Insite High School, computer class.
Jiang Tang played Spider Solitaire out of boredom.
Ever since she learned that Villainy Value only worked on Su Nianyao, she had lost interest in teasing anyone else.
[Host, you don’t seem to be in a good mood.]
“Kitty is sick, no fun allowed, forced vacation.”
[Host, grind up! Don’t waste this great time. I still have other Plot Points you can choose from. You can read ahead.]
‘Right, grind.’
‘If the mountain won’t come to me, I’ll go to the mountain.’
The image of the wet figure in the school’s VIP lounge flashed through Jiang Tang’s mind.
“Let me see where my cat is.”
When it came to grinding, who could out-grind her? Full of motivation, Jiang Tang opened Su Nianyao’s Tongtong and sent a beckoning-hand sticker.
Soon, Jiang Tang’s phone vibrated, and a location came through.
“Let’s go catch a cat.”
[Host, are we going to skip class?]
“How is this skipping class? This is a staggered self-study plan.”
The corners of her lips lifted into an alluring smile, and she calmly left amid her classmates’ astonished looks.
The programming teacher’s mouth twitched. He took off his thick-rimmed glasses and wiped them, pretending to be severely nearsighted and see nothing.
Su Nianyao’s cold was gone.
Actually, she had completely recovered by the next day, but she didn’t rush back to school.
A three-day leave would be a waste if she didn’t use it.
Most importantly, she needed money.
By now, she had figured out how this game worked. Without spending money on items, getting that last bit of Affection Rating was as difficult as reaching heaven.
Moreover, a major event was about to happen according to Su Nianyao’s profile card.
Her grandma would suddenly fall ill and, due to a lack of money, give up treatment and pass away.
Honestly, this grandma had made up for the loneliness of playing the game alone and given her a great deal of warmth. She was an indispensable emotional anchor.
She didn’t want Grandma to get into trouble because of the game’s settings.
On the other hand, Grandma getting into trouble also meant that her 80 Affection Rating and two uses of Mind Reading would soon disappear!
Whether as a player or as a granddaughter, she wanted to change something.
For that, she needed her first pot of gold.
Insite High School had a work-study program, but the conditions were harsh: low pay, long hours, and having to watch the expressions of teachers and young masters and ladies. Interpersonal relationships were complicated, and accidentally triggering side quests would make it more trouble than it was worth.
Su Nianyao flipped through the reviews on the school forum and decisively gave up.
She’d better find a job herself.
She sat at the desk, scrolling through job-listing websites on her phone.
Bubble tea shops, convenience stores, cafes… She wasn’t old enough. Tutor? She didn’t even have a high school diploma. Would anyone hire her as a tutor?
Was she only qualified to hand out flyers and wash dishes?
Just as she was scrolling, her phone vibrated.
A Tongtong message notification appeared.
Jiang Tang had sent a beckoning-hand sticker.
“…What for?”
‘She wants me to go over?’
‘She finally got a leave, and now she’s supposed to go back to Insite at this hour?’
‘No, no, no way. Even if it’s a request from the romance target, it’s no good.’
Su Nianyao sent her own location. She huffed as she put down her phone. If Jiang Tang wanted her, she could come herself.
She didn’t believe the Jiang family’s eldest young lady would skip class just because someone sent her an address.
…
“Ah?”
“No way, she actually skipped class?!”
Su Nianyao stared in shock at the pink Mini Cooper parked crookedly in front of the twenty-four-hour convenience store.
The car door opened. Jiang Tang poked her head out from the driver’s seat, her hair blown into a mess, and beckoned to her.
Su Nianyao quickly tossed the instant noodle container in her hand into the trash and ran toward Jiang Tang.
“You’re driving yourself? Where are your bodyguards?”
“Get in.” Jiang Tang ignored her question and opened the passenger door. “You can’t park here.”
Su Nianyao quickly slipped inside and fastened her seat belt. More urgent than asking how Jiang Tang could skip class or whether she even had a license was another matter.
“Young lady, is it okay for you to go out alone? Your net worth is so high… it’s easy to trigger a kidnapping plot… mmph–“
Jiang Tang freed one hand and pinched her mouth shut.
