Genshin’s opening animation had already begun.

“A bit surprising—this actually seems promising!”

After the animation started, Tanghao’s mother’s opinion of Genshin subtly shifted.

This opening style made him involuntarily feel dazzled.

As a professional gaming blogger, since entering this field, whether Xia Nation or overseas games,

He’d tried thousands—certainly not ten thousand, but at least several thousand.

A game opening this impressive was, honestly, extremely rare.

The opening animation wasn’t long.

It ended quickly.

At this point, Tanghao’s mother already felt a surge of excitement.

The quality of the opening animation and the three character models were undeniably top-tier.

One thing he now dared to conclude:

This game was absolutely not something a quick-money workshop could produce.

After the opening animation ended, the game entered the character selection phase (actually, character selection occurred during the opening animation—here slightly adjusted).

For an LSP—no, a professional gaming blogger—this wasn’t even a choice.

Tanghao’s mother unhesitatingly chose Xiao as his starting character.

The reason was simple:

That little brat’s look directly and mercilessly hit his XP!

Although Xiao’s model wasn’t based on a Xia Nation appearance, did that matter?

That golden short hair, eyes sparkling like stars, skirt fluttering in the wind, white thigh-high stockings, and the perfectly placed soul leg band—

To a man, all of it was a magic critical hit!

Even before the game officially began, just the opening animation and Xiao’s model had already earned a very high score from Tanghao’s mother.

Soon, the game officially started.

And when Paimon appeared, Tanghao’s mother was struck by his XP again.

Seriously,

If he hadn’t played this game, he never would’ve realized he had such a strange preference.

So cute!

Almost melted!

As a professional gaming blogger with years of experience, no game had ever hit his XP twice in just a few minutes.

Tanghao’s mother was utterly stunned.

At this moment, he couldn’t help but suspect that Genshin’s design team had hacked into his hard drive.

Or secretly checked his browser history…

Otherwise,

There was no way they could so precisely target his weird preferences!

No!

This wasn’t just precise targeting!

This game’s design team was deeply mining players’ XP.

He himself was a living example.

After all,

Before trying this game, he’d always believed he had little interest in kawaii styles.

But now, that belief seemed to have changed…

Thinking of this, Tanghao’s mother was thrilled—he couldn’t wait to keep going.

To see what other surprises this game had in store for him…