Chapter 5: She’s a crazy woman!

For some reason, he felt like Wang Zuhao’s attitude toward him had improved a little?

He wondered if it was just an illusion caused by the task description.

That evening, Bai Yao lay on his dorm bed playing on his phone.

He was full of doubts.

The system didn’t provide answers to any of his questions, leaving him to guess and speculate.

This feeling of the unknown, of being unable to take control, made him exceptionally uneasy.

But there was money to be made…

At the very least, he had to eliminate the risk of that serious illness six months from now.

Even though the system was incredibly stingy, for the sake of earning 100 yuan per task and a frequency of earning 300 a day, Bai Yao had to continue following the system’s instructions to complete them.

If it stayed like this every day, that would be 9,000 a month! That was higher than a typical office worker’s salary!

Once he scraped together enough money for a medical checkup and proved he wasn’t the 100-man conqueror the system claimed he was, he would ignore the system forever!

Bai Yao made a silent decision.

Regardless, he had put off Wang Zuhao’s task for most of the day and hadn’t seen any complaints from the system, so he estimated there was no such thing as a failure penalty.

The dormitory was currently very quiet.

Bai Yao was the only one in the room.

It was so quiet that he could hear the footsteps in the hallway clearly.

He enjoyed this kind of solitude.

In the silence, he could peacefully do his own thing without worrying about being disturbed by anyone.

Thud.

Wang Zuhao kicked the door open with one foot, shattering the brief tranquility.

“Your daddy’s back!”

“Where is everyone?”

He scanned the empty dorm and looked up to see the bulging upper bunk.

“It’s only 7:00 PM. Sleeping this early?”

Bai Yao silently rolled his eyes and curled himself into a ball under the covers.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Wang Zuhao casually pulled over a chair.

The chair legs made a piercing screech against the tiled floor.

He tossed something onto the table with a clunk, then crossed his legs and shook his foot rhythmically.

The connected bed frames shook as if an earthquake were happening.

Bai Yao gloomily poked his head out from under the covers and stared at Wang Zuhao.

This guy was definitely doing it on purpose, right?

If the future was true, he really couldn’t understand how Wang Zuhao could ever fall for him.

According to the system, he had even wavered and made a choice because of it…

Bai Yao thought about it carefully.

With his personality, if he really met a girl who was good to him and clearly stated she liked me, even if her image wasn’t that great or he didn’t like her back, he’d probably agree.

He would think things like, ‘Someone actually likes me,’ or ‘It’s good enough that someone likes me.’

‘But the prerequisite is that they have to be a girl, okay! A man is absolutely impossible!’

Wang Zuhao looked up at the top bunk in confusion.

Seeing Bai Yao poking his head out and staring straight at him, he assumed the boy was expressing dissatisfaction with the noise.

He stiffened his neck and looked up to meet Bai Yao’s gaze, wearing a belligerent expression that said, “This is how I am, what are you going to do about it?”

However, after a moment, Wang Zuhao realized that Bai Yao was simply dazing off, lost in thought.

The focus of those eyes wasn’t on him at all.

This made him frown as he observed the distracted Bai Yao.

Wang Zuhao had noticed it at noon — Bai Yao’s skin had become much smoother and more delicate at some point.

All the obvious acne and scars had vanished, and the slight oiliness on his nose was gone.

The already fair Bai Yao gained a sense of refinement because of this.

His unremarkable features appeared much brighter and more delicate against the backdrop of his clear skin…

It had to be said that good skin really had a huge impact on one’s appearance.

Combined with his medium-length hair, at first glance, Bai Yao looked like a young girl with a short haircut.

Setting aside his prejudice against “sissy” guys, Bai Yao was actually quite good-looking…

Besides, Bai Yao was just naturally feminine in appearance; he didn’t act gay or behave in an affected, feminine manner like a typical “sissy” would.

When this thought suddenly flashed through Wang Zuhao’s mind, his expression changed in fright.

He barked out a question, “Why the hell do you keep looking at me?”

“Huh? It’s nothing.”

Bai Yao snapped back to reality and pulled his head back.

“Stop shaking.”

“I’ll shake if I want to. What of it?”

“…”

Damn it! This guy was too childish!

Communication was impossible!

