Tang Rou/History

History
Tang Rou is the daughter and heiress of the wealthy Tang family.undefined Her father runs Tang Corporation Limited, an international conglomerate with 14,000 employees. She went overseas to study music in a famous music school but grew tired of it and returned to China. Her father asked her what she wanted to do. Tang Rou replied that she didn't know. Next, her father gave her a lot of freedom, wanting the best for her. In her travels, Tang Rou stumbled into Happy Internet Cafe and decided to work there. She told this to her father and he agreed, letting her do whatever she wanted as long as she grew up happy and healthy. When her father learned she was going pro, he tried to play Glory, and ended up becoming a fan of Ye Xiu.undefined

Volume 1: Banished Battle God
When Tang Rou returns from her vacation, Chen Guo informs her on Ye Xiu. Chen Guo wants Tang Rou to duel Ye Xiu in Glory. Tang Rou has the hand speed to beat the Heavenly Domain Challenge for Chen Guo and to destroy normal players in the Arena. That is why Tang Rou claimed Glory was "easy." Tang Rou waits until Ye Xiu got his sleep since he was on the night shift.

In the afternoon, Chen Guo introduces Tang Rou to Ye Xiu. Tang Rou decides to use Chen Guo's level 70 Chasing Haze account while Ye Xiu chooses his level 21 Lord Grim account. They agree to play in Fixed Field, where the system equalizes all the stats and does not count wins or losses. Tang Rou agrees with Ye Xiu to bet 100 Yuan on the duel in the Arena. In the smallest map of the Arena, she notices Ye Xiu's weird umbrella weapon. In an early exchange, Ye Xiu overwhelms Tang Rou with a chain of Blade Master, Battle Mage, and Sharpshooter skills. She realizes that she was a level slower than Ye Xiu.

Tang Rou falls for Ye Xiu's Ninja skill, Shadow Clone Technique. Caught off guard, Chasing Haze suffers from the Assassin skill, Cut Throat. Tang Rou concentrates harder, but Ye Xiu attacks quickly with a chain of Collapsing Mountain, BBQ, Summoned Pet, and Eagle Stamp. Ye Xiu retreats with Aerial Fire before telling Tang Rou that she does not know how to play. After she loses 100 yuan in the last duel, Tang Rou refuses to surrender and tells Ye Xiu to play seriously. Ye Xiu destroys her mercilessly in ten straight rounds, and Tang Rou loses a total of 1000 yuan. She wants to continue dueling, but she runs out of cash.

Ye Xiu playfully mocks Tang Rou for running out of money. He advises her to learn Glory for herself and to understand the gap between her skill level and Ye Xiu's skill level. When Tang Rou decides to make an account for Glory, she wants to compete with Ye Xiu as an Unspecialized character. Chen Guo convinces her not to play Unspecialized because the game capped Unspecialized characters at level 50 due to the class awakening quest requirement to continue leveling. Unspecialized characters could only continue leveling in Heavenly Domain. Tang Rou also lacks a silver weapon like Myriad Manifestation Umbrella, which makes the Unspecialized character viable.

Tang Rou chooses to play as a Battle Mage, and Chen Guo shows her a massive collection of Ye Qiu's old guides and videos (written by Ye Xiu under his former name as a gamer). Ye Xiu tells Tang Rou that he would teach her the Battle Mage class and fix up Chen Guo's outdated guides. Tang Rou has excellent control of her temper after losing 1100 yuan to Ye Xiu in Glory, which surprises Chen Guo. Tang Rou starts playing Glory while Ye Xiu polishes the Battle Mage guides for her. When he asks Tang Rou about her fast hand speed, she replies that she was born that way. On the 10th Server, Tang Rou creates her account and names her Battle Mage, Soft Mist.

Tang Rou stays up all night to build Soft Mist to level 16, which angers Chen Guo. Without making customer accounts for herself and Ye Xiu, Tang Rou works her morning shift. Tang Rou receives advice from Ye Xiu to get enough sleep, which affects physical strength and ability to play.

During the Internet cafe's blackout, Tang Rou persuades the electrician to stay and to fix the difficult electrical problem when the man wanted to fix the problem in the next day. Tang Rou and Ye Xiu help the electrician fix the electrical problem. Once the electricity works, Tang Rou starts leveling with Soft Mist, and Ye Xiu works the front desk. When the drunk Chen Yehui, Liu Hao, Wang Ze, and Feng Rengran enter the Internet cafe, Liu Hao tries to get Tang Rou's attention, but she does not recognize any of the Excellent Era professional players (Liu Hao, Wang Ze, and Feng Rengran).

Tang Rou overhears Liu Hao's mocking conversation with Ye Xiu. She laughs at Ye Xiu's witty remarks, which angered Liu Hao. She hears Ye Xiu criticize the Excellent Era players for their poor performance in the 301 Degrees match. After Ye Xiu kicks out his four drunk colleagues, Tang Rou learns about how famous the three pro players are. Once Tang Rou's Soft Mist reaches level 20, Ye Xiu invites her to meet at Frost Forest.

When Tang Rou arrives outside the dungeon, Frost Forest, she meets Sleeping Moon, Seven Fields, Steamed Bun Invasion, and Ye Xiu's Lord Grim. Steamed Bun Invasion tries to flirt with Tang Rou, and she acts respectful paying no attention to his words. Tang Rou laughs when she uses the voice chat feature for the first time. Inside the Frost Forest dungeon, Tang Rou follows Ye Xiu as he uses Lord Grim to teach her the monsters and how to pull monsters. She learns quickly and starts to fight on her own.

In the 35-minute dungeon run, Tang Rou learns about every boss's characteristics from Ye Xiu. She claims Frost Forest was easy, so Ye Xiu challenges her to solo clear the dungeon. She accepts the challenge and leaves, which shocks Sleeping Moon and Seven Fields. While Ye Xiu watches, Tang Rou travels through the dungeon quickly. She grows proficient in using level 20 and below Battle Mage skills. She exhausts Soft Mist's mana and used mana potions. Tang Rou empties her character's mana in ten seconds' worth of skills, which leaves Soft Mist vulnerable to monster attacks. She starts using health potions to heal her character. Ye Xiu laughs at her struggle with mana and health potions, which annoys Tang Rou. Ye Xiu offers to show her the most efficient method of soloing Frost Forest.

Tang Rou rejects his offer. Ye Xiu leaves her alone to train. Tang Rou struggles to defeat the final Boss Frost Thain with her horrible management of mana. She refills Soft Mist's mana, which is exhausted in ten seconds and requires a minute to refill to max mana with fifty seconds of attacking without Battle Mage skills. Tang Rou manages to solo the dungeon in 1 hour, 33 minutes, 24 seconds, and 49 milliseconds. Afterward, Ye Xiu uses Tang Rou's Soft Mist to show her the "endurance limit" or the quickest and most efficient way to clear the Frost Forest. Tang Rou learns the precise planning and accounting to manage mana consumption, to kill monsters efficiently, and to maximize damage from skills. Ye Xiu completes the dungeon in 1 hour, 12 minutes, 21 seconds, and 32 milliseconds. Tang Rou notices his level of damage output was comparable to her without completely depending on Battle Mage skills to fight. She knows that Ye Xiu slowly cleared the dungeon to teach her. She guesses that he requires less than an hour to solo clear Frost Forest. She accepts Ye Xiu's Lord Grim account to practice the clearing Frost Forest. Tang Rou improves quickly with Ye Xiu's advice.undefined

While Tang Rou uses Lord Grim to practice in the Frost Forest, she unknowingly exchanges messages with Su Mucheng, who created her character, Cleansing Mist. Tang Rou reluctantly allows Ye Xiu to level her account while she sleeps, so she can join him later to set a new record clear time for Frost Forest. Tang Rou's Soft Mist temporarily joins the guild, Tyrannical Ambition, for the record clear attempt. She joins Ye Xiu's Lord Grim, Steamed Bun Invasion, Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist, and Crowd Lover to attempt the record time clear of Frost Forest for the guild, Tyrannical Ambition. They used One Wave Push, a genuine professional player tactic. Cleansing Mist pulls aggro of monsters while Lord Grim, Steamed Bun Invasion, and Soft Mist fights the pulled monsters with Crowd Lover uses AoE attacks to output damage. While Tang Rou pulls monsters, she worries that the team pulled more monsters than in the practice sessions. Su Mucheng explained to Tang Rou that their damage is higher with Level 25 weapons. Tang Rou is frustrated that she pulled 10 goblins compared to Ye Xiu's 16 goblins, which shows the gap of skill between them.

