[Wuu~ Second Brother, my Second Brother!]
[Self-conceited one, get lost! Second Brother is mine!]
[Second Brother is yours guys, but Big Brother and Little Bai are coming with me—I'm only heartbroken for Big Brother and Little Bai... The living ones are the ones who suffer the most!]
"Second Brother..." Silver Wolf's eyes grew moist at the corners.
Then she left the stream in a place the water friends couldn't notice, took a tissue from Ying Xing's hand, and silently wiped her tears.
Ying Xing leaned over, eyes red at the corners, and said: "Do you need more tissues? One might not be enough."
"No need, and also, I wasn't crying." Silver Wolf glared at Ying Xing, then emphasized the last four words heavily.
She sat back in front of the computer, pulled herself together, and said to the water friends in the stream: "Sorry, brothers, the streamer was a bit sleepy earlier, so I went to grab coffee to wake up."
[Stubborn little wolf pup.]
[Little wolf pup, your tears aren't even wiped clean yet. Hurry and get more tissues from Ying Xing.]
[Knife, but the kind that hurts when you recall it—who wrote this? I want to send them local specialties.]
[The screenwriter is still that same Jiujie person, the one who wrote "Guili Past Events".]
(Jiujie is the system's alias, also the embodiment of the author's own will. It will appear in all my future works.)
"This short film and 'Guili Past Events' are clearly two parts of the same story." Silver Wolf pretended not to see the comments section.
"In a while, the streamer will make a video sorting out the plot between the two videos and analyzing it with the plot text."
"Brothers who want to see it, give the streamer a follow."
"That's it for today—the streamer is logging off to play games now."
With that, Silver Wolf directly closed the stream and went offline, then shooed Ying Xing away, dove onto the bed, wrapped herself tightly in the blanket, and muttered under the covers: "If you're making a game, just make the game—why throw knives too..."
That night, Silver Wolf stayed up very late before falling asleep.
But at least Silver Wolf could sleep—most of the viewers, after "Guili Past Events", faced yet another sleepless night.
One can only say that when the system produces something, it's top quality. The art quality, voice acting, and editing are all first-class.
The same plot—someone else writes it and it would be filler, but the system can make most viewers face sleepless nights.
This includes Jun Bai, far away in Teyvat.
Jun Bai wrapped himself tightly in the blanket and muffled: "Isn't this my background completion? I feel like I haven't seen it."
[When your background was completed, it used your perspective—this is Second Brother's perspective, of course you feel like you haven't seen it.]
Jun Bai asked: "Where did you get these inner thoughts? Second Brother never told me about them."
[They're recorded in the ley lines.]
"Why suddenly think of making a video from Second Brother's perspective?"
[Thought it would get more traffic that way.]
The system would never admit it was to put pressure on a certain someone slacking off, so it deliberately made a video to boost Jun Mo Li's popularity.
Jun Bai let out an "oh", then lay on the bed to sleep.
Of course, according to the system's monitoring, Jun Bai actually didn't fall asleep at all—he was secretly crying under the covers.
System: [.]
Ever since this host came here, his mentality seems to be getting younger and younger? Even counting the things he experienced during background completion, he's almost 500 years old.
But right now it's pretty good—Jun Bai's original bitter, vengeful demeanor even made the system uncomfortable.
Jun Bai: What else did you think? Salaried workers' negative emotions can feed an evil sword immortal.
Some time later in the real world, Genshin Impact received the Version 1.2 update.
During this period, Silver Wolf kept her promise and made a plot explanation video before the version update, including her personal insights.
After the version update, because of the release of Ziwei Star Palace, players' enthusiasm for exploring Liyue reached an all-time high.
Streams exploring the old map Liyue and streams exploring the new map Dragonspine formed a 50-50 split situation.
After all, although Dragonspine is rich, Liyue is even richer and gives 20 pulls—this requires diligent grinding.
This phenomenon reflected back in Teyvat as Jun Bai learning from his contact with Yiya that Lumine had recently been traveling back and forth between the snow mountain and Liyue for exploration.
Yiya even complained to Jun Bai that when in the snow mountain, Lumine and Paimon had treated Her as a mobile heat source for warmth.
At this, Jun Bai silently looked toward the system.
System: [The system doesn't know anything~]
So Jun Bai, on behalf of Yiya, sent a friendly telegram. The system was deeply moved and spilled the whole truth.
The reason was that the system discovered Jun Bai and Yiya's life talents didn't match the in-game settings, so in the real-world game, it added hidden settings for Jun Bai and Yiya.
That is, although not written in the talents, Jun Bai can approach without startling birds.
And when exploring the snow mountain, having Yiya in the party slows the increase of the cold value.
This led to players now always bringing Yiya when exploring Dragonspine—this behavior reflected in Teyvat as Lumine and Paimon using Yiya as a mobile heat source.
Jun Bai had nothing to say to this explanation.
He could only apologize to Yiya on behalf of the system and Lumine.
Aside from this, Albedo's story quest also changed. This time, Albedo's observation subject, besides the Traveler, included Yiya.
Albedo: This creation of a god has great research value.
However, although Albedo was very interested in Yiya, Yiya was clearly not interested in Albedo—even somewhat dislike.
The reason is that as Jun Bai's clone, Yiya's thoughts are influenced by Jun Bai's perceptions.
Jun Bai experienced the monster invasion incident in The Chasm and has no good feelings toward creations of Rhinedottir.
And although Albedo had nothing to do with that battle, he himself is also a creation of Rhinedottir, so naturally Yiya wouldn't have a good impression of Albedo on first meeting.
Aside from that, nothing else was different.
It was just that Teacher Albedo had to use the same coaxing method he uses on Klee to get Yiya to cooperate with his observations.
Then there was Xuanjian's story quest. The experiences of this generation's Ziwei Star and the completion of Ziwei Star Palace earned buckets of tears.
(It's being written now, already 4800 words, don't rush.)
To the point that even knowing Xuanjian would go into the standard banner, a huge number of players still pulled for him. This surprised both Jun Bai and the system.
Real-world time reached the second half of Version 1.2, with Ganyu's banner going live.
Before this, Jun Bai recalled his experience before crossing over of triple-pitying Amos' Bow in the weapon banner... (the author's own real experience)
So Jun Bai decisively used popularity points to replace Amos' Bow in the original weapon banner with the bow he designed himself as Ganyu's new signature weapon.
(Along with the skill introductions for Xuanjian and Yunshang)
Although the crimson color doesn't match Ganyu's appearance very well, looking at the new signature's stats, Ganyu players still chose to pay for the new signature.
Ganyu's story quest also had some changes, but overall the same—just the quest start was changed from Ganyu skipping work to:
With Lantern Rite approaching, Ganyu took leave to go home and visit family. The extremely busy Yuehai Pavilion asked the Traveler to find Ganyu and ask when she would return from leave.
And as wished, in this story quest, players got to see the gossip-loving Adeptus Cloud Retainer exposing Jun Bai and Ganyu's black history...
With this, all content of Version 1.2 concluded. Heading toward the players was the Version 1.3 preview livestream.