The public bus advanced smoothly on the streets. The view outside the window turned like a kaleidoscope. Countless beautiful sceneries passed by as light and time penetrated the windows and reflected intermittently onto people’s faces.
At this time, with a numb and tingling scalp, Wen ZhiChu silently pretended to be a quail. With the schoolbag on his back and his shoulders hunched, he nested in the bus seat looking very well-behaved and obedient.
To those unaware of the situation, they might even think he was curled up there because he had been bullied.
[System: Don’t think you can pretend nothing happened by remaining speechless.]
Skycat Genie hopped around angrily in Wen ZhiChu’s head.
Wen ZhiChu explained: “I was too anxious just now and misspoke.”
[System: Why should I believe you.]
The youth fell silent for a few seconds.
[System: Are you trying to think of an excuse?]
“……” Wen ZhiChu corrected thoughtfully: “A reason.”
Immediately afterwards, he said with a completely serious little face: “Xiao AI and Skycat Genie are both four characters.”
[……]
[System: Although I’m not human, I’m not an idiot.]
Wen ZhiChu: “…… It, it really was a slip of the tongue. I didn’t mean to call you the wrong name.”
[System: Then who is Xiao AI?]
Wen ZhiChu gave the officially approved answer: “Artificial intelligence.”
[System: How many artificial intelligences do you have outside?!]
Wen ZhiChu said in panic: “No more, there’s no more.”
Hearing this, Skycat Genie let out a sigh of relief. However, the next second, it heard the youth continue to say: “But there’s one more at home.”
Skycat Genie: !
After saying that, the youth slowly pulled out his cellphone and said quietly: “Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi.”
Xiao Yi: “I’m here.”
Skycat Genie: [……]
[System: Although I’m not human, you really are such a dog.]
“……”
Hearing this, Wen ZhiChu stammered in comfort: “Don’t…don’t worry. They’re all transient passersby.]
[System: I know that without you telling me. Their names and my name aren’t even on the same level.]
Well damn, talking about stomping on the competition.
Skycat Genie asked its bottomline.
[System: Do they have English names?]
Wen ZhiChu shook his head.
Seeing Skycat Genie still somewhat angry, Wen ZhiChu comforted it quietly: “You guys are not the same.”
[System: Interesting. Keep talking.]
“……” Wen ZhiChu: “They only exists inside the cellphone.”
[System: What about me?]
“You exist…… deep inside my head.”
[……]
These words were quite literal. It really did exist inside his head.
After further discussion, Skycat Genie finally felt satisfied. Wen ZhiChu dragged the topic back on course once again.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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[The missing one yuan and the missing one million yuan are both things that I don’t have.”
“……”
[The System said with bitter disappointment: Can’t you be a bit more promising?]
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The more he looked at them, the greater the sorrow.
Skycat Genie couldn’t bear the sight anymore and said: [Money and wealth are merely worldly possessions.]
Wen ZhiChu quietly mumbled: “That only counts for other people.”
[……]
[System: How come you don’t retort like this when talking to other people?]
Wen ZhiChu: “Didn’t you say I’m a tyrant at home?”
[System: So?]
Wen ZhiChu said vacantly: “I’m putting it to practice briefly.”
[……]
Upon reaching the bus stop, Wen ZhiChu got up and got off the bus. He decided to make up for the one yuan tomorrow morning when buying breakfast and only eat two meat buns.
The next morning, Wen ZhiChu just got out of bed when he received a villain’s mission.
[System: Villain’s mission. Damage the protagonist’s belongings. Completing the mission will reward 100 yuan. The villain score will increase 4%. Failing the mission will deduct 100 yuan.]
With a dumbfounded face, Wen ZhiChu sat on the bed in a daze. His morning drowsiness has yet to vanish completely and the mechanical voice in his head was already buzzing.
Wen ZhiChu: “Sky… Hi, Skycat.]
[System: Uh huh.]
With a numb expression, the youth: “Do you have something to tell me?”
[System: Oh, good morning.]
“……” Wen ZhiChu took a deep breath: “Why is there a mission so early in the morning?”
[System: It’s best to plan your day early in the morning.]
Wen ZhiChu wiggled around inside the blankets before finally getting up slowly from the bed. After washing up, he put on his school uniform and left the house with his school bag on his back.
The original host lived on the 4th floor. When going down the staircase, he noticed a pile of garbage bags in front of someone’s door. A sour, stinky smell floated out of the bags. If he remembered correctly, an old man lived in this suite and these garbage bags had already been placed in front of the door for two days.
