The designated capture time had arrived.

Atop the transport vehicle’s trough, Chronicle was clutching a thick stack of material cards, falling into deep thought.

Why does it feel… like my “Lin Daiyu” style is a bit off?

“This sister is extraordinary, capable of fighting her way from the Grand View Garden to the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit?”

Chronicle casually made a quip, but still laughed.

Who cares if the style is a bit skewed? Having someone at home who knows how to make money and is willing to work hard always makes life much easier.

“If I could get a few more card spirits like this, I could enjoy a life of luxury in the future.”

Chronicle leaned back, contentedly squinting for a while.

He hadn’t exerted any effort on this capture trip:

In such a one-sided battle, Daiyu was completely self-sufficient.

It was only maintaining Seven Brothers’ presence in the real world that consumed some of his mental energy.

But it was no big deal.

Overall, he still looked spirited.

And so, he returned to the gathering place.

Chronicle stretched lazily, looked up to see the sunlight was just right, a perfect time for card making.

He was about to dive into his tent to do some enjoyable work when…

“Ouch!”

A miserable cry halted Chronicle’s steps.

Turning his head, he saw a skinny old man in a Town Abyss Army logistics uniform sitting on the ground, clutching his leg, with potatoes scattered all around.

“Are you alright, sir?”

Seeing this, Chronicle quickly stepped forward and asked with concern.

Many people had always misunderstood him, thinking he was ruthless and inhumane.

But in reality, he was a very decent person.

“Respect for the elderly and love for the young,” “finding lost property and not keeping it,” “honesty and trustworthiness,” these traditional Chinese virtues were all embodied in him.

Like now, a bunch of people stood by watching, not worried about the old man faking an injury (strike that), yet no one was willing to lend a hand (perhaps they hadn’t reacted yet).

As a “righteous” student from the Land of Peach, he couldn’t just sit by.

Of course, he wouldn’t miss this great opportunity to help (assist) the elderly (people).

So he decisively stepped forward, in front of the Town Abyss Army’s high-ranking officials and peers competing together, helped the old man to the side, and then gently nurtured his leg injury with mental energy.

A pale blue wave swept over, and the wrinkles on the old man’s face gradually relaxed, and he took a deep breath: “Thank you, young man.”

“It’s nothing, sir, it’s what I should do.”

Chronicle revealed a sunny smile fit for a public service advertisement, softly saying, “Let me call a doctor for you, sir. A fall at your age is no small matter.”

“That would be much appreciated, young man.”

The old man leaned on the table and shifted his position.

In a flash, his originally cloudy eyes suddenly became clear and bright.

He sensed the presence of his own kind.

This young man… doesn’t seem like a good person.

“Only a certain kind of person can detect this bad seed scent, Wen Yuan really picked a good young man.”

The old man smiled imperceptibly, the clarity in his eyes slowly fading away.

With his insight, one glance was enough.

It was time to leave now, to prevent the puppet from being exposed.

So, when the doctor arrived, “he” was sitting there hunched over, looking utterly despondent.

Just like any ordinary old man.

With cloudy eyes and sluggish movements, he limped onto the medical vehicle.

Chronicle, under the complex gazes of people like Gao Sheng and Ren Wang, entered his own tent.

He just treated everything that had just happened as a minor episode.

After all, as a good young man like him, doing good deeds was as common as eating and drinking, hardly worth special attention.

So he took out his phone to check the group chat, seeing Ginger Tea and Bai Tian praising him for what had just happened.

“Ah, it’s such a small matter, no need to make a fuss about it.”

Chronicle casually replied with an emoticon, his lips slightly upturned.

“Daiyu, you stay outside for a while, just find a book to read.”

Saying this, he lay back on the hammock, ready to start making cards.

But Daiyu, after flipping through the books for a while, only found one called “The Friend of Dual-Use Talent in Cards.”

Restricted by the rules, she couldn’t understand the content related to cards.

The “ordinary” part, however, she could barely comprehend.

Things like planting wheat, growing corn, raising chickens and ducks, and postnatal care for sows, she had a basic concept after reading through once.

Cooking rice in a clay pot, making caramel for braised pork… seemed a bit difficult, so she skipped it.

Repairing tractors, assembling motorcycles, ground-to-air, driving energy card heavy artillery vehicles, these lessons were quite simple.

In front of the desk, Daiyu gently stroked her smooth chin, her lively beautiful eyes gradually shining.

She then pulled over paper and pen, and with graceful strokes, slowly drew a terrifying weapon that did not exist in this world.

Although the details were rough, the overall design was highly feasible.

After a while, the “masterpiece” was completed.

She caressed the weapon in the drawing, revealing an exquisitely beautiful smile.

