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Li Lengfeng's lips curled into a bleak smile. The employee in front of him immediately knew something terrible was about to happen, and he cried and begged for mercy, "President Li, please don't!"

However, his pleas couldn't move the heart of this man, as cold as stone. Two burly security guards appeared behind the employee at some unknown time, locking his arms behind him and dragging him out of the office, leaving only his cries fading into the distance. ඏ♦  ♦♦

Jiang Xiaoyu witnessed all of this, and unable to bear it, she turned her head to the side, shivering as she clutched the folder in her arms…"

噼里啪啦噼里啪啦……

Tian Dou sat in front of her computer, typing for a while, when she suddenly felt uneasy.

She minimized Word and switched to the author assistant page, then clicked on 'Manage Works'.

In the works column, there was only one novel titled 'Domineering CEO, Spare Me: I Don't Want to Go to Africa'.

On the cover, a man with a square face was looking through a crack in the door, a mysterious smile on his face.

15 Favorites!

Tian Dou showed a mournful expression and wailed, "Ahhh, one dropped off!"

She collapsed onto her chair, feeling depressed and losing the desire to continue writing.

Playing 'Tedious Life' before had given her a lot of inspiration, and the male lead's persona had become much more fleshed out.

She had saved up two months' worth of drafts, and originally thought that such a subversive and humorous domineering CEO would definitely create a sensation, but she didn't expect that after publishing for almost a week, she only had a meager 16 favorites.

No, now there were only 15.

So difficult!

Tian Dou couldn't help but deeply doubt her life. Was her writing really that bad? Was she even suitable to make a living writing?

In fact, she also knew that a web novel was measured in hundreds of thousands, or even millions of words. She was just starting out, and her book had only been published a little bit. It was only natural that no one was reading it, and it was normal for the results to be bad.

However, she had high expectations for this book, so from the moment she uploaded the novel, she developed a habit of constantly checking the number of favorites in the author's backend every few moments.

She would be overjoyed by an increase of one favorite, and feel melancholy over a decrease of one favorite.

Losing one favorite made her extremely upset.

She sighed. Anyway, she had drafts to fall back on. Since her condition wasn't good today, she would stop writing for now and do something else to change her mood.

Should she watch an episode of the popular TV series 'Celebrating the Harvest Year', or play 'Chinese Parents' for a while?

But she had already played 'Chinese Parents' up to the fourth generation, and it was starting to feel a bit boring.

Just then, a small window suddenly popped up from the game platform: "The Longyuan Interactive Entertainment you follow has released a new game!"

"Huh!"

Tian Dou blinked and clicked on the game platform.

This was just in time to help her make a decision.

The name of the game was 'A Dark Room'. The description read: 'A pure text-based adventure game. By growing your village and collecting materials, you can craft items needed for adventures, and then you can begin your adventure.'

"A pure text-based adventure game?"

Tian Dou was a little puzzled. What was a pure text-based game like? She really couldn't imagine it.

However, the game only cost 1 yuan, which was very cheap. Tian Dou bought it with a bit of curiosity.

She opened the game. The start screen was a dark void. An open door let out white light. A black figure leaned against the wall by the door. The shadow stretched across the ground. The screen was only black and white, very simple.

On the right side, there were buttons for 'Start Game', 'Continue Game', and 'Exit'.

Tian Dou clicked 'Start Game'. A few lines of text appeared on the left side of the screen.

You wake up in a dark room, your head throbbing faintly.

The room is pitch black.

The fire has gone out.

The cabin is cold.

"Huh?" Tian Dou exclaimed in surprise.

It really was a pure text-based game!

However, the simple few lines of text had already allowed her to imagine the scene.

A dilapidated cabin, late at night, the cabin was pitch black.

The protagonist sat up from the ground, clutching his still aching head, the cold ground making him think about his situation.

Maybe he had transmigrated? But that didn't matter. This cabin was too cold. He had to quickly make a fire to warm himself up.

Below the words 'A Dark Room', there was a 'Light Fire' button.

Tian Dou clicked it. A few new lines of text appeared in the text box on the left.

The fire is burning.

The light of the fire shines through the window into the vast darkness.

'A Dark Room' became 'A Warm Cabin', and the 'Light Fire' button also changed to 'Add Wood'. In the background of the button, a gray progress bar was slowly decreasing, as if the button was cooling down.

Tian Dou was pleasantly surprised: "This feels so interesting!"

The changes in the text allowed her to automatically create the scene in her mind.

Firewood was burning in the fireplace of the house. The fire was not only bright, but also brought warmth, and the gray progress bar seemed like the protagonist was adding branches to the fireplace, stirring with a wooden stick to make the fire burn even brighter.

Her originally cold body gradually regained consciousness as she enjoyed the warmth of the fire.

The cabin is cold.

Tian Dou murmured: "It seems the temperature is still not enough!"

The 'Light Fire' button had cooled down. She clicked it again.

The fire is burning brightly.

The fire is burning brightly.

Tian Dou couldn't help but think that the fire in the fireplace must be very strong now, even illuminating the entire cabin in an orange-red glow.

Clicking again brought new changes.

A ragged stranger stumbles in, falling into the corner of the wall.

The cabin is neither cold nor hot.

Tian Dou wondered: "Who is this stranger? Where am I?"

The cold wind howls outside.

The wood is running out.

The sky is gloomy, and the north wind is biting.

Along with these lines of text, the words 'Storage Room' appeared on the far right of the screen, with a surrounding horizontal line connecting to the text, making people involuntarily think of a closed storage room. Inside the border, 'Wood 4' was displayed.

Tian Dou frowned.

The wood was running out, and it was so cold outside, with a biting wind blowing. If she couldn't continue to add fire, the house that had finally warmed up would definitely get cold again.

But how to get wood?

At this time, she discovered that along with the 'Storage Room', there was another change.

Warm Cabin | Quiet Forest

A new location had appeared!

Tian Dou quickly clicked on 'Quiet Forest', and the actions below also switched, with a 'Collect Wood' button appearing.

Dry bushes and branches litter the forest floor.

Tian Dou collected wood, then returned to the wooden house, patiently adding fire.

Each time she added fire, it was one piece of wood at a time, and she had to wait a few seconds before continuing. She couldn't add a lot of wood at once and immediately make the fire burn brightly.

Although there were no graphics or music, Tian Dou was still having a great time playing.