On August 2, 2019, Pixelberry announced on its website's blog that they were working with the Chinese company Tencent to produce adaptations of their properties for a Chinese audience. The app 1001 (一零零一) currently has adaptations of The Crown & The Flame, High School Story, and The Royal Romance. As Pixelberry noted, these adaptations should be thought of as “inspired by” adaptations for the Chinese market, not straight translations.

As noted by kungming2, the app 1001 also contains other stories from different non-Pixelberry entities. This page only focuses on the 1001 novels inspired by the Choices series.

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1001 Stories

The Crown & The Flame: 烈焰与王冠 (which translates to "The Flame and the Crown"); formerly titled as 恋与火之歌 (which translates to "A Song of Love and Fire").

High School Story: 零时差心动 (which translates to "Immediate Attraction").

The Royal Romance: 王室恋爱法则 (which translates to "Rules of Royal Love").

Similarities and Differences

General plots throughout the three books are the same.

In "The Flame and the Crown", it remains a dual-lead novel where the player plays as both Kenna and Dominic. The player earns prestige, army, and fire points.

In "Immediate Attraction", the plot follows the Main Character who is a Chinese exchange student at a university instead of high school. Even though the setting has changed, all other aspects of American high school remain (principal/vice principal, homecoming, prom, etc) which do not exist in university.

In all books, the player can earn romance and/or relationship points. In addition, the player can earn "hearts" to rank your favorite characters higher in a per-book ranking. It is basically a way to rep your favorite character. The player can also use the hearts to rank their favorite canon and non-canon pairings. This includes same-sex relationships even though they do not appear in canon.

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Notable differences include:

Free first "diamond" outfit and scene. In "The Flame and the Crown", you can choose Kenna's first ballgown for free (which is also free in The Crown & The Flame, Book 1) and to save Tevan for free (which costs 💎12 in Choices). In "Immediate Attraction", you can go console Emma for free in Chapter 1.

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No same-sex relationships. Thus, dialogue and actions have changed to platonic or friendly between Kenna and female characters, and Dominic and male characters. For example, in The Crown & The Flame Chapter 7, the options between Kenna and Annelyse were to "kiss her or not kiss her". Here this translates to "hug her or avoid her". Similarly, in "Rules of Royal Love", your character cannot tease Hana about her underwear but instead suggests she wears a red dress to be more stunning. In "Immediate Attraction", male main characters can romance Emma and Maria, while female main characters can romance Aiden, Caleb, and Michael. For example, the original English for the third choice is "I'm only into girls, Brian." However, the Chinese third choice translates as "Watch what you're saying, Brian." Also, while you can spend diamonds to help Mia and Sydney repair their relationship, it is friendship and not romance that you are encouraging.

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Fewer persons-of-color. Examples include Leon Stirling, Caleb, Ezra, Payton, and Kiara being changed. Rowan, Principal Hughes, Nishan, and Myra remain unchanged. It appears that any love interest (or related to a love interest) are "white washed" while other supporting characters remain the same. For example, Leon Stirling may have feelings for Queen Adriana; therefore, he has been changed to light skinned; whereas Rowan is not romanceable and remains dark skinned.

In "Rules of Royal Love", Liam is renameable but not customizable. He remains a blond male.

Main character customization. In "Rules of Royal Love", you have three hairstyles to choose from but cannot change the face or skin color. In "Immediate Attraction", you have three options for each gender which offer changes in hair color/style and eye color but all six options are of light-skin tone. Once a gender/face is chosen, there are two other hair color/style options available in the closet.

Miscellaneous characters are not seen. They may be described off-screen and given dialogue but they are not pictured on-screen.

Game Design

The app is written in Simplified Chinese.

The app allows you to purchase diamonds, gain daily diamonds, and gain diamonds from referrals. However, it does not have a "diamond for watching an ad" metric nor a "diamonds for completing a new chapter" reward.

There are no keys. A player may read a book completely for free without premium options.

Players can read earlier chapters without restarting the entire book. For example, if you finished Chapter 10, you could go back to Chapter 5 and re-read it without restarting at Chapter 1. However, restarting at Chapter 5 loses all the progress made from Chapter 5 to Chapter 10 and you cannot jump forward to Chapter 10. You must then replay Chapters 6 through 9.

There is a "fast-forward" button to skip dialogue and get to the next choice. This may be helpful if you reread previous chapters and know the choices you want to make (as you will get no hints or dialogue to help you make the "correct" choice).

Premium outfits in previous books are unlocked for free in later books. For example, the premium outfits of "Rules of Royal Love, Book 1" are unlocked for free in "Rules of Royal Love, Book 2" and "Rules of Royal Love, Book 3".

A new feature added (June 2020) to the app is a "CG saver" (CG = computer graphic), where players can save images to the camera gallery. These CGs are noted by a QR code on the bottom left corner of the image.

A new feature added to the app is the "VIP purchase". Unlike the VIP monthly subscription with Choices, the VIP purchase for 1001 app is a one-time purchase which unlocks all premium outfits and all premium scenes in one book. Its cost varies from book to book and the player can use the diamonds they earned (by checking in every day) or purchase diamonds to use to redeem. The cheapest cost to get diamonds is 30CNY for 600 diamonds, apportioned out over a month: 300 diamonds to start, then 10 diamonds a day for 30 days. Although 35 CNY is approximately $5.12 USD, in terms of purchasing power compared to a middle-class income (cost of living, cost of housing, average incomes), it is more equivalent to $18-20 USD. VIP purchase costs : The Flame and the Crown, Book 1 - does not have the feature The Flame and the Crown, Book 2 - 560 diamonds Immediate Attraction, Book 1 - 500 diamonds Immediate Attraction, Book 2 - 890 diamonds Immediate Attraction, Book 3 - 700 diamonds Rules of Royal Love, Book 1 - 850 diamonds Rules of Royal Love, Book 2 - 1080 diamonds Rules of Royal Love, Book 3 - 1190 diamonds



A new app interface (as of September 2020) appears to highlight Pixelberry/Choices partnership with Tencent. Every book's menu has a section that says "More by Pixelberry" with the Choices logo.

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The Novels

Trivia

The app is named after A Thousand and One Nights .

. As of September 2020, it has been six months since "The Flame and the Crown, Book 2" ended. It appears there will be no Book 3. "The Flame and the Crown" doesn't appear popular enough with the app's audience to receive their Book 3.

Of the three series, "Immediate Attraction" appears to be the most popular.

Even though this app only contains heterosexual relationships, it does not prevent players from voting for same-sex pairs as their "favorites".

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Statistics

As of September 2020, these are the metrics called 人气值 (literary popularity value). We are not sure what it refers to (chapter views, book views, how many people purchased VIP packs, etc) but we assume "views" are similar to the Statistics previously listed for Choices titles. Book 3 for "Immediate Attraction" and "Rules of Royal Love" came out after "The Flame and the Crown, Book 2" ended and they each have double the views.

Title Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 The Flame and the Crown 173K 94K not released Immediate Attraction 731K 201K 194K Rules of Royal Love 870K 258K 178K