Because of My Stupidity, I Became a Timid Vampire

Chapter 59 : Bei Yaoyue's Choice

The first thing Bei Yaoyue thought of was Xifeng's birthday. She entered "060404," and with a series of rapid vibrations, the screen displayed a password error message.

As expected, that wasn't right.

However, she wasn't surprised by this. From a security perspective, using one's birthday as a password was really too dangerous. There couldn't really be people who used their own birthday as a password, right? Right? Right?

Then, could it be her own birthday?

With a trial mentality, Bei Yaoyue entered "041010," but unfortunately it still showed a password error, which made her feel an inexplicable sense of loss. Indeed, she was overthinking.

"Too many password attempts. Please try again in one minute."

After the third failed attempt, Xifeng's phone activated its protection program, temporarily freezing the unlock function.

If the password was still wrong next time, the freeze time would gradually increase to 5 minutes, 10 minutes, half an hour...

Bei Yaoyue's brow furrowed deeply. She didn't have much time to crack the password. Five or ten minutes would be fine, but if it took half an hour to return, Xifeng would definitely become suspicious.

She didn't want Xifeng to know about her little actions. In other words, if she wanted to solve the mystery of Xifeng's phone, she had at most two more chances to crack the password.

In the worst-case scenario, Xifeng's lock screen password was just a string of meaningless six digits, in which case she would basically never be able to successfully crack it in her lifetime.

Lightly tapping her head with her right hand, Bei Yaoyue tried hard to think of what password Xifeng might use.

She figured that Xifeng was someone who had been hanging around the pan-ACG community for years and knew all sorts of memes, so the password would very likely be numbers from some meme.

What memes involved six-digit numbers?

Racking her brains, she could only think of one string of numbers, but... it couldn't be this one, right?

But aside from this, Bei Yaoyue had no other leads. Seeing that she had already wasted quite a bit of time, she decided to try anything as a last resort and entered "114514" in the password field.[ TN: "114514" is a Japanese meme number from an infamous adult video ID that spread on Nico Nico Douga, later adopted in Chinese pan-ACG circles as a crude in-joke, often used for trolling or absurd humor. ]

Thus, under Bei Yaoyue's incredulous gaze, the phone was successfully unlocked.

"..."

Her long eyelashes trembled with shock. Bei Yaoyue couldn't believe that Xifeng would actually use such a disgusting password. She even suspected Xifeng's QQ password might be 1919810.[ TN: 1919 = sounds like ikui ikui (Japanese slang for “I’m coming” in a sexual context).

810 = reads as yaoi in Japanese goroawase (number wordplay).

These both originate from the same meme-famous adult videos that also spawned 114514. Internet users merged them into 1919810, which then spread in Japanese forums and later Chinese pan-ACG communities as a crude inside joke. ]

Time was precious. She adjusted her breathing and first opened Xifeng's photo album, trying to find some clues.

But the pictures in the album were excessively ordinary. Aside from some silly pictures and memes, there were only those yuri manga that Bei Yaoyue had personally sent her last time.

There wasn't a single photograph in the album, which made Bei Yaoyue somewhat doubt whether Xifeng was really a girl.

Having ruled out the photo album, Bei Yaoyue returned to the desktop and was about to open QQ, but her raised finger stopped in mid-air.

A conflicted expression appeared on her face. After a not-too-intense psychological struggle, she ultimately chose to give up.

No matter what, peeking at someone else's chat records was going too far.

Her desire for control hadn't reached the point where she needed to monitor even Xifeng's chat records—that would be the level of psychological perversion.

Swiping around on Xifeng's desktop, Bei Yaoyue became increasingly confused. They were all seemingly normal application software with no apparent problems.

After several minutes, Bei Yaoyue could say she had gained nothing. She looked at the time—ten minutes had passed since she had excused herself to use the restroom.

Shaking her head disappointedly, Bei Yaoyue felt it was about time to go back.

But just as she was about to lock the screen, her gaze swept over that inconspicuous icon in the corner.

She paused, finally understanding where that persistent sense of discord she had been feeling came from.

Generally speaking, gear-shaped icons should be labeled "Settings," not "System."

Because the icon was really too plain and inconspicuous, she had always assumed this was Xifeng's phone settings, so she hadn't thought much about it. Only at the last moment did she notice this discrepancy.

Bei Yaoyue clicked in with curiosity.

"This..."

Browsing through each function of the system, Bei Yaoyue opened her mouth in shock, unable to recover from the intense surprise for a long time.

If this had been before, she would definitely have first doubted the authenticity of this system. Real-time monitoring of a person's physical data, plus some items that defied common sense—this was absolutely impossible with current technology levels.

But now that she had even encountered impossible creatures like vampires, if this system was composed of supernatural abilities, it seemed explicable too.

She clicked on the completed task list and saw that row of finished tasks, suddenly understanding everything.

No wonder Xifeng had asked her to pat her head that day, no wonder she had used herself as bait to seduce her into forcibly kissing her...

In that instant, Bei Yaoyue understood everything.

So... had Xifeng been methodically completing tasks all along?

No wonder, facing her heartfelt confession, Xifeng could be so resolute in her rejection, because from the beginning, Xifeng had never truly liked her.

Everything was just her one-sided wishful thinking.

She thought Xifeng was hinting at her, seducing her, but in reality, those were just system tasks.

The only thing that could bring Bei Yaoyue some comfort was those 78 affection points. At least the situation wasn't too bad—she could at least look forward to the future.

At this moment, she noticed that task with only a little over two hours left on the countdown, and also noticed that the task's penalty was actually to reduce Xifeng's affection toward her by 50 points.

This made Bei Yaoyue break out in a cold sweat instantly. Recalling Xifeng's performance today, combined with her recent attitude, it was obvious that Xifeng planned to directly abandon this task.

If she hadn't discovered this system's existence at the last moment, the task would undoubtedly fail directly.

How could she accept this!

After ten days of getting along, she and Xifeng had finally grown closer, but if the task failed, their relationship would return directly to square one.

A determined light flashed in her eyes. Bei Yaoyue secretly resolved that no matter what, this task must be completed. She absolutely would not allow failure!

Fortunately, this task posed no difficulty for her whatsoever.

Finally solving the puzzle that had been bothering her all along, Bei Yaoyue let out a long breath, her mood immediately lightening considerably.

Although she now knew of this system's existence, Bei Yaoyue didn't plan to take the system for herself, but decided to return the phone exactly as it was.

Perhaps this system was originally meant to be hers, but she didn't need it.

The reason was very simple, and also very childish.

The Xifeng she wanted was a partner who would truly love her and grow old with her, not a walking corpse who only obeyed orders under the system's control.

That would just be an empty shell, meaningless.

She wanted to pursue Xifeng with her own true heart, not use this so-called system to train Xifeng into her slave.

What she loved was Xifeng.

Not that physical form.