The Rise of Otaku

Chapter 13 Idol’s Nanny

After returning home, Zhou Shuyu uploaded all the photos of the pot plants and the miniature buildings that she had taken at Zhou Yu’s house. She then found some gardening forums and asked the people from those forums to evaluate Zhou Yu’s work.

As she had expected, the beautiful pot plants immediately received many high praises. Especially that magnificent Taoist temple, everyone couldn’t praise enough of it. They all asked for the real address and wanted to come to Zhou Yu’s house to have a look in person.

People who liked to do gardening were usually old people. They were usually free most of the time, so cultivating flowers and plants was the most relaxing and the most suitable hobby for them. If it weren’t for the fact that most people lived very far, they would really want to come over and have a look. They might even be able to exchange some gardening experiences. However, what most people didn’t know was that the person who created all those miniature buildings and pot plants was very young.

The more Zhou Shuyu saw people praising the work of Zhou Yu, the more she felt that this business had huge potentials. However, whenever she thought of Zhou Yu, she would grit her teeth in frustration. That damn homeboy had rejected her so many times as if he really just did it for fun.

‘Ah… what a fool, does he not want to get married or something?’ Zhou Shuyu was constantly scratching her head.

“Huh? Phoebe zhennan wood!”

Suddenly a reply appeared below the thread. It instantly blew up the entire post.

Although the plants that grew from the seeds that came from the Gashapon looked like ordinary plants, after it was cut by the axe of the ACG World, it instantly became the real and precious wood timber.

It seemed like the person who gave that reply was not an amateur. With just a few photos, the person was able to tell that the Taoist palace was made from the Phoebe zhennan wood.

“Is it really Phoebe zhennan? Those photos are not very clear. The original poster, do you have any close-up photos? Please upload some.”

“I don’t think it is real. Who would use such precious wood making this type of miniature buildings?”

The argument never stopped, it was the reason why the post blew up. Zhou Shuyu didn’t understand the market price of the Phoebe zhennan wood. She was just curious why her post suddenly blew up.

After she searched the price of the Phoebe zhennan wood online, her eyes instantly became wide open.

‘My oh my, there is a rich guy in the village!’

If it was really the Phoebe zhennan wood, even if it was not the old timber, with this kind of miniature building, it would at least cost 2k or maybe 4k Chinese Yuan to build one. However, after spending all those money, he just placed it in the yard? Even if he didn’t not really care, was he not scared to attract thieves?

But having thought it again, probably no one would want to steal a ‘template’. Unless they knew how much it worth. No wonder why he was no interested in making money. So he was already filthy rich!

‘Huh! He even has the audacity to say that he is just a writer. Lair!’ Zhou Shuyu was very angry, at the same time, she believed that she had discovered a huge secret.

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Being a nanny was a very difficult task. Especially being the nanny of a kid that wanted to become an idol. The house was necessary. He had already arranged the beaver to do it. Soon, a new miniature house appeared in Zhou Yu’s house. With the fairytale-style house design, it must be very popular amongst many little girls.

Toys were also necessary. As long as little Niannian asked, he would immediately do it. Little Niannian seemed to like toy cars a lot. So many big brand cars were made by the skillful beaver personally. After they were painted, they were no different from the real cars, the only difference was that they were much smaller. Placing all of them together, Zhou Yu had a strange feeling as if he suddenly became a filthy rich person.

Because of this, little Niannian’s mood was always shown: “happy”. ‘This should be counted as grew up healthily, right?’ Zhou Yu thought.

However, there were difficulties as well. Because there were not many villagers of the ACG world, many requirements couldn’t be satisfied. Even the simplest lesson such as music couldn’t be learned, let alone other lessons like acting or dancing. Those were the necessary lessons for any idols. Therefore Zhou Yu always thought that little Niannian’s idol career was ruined by him.

Such a tear-intriguing tragedy, it was too early to have such a kid. Because of lacking in necessary resources, little Niannian could not receive the best education. Hence Zhou Yu, who felt guilty, would always do anything that little Niannian asked, trying to satisfy him as much as he could.

After the idol appeared, from time to time, the village would randomly appear some strange items. Occasionally, there were some items that would be able to increase idol’s basic abilities. For example, “the golden microphone: increasing singing ability by 10,” “The wind of popularity: increasing appearance by 13,” etc… Although the number that those items increased was not a lot, it was better than nothing.

If all the numbers that little Niannian had were below the average, then he may not be able to become an idol for the rest of his life.

Eating was also a problem. Farmer and miner just need to eat fish, but how could an idol eat such simple dish every day? In order to satisfy little Niannian’s meal requirement. He often got up in the late night to search for some special food spawning locations.

This was the first time for Zhou Yu to take care of someone. He even had the sudden urge of wanting to call his parents and apologize to them. It was too hard to be parents. But when he thought that he actually had nothing that could make his parents feel proud of him, he decided to leave it for now. Who knows what kind of argument they would have if he called them now.

Little Niannian’s growing speed was incredible. His appearance was also changing every day. In just a week, its look changed from a young prepubescent boy to “adult”. And his status was:

Li Weinian: low-quality idol,
Skills: none,
Appearance: 42,

Singing: 21,
Dancing: 26,
Acting: 18,
Other entertainment skills: 20.

As he had expected, all the stats were sad, and there was even a more sad title “low-quality” idol. What was the worst was that the musical soil didn’t make little Niannian become a composer. With all those things combined, it seemed like little Niannian would never be able to become an idol.

Amongst those five elements, the highest score was the appearance which was 42. Probably it wasn’t a very high score, but compare to Zhou Yu’s appearance, it was only higher, not lower.

Looking at little Niannian, Zhou Yu began to feel headaches again. What was the use of idols in the ACG world anyway?

Although the stats were bad, it would be useful at least to some extent. However, he had been raising little Niannian for a week now, he still couldn’t think of any areas that little Niannian might be useful. The vending machine would refresh 10 new buildings every day, but he could not find any building that might need an idol.

There was no reason to have the idol setting, but didn’t put it into use.

This question was only solved after a week later. It was at the day when Zhou Yu was competing with a “Wudang cat”, and the competition was a martial art.

After hearing the competition, Zhou Yu’s face instantly dropped. It meant that his ass was going to be kicked very badly. However, little Niannian was constantly clapping his hands on the side cheering him on. It made Zhou Yu really want to smack his ass.

Catching the small beasts already became Zhou Yu’s daily routine. He would do it every day until he encountered a fighting competition. In another word, until his ass got kicked. To a normal person like Zhou Yu, who didn’t like to be tortured, keep doing it was truly a surprising thing.

Oh well, who knows if he might need those small beast cards in the future. Instead of catching them in the future, slowly saving them one by one was much better.

His perseverance also gave him something unexpectedly in return. His body condition slowly became better. At least, it was much better than before. The best example would be, that many small beasts used to be able to end him in just the first round of the attack, but now, he was able to withstand the attack for two or three rounds.

This was a great improvement.

Of course, the improvement did not mean that he would be able to win. When facing the cat that was able to punch its paw like a sharp wind blow, within just a few rounds of attacks, his face was already swollen up. In the end, he was sent flying and landed two meters away.

Looking at the Moe cat doing the cute victory pose, Zhou Yu just couldn’t get mad. He just constantly sighed and left the place dispiritedly with the little Niannian.

Just when he arrived at the door, he suddenly saw the old dragon king flying towards him happily. “Young man, quick, little Niannian got an offer!”

‘Offer? Oh, he meant he got a job offer. After so many days, finally, little Niannian can make money now.’