“Have you eaten, kitty?”
“…Not enough.”
One moment, Wild Cat; the next, Mimi; and now, kitty…
Su Nianyao had already grown desensitized to Jiang Tang casually giving her nicknames.
She recalled her own Kang O braised beef noodles. She had just seen Jiang Tang throw away the half-eaten food, which was a bit of a pity.
“Then let’s eat first.” Jiang Tang glanced teasingly at her soft belly. “A qualified owner will let kitty eat until she’s full.”
‘You’d better mean the proper kind of eating!’
Su Nianyao glared at Jiang Tang, then looked down at the navigation address. Their destination was a riverside leisure park.
When she had been looking for a part-time job earlier, she happened to scroll past a notification saying it was flower-viewing season. The flowers there were blooming beautifully, making it the perfect place for dates.
‘A date?’
Su Nianyao was struck by sudden inspiration.
‘How can I waste the romance target coming to my door?’
[Quick, quick, Xiao Ai, where is the book I bought last time?]
[Here it is. I’ve opened it for you to read…]
She hurriedly crammed at the last minute.
–Some people looked like they were spacing out, but were actually frantically flipping through a secret manual.
**[Let me see… <36 Little Tricks to Teach You How to Touch Your Partner’s Heart <3>… First one, the ambiguous technique of breathing while kissing??!]
Su Nianyao immediately clicked the X to close the book.
[Xiao Ai, why is a book that can’t pass censorship showing up here?]
[Physical desire is a normal emotional need.]
[Second one, touching these places will make her more aroused… Look at this title! Is this healthy? This is way too explicit, and it even has illustrations!]
[^_^]
[What are you laughing at? I’m here to romance her, not to deliver myself to her door.]
[What is Master saying? Xiao Ai doesn’t understand. ^_^]
Starting to pretend to be a bot again.
Su Nianyao, red-faced, threw the book in her mind back into storage. The adult world was too terrifying; she would rather play house with the young lady.
She saw a half-person-tall insulated cooler on the back seat. Her eyebrow arched; her intuition told her it contained the meal they were about to eat.
‘Right, a picnic is what a normal high school date should be.’
Soon, the two arrived at the park.
The riverside park was at its most beautiful. The sunlight wasn’t harsh, and the breeze was gentle. The river flowed slowly, and the flowers along the bank were all in bloom–pink-white water lilies, purple loosestrife holding up purple spikes, fiery canna lilies, large patches of cosmos… With one gust of wind, it felt like a hundred flowers were competing in beauty.
Of course, if she didn’t have to lay out that absurdly large checkered picnic blanket, she would have praised how pretty it was.
She glanced at Jiang Tang, who was lying lazily on the picnic blanket, and began pulling things out of the half-person-tall cooler she had just struggled to carry down.
One dish after another, served in gold-rimmed bone china tableware.
Freshly sliced wagyu sandwiches, black truffle chicken wraps, cherry blossom strawberry daifuku… Wait! There was even a bottle of chilled champagne?!
No wonder it was so heavy!
This fragile body was already trembling in both hands after setting up the picnic scene.
Su Nianyao gritted her teeth and looked at Jiang Tang, who was comfortably dozing. The instant noodles she had barely eaten were probably already digested.
Gurgle–
Just as she thought that, her stomach let out a loud protest.
She was about to eat a little to tide herself over when a shadow pressed over her from the side.
The scent of strawberry cream cake embraced her from behind.
“Stay 3 meters away from me.”
Su Nianyao didn’t even lift her head, chewing daifuku. People are iron, food is steel; she would eat her fill before fighting to turn things around.
‘Starving.’
Smelling the strawberry cream made her even hungrier.
‘Why does she always smell so good?’
“3 meters? Then how am I supposed to hear kitty’s tummy rumbling?”
Jiang Tang not only didn’t leave, but bent down even more shamelessly, leaned close to her ear, and her long, soft hand reached around from behind to mischievously press on her belly.
“…What’s so interesting about listening?”
Su Nianyao stuffed another chicken wrap into her mouth. If the enemy doesn’t move, I don’t move; if the enemy moves, she plays dead.