Wen ZhiChu thought for a few seconds. In the end, he still grabbed those garbage bags when he left and threw them into the trash can.
Heading to school, he just entered the classroom when he saw the huge words written at the bottom right of the blackboard. They were written by the literature representative.
“Students that arrive in the morning, please place the literature exam questions issued yesterday on the podium.”
Wen ZhiChu obediently took out the literature questions from his book bag. After sitting down, he saw 2nd-to-last laying head down on the desk. Pressing his lips together, Wen ZhiChu stepped forth and poked the other softly with a fair white finger.
“2nd…2nd-to-last.”
2nd-to-last moved slightly and forced his eyelids open to glance at Wen ZhiChu: “What’s the matter, #16.”
“Did…did you hand in your literature exam questions?”
2nd-to-last said weakly: “Yes.”
Wen ZhiChu looked at the heavy black circles under the other’s eyes and asked: “Are…are you alright? Your face color… doesn’t look good.”
2nd-to-last: “I went to be a candle.”
“……”
Yesterday night, his mom saw him studying and basically provided him with water and tea constantly, making him too embarrassed to not finish answering the questions.
Seeing that he was really very exhausted, Wen ZhiChu stopped asking more questions and allowed the other to catch up on his sleep. He returned to his seat and sat down properly, thinking about how to execute today’s mission.
But if he truly went over there to damage the protagonist’s belongings, wouldn’t he be simply sticking his head out and asking, “Want to beat it up?”
[System: Young man, you can also prevent the other from discovering that you are the one destroying things.]
Wen ZhiChu sighed: “But the people in the surrounding aren’t blind.”
[……]
That seemed reasonable. Skycat Genie stopped talking and let Wen ZhiChu figure out this mission himself.
However, even after eating lunch, Wen ZhiChu still couldn’t figure out how to damage Qin JiaShu’s belongings without being discovered by others.
When he walked on the path towards the dormitory, he passed by the basketball court. Wearing a basketball uniform, Qin JiaShu was sitting on a bench under the shade of a tree.
The hand wearing a white wristband held a vapor-covered sports drink, which should have been just taken out of the cooler. Qin JiaShu’s hand was very big, covering most of the bottle.
He raised his hand and took a few sips. The contours of his jawline were sharp and smooth. The Adam’s apple in his neck bobbed up and down. His body emitted a wild ruggedness. Looking up, he carelessly glanced towards the basketball court.
The gymnasium, which was located in the East Building of the school, has a changing room. Looking like he had suddenly realized something, Wen ZhiChu’s eyes lit up.
Qin JiaShu was wearing his sports jersey right now. That meant his school uniform should be in the changing room of the gym.
Right now it is the middle of lunch break. Students have either left the campus or gone back to the dormitory; a small portion went to play ball or walked around the field.
There shouldn’t be anyone inside the changing room. This worked very well for him to execute his plan.
Immediately afterwards, Wen ZhiChu turned around swiftly and ran off to the supermarket to buy a tool for the crime.
Looking at the thing in Wen ZhiChu’s hand, Skycat Genie said in disdain: [This also counts as a tool for the crime?]
Wen ZhiChu stuffed it securely inside his pocket: “Yes.”
Immediately afterwards, he hurried off to the East Building. Walking into the gym, he looked at the door labels to find the boys’ changing room.
First he looked around left and right. Not finding anyone around, he finally walked inside.
“Oh fuck!”
A shout of alarm from inside the changing room made Wen ZhiChu jump in fright.
Wen ZhiChu: !
A person!
Wen ZhiChu looked up and saw an honest-looking male student. In his left hand, he held a school uniform. In right hand, he held a pair of scissors as he stood in front of a locker.
There was a name card stuffed in the card slot of the opened locker.
Qin JiaShu—
“Qin-ge, do you want to play? I’ll switch with you.”
Looking at the basketball court, Qin JiaShu shook his head and indicated ‘no need’. He sat under the shade of the tree and looked at the shadow of the leaves on the ground. Rays of light traveled through the lush layers of foliage, creating points of light on the ground.
Immediately afterwards, he picked up the water next to him and sent an eye gesture to his companion, who was also resting.
“Leaving.”
Startled briefly, the companion said: “Qin-ge, you’re not going to play a bit longer?”
Qin JiaShu said in an indifferent tone: “No. I still have things to do.”
Saying this, he left with the water in hand.
Wen ZhiChu looked at the other person holding the scissors and instantly froze in place, dumbfounded. For a second, he didn’t even dare to move.