Tang Rou's Soft Mist fought aggressively against the final boss, Frost Thain. The team cleared Frost Forest in record breaking time of 13 minutes, 5 seconds, and 47 milliseconds for Tyrannical Ambition. She is satisfied with her performance. Tang Rou asks Ye Xiu if their record was the limit, and he tells her that their class composition was not ideal for Frost Forest. An ideal class composition has the potential to reach the fastest time or the limit. She and Ye Xiu silently level in a leveling area when they see an announcement of Excellent Dynasty breaking their Frost Forest record with a time of 12 minutes, 55 seconds, 42 milliseconds.

Tang Rou unknowingly met Liu Hao's Hateful Sword when he joined her and Ye Xiu in a leveling party. She stayed up all night leveling Soft Mist with Ye Xiu's Lord Grim. After Hateful Sword left due to sleepiness, Tang Rou, Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng, Seven Fields, and Sleeping Moon met up to attempt to break the Boneyard dungeon's record clear time of 25 minutes, 14 seconds, and 32 milliseconds. The record clear attempt ends when the party meets the Hidden Boss, Vampire Knight Logue, which requires a lot of time to kill. When Tang Rou ignores Ye Xiu's order to wait, she recklessly initiates against the boss. She suffers from the boss's defensive ability to transform into a swarm bats to attack her.

Tang Rou's lack of experience hindered her ability to consistently fight against Vampire Knight Logue. Ye Xiu's Lord Grim and Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist carried on the responsibility of fighting the boss. The two coordinated a great technique to launch the boss away when the boss transformed into a bat swarm, which reduced its effectiveness at recovering its health equal to the boss's inflicted damage upon the bitten player.

Tang Rou, Ye Xiu, and Su Mucheng kill Vampire Knight Logue while Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon watch. When the other four renounce the dropped items, Tang Rou forces the team to roll for the loot. She did not feel it was right for her to pick up the items so easily. In the second and third Boneyard dungeon run, Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon made a few mistakes, which made the team's overall clear times barely miss the record. In the final attempt (daily limit of four runs), Tang Rou and her teammates clear Boneyard in record time, 23 minutes, 54 seconds, and 71 milliseconds.

For breaking the Boneyard record, the game has a 100% chance reward rate for a Purple equipment to the party. Tang Rou receives the Level 25 Leather Armor because only Soft Mist, a Battle Mage, is proficient with Leather Armor. Lord Grim, Soft Mist, Cleansing Mist, Seven Fields, and Sleeping Moon go to run the Frost Forest dungeon to get experience. After four rounds, Su Mucheng and Lord Grim leave. Tang Rou asks Ye Xiu why he left and learns that he is studying to set an unbeatable record clear time for Boneyard.

Again, Tang Rou and Ye Xiu stay up all night to level. At midnight, Tang Rou joins Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng, Steamed Bun Invasion, and Hateful Sword, to attempt a new strategy to clear Boneyard. Ye Xiu showed his teammates the new strategy to clear Boneyard. Under the guidance of Ye Xiu, Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion go to Skeleton Graveyard, which has similar monsters to Boneyard, to learn the strategy since they lacked experience.

In the record attempt of Boneyard, Tang Rou, Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng, Steamed Bun Invasion, and Hateful Sword work for Blue Brook Guild. With a few errors, the team breaks the record clear with a time of 17 minutes, 22 seconds, and 17 milliseconds. Tang Rou wants to reach the record clear time limit, which Ye Xiu rejects, and the five players run Boneyard three more times to level.

The next day, Tang Rou learns of Excellent Era's loss to Blue Rain, which does not affect her, because she does not care about the professional teams. She learns from Ye Xiu that they will break the Boneyard record tonight, which surprises her. Tang Rou and Ye Xiu learn that Excellent Dynasty claimed the record with a time of 16 minutes, 56 seconds, and 78 milliseconds. She worries that they cannot beat the significant gap in time with the new record, and Ye Xiu assures her that they can. She notices a suspicious person outside the Internet cafe, who flees, when she walks to the entrance. Ye Xiu tells her to ignore the person and log on to get Steamed Bun Invasion.undefined

Volume 2: Beginnings of the Myriad Manifestation Umbrella
At midnight, Tang Rou, Su Mucheng, Steamed Bun Invasion, and Ye Xiu welcome the Level 27 Blade Master, Flowing Tree, who was Huang Shaotian (only Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng know Shaotian), to Blue Brook Guild for a trial run. Tang Rou notices that the new, chatty teammate has amazing mechanical skill with smooth, quick, and accurate attacks. She realizes that Ye Xiu changes the former strategy to trap the boss, Zombie Bailey, in a crack. Ye Xiu explains to everyone that Liu Hao is Hateful Sword, a spy for Excellent Dynasty. In the actual clear attempt, Tang Rou dislikes Shaotian's constant chatter and Steamed Bun Invasion's singing yet recognizes the team's flawless progress. The team breaks the Excellent Dynasty record with a time of 16 minutes, 24 seconds, and 67 milliseconds. Blue Brook Guild holds the new record time, an improvement of 32 seconds.

After getting the record clear time and finishing the dungeon runs for the day, Tang Rou goes to complete quests for attributes and skill points. Tang Rou joins Ye Xiu, Steamed Bun Invasion, Seven Fields, and Sleeping Moon to level. She defends herself against the Witch, Plantago Seed, who randomly started attacking with Magic Missiles. Soft Mist suffers from a Disperse Powder attack from Plantago Seed. The Witch outclasses Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion before Ye Xiu changes the flow of battle with Collapsing Mountain, Shadow Clone Technique, Eagle Stamp, and Guard.

Tang Rou watches as Ye Xiu suppresses Plantago Seed, who runs away. She and her teammates learn from Ye Xiu that they probably fought against Wang Jiexi, who controlled the character, Plantago Seed, and not the Herb Garden guild leader. As a new player, Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion do not understand the gravity of the situation, where she fought against Wang Jiexi, the Magician.

One day later, Qiao Yifan's Ashen Moon attacks Ye Xiu's Lord Grim, so Tang Rou, Steamed Bun Invasion, Seven Fields, and Sleeping Moon help Ye Xiu suppress Ashen Moon. Tang Rou felt disappointed when she with three others failed to kill Ashen Moon compared to Ye Xiu killing Cloudy Heavens. When the team engages the four attackers, Tang Rou uses Ice Chasers to slow the Ghostblade, White Night Black Day, and Ye Xiu traps the enemy in the formation. Tang Rou, Steamed Bun Invasion, Seven Fields, and Sleeping Moon surround and suppress White Night Black Day, Weeping Crow, Fallen Angel, and Ashen Moon. With Ye Xiu's direction, Tang Rou and the team easily kill the four enemies.

Tang Rou watches from Ye Xiu controlling Soft Mist in a Battle Mage duel against Xiao Yun's Cloudy Heavens. She learns to mix in basic attacks between skills in order to switch up tempo. She learns about the strategic use of skills of the player and the opponent. She watches Ye Xiu suppress Xiao Yun. Ye Xiu sets Tang Rou as the prerequisite duelist to defeat before dueling him, which also functions as precious training against pro players. Tang Rou's Soft Mist fights Liu Xiaobie's Slash Slash Draw. She loses in 43 seconds. Tang Rou duels Liang Fang's Berserker, Blood Frenzy, and she loses quickly. Tang Rou duels the members of Tiny Herb and loses quickly. Tang Rou loses to Wang Jiexi in a duel. Afterward, she watches the duel between Ye Xiu and Wang Jiexi. Tang Rou sees the Jiexi's Magician style for the first time and knows that she would have lost the duel faster against Jiexi's Magician. She sees Ye Xiu and Jiexi's duel ends in a draw.

The next day, Tang Rou duels against the whole team of Tiny Herb. Liu Fei challenges Tang Rou for a couple duels to pass the time. Tang Rou loses in 1 minute and 47 seconds, an improvement of 20 more seconds. She attempts to integrate Ye Xiu's advice and theory into her play to make fewer mistakes. She loses 2 more duels against Liu Fei. Wang Jiexi compliments Tang Rou and asks for a duel. Tang Rou's Soft Mist duels against Wang Jiexi's Fiery Blaze. She fights against his Magician style and loses the duel in 27 seconds, a time predicted by Ye Xiu. Tang Rou rejects Jiexi's invitation for a trial at Tiny Herb to become a professional player in the Pro Alliance. When Jiexi leaves, Tang Rou duels against Qiao Yifan. She loses in almost three minutes, which is her best survival time against the Tiny Herb players.