Bai Yao wasn’t good at communicating to begin with, so he ignored the unreasonable guy and went back to playing on his phone.

Despite his harsh words, Wang Zuhao quieted down.

He turned on his computer, idly wondering what to do.

“Hey! Do you want to play a game?”

Bai Yao propped himself up in bed with confusion and poked his head out toward Wang Zuhao again.

He was actually proactively asking to play a game?

Did the sun rise in the west today? The two of them had always rubbed each other the wrong way.

“I’m not playing.”

“What was that game you were playing at noon?”

“RimWorld.”

Bai Yao paused.

When it came to a game he liked or a topic he enjoyed, he couldn’t help but say more.

“It was only eighty-some yuan when I bought it, but now it seems the price has gone up to over 100.”

“Let me see.”

Wang Zuhao opened the game platform to search.

“Game prices can go up?”

“You’re actually buying it?”

Bai Yao hesitated.

He never encountered fellow fans of such niche games in real life, making him unable to suppress the urge to recommend it.

“This game has a lot of mods, and you can even connect it to AI models to make the characters talk…”

However, Wang Zuhao didn’t understand a word he was saying.

Bai Yao simply crawled out from under his covers, climbed down the ladder, put on his slippers, and trotted over to Wang Zuhao’s side.

He peered over, looking at Wang Zuhao’s computer screen.

“Wrong, wrong, not that one…”

The guy had clearly just taken a shower.

He wore thin pajamas, and his slender, fair calves peeking out from his shorts showed almost no trace of leg hair.

A scent of shampoo wafted from him.

“Give me the keyboard.”

Bai Yao reached out to take the keyboard and enthusiastically bent over to type and help search for the game.

Wang Zuhao glanced at his profile — a delicate and soft jawline without a trace of stubble on the chin.

His hair, which covered his ears, was messy like a bird’s nest and looked soft enough to make one want to rub it.

Why did Bai Yao suddenly look so pleasing to the eye today?

There was even a faint sense of anticipation, a desire to talk and chat with him.

In the past, he had never spoken this many words to Bai Yao…

“This is it. It’s actually quite hard to get into.”

Bai Yao found the store page.

He stood with his hands on his hips, his tone carrying a hint of expectation.

“Ask me if there’s anything you don’t know. I’ve played for over 100 hours.”

“Oh.”

Wang Zuhao glanced at the game.

“Too expensive. I’ll wait for a sale.”

“…”

Bai Yao immediately put on a cold face and turned back toward his own seat.

“Then you’ll be waiting a long time.”

He sat down in his chair and opened the game, feeling a bit disappointed.

Why couldn’t he hold back his enthusiasm for recommending things? Wang Zuhao was probably just teasing him and laughing at him in secret!

Ever since he started playing computer games in middle school, he had been obsessed with simulation and strategy games like Paradox Four Cute, RimWorld, and Two Point Hospital…

Meanwhile, his classmates were either playing mobile games or things like League of Legends, Valorant, and Genshin Impact.

There was simply no common ground.

The dormitory door opened again.

Chen Zhilong, Lin Mingxin, and a student from the neighboring dorm who was visiting all swarmed into the room.

In an instant, the room was filled with noisy commotion.

Bai Yao turned his head to look.

The visiting student was named Qiu Ye, right?

He was tall and thin, with features that looked quite aggressive.

He was on good terms with Chen Zhilong and visited often.

[You have once again encountered your former university classmate whom you used to have a secret crush on. He is handsome and has excellent grades. You haven’t been in contact since graduation… You don’t know if he is in a relationship or married, but you believe you should make up for your past regrets…]

Bai Yao’s expression almost buckled.

Are you serious?!

Crushing on one person is fine! But several of them?!

Are you some kind of perverted, boy-crazy girl!

Oh, right.

He was a big shot who completed a 100-man conqueror streak in a year.

Liking several people and being a bit fickle was only natural…

Bai Yao lowered his head and bit his nails, watching Qiu Ye out of the corner of his eye.

‘I don’t know him at all! We’ve never spoken! How am I supposed to ask for his contact information? I can’t actually go up and hit on him, can I?’

‘Adding him as a friend in the class group chat… that counts as getting his contact information, right?’