Liking anxiety means living in the future.
Liking to masturbate means enjoying the present.
What about being anxious, regretful, and masturbating at the same time?
Isn’t that existing in the present, overly anticipating the future, and a trinity of gods…a Shenren?
Liking regret means living in the past.
“Good morning.”
“Good morning~”
“Ohayo~ Good morning, cia Ilo~ (∠ · w<)~☆”
“Good morning, have you finished your homework? Let me copy it.”
In the classroom this morning, greetings echoed back and forth as usual.
It didn’t seem to change just because a Shenren had appeared in their class, clutching onto Feng Aoyu’s thigh, begging her not to 80 herself, and worrying about being seen and having it widely spread around the campus.
Everyone was just as usual—study when it’s time to study, copy homework when it’s time to copy homework, at most mentioning it briefly while chatting.
As the 30-year-old uncle Su Moli, naturally, her thick skin meant it didn’t affect her.
But her deskmate Meng Siyu seemed to be having a harder time with it?
Meng Siyu was currently slumped on her desk, face buried in her arms, asleep.
Her long hair was messy over her shoulders, and her whole aura was one of utter exhaustion.
What’s wrong with her?
【To avoid having you lick Feng Aoyu’s shoes, Meng Siyu decided to be disciplined starting today and began running. But because she thought about not being able to stay up late playing games or self-soothing for the next month, she retaliated by pulling an all-nighter until 3 a.m., then… only went to bed after showering at 5 a.m.】
【Right now, all she can think about is how regretful she is, how much she wants to sleep, and if heaven gave her another chance, she’d never stay up late playing games again.】
“Just don’t want to stay up late?”
Listening to the System’s words beside her ear, Su Moli touched her chin with her left hand.
Her lively eyes flickered, then her lips curved into a smile, looking at Meng Siyu with comforting eyes.
In her heart, she sighed, “Youth is truly wonderful.”
Young bodies are simply amazing—recovery is so fast that even if you stay up all night, one good sleep is enough to recover.
Their toxin resistance is maxed out.
Back then, she could eat all sorts of spicy snacks recklessly.
Now at the bank, even a little spicy food can upset her stomach.
“Hmm~”
Seeming to sense someone looking at her, Meng Siyu tiredly moved her head, lifting bloodshot eyes to glance at Su Moli beside her.
As expected, Su Moli was looking at her.
Noticing Su Moli’s gaze, Meng Siyu turned her head away awkwardly, pretending she wasn’t fully awake, burying her head back into the desk.
Deep down, she felt ashamed—she had promised to be disciplined, but because of…she had broken her promise again.
Saying it was like not saying it at all.
So untrustworthy.
【Meng Siyu is pressuring herself again. Please help reduce her anxiety. Reward: 100 yuan】
“What’s wrong? Did you stay up playing games again last night?”
Very faint, almost like a mosquito’s buzzing, only Meng Siyu herself could hear the reply.
“If that’s the case, why don’t you take a day off to rest at home?”
“After staying up all night, going to class the next day is just torture.”
“You should take good care of your body.”
Those gentle words flowed like warm water or a soft breeze brushing the face.
Though simple concern, it instantly warmed Meng Siyu’s heart, who had never truly felt cared for.
Though her parents cared too, it always came with a price—unintentional pressures instilled on her about studying above all, that without money you can’t marry well, and so on.
Such invisible pressure suffocated her.
Only when she was with Su Moli, chatting lightheartedly, did her mood relax.
【Meng Siyu’s favorability +1, reward 100 yuan】
However, when Su Moli told her to cherish her body, Meng Siyu’s face flushed red and she couldn’t face her.
After all, someone as perfect as Su Moli probably doesn’t do manual labor, right?
Especially someone like her with calloused hands—could she really hold Su Moli’s hand?
【Meng Siyu’s shame value +1, body sensitivity +1】
Su Moli rolled her eyes at the System, noticing the prompts were getting more mischievous lately.
It was clear the System had learned bad habits from her.
“Are you shy?”
Since it was morning self-study and no teachers were around, though other classmates were present, Su Moli, a 30-year-old uncle, didn’t care and naturally moved closer to Meng Siyu, blowing warm breath against her exposed ear.
“Whoo~ whoo~ whoo~”
As the blowing frequency increased, Meng Siyu’s ear visibly turned red, much to Su Moli’s delight.
One could say Su Moli was still attending school and hadn’t taken her million-yuan savings to retreat to the countryside to lie flat, largely because playing with Meng Siyu was so much fun.
“Don’t…don’t do that~ I want to sleep Z”
Lying face down on the desk, overwhelmed by Su Moli’s warm breath, Meng Siyu’s face almost fully flushed red.
She weakly asked, hiding her exposed ear to stop Su Moli from continuing.
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Seeing Meng Siyu tuck her ear back, Su Moli moved even closer, voice slow and soft, as if speaking yet also exhaling.
“?”
“If you want to know, then show me your ear.”
Seeing Meng Siyu twitch, Su Moli pressed her face back into the gap between her head and arms, speaking softly and rhythmically.
“Did you know?”
Three seconds passed before Meng Siyu couldn’t suppress her curiosity and quietly showed her ear again.
“You know?”
Seeing Meng Siyu expose her ear again, Su Moli’s heart leapt. Like a delicate orchid, she pressed her mouth against the newly revealed ear, while quietly grasping the frightened little hand beneath her firmly—refusing to let go!
“I’ve actually had calloused hands too, so holding hands is totally fine~”
“??? ??”
[???]
Su Moli’s words struck like a thunderclap, stirring waves across the lake.
Meng Siyu had never even dreamed that anyone in this world would say something like this to her.
“You—you—you…”
In an instant, Meng Siyu was wide awake, lifting her head from the desk and staring at Su Moli’s shy, half-hidden face below.
Her heart surged uncontrollably.
It was the first time she had seen Su Moli shy—unexpectedly charming.
【Meng Siyu’s favorability +10, reward: [Beginner Hypnosis]. Please continue your efforts to completely save her gloomy life】
“What are you doing? Calm down, calm down, sit down quickly.”
Su Moli teased Meng Siyu, then hurriedly pulled her back down to sit.
Though she didn’t really mind, it was still awkward with classmates staring.
Calm down?
Calm down?
You just blurted out Meng Siyu’s biggest secret—how is she supposed to calm down?
“F…………”
Seeing the slightly shy Su Moli, whose fair cheeks flushed a soft red, and whose usually unshakable eyes began to look away when facing her, Meng Siyu’s heart pounded uncontrollably.
She simply couldn’t calm down.
This was her deepest secret, suddenly uncovered by Su Moli?!
And Su Moli said she’d had calloused hands too?
How does she know?
Why is she so good to me?
Why don’t I hate her touching me?
Could it be that she really has the Romance System and isn’t lying?
So many questions flooded Meng Siyu’s not-so-stupid mind, but no reasonable explanation came to her.
The only explanation was that everything Su Moli said was true, or else how could she know that she’d stayed up playing games last night?