Later, Tang Rou asks Ye Xiu if the Pro Alliance is fun, which he asks if Glory is fun for her. Tang Rou learns from Ye Xiu that her personality and her love of challenges is perfect for the Pro Alliance. She doubts Ye Xiu's reason for taking a break from the pro scene. Tang Rou and Ye Xiu dungeon together like usual through the early morning. Tang Rou fights a few duels with Wang Jiexi and turns down his offer to trial for Tiny Herb. She learns that Ye Xiu is fairly old and only has a few years left at the pro level. Tang Rou learns from Jiexi that she lacks the experience to reach the pro level. After the Tiny Herb players leave, Tang Rou jokes with Ye Xiu about his tiredness from ten consecutive duels. Besides duels with Tiny Herb players, Tang Rou duels and loses horribly to Ye Xiu. Tang Rou duels and wins inconsistently to Bao Rongxing, who plays intuitively.

Tang Rou joins Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng, and Steamed Bun Invasion to help Maple Tree, the guild leader for Full Moon Guild, to set the record clear for Desolate Lands. In the first practice run, Tang Rou holds aggro to control the monster mobs with Ye Xiu's aggressive tactics. The team complete the practice run in an hour. The second run to break the record fails with a time of 35 minutes, 14 seconds, and 41 milliseconds. Tang Rou and the team have to depend on Maple Tree to perform in order to break the record. The third run fails at 34 minutes, 47 seconds, and 68 milliseconds.

Afterward, Tang Rou goes shopping with Ye Xiu and Steamed Bun Invasion in Glory. At level 30, she learns that equipment becomes more important. They go to Congee City. Tang Rou is shocked by the high prices for equipment. With only 10 gold, she looks for level 30 equipment. Following Ye Xiu's advice, Tang Rou searches for a level 30 Scarlet Moon Lance, a Purple weapon. With Ye Xiu's gold, she buys the Scarlet Moon Lance to boost her damage output for the Desolate Lands dungeon run.

After exiting the Line Canyon dungeon, Tang Rou, Ye Xiu, Steamed Bun Invasion, Seven Fields, and Sleeping Moon run into Thousand Creations as they flee from 24 enemy players. They stop to face the 24 enemies. From Ye Xiu's conversation with the opposing group, Tang Rou learns that the enemy leader is Chen Yehui, the guild leader of Excellent Dynasty. Tang Rou, Ye Xiu, and Steamed Bun Invasion charges into the enemy formation with Seven Fields, Sleeping Moon, and Thousand Creations as support. After killing 18 of the Excellent Dynasty players, Tang Rou joins Ye Xiu, Steamed Bun Invasion, Seven Fields, and Sleeping Moon went to dungeon in Line Canyon without Thousand Creations.

Tang Rou guesses correctly that Ye Xiu was forced out of the professional scene by his team. Tang Rou switches to the afternoon shift since she played Glory all night. After sleeping in the morning, she wakes up to work at noon and studies guides from Ye Xiu. At midnight, Tang Rou, Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng, Steamed Bun Invasion, and Maple Tree attempt the record clear of Desolate Lands on the first attempt. After beating the first two bosses of Desolate Lands, Tang Rou and the team face the final and toughest boss, Ruler Toya, who has a variety of skills. Tang Rou watches in amazement as Ye Xiu suppresses Ruler Toya with ease. Ye Xiu's Unspecialized Lord Grim neutralizes Toya's advantage of multiple classes of skills. After seeing Ye Xiu suppressing an Enraged Toya with ease, Tang Rou wonders what Ye Xiu's limit is. For Full Moon Guild, the team clears Desolate Lands with a record of 28 minutes, 1 second, and 27 milliseconds, which destroys Blue Brook Guild's time of 30 minutes, 45 seconds, and 66 milliseconds.

At Line Canyon, Tang Rou goes to dungeon with Ye Xiu, Steamed Bun Invasion, Seven Fields, and Sleeping Moon. Afterward, she sees the sleeping Su Mucheng, who is leaning on Ye Xiu's shoulder. Tang Rou goes back to her seat to continue playing. Tang Rou plays Glory into the morning. She tells Chen Guo that Ye Xiu's female companion dungeons with Tang Rou regularly. After eating breakfast, Tang Rou goes to sleep.

At Fire Forest, Tang Rou joins Ye Xiu, Bao Rongxing, and Su Mucheng to kill Wild Boss, Fire Witch Cashew. Tang Rou is warned by Ye Xiu about the level 6 suppression, which reduces skill effects by 60-100%. Tang Rou follows Ye Xiu's plan and runs off with Rongxing while Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng attack Fire Witch Cashew. Tang Rou follows Ye Xiu's strategy of interrupting the Wild Boss's attempts to execute skills.undefined After three and a half hours, Tang Rou and the party kill Fire Witch Cashew to achieve the first kill of the Fire Forest's Wild Boss.

Tang Rou learns from Ye Xiu that Qiao Yifan will join them to break Blue Brook Guild's Desolate Lands record clear time of 24 minutes, 41 seconds, and 46 milliseconds. Near the entrance of the Desolate Lands dungeon, Tang Rou meets Qiao Yifan's One Inch Ash. On the first Desolate Lands run, Tang Rou, Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng, Bao Rongxing, and Yifan practice the Ye Xiu's strategy. On the second dungeon run, Tang Rou and the party aim to break Blue Brook Guild's record clear time.

Tang Rou and the party obliterate Blue Brook Guild's record with a time of 22 minutes, 35 seconds, and 22 milliseconds. On the third and final Desolate Lands run, Tang Rou and the party improve on their old record with a time of 22 minutes, 29 seconds, and 57 milliseconds. Afterward, Tang Rou joins Ye Xiu, Bao Rongxing, and Qiao Yifan to dungeon at Line Canyon. In the afternoon, Tang Rou prepares to watch Ye Xiu use Chen Guo's account, Chasing Haze, to duel Poplar Beach in the Arena. On another computer, Tang Rou watches Ye Xiu's duel with Chen Guo. Tang Rou watches Ye Xiu's Chasing Haze drop the Purple weapon and kick Poplar Beach into the air. Tang Rou watches Ye Xiu's Chasing Haze obliterate Poplar Beach with a 77-hit combo. Tang Rou sees Ye Xiu complete a perfect match, where he took no damage from the opponent.

Tang Rou laughs when Chen Guo scolds furiously at Ye Xiu, who flees the Internet cafe. Tang Rou tells Ye Xiu, who is late to work, that he will not be paid for today's work. She leaves Ye Xiu's seat at the front desk to go to another computer to play Glory. At Line Canyon, Tang Rou joins Ye Xiu's party to dungeon. They stumble upon the hidden boss, Illusion Swordmaster Ahong. Since Tang Rou did not study dungeons, Ye Xiu gives her a brief overview of the hidden boss. Early in the fight, Tang Rou is too aggressive and makes mistakes, which causes her Soft Mist character to be damaged heavily. She underestimates the damage of the hidden boss. Tang Rou spectates on the team fight and is forced to drink potions to recover health. After recovering, Tang Rou returns to fight with the party. With the wild boss at red blood, Tang Rou and the four party members each fight against a real Shadow Step version of the wild boss.

Tang Rou aggressively fights the hidden boss. She is surprised to learn that Bao Rongxing is an Internet cafe security guard, which matches his Brawler character, Steamed Bun Invasion, too well. Tang Rou and the party fight relentlessly and trade damage to kill the Illusion Swordmaster Ahong. On the third and final dungeon run, Tang Rou and the party break the Line Canyon record clear with a time of 30 minutes, 21 seconds, and 56 milliseconds. While Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan log off, Tang Rou joins Ye Xiu and Rongxing to level at Desolate Lands. Afterward, Tang Rou solos the Desolate Lands dungeon to improve her mechanics.

Tang Rou discovers a dungeon guide by Concealed Light, which catches the interest of Ye Xiu. Tang Rou and Ye Xiu read these extremely detailed guides, which are almost twenty thousand words long. When Tang Rou returns to Glory, she sees that her character, Soft Mist, who was in the wild, is dead. She learns that a level 33 Spellblade, Breaking Zero, assassinated her. At Congee City, Tang Rou revives Soft Mist, who is critically ill with an 80% stats penalty. When Tang Rou ventures out to Line Canyon, her weakened character is assassinated again by a group of enemies.

At Congee Forest, Tang Rou arrives to reinforce Ye Xiu and Huang Shaotian, who are both surrounded by the enemy forces. With Su Mucheng, Qiao Yifan, Bao Rongxing, and Concealed Light, Tang Rou causes chaos with her extremely aggressive playing style. Tang Rou coordinates with Ye Xiu to break up the enemy forces. Tang Rou follows Ye Xiu's orders to prevent the enemy force from retreating.

