Chapter 68
After leaving the studio, the two of them decided to take advantage of the good weather and go to the small square behind the dormitory building to bask in the sun.
Walking on the road, Chu Yu continued to search his pockets and took out another candy corn.
Just as he was about to put it in Luo Jiayu's palm, he remembered that the other party didn't like it very much, so he changed it to fruit candy.
"for you."
Luo Jiayu took it: “!”
Chu Yu took out another piece of milk candy.
"for you."
Luo Jiayu took it: “!”
Chu Yu took out another chocolate candy.
"for you."
Luo Jiayu took it: "......?"
Chu Yu took out another toffee.
"for you."
The candies on Luo Jiayu's palm piled up into a small mountain: "?"
Chu Yu wanted to continue taking out candies, but his hand was caught before it even reached his pocket. He looked up blankly, not understanding why the NPC he was trying to improve his impression of didn't play by the rules.
Luo Jiayu held his childhood friend's fair wrist motionlessly with one hand, and reached directly into his pocket with the other hand. The expression on his face was like a curious baby: "What else do you have? Let me see."
Chu Yu protected his pocket and said firmly, "No, I'll give it to you."
"Huh?" Luo Jiayu was very surprised. "What's the difference?"
Chu Yu didn't say anything. He was too embarrassed to say that he was doing the task from the player's perspective. Every time he gave out candy, he would see the pink icon in the lower right corner increase his favorability by 1.
Anyone who has played the game for a long time knows that the easiest and most brainless way to conquer a character is undoubtedly to wholesale a bunch of the same small gifts and give them to the character to death.
It was too difficult for him to design a realistic pursuit plan. He was not a smooth-talking person and could not flirt with the person in front of him with ease. That would be more suffocating than taking his life.
So he could only choose the most rigid and least friendly way to show his goodwill, but also the one that made him most comfortable.
The pink icon indicating his favorability also gave him immediate feedback. After a series of +1+1+2, the electronic female voice quickly popped up again to announce the upper limit:
[Ding Dong, the favorability of the "Send Candy" event has reached its upper limit. This event will no longer increase favorability. There are still 72 points to go to the target of 100 favorability increase. Please keep up the good work~]
Giving candies can only increase your favorability by 8 points at most, which is less than half of what it would take to hold hands!
Chu Yu was shocked, and even his eyes became distressed when he saw Luo Jiayu taking the small gift from him.
Luo Jiayu had already picked out a nougat from the candy he had given her and started peeling off the outer wrapper, while he was picking at it and saying:
"This brand of nougat is just average. It's not as good as the ones sold at the store across from our elementary school."
Hardly had he finished speaking when he put the nougat to his lips and took a bite, when a hand suddenly reached out from the opposite side and snatched the candy back from between his teeth.
Chu Yu didn't look at him when he did this, nor did he notice that he had snatched food from someone's mouth. He put the candy in his mouth, lowered his eyes and looked a little depressed.
"If you don't want to eat it, give it to me."
Not only is there an upper limit to the amount of gifts he can give, but the upper limit is so low. If this trend continues, he will have to wait until the end of time to reach a maximum of 100 points of favorability.
He really couldn't think of any other way to safely and secretly bring the two closer.
Ding Dong, the little pink icon indicates favorability +5.
“!”
Chu Yu held a nougat in his mouth, raised his eyes and poked the system in his brain: Hasn’t the limit of giving candies been reached? Why did it suddenly increase so much favorability?
Teacher Zhao was also researching this. Combining the details of the host and his childhood friend's interactions, he came to a conclusion after careful consideration: "Perhaps if you leave it alone, his favorability will automatically increase."
Really?
"Look, your childhood friend's favorability is so high, more than 700. Sometimes enough favorability is like enough money. When the base is large enough, money can make money." Teacher Zhao talked freely and talked nonsense seriously.
"If you leave your money in your account, you'll get some extra cash from the deposit interest. If you leave your favorability points untouched, you should also get some new favorability points from the favorability interest."
It seemed to make sense. Chu Yu nodded in agreement.
"So, why does Luo Jiayu have such a high liking for you?" asked Teacher Zhao.
The favorability level of over 700 makes the name Luo Jiayu seem out of place when placed together with other conquerable characters.
The broadcast system said that he was different from the original characters in the book. His favorability was counted from the time we met, from childhood to now, more than ten years later, it has been accumulated bit by bit.
Chu Yu explained, and felt that with this explanation, it was normal for the favorability to be so high, because if the target was replaced by him, the number after the emotional conversion would probably be about 769.
After more than ten years of friendship, the feeling that the other person will always have a place in each other's life plans is worth any number.
The only thing that bothered him was the word "strategy" in the mission objective and the fact that the favorability added by each event was limited. It was hard not to wonder whether the two types of favorability referred to the same thing.
On this side, Chu Yu and Teacher Zhao were having a serious academic discussion on the topic of the task, one for each system, while on the other side, a person with a system that had lost all hope in life was about to explode into fireworks.
He likes me! He likes me! He absolutely likes me!
Teacher Ji held his forehead with his hand: "Calm down..."
He eats the candy in my mouth! He eats the candy in my mouth! Why doesn't he eat all the other candies? Why does he have to eat the one in my mouth? He seems to really like me! He finally likes me!
Teacher Ji closed his eyes: "..."