Jiang Tang hugged her tightly from behind. The girl’s soft body pressed close against her, and she rested her head on her shoulder and nuzzled it. Today she wore twin ponytails with braided buns, and the loose strands tickled her neck.
She suddenly remembered Xiao Ai’s words.
[Physical desire is a normal emotional need.]
‘No way, zero-frame start?’
Su Nianyao tensed her body:
“…W-what are you doing? Aren’t you going to eat?”
She heard Jiang Tang chuckle low by her ear. “Your ears are red~”
“The wind is too strong. They’re frozen.”
Su Nianyao looked at the sun overhead and lied through her teeth.
“Kitty, give me a sandwich.”
Jiang Tang didn’t expose her, but instead maintained this position and gave orders.
“Can’t you get it yourself?”
“My hands are very busy right now.” Jiang Tang said innocently, without stopping her hand movements.
‘…Stop touching my belly!’
‘I’m not actually a cat!’
‘Hey, hey, hey, don’t go higher!’
‘Down is no good either!’
Su Nianyao shot to her feet, grabbed a sandwich, and stuffed it against Jiang Tang’s mouth. “Eat.”
‘Shut your mouth and eat!’
‘Protecting green, healthy, civilized content is everyone’s responsibility.’
‘Stop with the explicit stuff!’
Jiang Tang looked at her face, which was red all the way to her ears yet still trying to hold firm, and her chest filled with delight.
‘I really want to bully her.’
‘I really want to see her cry.’
‘The look of her eyes slightly red with tears must be so moving.’
There was still sauce at the corner of her mouth.
‘Ah, kitty won’t mind if I sneak a lick, right?’
‘No, that would scare her away. I have to endure it.’
Jiang Tang stared at Su Nianyao without blinking, biting into the sandwich bite by bite.
Su Nianyao felt completely uneasy. She felt that what Jiang Tang was eating wasn’t a sandwich, but her.
‘…Stop thinking!’
‘It’s getting weird again!’
She quickly looked away and moved herself a little farther from Jiang Tang.
“Kitty, feed me a strawberry.”
Insatiable Jiang Tang issued a new command.
Su Nianyao picked the biggest strawberry and pushed it against her pink lips, a mischievous smile flashing in her eyes.
‘A giant strawberry, let’s see how you eat it!’
Jiang Tang seemed to see through her thoughts.
The corners of her lips lifted, and she gently held her hand, bringing it to her mouth elegantly as if holding a fork.
The strawberry was crushed by her shell-like white teeth.
Red juice slid down Jiang Tang’s fingers.
Her tongue curled and swept the strawberry juice into her mouth, the soft surface of her tongue lightly licking her fingers.
[Ambiguous Technique for Breathing While Kissing: 1. Lightly lick with your tongue…]
–!
Su Nianyao’s body trembled slightly. Something dirty had run into her mind!
“Very sweet.”
Jiang Tang looked at her deeply and naturally wiped the sauce from the corner of her mouth with another finger and put it in her mouth.
“This is sweet too.”
“Courtesy demands reciprocity. This one is for you.”
Jiang Tang narrowed her eyes, smiling like a fox that had stolen a fish, and also took a strawberry for her.
Except she picked the smallest one.
“Ah, open up.”
“…”
‘Thankfully, it’s a finger, not a tongue.’
Su Nianyao relaxed and opened her mouth to take the strawberry, but she had relaxed too soon.
The next moment, Jiang Tang’s thumb was pushed into her mouth along with the strawberry.
She brazenly massaged her gums, crushing the small strawberry against her molars, choking her until physiological tears spilled out.
Jiang Tang’s burning gaze fell on the tears at the corners of her eyes, and she slowly leaned closer with a fascinated expression…
[Ding–]
[Plot Point completed (extra): Humiliate Su Nianyao with food off campus. Villainy Value +5.]
[Current Villainy Value: 180.]
Jiang Tang paused, veins of annoyance appearing on her forehead.
“…Dismissed.”
[Yes, this system will withdraw now. Honored Host, please continue.]
She looked regretfully at Su Nianyao, who had taken the opportunity to shift half a meter back:
“Ah…“
The cat ran away.
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