Unexpectedly, after seeing him, the male student actually heaved a sigh of relief: “Oh it’s you. You scared me to death.”
Wen ZhiChu: !
Why wasn’t he alarmed?!
[System: Perhaps he thinks you’re an accomplice?]
“……”
“Do we…do we know each other?” Wen ZhiChu accidentally blurted out the words in his heart.
The male student looked at him: “No, we don’t.”
Wen ZhiChu let out a sigh of relief.
“But is there still someone in this school who doesn’t know you?”
Wen ZhiChu: ……
Saying this, that male student didn’t seem as anxious as before: “Bro, you scared me to death just now. Here I thought it was someone else.”
Wen ZhiChu looked at the scissors in the other’s hand and swallowed: “What…what are you doing?”
The male student didn’t hold back at all: “Cutting this school uniform of course.”
“But…but that’s…that’s Qin JiaShu’s uniform.”
“Exactly. It’s his uniform. Who else’s would I be cutting?”
Wen ZhiChu pressed his lips together tightly: “Why are you cut…cutting his uniform?”
“I’ve been annoyed with him for a very long time already. Always wearing that pretentious smile on his face everyday. Who knows why those girls like him.”
Yesterday, he confessed and got rejected. The girl said that she likes Qin JiaShu’s type.
He asked her— how was he inferior to Qin JiaShu?
Unexpectedly, the girl said that he was a thousand times worse than Qin JiaShu, which made him feel very unhappy.
What’s there to like about that fake hypocrite?
The girl also probably only fell for Qin JiaShu’s pretty boy face and money. What a materialistic girl. Good thing she didn’t accept him. If she accepted his confession, he might not have even wanted her.
But he still had trouble swallowing this fury.
As a result, he seized the opportunity to sneak into the changing room while no one was around today. However, he had just pulled out Qin JiaShu’s uniform when someone pushed the door and entered. Good thing it was Wen ZhiChu who also detested Qin JiaShu.
Although he didn’t like Wen ZhiChu either, the enemy of an enemy was a friend. The other definitely wouldn’t snitch about this matter.
Immediately afterwards, he thought of something. Looking at Wen ZhiChu, who stood motionless at the entrance, he asked: “Why are you here?”
Wen ZhiChu stammered: “Just…just passing by.”
“Ah.” The other chuckled and didn’t think too much about it. Then, he raised his hand and got ready to cut Qin JiaShu’s uniform.
Eyebrow twitching, Wen ZhiChu charged forward and snatched it away from him.
“What are you doing?!” The male student roared in confusion.
Oh god, so close. Good thing it didn’t cut his hand.
Wen ZhiChu looked at the scissors in the other’s hand, so scared he had goosebumps. He held onto Qin JiaShu’s clothes tightly, mouth trembling for quite a while, but still unable to get any words out.
The other asked impatiently once more: “What are you doing?”
The scissors in the other’s hand was sharp. Wen ZhiChu didn’t dare to provoke him and could only go along with the other’s words: “I also…want to cause some damage.”
The male student instantly started laughing: “Alright then. Let’s do it together.”
Saying this, he stepped forth to take the uniform in Wen ZhiChu’s hands. Holding the uniform, Wen ZhiChu turned and moved back, clearly not willing to hand it over.
The male student frowned.
Wen ZhiChu said with trembling lips: “Qin JiaShu’s clothes……I’m the only one who can vandalize it.”
Thank you for the chapter!! 😊
I wonder how much of it Qin ge heard lol…
Thank you for the chapter~♡
Is it also some form of being protective hahahhah
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
System: what social skills. what love and affection. my master is too pure that even being a villain can be taken as a show of affection. ptoooey! Like hell it is! He’s the worst host this system could have… And he’s scum, keeping other AIs and systems outside when he has me.
WZC: (ㄒoㄒ) i feel so wronged!! It’s really not like that! Let me explain ahhhh
Thanks for the chapter!
Imagining that QJS might’ve heard their conversation especially the last part makes me suffer from second-hand embarrassment 😭
Thank your for the chapter!!!
Wonder what he bought at the market to add to the circus…hahahaha!
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I’m thinking chuchu definitely bought something like marker pens to doodle on the uniform, with his unique way of thinking 😂
LOLLLlllll Thank you for the chapter!
Aaaaah, noooo, it’s to stressful for me! o(*≧□≦)o
Thank You for the new chapter (´∩｡• ᵕ •｡∩`) ♡
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well, that’s one way of staking claim!
TAN LINDO KONDCLKAND
oh bingus this won’t end well
that sounds ambiguous lmaooo
thanks for the chapter!