’Abs, abs, nothing but abs!’
’It’s so clear, way too clear.’
Jiang You was screaming on the inside, but on the surface, she put on a picky air. Her tone was dismissive. "It’s just okay, I guess. Barely good enough for me."
Shen Lan seemed to chuckle at her words, a brow slightly raised. His gaze fell gently on her face. "If that’s the case, then your boyfriend is going to hang up."
The words snapped Jiang You back to her senses. She hadn’t completed her mission yet. She quickly blurted out, "Who said you could hang up!"
’I still have to seduce him!’
"Not hanging up? Do you want to watch your boyfriend shower?" Shen Lan drawled as he walked into the bathroom and turned on the hot water. Steam instantly began to fill the air.
He paused, turning his head to look at her. His blue eyes were deep, his tone laced with a hint of flirtation. "Not that I’d be against it."
Jiang You was about to lose it. ’I’m supposed to be seducing him, not the other way around!’
"Just... don’t shower yet, and don’t hang up either." Jiang You racked her brain, trying to think of how to seduce him. "I, uh, I want to show you something first."
The system mission only told her to seduce him; it didn’t teach her *how*.
An imperceptible smile touched Shen Lan’s lips. His eyelids half-lowered as he turned off the shower and leaned against the tiled wall. "Oh? Show me what?"
His tone had grown suggestive. His gaze felt like a spark, tracing over her slender neck and rounded shoulders, where just a hint of a pink bra strap was visible...
He was rather curious to see just how she planned to seduce him.
Jiang You flipped her terminal’s camera, aiming it at her calves. A thin, golden chain was wrapped around one of her fair, delicate ankles.
Her cheeks were a little red. Luckily, the camera wasn’t on her face, so Shen Lan probably couldn’t see. Her voice was still haughty, but it was tinged with an imperceptible nervousness. "Look at my gold anklet. Isn’t it pretty!"
She had deliberately revealed her calf as well! It was all to seduce him!
Her calves were long and smooth with a healthy skin tone. The thin gold chain on her slender ankle only made it look more beautiful.
"Nice legs." Shen Lan’s voice was a little hoarse. His fingers reached out to touch the calf on the projection screen, but they only met empty air. Still, the pads of his fingers felt faintly hot. "Are you trying to seduce me?"
Of course, he knew she was trying to seduce him.
Because the system mission was for her to seduce him.
Shen Lan had only said it out loud on purpose.
"Oh? I was just showing you my anklet. How is that seducing you?" Jiang You said this deliberately, even though she had indeed shown her calf specifically to seduce him for the mission.
She bit her lower lip. ’According to the plot, once I seduce him, he’s supposed to hang up.’
But in reality, this guy wasn’t hanging up at all.
[Mission Seventeen: Complete.]
Shen Lan’s eyes flickered. ’Just a pair of calves was enough to get me.’
His fingertips seemed to trace the line of her calf, as if measuring the size of her ankle...
Once Jiang You heard the system announcement, she had no intention of talking to Shen Lan any longer.
"Alright, since you’re going to shower, let’s just hang up," Jiang You said briskly.
Before Shen Lan could even react, the screen went black.
He froze for a second, then let out a short, exasperated laugh.
’So she just uses me and tosses me aside once the mission’s done.’
’So heartless.’
After hanging up, Jiang You connected with Teacher Zhou for her tutoring session.
However, Teacher Zhou seemed a bit cold tonight.
Jiang You didn’t think much of it, just assuming he was having a bad day. It was normal to be unhappy sometimes.
Besides, his voice was only a little distant; he was still very thorough when answering her questions.
’No need for me to worry about it.’
But Zhou Yu was indeed unhappy. He had walked past Jiang You’s classroom several times, even slowing down deliberately as he passed her window, but she hadn’t noticed him at all.
Jiang You grew sleepier and sleepier as she studied.
Studying this late at night really was a test of one’s willpower.
Jiang You listened and listened, growing more and more tired, until she drifted off to sleep without realizing it.
On the other end of the call, Zhou Yu, who was in a cramped storage room backstage at a bar, also stopped speaking.
The cool, white light from the projection screen illuminated his beautiful, yet somber features.
He raised a slender hand and turned off the projection screen, but he didn’t end the call.
The sound of the girl’s long, steady breaths filled his ear.
She was asleep.
The night was dark.
Zhou Yu’s dark eyes were downcast. His other eye was still covered by a square of white gauze, the wound beneath not yet healed. He walked along a path on campus with his bookbag slung over one shoulder, looking as if he had merged with the night—a gloomy, lonely figure.
On his ear, his black headset blinked with a small red light, partially hidden beneath his somewhat long and messy dark hair.
After he finished his shift at the bar, he still hadn’t hung up the call. He muted his own microphone so he wouldn’t wake the girl.
He just listened to her long, steady breaths, which coiled so clearly around his ear.
Zhou Yu’s throat felt a little dry. The tips of his pale ears seemed to flush a faint red, as if stained by the intimate sound of her breathing.
’I want her so badly.’
When Jiang You woke up the next day, she quickly apologized to Teacher Zhou.
Jiang You: Teacher, I’m so sorry. I accidentally fell asleep last night.
Teacher Zhou: It’s fine.
Jiang You: My apologies.
Teacher Zhou: Get some rest.
Jiang You: Okay! Okay!
’This teacher is pretty easygoing.’
Besides, as long as she paid him, that was all that mattered. She didn’t give it too much thought.
She had no classes all day today.
Jiang You felt lazy and lazed around in her dorm for a long time. When it was time for a meal, her little followers dutifully brought food to her.
She ate the low-fat meal her followers had brought.
"Sister You, I got it. Your package is here." Yu Lin grabbed Jiang You’s package from the delivery locker by the dorm entrance and walked in.
Jiang You nodded, took the package, and opened it. Inside was an exquisite gift box containing a silver necklace adorned with an extremely brilliant pink gemstone that shimmered with an iridescent light.
"That’s the new limited edition ’Hyper-Diamond’ necklace from Ling! It’s worth over a hundred million." Lin Xue’s eyes started sparkling just like the diamond. "There are only three in the entire universe! You can’t necessarily get one even if you have the money!"
As she spoke, her gaze toward Jiang You became even more worshipful. "You’re amazing, Sister You! You can even get a limited-edition necklace like this!"
Jiang You looked at the pink diamond. It really was sparkling. ’So diamonds really do twinkle like stars!’
She gave a reserved nod. "But of course."
In truth, she hadn’t bought it.
Her little followers started gossiping again.
They carelessly let it slip that they had told Yang Qi to take some people and corner Zhou Yan.
They first started talking about Zhou Yan.
"That Zhou Yan offended Young Master Chen from our class. I heard he and his guys are going to trash her parents’ food stall today," Yu Lin said with schadenfreude.
...
"That sycophant Yang Qi is so useless. He couldn’t even corner her, and he ended up getting beaten up himself," Chen Yu complained.
"You told Yang Qi to corner Zhou Yan?" Jiang You frowned slightly.