…

Flowers bloom on both sides, each branch telling its own story.

Powerful cards often only need the simplest card-making methods. After a day’s toil, Master Chronicle was ready to create the first domain card of his life.

So he threw in 【Withered Grass and Dead Willows】, 【Dance Pavilion and Singing Stage】, 【Spotted Bamboo Demon Monk Temple】, flowers and grass, wolves and demons, ghosts and souls, and started making cards.

As everyone knows, the creation of a domain card requires the unity of three elements: time, space, and logic.

In terms of time, the Grand View Garden can be divided into five stages, which are also five seasons.

From Yuan Chun’s visit to Daiyu’s burial of flowers, it’s the blooming spring with flowers blossoming and thriving;

From the Begonia Poetry Club to the Lantern Festival banquet, it’s the scorching summer with fiery passion and flowers in full bloom;

From Tan Chun managing the household to Fang Guan’s story, it’s the late summer with rising and falling cicadas losing their strength;

From the Yihong banquet to Qing Wen’s death, it’s the deep autumn transitioning from prosperity to decline, dark and solemn;

From the Jia family being raided to the Thousand Reds’ lament, it’s the harsh winter with cold winds and withered grass and dead willows.

The element of time is complete.

In terms of space, Chronicle directly applied the draft he had prepared yesterday.

Looking at the somewhat rough framework of the Grand View Garden, he couldn’t help but feel a headache.

He certainly had a knowledge advantage, but in many ways, he was just an ordinary person, not capable of everything.

Take architecture, for instance.

He wasn’t trained in garden design.

Even when he went on group tours, it was always rushed, with no time to consider the details.

All he had in his mind were the images of ancient architecture he had seen in movies and TV shows before crossing over, which might not even be accurate.

Under such circumstances, to fully recreate the Grand View Garden, which has royal garden lineage, was asking too much of him.

In fact, just using the book’s description and connecting it with movies and TV shows to create the basic framework of the Grand View Garden had already exhausted him.

After all, he was just an ordinary person with an average family background before and after crossing over.

His understanding of the life of the ancient upper class, as well as his aesthetic, experience, and accumulation of knowledge, simply couldn’t compare to Cao Xueqin, who was born into a wealthy family and had firsthand experience.

To put it bluntly, what Cao Xueqin wrote was not fiction, but memories.

What the Grand View Garden looked like, Cao Xueqin had a vivid and splendid memory painting in his heart.

From painting to words, relying on memory, it is naturally beautiful.

While he had to go from words to painting, requiring imagination.

Drawing a tiger from hearing its roar was already the limit.

Although the resulting product was still far above the average in terms of aesthetics, “The willow branches by the embankment borrow three shades of green, the flowers across the bank share a thread of fragrance,” it wasn’t just talk.

But it was still hard to satisfy Chronicle’s high standards and strict demands.

Just as he was in distress, the miniature model of the Grand View Garden in front of him, particularly the western part, caught his attention.

A shallow mist slowly enveloped a building located there.

The crisp “hissing” sound kept coming, as if it was being remodeled.

A few seconds later, the remodeling was complete.

He pointed his finger, focusing the view on the western path of the Grand View Garden.

He saw a pink wall.

With phoenix tails lush and dragon chants subtle, thousands of green bamboo stalks concealed it.

Beyond them, a serene little pavilion was visible.

Entering the gate and walking along the corridor, red wooden frames stood with rows of parrots, and there were large patches of pear blossoms and banana plants.

At the base of the wall was a small channel, where clear springs flowed into the pavilion, winding around the bamboo, quiet and elegant.

【Xiaoxiang Pavilion】

In the book “Dream of the Red Chamber,” Daiyu spent her life here.

“Why is this place so detailed?”

Chronicle stroked his chin, which hadn’t been groomed all day and was now a bit stubbly, and quickly thought of a reason.

—The card-making system in the dark had the effect of self-deduction.

When he had previously created Daiyu, the system had simulated her residence and naturally kept a backup.

Detecting that he had deviated, it corrected him, which was normal.

“But…”

Chronicle scratched his head: “If the review system can deduce the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, there’s no reason it can’t calculate the Grand View Garden. There must be another reason.”

Recalling the materials he had just thrown in, he quickly thought of another reason.

This 【Xiaoxiang Pavilion】 was probably modified from 【Spotted Bamboo Demon Monk Temple】…

“Well done, Lin Daiyu, I wondered why you held back when kicking the door; you were keeping a little home for yourself.”

Chronicle thought to himself, unable to help but chuckle and shake his head.

He vaguely guessed that he might be able to enhance the Grand View Garden in the future by continuously investing in related scene materials, and one day, he would see its most beautiful and holy original form.

