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Chapter 3: Check-In Reward

Xiao Mingyue came out of the bathroom with her face flushed.

“A-are you still there?” she whispered.

No one answered.

Xiao Mingyue pressed a hand to her chest and let out a huge sigh of relief.

“It looks like that person really disappeared…”

Xiao Mingyue unclenched her fist and secretly rejoiced; if that guy were still around, she would definitely track down his real body, grab him, and throw him into the Yangtze River!

“How could he control my body? Who on earth is he?” Xiao Mingyue looked around the empty room, unable to figure it out no matter how she thought.

A fear called ‘the unknown’ wrapped itself around her.

“Could it be that I’ve been lonely so long that that person is only my imagination?” Xiao Mingyue looked at the food on the zitan table and felt that was not quite right.

“That guy is so strange, he loves staring at my legs, what a pervert…”

Xiao Mingyue slowly climbed onto the bed and curled up in one corner; the huge room offered no sense of safety, so she hugged the quilt and forced herself to sleep with her eyes closed.

As if remembering something, she suddenly drew her long, shapely legs up to her chest and held them tightly…

…

[Love interest has had an emotional breakdown; the player will be disconnected and cannot reconnect to this love interest within 3 days. Please do not anger the love interest.]

Lu Li rubbed his head and gave a wry smile.

“This girl doesn’t seem like the type one can reason with; she keeps threatening to toss people into the Yangtze River, so I’d better switch to someone easier to talk to.”

Lu Li opened the love-interest panel.

[Loading love interest…]

[Slot 1: Xiao Mingyue; Slot 2: empty; Slot 3: locked.]

[You have 1 chance (refreshed monthly) to randomly choose a love interest.]

[Delete slot-1 Xiao Mingyue?]

So there was only 1 random pick left this month?

If he deleted Xiao Mingyue, he could have only 1 more love interest this month.

If the next love interest turned out to have an even worse temper than Xiao Mingyue, wouldn’t that be even more annoying?

Lu Li thought for a moment and chose No.

It wasn’t because Xiao Mingyue had a pretty face, a great figure, or dazzlingly white legs; he simply found the fruit desserts at her place quite tasty.

Yes, that was all.

There was still another slot anyway; once he found a rich lady with a good temper, cute face, killer body, and long, pale legs, he would replace Xiao Mingyue!

“Claim the check-in reward!”

[Check-in reward claimed successfully: you obtained 3 attribute points and 1 random attribute (minor mastery).]

“Random attribute?” Lu Li froze; he understood attribute points… his 7 points in looks were attribute points… but what was a random attribute?

Lu Li continued to claim the reward.

A flash of blue light passed by and a huge roulette wheel appeared before Lu Li.

The wheel was covered with countless marks, and every mark bore the name of an attribute.

There were attributes like music, art, martial arts, medicine, massage, mechanical engineering, literary creation, and many others.

Lu Li was dazzled and excited; as long as he drew any one of them, he would gain minor mastery in that attribute?

That was totally amazing!

[Spin the wheel?]

“Yes!”

As he watched the wheel spin wildly, Lu Li’s heart surged; which attribute would it land on?

“If it’s music or art, I can be a tutor; if it’s medicine or massage, I can pretend to be an old Chinese doctor; if it’s mechanical engineering, I’ll go work in a factory; if it’s literary creation, I’ll write for Fanqie Novel.”

Any of those would be fine, just not martial arts; with the others I could make money and buy my little sister endless strawberries!

The pointer stopped at ‘martial arts’, and a flood of martial-arts knowledge filled Lu Li’s mind; his body also seemed to strengthen, forming muscle memory.

Martial arts?

Of all the attributes, why give me martial arts?

How do you make money with martial arts?

By robbing people?

Lu Li felt extremely vexed; people always said ‘the poor study letters, the rich practice martial arts,’ and training martial arts only ever burned money.

Lu Li opened the status panel:

[Player: Lu Li

Constitution: 3 (malnourished)

Charisma: 7 (the most handsome lad for miles)

Intelligence: 7 (cheats without getting caught)

Wealth: 25 yuan (same as the Sanya, Hainan license-plate code)

Martial arts: minor mastery (0/10)]

[You have 3 attribute points. Allocate them?]

Lu Li thought for a moment and decided to put all the points into Charisma.

He wanted to see how much better 10 points of Charisma would look compared with Xiao Mingyue.

Given Xiao Mingyue’s beauty, plenty of people would gladly keep her in a gilded cage.

If he looked even better than she did, how could he possibly lack a rich woman to keep him?

Hard work had its limits! So he no longer wanted to work hard! Come here sugar mommies!

However, he failed after adding only 1 point to Charisma.

[Notice: the player’s physical condition is too poor; Charisma cannot be raised to 9 points.]

Lu Li quickly understood; with only 3 points in Constitution he was malnourished. Malnutrition dulled the skin and hair, so his body could never reach the flawless state of Xiao Mingyue’s.

Lu Li then tried to assign the points to Intelligence.

[Notice: the player’s physical condition is too poor; Intelligence cannot be raised to 9 points.]

It was the same logic; poor physical fitness affected brain function.

Lu Li had no choice but to give up and place the last point into Constitution.

He reopened the status panel:

[Player: Lu Li

Constitution: 4 (moved like a willow swaying in the wind)

Charisma: 8 (as lovely as a quiet flower mirrored on water)

Intelligence: 8 (smarter than Bijian (TL: Chinese politician and government advisor) by one aperture)

Wealth: 25 yuan (same as the Sanya, Hainan license-plate code)

Martial arts: minor mastery (0/10)]

Why did the remarks turn him into Lin Daiyu (TL: one of the principal characters of Cao Xueqin’s classic 18th-century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber) …? Lu Li had black lines all over his face.

Even so, the 3 attribute points produced instant results.

Lu Li felt his mind become much sharper than before; he stood up and hopped twice without feeling tired or short of breath, and a flick of his leg let him raise it to head height… his body was indeed far stronger and more flexible than before.

He picked up the mirror again; his reflection now had fair, delicate skin and refined features, and coupled with his frail Constitution it produced a sickly beauty that even outshone Xi Shi (TL: one of the four legendary beauties of ancient China).

With that aura, the pretty boys on the internet were no match for him!

Even Brother Kun’s basketball shots couldn’t compete!

“You dummy, big brother! Why are you hopping around in the middle of the night instead of sleeping!”

The door pushed open from outside and a young girl walked in, rubbing her eyes.

She had glossy, thick black hair, a cute almond-shaped face, and shiny black almond eyes that sparkled upon closer look.

Before Lu Li could speak, Lu Yao suddenly exclaimed, “Dummy brother, how did you get so handsome?”

Lu Li set down the mirror and hooked up the corner of his mouth. “Did I?”

Lu Yao nodded like a pecking chick, studied Lu Li’s face carefully, and confirmed, “Yes! Very handsome! I can’t tell what changed, but you just look much more pleasing!”

Lu Li: “…”

Lu Li asked angrily, “So you’ve always found me unpleasant to look at?”

Lu Yao stuck out her tongue. “If big brother buys me strawberries, you’ll always look pleasant!”

“Scram!”

“Okay!” Lu Yao laughed and dashed away.

Lu Li reopened the dating game.

[You have 1 chance (refreshed monthly) to randomly choose a love interest. Use it?]

“Yes!”

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