After wiping the enemy forces, Tang Rou and the other party members compare each other's number of enemy player kills. Tang Rou follows Ye Xiu's lead in fleeing the battleground, which will be swarmed by enemy reinforcements. Tang Rou goes to Line Canyon with Ye Xiu to attempt to set a new record clear. At Line Canyon, Tang Rou's performance drops because she is bored.undefined

Volume 3: Golden Strategy
She learns from Ye Xiu that dungeons are used to improve the player's performance in areas, such as micro mechanics and control. Tang Rou competes with Bao Rongxing to see who will kill two monsters the quickest by only attacking the monsters' first segments. Due to her unstable effective hand speed, Tang Rou loses. She makes nine mistakes. Tang Rou and the party finish the dungeon.

Tang Rou helps Ye Xiu kill Endless Night and four Tyrannical Ambition members. Tang Rou and the party go to a Line Canyon entrance to wait for other enemy guilds to take revenge for the encirclement in Congee Forest. Tang Rou and the party ambush and assassinate five Samsara Guild members. Tang Rou and the party attack a Blossom Valley team and a Void Walk team. Tang Rou overextends and is suppressed by the five Void Walk members. Tang Rou and Qiao Yifan destroy the five Void Walk members. Tang Rou and Yifan rush to help Ye Xiu against the Tyrannical Ambition members. After defeating their opponents, Tang Rou follows Ye Xiu to take a different path to avoid the enemy alliance members. Tang Rou helps Ye Xiu set a new Line Canyon record clear time of 29 minutes, 51 seconds, and 44 milliseconds. With Mucheng and Yifan logging off, Tang Rou and Bao Rongxing conduct a limited practice while Ye Xiu watches.

Tang Rou follows Ye Xiu to follow the five Tyrannical Ambition players, who had the aggro of Cliff Ronin Alpine, the Line Canyon Wild Boss. She sees Ye Xiu post false coordinates of the wild boss on world chat. Tang Rou learns from Ye Xiu that the coordinates were used to scare the enemy. Tang Rou sees the six enemy players. With Ye Xiu and Bao Rongxing in a pit, Tang Rou waits for the Tyrannical Ambition players to pull the wild boss to her position. Tang Rou cautiously follows Ye Xiu down the mountainside to launch an ambush. Under Ye Xiu's order, Tang Rou jumps out of a mound to attack the Tyrannical Ambition Blade Master. Tang Rou charges into battle against the enemy Blade Master. With the help of Cliff Ronin Alpine and Ye Xiu, Tang Rou kills her opponent. With Ye Xiu and the wild boss, Tang Rou suppresses the Striker to death. Tang Rou and the party kill all six members of Tyrannical Ambition and attack Cliff Ronin Alpine. Tang Rou is shocked by Ye Xiu's amazing mechanical plays to damage the wild boss.

With Ye Xiu and Bao Rongxing, Tang Rou kills Cliff Ronin Alpine, the Line Canyon Wild Boss. Tang Rou leaves her computer. She talks with Ye Xiu about the wild boss drops. Tang Rou learns that the Amber Crystal and the two Breath of the Cliffs are extremely useful as uncommon materials. Tang Rou goes to sleep early because her night shift is over. With Chen Guo, Tang Rou makes a jam sandwich and drinks milk for a snack. Tang Rou wonders if she has played too much Glory and has not spent time with Chen Guo.

Tang Rou gets a call from Ye Xiu about a PK. Tang Rou turns him down because she will watch a movie with Chen Guo. Tang Rou and Chen Guo return with a bunch of shopping bags. Tang Rou puts away the shopping bags into the second-floor room. Tang Rou returns to the first floor. She sets up her new keyboard and mouse next to Chen Guo’s computer station. Tang Rou laughs while Ye Xiu’s advice incites Chen Guo’s anger. On the 10th Server, Tang Rou goes to repair her weapon’s durability.

With Ye Xiu, Yifan, Mucheng, and Rongxing, Tang Rou goes to dungeon at Line Canyon. Tang Rou follows Ye Xiu’s safe roundabout routes to avoid enemy players, which wastes one hour compared to the regular routes. Tang Rou learns from Ye Xiu that they need to level up, which is the most effective way of fighting against the enemy guilds. Tang Rou follows Ye Xiu to Fire Forest to kill monsters. After a few days, she learns that the enemy guild alliance stopped actively hunting her. Tang Rou wants to take set another record to take revenge against the enemy, which Ye Xiu advises against.

Tang Rou sees Tyrannical Ambition’s Line Canyon record clear of 27 minutes, 41 seconds, and 24 milliseconds. She learns from Chen Guo that Tyrannical Ambition is one of the top-tier guilds in Glory. Tang Rou learns from Ye Xiu that they have the strength to clear Line Canyon in 25 minutes. Tang Rou wants to set a new record, which Ye Xiu disagrees and questions her about her motives. Tang Rou is stumped on Ye Xiu’s question about why she set dungeon record clears. Tang Rou asks Ye Xiu about his motives. She learns that Ye Xiu set record for uncommon materials. Tang Rou is shocked when she learns that Mucheng, Yifan, and Rongxing do not care about the dungeon records. Tang Rou refuses to give up fighting for dungeon records. Tang Rou learns from Ye Xiu that their monopoly of record clears is not worth the repeated fighting with the enemy guilds. Tang Rou sees Ye Xiu’s personal message that Chen Guo is waiting for them at the Heavenly Domain. Tang Rou drops the direct pursuit of dungeon record clears, but she wants to break dungeon records by accident in their rush to level up. After dungeoning at Line Canyon, Tang Rou goes to dungeon at Desolate Lands with Ye Xiu and Bao Rongxing. Tang Rou dungeons with Concealed Light for the first time. After three Desolate Lands dungeon runs, Tang Rou goes to sleep.

Tang Rou is online and sees the theme for the Christmas event is to hunt down the Christmas thieves. Tang Rou sees the individual leaderboards, which is separated into five level ranges to match the level of the players. Tang Rou joins Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng at Sin City. Tang Rou runs from over ten Sin City residents. She lacks the experience and awareness to understand the aggro range of the Sin City residents. Tang Rou’s Soft Mist is saved by Mucheng. Tang Rou tells Chen Guo that Cleansing Mist is Ye Xiu’s friend. Tang Rou tells Mucheng that she wants to learn on her own. Tang Rou moves in a separate direction to Mucheng. Tang Rou looks over to Ye Xiu’s screen to copy him. Tang Rou learns from Chen Guo that Ye Xiu has the experience and the intuition to avoid the Sin City residents. Tang Rou realizes that she cannot copy Ye Xiu. Tang Rou struggles through Sin City and kills a few Thieves. After an hour, Tang Rou sees that she is ranked 784th place on the individual Christmas Hunting leaderboard while Ye Xiu’s Lord Grim is 261st place and Mucheng’s Cleansing Mist is 319th place.

Tang Rou slowly progresses up the individual Christmas Hunting leaderboards. With more experience, Tang Rou familiarizes herself with Sin City. She chases at Christmas thief and sees a competing Blade Master, Wind Following Sword. Tang Rou takes the aggro of the Christmas thief. She gets tangled up in a duel with Wind Following Sword. Tang Rou hits Wind Following Sword with a Falling Flower Palm. Tang Rou sends her opponent into a group of Sin City residents, where she accidentally gains the aggro. Tang Rou fights against Wind Following Sword while being attacked by the Sin City residents. Tang Rou realizes that Wind Following Sword sees through her fighting style.

Tang Rou manages to damage Wind Following Sword except the monsters land hits and lowers Soft Mist’s health by a third. Tang Rou is stuck in a duel with Wind Following Sword, who continually retreats. Tang Rou uses a Skill Scroll to temporarily get the level 50 Battle Mage Awakening Skill: Battle Spirit. She exploits the Battle Spirit to increase her damage output against Wind Following Sword. Tang Rou suppresses Wind Following Sword. Tang Rou sees that Wind Following Sword has reinforcements in the vicinity. Tang Rou is knocked aside by a grenade.

Tang Rou retreats from the intense fighting. She goes back to hunting her Christmas thief. Later, Tang Rou catches up to Wind Following Sword. With seventh stage of Battle Spirit, Tang Rou returns to chasing Wind Following Sword. After an extended battle, Tang Rou kills Wind Following Sword. Tang Rou helps Ye Xiu kill off the five Excellent Dynasty members.