“Time and space are done, just logic left.”

Logic could be the background story or the ideological core that the builder imbued in it.

The Grand View Garden has both.

The former is the villa built by the Jia family for Yuan Chun’s visit, later inhabited by Baoyu and the various ladies.

The latter is the embodiment of Cao Xueqin’s ideal of a pure daughter’s realm, the worldly incarnation of the ethereal and holy realm of fantasy.

Full of passion and nature, beauty and sanctity.

It contains various philosophical reflections and humanistic spirits.

Chronicle didn’t understand these, so he simply threw out a few terms.

Usually, it was the review system that tested him.

This time, he would test the review system.

One second, two seconds, three seconds…

In the end, it was unclear whether the review system simply handed in a blank paper or actually came up with an answer, but a series of card information instantly flooded into Chronicle’s mind:

【Grand View Garden】 (To be perfected)

Quality: Blue

Category: Universal

Card Type: Domain

Rules:

1. Within the domain, the overall abilities of female units on our side will be enhanced.

2. Within the domain, male units of blue quality and below on the enemy side will be suppressed.

3. During battle, the card master can consume a small amount of mental energy to summon “residents” within the domain to assist in battle, and can enhance their abilities by perfecting the background story, thereby strengthening the domain.

Effects:

【Cultivate Affection】: Within the domain, the consumption for our side to activate affection-related bond skills is halved, and the effects are enhanced.

【Cultivate Truth】: Within the domain, when our units act “in accordance with their personality,” their status will be enhanced, and there is a low probability of directly breaking through their current level.

【Cultivate Beauty】: Within the domain, units on our side with learning traits will have greatly improved memory and comprehension abilities, and there is an extremely low probability of transforming learned knowledge into skills.

Buildings:

【Xiaoxiang Pavilion】: Female card spirits of grass and wood types residing here can quickly recover after battle, with a low probability of advancing on their own or breaking through their current level, and the rate of absorbing the essence of grass and wood will be greatly increased.

Introduction: A pure daughter’s realm that only exists in ideals, full of passion and nature, beauty and sanctity.

Fusion: Allowing female card spirits that meet the conditions to reside in related buildings will enhance the strength of the domain, and the card spirits will also receive different effect bonuses.

Perfection: By adding materials or cards that match the elements, endow the buildings in the Grand View Garden with spirituality. Unlocking each building will activate different effects.

Advancement: The grade of this card can be continuously improved as buildings within the domain are unlocked. Once all are unlocked, it can advance to 【Ethereal Fantasy Realm】 (Red), and open the 【Pure Daughter’s Country】 route.

Lord: Bind 【Queen】 or 【Empress】 class card spirit units. When the buildings in the Grand View Garden and the main battle card spirit residents reach the corresponding standards and numbers, bond skills such as 【Original Sigh】 and 【Twelve Beauties of Jinling】 can be activated.

“This card… is quite interesting.”

Chronicle looked at the card face, lost in thought.

“Building unlocks and main battle card spirit residents…”

“Xiaoxiang Pavilion, only for female card spirits of grass and wood types to reside… and Daiyu’s name is not emphasized…”

“That is to say, I don’t necessarily have to create Yuan Ying Tan Xi, Li Wan Ke Qing, and the others.””As long as I let the qualified card spirits move into the houses corresponding to these characters, I can form a 【Bond Effect】.”

“For instance, having Ying Tai reside in Autumn Refreshing Studio, and letting Little Mountain Ghost squeeze in with Dai Yu and the future Bao Chai.”

“Then the two of them could replace Tan Chun and Xiang Yun’s roles, serving as part of the bond formation…”

“Interesting.”

Chronicle couldn’t help but exclaim, “Then this 【Queen】 and 【Empress】 should be substitutes for 【Rustic Farmer】 Li Wan…”

“This way, I don’t have to specifically collect Red Chamber cards to form bonds, and I can integrate all the female card spirits under my command.”

“However… if I have abundant resources in the future, it wouldn’t be bad to create a 【Twelve Beauties of Jinling】 legion card…”

Ever since he experienced the 32-to-16 legion battle, he had taken a particular liking to this type of card.

That exhilarating feeling of “commanding thousands of troops at my beck and call” is truly irresistible.

And if it were a group of beauties… that would be even more interesting.

“Sigh.”

Imagining the infinitely wonderful future, Chronicle let out a long breath and then stretched lazily.

As his vision flickered, he returned to reality.

Upon opening his eyes, he saw Dai Yu with her back to him, diligently writing and drawing.

“Such hard work.”

Chronicle nodded in approval.

He admired people who worked hard.

“It’s a pity not to help me with research for money.”