If anyone ever asks what 'official copium tastes like garbage' means, just show them Girls' Frontline 2's Daiyan × Raymond romance arc. One post, a handful of screenshots, and some Bilibili video links — that's all it took to nail this 'Cyber Butterfly Lovers' fiasco to the gacha game hall of shame. The OP titled their post 'Appreciating the Love Stories of Famous Gacha Characters' — dripping with sarcasm, because what gacha game has its female lead's love interest be some random NPC named Raymond instead of the player's self-insert protagonist?
The post kicks off with fan art of Daiyan captioned 'an unknown qipao-clad doll missing her lover' — the word 'unknown' alone carries enough irony to fuel a reactor. Then come two Bilibili video links: 'The Story of a Lei-surnamed Ghost Haunting the Money Pit' and 'Now Daiyan and Raymond Are Duet-Love-Singing, Mutual Pursuit.' Just reading those titles tells you how absurd things have gotten — 'ghost surnamed Lei,' 'mutual pursuit,' every word is a knife twist.
The comments section is a masterclass in Chinese internet sarcasm. Floor 5 drops the verdict: 'Valentine's Day is coming, here's some Cyber Butterfly Lovers for you.' Floor 6 follows up with 'I ship it, this couple is so sweet, has the beauty of a system crash' — 'beauty of a system crash' is peak wordplay since Daiyan is literally an AI doll falling for a human NPC. It's cyberpunk Butterfly Lovers, baby.
But the most telling comment is Floor 7: 'User was punished in this thread,' followed by 'Cyber Butterfly Lovers, stay tuned for the February 8th transformation into butterflies (化蝶).' The devs were banning users for discussing the controversy while simultaneously hinting at the Butterfly Lovers' iconic 'becoming butterflies' ending in Daiyan's storyline — implying some kind of tragic martyrdom. This Streisand-effect maneuver only confirmed the controversy was real.
Floor 10 posts Daiyan's combat power stats with the caption 'My fifth-realm War God status isn't for show' — the implication being that her kit is strong, but the story reduced her to a lovesick stereotype, destroying her character appeal. Floor 11 nails it: 'If he'd picked literally any other weapon to swing around, there probably wouldn't have been this much drama' — meaning if Raymond hadn't wielded Daiyan's signature weapon, players might've looked the other way.
The exchange between Floors 12 and 13 is comedy gold — 'Who are you calling Ma Wencai?' (the villain from Butterfly Lovers who cockblocks the lovers) followed by 'Could it be some limping green-haired cuckold?' Players' rage is straightforward: I spent real money gacha-pulling this character, and you made her fall for an NPC? What does that make me?
Floor 14 delivers what might be the most unhinged take of the entire saga: 'BGM for the plantation love story between a cyber slave and a terrorist.' This single sentence drags the game's entire world-building into the discourse — implying the factions are fundamentally oppressor-vs-oppressed, making Daiyan and Raymond's 'love story' look absurdly dystopian.
Floor 15's 'I hope this is the last post about this' reeks of a veteran player's exhaustion and resignation. Meanwhile Floor 16's 'Raymond, without ME, you'd never have gotten Daiyan!' is peak irony — highlighting the most suffocating aspect of the whole debacle: players who spent real money pulling a character were essentially reduced to supporting cast in their own waifu's romance with an NPC.
Girls' Frontline 2's Daiyan-Raymond incident remains a textbook case of gacha game story writing gone catastrophically wrong. From the community coining 'Cyber Butterfly Lovers,' to moderators mass-deleting threads, to the 'butterfly transformation' easter egg igniting one final wave of rage — the entire saga perfectly illustrates one eternal truth: players can accept their characters having independent arcs, but they will NEVER accept being cast as the third wheel.
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