Tang Rou splits up from Ye Xiu to hunt for Christmas thieves. Tang Rou is speechless when she sees the horde of over 300 Christmas thieves chasing after Lord Grim.undefined Tang Rou looks at Chen Guo's screen and reminds Chen Guo to kill the monsters that surrounds Chasing Haze.undefined Tang Rou stands near the clock tower and watches Lord Grim ascend the tower. Tang Rou sees the 341 presents and does nothing. She moves aside for Chen Guo to collect the presents for her.undefined Tang Rou’s Soft Mist defends Lord Grim and attacks the Excellent Dynasty members. Tang Rou exploits the temporary Battle Spirit skill, which would last for the next 20 hours of the Christmas event. Into the early morning, Tang Rou is full of energy for the Christmas event.

Tang Rou levels Soft Mist up to 35. After 24 hours straight of playing Glory, Tang Rou is extremely tired because she woke up earlier than Ye Xiu. Tang Rou is stubborn but is persuaded by Chen Guo to sleep for a few hours. She leaves her Soft Mist online in order to continue leaching experience as Lord Grim’s party member. At six into the evening, Tang Rou wakes up to start playing in the Christmas event. Tang Rou turns to see Ye Xiu asleep. Tang Rou goes to Santa to exchange the presents for items. Tang Rou got 55 points from skill books. After exchanging presents with Santa, Tang Rou’s Soft Mist is at level 38. Tang Rou opens her final Christmas present. She receives an Orange weapon, Battle Mage level 40 Glowing Fire Halberd. Tang Rou logs off and goes to sleep.

At Sin City, Tang Rou meets Ye Xiu. They go to the Sin City prison to dungeon. Tang Rou runs straight into combat. Tang Rou is surprised at how slow Ye Xiu is fighting. Tang Rou learns that Ye Xiu is studying the dungeon to make a guide. On the first run, the Sin City dungeon takes almost two hours. Tang Rou joins Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng to dungeon at Sin City. Tang Rou sees an announcement of Tyrannical Ambition taking down Herb Garden’s Sin City dungeon record clear. Tang Rou sees Tyrannical Ambition’s Sin City record clear time of 29 minutes, 34 seconds, and 71 milliseconds, which is nearly a three-minute improvement. Tang Rou learns from Ye Xiu that Tyrannical Ambition did not use Ye Xiu’s guide.

Tang Rou is invited by Chen Guo to go to the All-Star Weekend. On the Friday before the weekend, Tang Rou, Chen Guo, and Ye Xiu take a flight to City S. With the taxi stuck in traffic, Tang Rou leaves the taxi and follows Ye Xiu to the Samsara stadium. Tang Rou enters the stadium. Tang Rou finds three empty seats and sits down with Ye Xiu and Chen Guo. Tang Rou learns about the 24 All-Star characters from Chen Guo. Tang Rou watches a magnificent holographic simulated battle between the 24 All-Star characters.

Tang Rou watches Dai Yanqi’s challenge with Chu Yunxiu, who easily defeats Yanqi. Tang Rou watches Gao Yingjie and Wang Jiexi’s intense duel. Tang Rou hears that Tiny Herb’s Qiao Yifan challenges Team Void Captain, Li Xuan. Tang Rou sees Ye Xiu sigh. Tang Rou recognizes that Yifan played with her on the 10th Server as One Inch Ash. Tang Rou wonders if Ye Xiu predicts that Yifan would lose the duel. Tang Rou watches Yifan get crushed by Li Xuan.undefined

Volume 4: All-Star Weekend
Tang Rou watches the intense duel between Sun Xiang and Han Wenqing. Tang Rou learns from Sun Xiang how to better use low-level Battle Mage skills. Tang Rou sees the huge difference between her and Sun Xiang. Tang Rou watches Wenqing defeat Sun Xiang. With Chen Guo and Ye Xiu, Tang Rou goes back to the hotel and eats at the dining hall. Tang Rou watches the press conferences of Wang Jiexi and Zhou Zekai. Tang Rou laughs and learns from Ye Xiu that Zekai actually speaks in short diplomatic responses.undefined The next morning, Tang Rou wakes up early to play Glory on the hotel computer. She wants to improve after watching yesterday’s Rookie Challenge. Tang Rou remembers Wang Jiexi, Gao Yingjie, Lin Jingyan, Han Wenqing, and other professional players. Tang Rou wants to improve to defeat Ye Xiu.

With Ye Xiu and Chen Guo, Tang Rou go on a shopping trip. Later, they go to the All-Star Weekend Day 2 event. Tang Rou watches Zhou Zekai take the lead in the Hurdles event. Tang Rou is happy for Chen Guo, who finally gets to meet her idol, Su Mucheng.undefined Tang Rou is happy to be chosen by Mucheng. Tang Rou gives her stuff to Ye Xiu to hold. Tang Rou goes onto the stage with Chen Guo. Tang Rou lacks the strong fundamentals in jumping, so she stops and thinks after every jump. When Chen Guo fights an opponent, Tang Rou jumps down to meet Chen Guo’s opponent, a Sharpshooter. Tang Rou’s character loses half of its health from the fall. After an opponent’s taunt, Tang Rou suppresses the Sharpshooter to death. With Chen Guo, Tang Rou climbs to the top. Tang Rou returns to her seat near Ye Xiu. Tang Rou watches the Targets event, which Huang Shaotian wins. When Chen Guo goes to the restroom, Tang Rou asks about Ye Xiu’s real identity.

Tang Rou guesses that Ye Xiu is the Glory superstar, Ye Qiu. Tang Rou is surprised by Ye Xiu’s calm admission of his true identity as Ye Qiu. Tang Rou clicks her answering device for a chance to play against Du Ming, and she wins the opportunity. On stage, she introduces herself to the audience as a new Battle Mage player. Tang Rou is overwhelmed by Du Ming’s combos. Tang Rou Quick Recovers from Du Ming’s Falling Phoenix Slash.undefined Tang Rou realizes the gap in skill between herself and Du Ming. After a pause, Tang Rou initiates the battle and increases her hand speed to compete against Du Ming.

In less than one minute, Tang Rou feels the strain from maximizing her hand speed yet persists. Into the seventh minute, Tang Rou lands multiple hits on Du Ming. In 7 minutes and 34 seconds, Tang Rou’s Battle Mage suppresses Du Ming’s Blade Master to death. Tang Rou walks to the center of the stage. She appears professional and accepts Du Ming’s challenge, which angers the Samsara fans in Samsara’s stadium.undefined Tang Rou starts the duel on the defensive. She loses the intense duel to Du Ming. After the second duel, Tang Rou shocks everyone by challenging Du Ming to another duel. In the third duel, Tang Rou, who performs better than before, defeats Du Ming.

In the fourth duel, Tang Rou loses the initiative and loses the duel. Tang Rou accepts the fifth duel from Du Ming. Tang Rou loses the fifth duel even faster than the last duel to Du Ming. Tang Rou loses the sixth and seventh duel. Tang Rou stops when Ye Xiu convinces her that Du Ming will statistically win more duels against her.undefined Tang Rou watches Ye Xiu duel against Du Ming. Afterward, Tang Rou goes to the center of the stage and tells the host that her friend disappeared. Tang Rou returns to her seat and greets Chen Guo. Tang Rou leaves with Chen Guo.

With Chen Guo, Tang Rou goes outside to look for Ye Xiu. Tang Rou returns to the hotel. While Tang Rou waits, she admits to Chen Guo that Ye Xiu is Ye Qiu. Tang Rou is speechless by Chen Guo’s aggressive knocking on Ye Xiu’s door. Tang Rou and Chen Guo enter Ye Xiu’s hotel room. Tang Rou learns that Ye Xiu ran away from home to pursue his dreams of Glory.undefined Tang Rou learns that Ye Xiu only feels sorry about his family and has no regrets. Later, Tang Rou explains to Chen Guo about a night, where Liu Hao appeared at the Internet cafe to insult Ye Xiu. With Chen Guo, Tang Rou theorizes about why Ye Xiu was forced out of Excellent Era. Tang Rou guesses that Ye Xiu’s family is high status, politically powerful, or extremely wealthy to look down upon Ye Xiu’s high-paying profession in recent years of the Glory Professional Alliance.undefined

Tang Rou wonders how Ye Xiu will re-enter the Glory Pro Alliance. When Chen Guo is angry, Tang Rou tells Chen Guo to stop falling for Ye Xiu’s taunts. With Chen Guo, Tang Rou goes to the dining hall for breakfast. When Tang Rou leaves, she orders some breakfast to be sent to Ye Xiu’s hotel room. Later, Tang Rou is practicing her Battle Mage skills with Ye Xiu’s advice. She is asked by Ye Xiu if she is interested in joining him on his return to the Glory Pro Alliance. Tang Rou decides to think about it.undefined

Tang Rou learns that Ye Xiu kept his identity a secret to not embarrass his family. With Chen Guo, Tang Rou goes to the Samsara arena to watch the All-Star Competition. Tang Rou watches the Individual Challenge. Tang Rou watches the Group Challenge and the Team Challenge. When Tang Rou and Chen Guo leave the stadium, they are swarmed by reporters. Tang Rou politely answers the reporters without revealing important information about Ye Xiu. Tang Rou and Chen Guo escape the reporters. Tang Rou stays vigilant and looks around for reporters. With no reporters following them, Tang Rou and Chen Guo go back to the hotel. Early the next morning, Tang Rou, Ye Xiu, and Chen Guo take a flight back home. When Tang Rou returns to the Happy Internet Cafe, some of the frequent customers pay their respects because Tang Rou defeated Du Ming at All-Star Weekend. Tang Rou explains to the customers that she does not know the legendary Ye Qiu. Later, Tang Rou logs in to her Soft Mist account. She joins Ye Xiu’s Lord Grim to dungeon at Sin City.

