novelraw Chapter 35 : Must Be a System Bug
Chapter 35 : Must Be a System Bug
41? Are... are you kidding?
This kind of joke wasn't funny at all. Xifeng remembered checking the affection level when she woke up this morning, and it was only 23 then.
After Bei Yaoyue treated her like this, her affection for Bei Yaoyue actually increased? Could it be that she had developed Stockholm syndrome?
Immediately, a chill rose from her spine, rushing to her limbs and bones, making her feel horrified.
"The system must be broken... mm, it definitely is."
As if escaping, Xifeng self-deceptively stuffed her phone hurriedly into her pocket.
Just pretend I didn't see anything. Mm, I saw nothing.
"Hey." Xifeng knocked on Bei Yaoyue's door. "What do you want for dinner?"
Although Bei Yaoyue had just acted like a beast toward her, fundamentally it was all something she herself had orchestrated, so she actually didn't blame Bei Yaoyue in her heart.
Faced with Xifeng's inquiry, the person inside chose to play dead.
"Hey!" Xifeng knocked on the door more forcefully. "Are you eating dinner or not? If you don't answer, I won't care about you anymore."
What answered her was still deathly silence.
"Fine, don't eat. Like hell I'd care about you."
Angrily dropping this line, Xifeng was too lazy to waste more words with her and turned back to her own room.
"What are you being all high and mighty about, acting like I'm begging you to eat dinner. Starve to death for all I care."
Forcefully closing her door, Xifeng continued complaining with some dissatisfaction.
Why did it feel like she owed Bei Yaoyue something, when clearly she was the one who suffered the loss?
Since her original motive was to trick Bei Yaoyue into completing the task, she actually didn't really care about Bei Yaoyue's beastly behavior. If Bei Yaoyue acted like nothing happened, she would just let this matter slide and wouldn't insist that Bei Yaoyue take responsibility or anything.
But Bei Yaoyue's escapist behavior made Xifeng very dissatisfied. Forcibly kissing someone and then running away—what was the difference between that and those heartless scumbags who pulled up their pants and acted cold?
Sitting in front of the computer, looking at the desktop with dozens of game icons, Xifeng felt somewhat lost.
Because she had quit the Alexander Ultimate fixed team, her free time in the evenings had suddenly increased, but with so much free time, she didn't know what to do instead.
She had occasionally heard before that people's personalities and thinking patterns were influenced by sex hormones. She somewhat believed it now, because since becoming a girl, her interest in games had greatly decreased, though not to the point of dislike.
Before, the first thing she did when coming home was turn on the computer to play games, but now she suddenly felt like not playing games wasn't really a big deal.
But after looking back and forth several times, Xifeng still didn't know what to do, so she finally opened FF14.
Just as she was browsing the recruitment board, looking for a carry team to do some work and earn some easy money while killing time, her QQ made a ding sound.
She clicked to look and saw it was another message from Bei Yaoyue to her alt account.
"Sister Jiang."
Looking at the message from Bei Yaoyue, Xifeng wondered whether to reply or not.
The previous two times they chatted, she had specific purposes—the first time was for fishing, the second time was to set a trap for Bei Yaoyue.
Now without any purpose for chatting, she didn't seem to have any need to continue talking with Bei Yaoyue.
But thinking again, it would be a shame to abandon such a good chess piece like this. Maybe it could come in handy someday.
So after hesitating for a while, she decided to continue chatting and keep Bei Yaoyue stable.
"I'm here, what's wrong?"
"I just forcibly kissed her."
"What was her reaction?"
"I don't know, I don't dare to see her now."
"How can you do this? Now is your chance to strike while the iron is hot! Think about it yourself—you forcibly kissed her and then hid away, taking no responsibility. Is this reasonable?"
"......"
After a brief silence, Bei Yaoyue replied: "But I don't know what to say to her."
"If she doesn't bring it up, you shouldn't mention it either. Find some topics she likes to talk about. You should know what she likes, right?"
"I know."
"Then that's easy. Remember to definitely talk about content she's interested in."
"I understand."
Bei Yaoyue, this is all I can help you with.
Closing the chat window, Xifeng let out a long sigh. This was too difficult—she actually had to help Bei Yaoyue come up with ideas.
But thinking carefully, Xifeng felt something seemed a bit off. She had just... seemed to be helping Bei Yaoyue strategize how to pursue herself.
Realizing this fact, Xifeng immediately laughed dryly. Tricking Bei Yaoyue into forcibly kissing her before could be said to be for completing the task, but what the hell was she doing now?
Could it be she was really anticipating something?
No, impossible. This was inconceivable.
Xifeng shook her head and immediately denied this thought in her heart.
That bastard Bei Yaoyue was full of flaws. Besides being good-looking and rich, what else was praiseworthy about her?
Obviously, nothing.
So she absolutely, absolutely, absolutely could not have any good feelings toward Bei Yaoyue.
The system's affection level must have bugged out. After all, it was a phone program—having some bugs was normal, right!
"Xifeng." A knock came from the door.
"Come in."
Xifeng glanced sideways at Bei Yaoyue, then put on an appearance of seriously playing games and not wanting to acknowledge her.
After all, she had just been forcibly kissed, so she should be very unhappy to conform to logic. If she acted like she didn't care, Bei Yaoyue might notice something fishy.
Bei Yaoyue walked behind her and asked softly: "What game is this?"
"FF14."
"Love Love Fourteen?"
"The full name is Final Fantasy XIV."
Bei Yaoyue looked at the character Xifeng was controlling. The ID was... Xifeng.
This made Bei Yaoyue somewhat confused. There were really people who used their real names in games?
Of course, this couldn't be blamed on Xifeng. After all, she had the username "Xifeng" that she used across all platforms first, before getting the name Xifeng.
Bei Yaoyue carefully examined Xifeng's character. It was a white-haired, straight-haired girl who wasn't very tall, wearing a black mage's formal dress and an ornate hat, with a short skirt and knee-high socks creating an absolute territory combination on the bottom. She had two cute cat ears on her head, and a thin, long tail extended from a specially made hole in the back of her formal dress, swaying leisurely.
"Is this a catgirl?"
"Mm, this race is called Miqo'te." Xifeng nodded and didn't forget to promote it. "Cats are the world's number one cutest."
"I think the one next to her is cuter."
Bei Yaoyue pointed to a character nearby that was about half a meter tall.
"That's a Lalafell, nicknamed Lalapotato. It's food."
"Food?"
"Mm, common preparations include steamed Lalafell, braised Lalafell, sweet and sour Lalafell......"
Bei Yaoyue kept nodding, believing it was true.
"What's the main gameplay of this game?"
"Uh... running dungeons, I guess. You'll understand if you watch me do one."
After saying this, Xifeng opened the party finder and found an E8S farm party.
Since she was already experienced, she played with ease, and her teammates were reliable enough not to mess up. She quickly slayed the Shiva construct on the spot.
"What's your job? You can summon so many pets."
"It's Summoner." Xifeng smiled awkwardly. Calling the demi-god Bahamut who caused the Seventh Umbral Calamity and the phoenix "pets" sounded weird somehow.
"This game looks pretty good. Can you take me to play together?"
"Sure!"
Hearing that Bei Yaoyue also wanted to get into the game, Xifeng happily agreed immediately.
FF14 was a heavily social game. Playing with strangers versus playing with friends was completely different. She couldn't wait for all her friends to get into the game and play with her.