When Chen Guo takes a picture to celebrate the formation of Ye Xiu’s new team, Tang Rou jumps into the scene to take a picture with Ye Xiu.undefined Tang Rou joins Ye Xiu’s Guild Happy.undefined Tang Rou joins Ye Xiu and the party in attacking the Guardian. When Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng retreat, Tang Rou coordinates with Bao Rongxing to control the aggro of the Guardian. Tang Rou and the team manage to get the low-health Guardian to kneel, which signifies their victory. Tang Rou learns that Peerless Looks is Xu Boyuan, the Blue Brook Guild’s 10th Server guild leader.undefined

At Thousand Waves Lake, Tang Rou attacks the Bao Rongxing’s stunned opponent with a Double Stab and knocks the opponent into the water. Tang Rou follows Ye Xiu’s orders to chase after the retreating enemy. Tang Rou dodges the enemy Berserker’s counterattack. She uses Falling Flower Palm to knock the Berserker back into the water. Tang Rou orders Rongxing to knock the 10 opponents back into the water for Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng to destroy. Tang Rou and Rongxing manage to knock 5 out of the 10 opponents into the water. Tang Rou watches Ye Xiu and Mucheng swim out of the lake.

Tang Rou informs Ye Xiu that some of the opponents ran away even though they outnumbered Tang Rou, Bao Rongxing, and Concealed Light. Tang Rou is unable to help Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng in the water ambush against Blossom Valley’s dungeon team. Tang Rou fights underwater against monsters to use the limited practice method to improve her combat effectiveness in water. Tang Rou follows Ye Xiu, who finds an enemy team ambush. Near the shore, Tang Rou joins Ye Xiu in ambushing a Misty Castle dungeon team.

Tang Rou follows Ye Xiu out of Thousand Waves Lake to a hiding spot on the main road from Congee City to Thousand Waves Lake. When Tang Rou learns that they will wait for 7 minutes and 21 seconds, she wants to engage the enemy sooner. Her idea is declined by Ye Xiu, who prefers the efficient option of waiting and ambushing the enemy team. Tang Rou learns from Ye Xiu to message instead of speaking, so they can hear the enemy’s footsteps. Tang Rou crouches and follows Thousand Creations to be behind the enemy. After Mucheng’s initiation, Tang Rou jumps up and ambushes the five Misty Castle players. Tang Rou and the team swiftly kill the five Misty Castle players.undefined

Tang Rou moves out on her own to find enemies to ambush. Tang Rou finds a Guild Void Walk dungeon team. She targets the Cleric and charges forward. Tang Rou initially focuses on the enemy Knight and dodges to attack the enemy Ghostblade. She knocks the unguarded Cleric towards the Elementalist. Tang Rou fights against the Elementalist. Tang Rou ignores Ye Xiu’s advice to stop using skills to send the opponents flying and copying Ye Xiu’s tactics. Tang Rou sees the Void Walk team run towards the water, which is her weakness. She prevents the enemy Cleric from reaching the water. Tang Rou follows Ye Xiu’s advice in pushing the Cleric away from his teammates, who are attempting a pincer attack. Tang Rou kills the enemy Cleric and swims into the water. Tang Rou follows Ye Xiu’s directions and manages to land attacks on the enemy in a water battle.

After a lengthy water battle and land chase, Tang Rou kills the enemy Knight and Elementalist with the previous enemy Cleric. She knows that the two Ghostblades retreated. Tang Rou finds and kills one of the Ghostblades. Tang Rou goes to Sin City. Tang Rou runs the Sin City dungeon three times to reach the limit. When Mucheng and Horse Shooter log off, Tang Rou goes to Thousand Waves Lake with Ye Xiu and Thousand Creations.

At Thousand Waves Lake, Tang Rou completes quests and kills monsters to level. With Ye Xiu and Thousand Creations, Tang Rou manages to ambush three more dungeon teams. After Thousand Creations logs off, Tang Rou asks Ye Xiu for training in water battles. Later, Tang Rou works at the Internet cafe’s cash register while Ye Xiu attacks the enemy guild elites. With Ye Xiu’s party, Tang Rou assassinates enemy guild elites at Sin City dungeon entrances. Tang Rou logs off to rest because she has to work later in the day.

Tang Rou joins Ye Xiu’s party to dungeon at Thousand Waves Lake. When Tang Rou and the party break the Thousand Waves Lake dungeon record clear with a time of 30 minutes, 25 seconds, and 41 milliseconds, she smiles.undefined In the next two dungeon runs, Tang Rou fails to improve their record clear time because Thousand Creations and Horse Shooter occasionally make mistakes. Tang Rou joins Ye Xiu to break the Gloom Forest’s record clear time. On the first three dungeon runs, Tang Rou and the team fail to break the record clear time. On the next day’s final dungeon run, Tang Rou and the team break the Gloom Forest dungeon record clear. Tang Rou helps Ye Xiu repeatedly break the previous records, and Guild Happy monopolized the top 10 spots of the Gloom Forest dungeon record standings.undefined Afterward, Tang Rou continues to level up. For the Spring Festival, Tang Rou packs up and leaves for home.

At home, Tang Rou is on her Soft Mist account. She sees a message from Chen Guo, who is on Mucheng’s Cleansing Mist account. With Ye Xiu and Chen Guo, Tang Rou goes to dungeon to clear the daily dungeon opportunities. In the dungeon, Tang Rou does the most work to support Ye Xiu. Afterward, Tang Rou logs off to prepare lunch. When the New Year event starts, Tang Rou rushes to finish the missions.undefined

Volume 5: Deception
During the Spring Festival, Tang Rou’s Soft Mist is level 49.undefined After returning on the ninth day of the Spring Festival, Tang Rou’s Soft Mist reaches level 50. Tang Rou is shocked watching Ye Xiu fight for three hours to kill a boss. She attempts to complete the Heavenly Domain Challenge. Tang Rou learns first-hand what level 20 suppression is. With a lot of difficulty, she manages to defeat her opponents. Tang Rou decides to stop when she realizes that she cannot fight for three hours straight like Ye Xiu. Tang Rou goes to a level 50 dungeon to improve her overall skill and to level up her character. Tang Rou continues her work as cashier at the front desk. She spends some time reading guides, studying videos, and expanding her game knowledge.

Tang Rou greets two customers from the Grand Internet Cafe, who want to fight against a Glory expert, which is commonly known as Sweeping the Field. She greets Ma Chenyi, the owner of the Grand Internet Cafe. Tang Rou texts Chen Guo that Ma Chenyi wants to set up a Sweeping the Field competition.

Tang Rou gives napkins to Ye Xiu to clean off Chen Guo’s food from his shirt. Tang Rou pats the back of Chen Guo, who is choking and coughing on her breakfast. After hearing Wang Sheng downplay the conflict between Ye Xiu and Excellent Era, Tang Rou declares that she will destroy the opposition in future matches.undefined When Tang Rou learns about Ye Xiu creating chaos in the media, Tang Rou laughs. Tang Rou hears Chen Guo’s request to search for information about a player named Deception. With a quick search and reading, Tang Rou tells Chen Guo and Ye Xiu that Deception is a solo player and a ruthless scrap picker. After hearing Chen Guo screaming to kill her ambusher, Deception, Tang Rou walks over to watch Chen Guo’s monitor. Tang Rou answers Chen Guo’s question about Ye Xiu’s shamelessness with nonchalant disregard. Tang Rou believes that this is common for Internet cafe gaming.

Tang Rou goes over to Ye Xiu’s computer to watch his gameplay with Chen Guo. Tang Rou watches Ye Xiu’s Lord Grim fight against Sun Xiang’s Battle Mage. Tang Rou notices that Sun Xiang uses excessive microing in deflecting Ye Xiu’s Grenade. Tang Rou learns from Ye Xiu that excessive microing leaves openings for counterattacks by the opponent. Tang Rou watches Sun Xiang dodge Ye Xiu’s Collapsing Mountain and parry Ye Xiu’s Sword Draw. Tang Rou sees Mo Fan’s Deception cut off Sun Xiang’s retreat path with the Ninja’s Hundred Streams attack.

Tang Rou watches Ye Xiu command his teammates against Sun Xiang and the other Excellent Era players. Tang Rou learns from Ye Xiu that better coordination with Kebei would have prevented Sun Xiang from counterattacking Kebei with Dragon Breaks the Ranks. Tang Rou watches Ye Xiu’s team ambush Sun Xiang’s team. Tang Rou sees Ye Xiu’s team kill He Ming’s Elementalist and Shen Jian’s Striker. Tang Rou watches Ye Xiu and his team fight and eventually suppress Sun Xiang’s Battle Mage.

Tang Rou watches Ye Xiu’s team get overwhelmed by Sun Xiang. Tang Rou sees Sun Xiang’s Battle Spirit reach the fourth tier. Tang Rou observes Sun Xiang reach the sixth stage of Battle Spirit to suppress his opponents. Tang Rou sees Kebei’s newly revived Battle Mage block Sun Xiang’s Battle Mage, who falls backward into Lou Guanning’s Berserker and Mo Fan’s Deception. Tang Rou watches Guanning, Gu Xiye, Wen Kebei, and Mo Fan suppress Sun Xiang.undefined

Volume 6: Mainstream Tank
Tang Rou asks Ye Xiu to show her a different way to use Sky Strike. Tang Rou watches Ye Xiu and his teammates kill Liu Hao’s Spell Blade and Sun Xiang’s Battle Mage. Tang Rou helps Ye Xiu log off of Glory. She secretly stays online controlling Lord Grim. When Ye Xiu returns and tells her to log off, Tang Rou tells Lou Guanning and the other players that she is logging off. Tang Rou logs off Lord Grim. She returns to Glory as Soft Mist. Tang Rou tells Ye Xiu that she is attempting the Heavenly Domain Challenge. Tang Rou learns that the 7 strongest guilds put Ye Xiu’s Lord Grim, Mo Fan’s Deception, and the five other Heavenly Justice accounts on a hit list. She learns Lord Grim and Deception have a 500 RMB per death bounty while Guanning and his four allies have a 100 RMB per death bounty. As a result, Tang Rou knows that the professional clubs are afraid of Ye Xiu, who will cause chaos when he announces his return to the Glory Pro Alliance.

Tang Rou accepts Chen Guo’s offer to join Ye Xiu’s team to rejoin the Glory Pro Alliance. Tang Rou answers Ye Xiu that Steamed Bun Invasion and Concealed Light are level 51 or 52. Tang Rou continues leveling on her front desk shift. At night time, Tang Rou hears Chen Guo’s worries that she cannot meet the stadium seating and technology requirements to join the Glory Pro Alliance. Tang Rou learns that Ye Xiu will participate in the qualification tournament to join the Pro Alliance. Tang Rou learns that the common name for this tournament is the revival tournament because a lot of relegated teams get a chance to rejoin the Pro Alliance. Tang Rou learns if they win qualification into the Glory Pro Alliance the league will take care of the stadium and other costs that they cannot. Tang Rou hears Ye Xiu speculate that in the future the Glory Pro Alliance will develop the qualification tournament into a secondary league.

Tang Rou goes to Guild Happy to drop off Ye Xiu’s rare materials to reach 6000 contribution points in order for her to receive the Desert Badge. Tang Rou continues leveling Soft Mist. In the morning, Tang Rou is using a computer. She sees Ye Xiu sit at a neighboring computer. Tang Rou understands that Ye Xiu has two accounts online to prevent anyone from realizing that Unrivaled Super Hottie and Lord Grim are used by the same person.undefined

Volume 7: New Champions
Tang Rou hears from Ye Xiu that Challengers League is the ultimate test for the team to see if they have the capacity to fight in the Glory Pro Alliance. Tang Rou learns that Ye Xiu has everything to lose if the team fails to win the Challengers League.undefined Tang Rou sympathizes with Ye Xiu’s struggle to drag himself and a new team into the Glory Pro Alliance. She listens to Ye Xiu reveal that if An Wenyi becomes a superstar, who wants to leave Happy, that no one will stop him.undefined

Tang Rou learns that Ye Xiu can invite more older players to join, but they lack the potential needed to win championships in the Glory Pro Alliance. Tang Rou is surprised when she learns that Bao Rongxing accepts Chen Guo’s invitation to Ye Xiu’s team by visiting City H in-person. Tang Rou hears that Chen Guo will look for housing for her future team. Without Ye Xiu, Tang Rou agrees to join Chen Guo in house hunting. In Forest Park, Tang Rou watches Chen Guo pay the initial deposit for the terraced house with 6 rooms.undefined Tang Rou thinks that Chen Guo is using too much money on their gaming house in Forest Park, which is in an upper-middle class neighborhood.undefined

On April 1, Tang Rou and a few co-workers pull a small prank on Chen Guo.undefined Tang Rou greets Bao Rongxing. With Ye Xiu, Chen Guo, and Rongxing, Tang Rou goes out for a late night snack. Tang Rou enters the shop.undefined Tang Rou sees Ye Xiu greet Tao Xuan and Cui Li. Tang Rou hears Rongxing interrupt and ask what Cui Li does as a club director, which Ye Xiu explains. While Rongxing annoys Cui Li and Tao Xuan, Tang Rou sits down at a table with Ye Xiu. Tang Rou listens to Rongxing’s consolation and pity for Cui Li. Tang Rou hears Ye Xiu call Rongxing to sit at their table. Tang Rou gives a thumbs up and congratulates Rongxing for his mind games against Cui Li. Tang Rou and her friends order food. She hears Tao Xuan’s cold goodbye. When the food arrives, Tang Rou eats. She listens to Chen Guo and Ye Xiu talk about Excellent Era's potential relegation.undefined

In the early evening at the Happy Internet Cafe, Tang Rou walks down to the first floor receptionist desk with Ye Xiu, Chen Guo, and Bao Rongxing to meet Wei Chen.undefined  Tang Rou helps Wei Chen move into the Forest Park gaming house. Tang Rou learns that Ye Xiu will not use Su Mucheng to do their dirty work as a spy against Excellent Era. Tang Rou listens to Ye Xiu reveal that he crushed Excellent Era’s morale in the game to Wei Chen. With everyone, Tang Rou goes back to the Internet cafe and to room 213. Tang Rou watches Ye Xiu start up the computer and open up the VOD folder with recorded matches. Tang Rou hears Wei Chen declare that the glorious Ye Xiu will analyze the Excellent Era’s first catastrophic match for everyone.undefined

After watching Excellent Era’s shambolic individual and group competitions, Tang Rou hears Wei Chen’s grief at Ye Xiu’s “sins” to cause Excellent Era’s catastrophic decline. Tang Rou looks at Excellent Era’s horrible post-match statistics versus Thunderclap. Next, Tang Rou watches a recording of Excellent Era’s match against Samsara. She watches an okay individual competition performance by Excellent Era with a horrible group competition, where Zhou Zekai sweeps the field. Tang Rou observes Excellent Era’s horrible team competition. With Ye Xiu playing the other Excellent Era match recordings, Tang Rou quietly watches. Tang Rou learns from Wei Chen that Excellent Era’s previous form disintegrated with Sun Xiang’s erratic gameplay compared to Liu Hao, who recovers from Ye Xiu’s beating in-game to perform better in Excellent Era’s match against Samsara. Also, Tang Rou learns from Wei Chen that the other Excellent Era players, who were crushed by Ye Xiu, cannot recover their morale and skill level. Tang Rou hears Ye Xiu explain Liu Hao’s moments of brilliance in matches means that he has given up on Excellent Era in order to secure a better future elsewhere.undefined

Tang Rou learns from Ye Xiu that Sun Xiang’s removal from play is to protect him from blame of relegation as well as showing Excellent Era’s true strength without Sun Xiang if they escape relegation. After finishing their discussions, Tang Rou goes to her room to rest for the night. In the morning, she goes to room 213 to continue practicing Glory while Ye Xiu plays on his own.undefined Tang Rou dungeons on her own. She hears Ye Xiu call for her to duel against Wei Chen. In the first duel, Tang Rou loses horribly to Wei Chen. In the second duel, Tang Rou loses again. She loses the third and fourth duel. For the fifth duel, Tang Rou puts in maximum effort and beats Wei Chen. She believes that Wei Chen lost on purpose, and Ye Xiu tells her to give the old Wei Chen a break.undefined The next day, Tang Rou continued to level up her Soft Mist account.undefined

Tang Rou exits her room and runs into Chen Guo, who complains about Ye Xiu and Wei Chen’s smoking. From her observations, Tang Rou claims that Old Wei’s smoking addiction is worse than Ye Xiu’s. Tang Rou asks where Ye Xiu was in the morning. Tang Rou learns that Chen Guo went to Nanshan Public Cemetery with Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng. Tang Rou learns about Su Muqiu’s death affecting Su Mucheng and Ye Xiu. Tang Rou feels sorry and hears Chen Guo proclaim that she is even more determined to work hard for Ye Xiu’s team. Tang Rou agrees to work hard together.undefined At Happy Internet Cafe, Tang Rou sees the renovated second floor gaming room. She turns on her computer and cannot see the screen. Tang Rou agrees with Ye Xiu, Wei Chen, and Bao Rongxing that the sunlight is creating too much glare. Tang Rou hears Ye Xiu’s recommendation of hanging a curtain. With everyone, Tang Rou helps set up a curtain. She goes back to her computer. Tang Rou sees the projector that Chen Guo has in the practice room. Tang Rou goes back to play Glory.undefined

Tang Rou continues leveling.undefined Tang Rou sees the news of Excellent Era’s impending relegation, where Excellent Era mentions Ye Qiu to deflect blame of relegation to him. She learns that Blue Rain, Samsara, Tiny Herb, Tyranny, Misty Rain, Void, 301, and Thunderclap are in the playoffs.undefined Tang Rou stops playing Glory and walks over to Ye Xiu’s computer to watch his chat with Tao Xuan. Tang Rou learns from Ye Xiu that Tao Xuan has principles and wants to defeat Ye Xiu in a proper match without rigging their match-up in the first round. Tang Rou hears Ye Xiu mention that Luo Ji’s professor, Zhang Yichun, helped create a mathematic model on Wei Chen’s skill books research. Tang Rou explains to everyone that Professor Zhang Yichun is a world-class mathematician, who is known for several breakthroughs in several fields of mathematics.undefined

Tang Rou learns that Luo Ji entered university at the age of seventeen without the required examinations. Tang Rou learns that next year Luo Ji will be a graduate student, who will be working toward a Master’s Degree and PhD. Tang Rou looks at Luo Ji’s mathematical research. Tang Rou appears to recognize this high-level math but is unable to comprehend it. Later, Tang Rou hears from Ye Xiu to use Luo Ji’s refined triggering requirements to drop skill books.undefined

Tang Rou’s Soft Mist reaches level 70. From Ye Xiu, she gets a portion of Luo Ji’s simplified guide to start attempting quests to pick up skill books. With Wei Chen watching, Tang Rou completes the guide and fails to get a skill book drop.undefined Tang Rou completes the second quest and gets a 25-point skill book drop. Tang Rou learns from Wei Chen that 1650 skill points are possible from theoretically winning all of the quest drops. Tang Rou hears Wei Chen proclaim his Windward Formation account has 4920 skill points, which is more than the highest officially recognized Desert Dust’s 4880 skill points.undefined

Tang Rou hears that Ye Xiu wins a 20-point skill book drop. Tang Rou hears Wei Chen suggest that he can destroy the accounts market with his extremely high skill point accounts. Tang Rou learns from Ye Xiu mention that the game company will change the programming code once they realize Wei Chen is exploiting skill book drop chances.undefined Tang Rou continues completing quests to get high skill books. Tang Rou learns that Ye Xiu’s Lord Grim reaches 5000 skill points.undefined

At the Happy Internet Cafe, Tang Rou sees Ye Xiu’s return from Samsara Headquarters and hears Wei Chen ask how much money did they get for the skill books guide.undefined Tang Rou nervously looks at Ye Xiu. Tang Rou learns that Ye Xiu has 2 million RMB in dungeon materials. A few moments later, Tang Rou hears Ye Xiu has 6 million RMB in advance from Samsara. She realizes that Ye Xiu has even more money from Samsara coming in later and questions what else is there. Tang Rou learns from Ye Xiu that Samsara will pay 12 million RMB over 12 months. Tang Rou is speechless that Ye Xiu sold the guide for a total of 20 million RMB.undefined

Tang Rou hears Wei Chen’s call to improve their characters’ equipment. Tang Rou hears Ye Xiu advise her and Bao Rongxing to finish the Heavenly Domain quests as soon as possible. Tang Rou goes straight to finishing her Heavenly Domain quests. At the end of the day, Tang Rou finishes all of her quests and gets into the Heavenly Domain. She is the third person from the 10th Server after Ye Xiu’s Lord Grim and Qiao Yifan’s One Inch Ash to reach the Heavenly Domain. Tang Rou went straight to completing the skill book quests. By night time, Tang Rou’s Soft Mist reaches 5000 skill points without completing all of the possible quests.undefined

Tang Rou learns that Blue Rain, Samsara, Tiny Herb, Tyranny, Misty Rain, Void, Thunderclap, and 301 Degrees enter the playoffs. The first round of matches have Blue Rain vs. 301 Degrees, Samsara vs. Thunderclap, Tiny Herb vs. Void, and Tyranny vs. Misty Rain. On the first day of playoffs, Tang Rou sees Blue Rain host 301 Degrees, where Blue Rain obliterates 301 Degrees. On the second day, Tang Rou watches Thunderclap host Samsara, where Samsara’s improved characters via Ye Xiu’s skill book guide annihilate Thunderclap. On the third day, Tang Rou observes Void host Tiny Herb, where Void struggles to a draw against Tiny Herb. On the fourth day, Tang Rou watches Misty Rain host Tyranny, where Misty Rain manages to grind out a victory against Tyranny.undefined

Tang Rou listens to Ye Xiu point out the small details in Han Wenqing’s gameplay style change.undefined On the fifth day of playoffs, Tang Rou watches Samsara host Thunderclap, where Samsara crushes Thunderclap. She watches Jiang Botao reveal to the journalists that Samsara’s characters have improved skill points without any exact numbers. Tang Rou learns that Xiao Shiqin is planning to transfer out of the Thunderclap. Tang Rou hears from Ye Xiu that Shiqin will go to Excellent Era.undefined

Tang Rou hears Ye Xiu’s joke about Wei Chen’s millions of RMB for retirement if they lose to Excellent Era in Challengers League. Tang Rou feels more motivated to prepare herself against a more formidable Excellent Era, who will be led by Xiao Shiqin. On the sixth day, Blue Rain defeats 301 Degrees on the second leg of their playoff match-up. On the seventh day, Tiny Herb defeats Void on the second leg of their playoffs match-up. On the eighth day, Misty Rain defeats Tyranny on the second leg of their playoffs match-up. Tang Rou learns that Samsara, Blue Rain, Tiny Herb, and Misty Rain are the remaining teams in playoffs.undefined

Tang Rou hears Ye Xiu’s lecture about their accounts being given to the team. Tang Rou hears Wei Chen agree to give his Windward Formation to the team. Next, Tang Rou agrees to give her account over to the team. She hears Bao Rongxing agree to give over his account to the team.undefined

As members of Heavenly Justice, Tang Rou’s Soft Mist runs to the Heshin City Sewers. She meets Ye Xiu’s Lord Grim to steal a wild boss, Sewer King Lookashoo. Tang Rou notices a lot of players in the area, so she and her teammates keep a low-profile. Tang Rou follows Ye Xiu to cut off enemy players. Tang Rou assists Ye Xiu in killing 2 Blue Brook Guild players.undefined Tang Rou and her teammates kill off any opposition reinforcements. She arrives to reinforce Lou Guanning’s attack for Sewer King Lookashoo. With Heavenly Justice Clerics in support, Tang Rou and her teammates attack all opposition with no mercy. Tang Rou runs into Blue Brook Guild’s main team led by Xu Boyuan’s Blue Bridge Spring Snow. Tang Rou and her teammates wipe out Boyuan’s nearby allies.undefined

Tang Rou sees more players swarming the location. With Bao Rongxing, she suppresses Xu Boyuan’s Blue Bridge Spring Snow to death.undefined Tang Rou sees the global message of Heavenly Justice killing Sewer King Lookashoo. For the rest of the day, she hears no new wild bosses spawn. Tang Rou joins Ye Xiu, Bao Rongxing, and Wei Chen to clear a 5-person Level 70 dungeon.