He's different today! He blushed so easily! Just now in the studio, he was holding my hand! I let go, but he didn't! He was even shy! He must like me!
"Your exclamation mark," Teacher Ji said, "is bothering my eyes."
He's so cute, I want to kiss him. Luo Jiayu returned to his normal tone and casually discussed with the system:
What do you think is better for our wedding rings: diamond, sapphire, opal or platinum?
Teacher Ji: "...Who asked you?"
Luo Jiayu pretended not to hear and looked calm: He wears a size 19 ring. I feel that both silver and rose gold are very suitable. I might as well order one of each. I can use one for the proposal and the other for the wedding. It will be perfect.
The host seems to have gone crazy, and the system is very worried.
It kindly reminded: "Walk firmly on the road first, or you'll hit the telephone pole in front of you if you don't turn."
Luo Jiayu didn't get the answer he wanted, so he clicked his tongue and decided to give a crazy hint manually: Why don't you ask me how I know he wears a size 19 ring?
Teacher Ji rolled his eyes, hung up the phone with the screen black and ignored him.
Luo Jiayu maintained a serious expression on his face. He calmly pulled Chu Yu, who was walking beside him with his head down and not even looking at the road, and said, "Be careful, don't bump into the telephone poles. Walk more steadily."
Chu Yu suddenly looked up and found that there was indeed a telephone pole in front of him, only a few centimeters away from him. After being carried away, he murmured in a daze, "Thank you."
Luo Jiayu lowered his head and looked sideways at him. The sunlight filtered through his eyelashes, casting a discreet shadow on his eyelids. He asked tentatively, "Do you prefer pure white, silver, champagne, or rose gold?"
“?” Chu Yu was confused and decided to follow his heart. “I’d rather dye it green.”
When they arrived at the small square behind the dormitory building, there was a large green lawn in the middle of the square, warmed by the sun. The two of them found a bench nearby and sat down.
After they each basked in the sun peacefully for a while, Chu Yu began to yawn sleepily with his eyes closed like a cat. Luo Jiayu took the opportunity to move closer to him a little bit, then a little bit.
He moved step by step to the person's side.
Chu Yu turned her head to look at him sleepily: "What's wrong?"
"I have something to tell you," Luo Jiayu said. "The rankings this time are different from what we heard in the system broadcast. There's too much water in the rankings. The production team has suppressed our rankings."
The slight sleepiness that had just gathered disappeared in an instant. Chu Yu did not answer immediately. After a while, he replied: "Yeah, I know."
He wanted to say don't worry, he has a way to make them survive, but he heard his childhood friend comforting him:
"It's okay, it's not a big problem, I can handle it."
If you fail to make your debut successfully, the entire book-crossing mission will be directly judged as a failure. Everything after the failure is unknown, but what is certain is that death is one of the unavoidable paths.
Strictly speaking, Chu Yu is not that afraid of death, and the probability of his debut is much higher than that of his childhood friend. He is not afraid of death or failure.
But he was afraid that one day he would look back and find himself alone.
If Luo Jiayu had not come through with him, his attitude towards the book-crossing mission would have been very simple. If he could complete it, he would do it. If he couldn't, he would die. He would not take it too seriously and would not have any worries.
But just because you can accept the worst possible outcome doesn't mean you can accept watching those around you face the worst possible outcome.
"How do you want to solve it?"
"First, buy the debut spot back. Then, follow that staff member and investigate the company he's affiliated with. I paid special attention to this when I was reading the original novel. No company involved in the buying and selling of debut spots is clean," Luo Jiayu said. "Whether it's paying to poach the staff or hiring people to collect evidence, as long as we can pry open the door once, the entire ship of accomplices will be caught."
Chu Yu listened and raised a question when she heard this: "What about the Wei family? Aren't they clean too?"
"The Wei family didn't participate in the debut spot trade," Luo Jiayu said truthfully, "but Wei Ziyu is the prince of a wealthy family after all, so the capital wouldn't dare touch him."
"?" Chu Yu was shocked. "Then how did Wei Ziyu manage to take first place?"
"The protagonist's halo." Luo Jiayu shrugged. "Evil male supporting characters like us would have been killed off by the plot by now."
Chu Yu's face wrinkled into a ball, and he mourned for two seconds for the rough fate they had faced along the way.
When this topic was mentioned, both systems in my brain popped up. Because it was related to the direction of the entire plot, the two patriarchs looked very serious.
"It's not that easy to solve," Teacher Ji said first. "You're stuck in the camp right now, unable to leave. It's inconvenient for you to do anything. Besides, you're still a trainee. If you negotiate with those companies in your personal capacity, you'll only suffer."
Teacher Zhao skillfully played the villain. "She meant that we could help you. I just finished upgrading our system after the second public performance, and we can both create fake identities and act as your agents. You pay the bills, and we'll negotiate for you."
"That's so nice." Luo Jiayu said, "I can't tell normally, but it turns out you love me so much."
"If your debut is unsuccessful, I will also deduct money."
"If your debut is unsuccessful, the baby will be sad."
Chu Yu was thinking about the feasibility of the plan proposed by Luo Jiayu. When he heard this, he raised his head and blinked in confusion, then realized that he had been betrayed by the system.
He chose to change the subject: "How far can a fake identity be created?"
"It's more comprehensive than you think," Teacher Ji said honestly. "We can fabricate a non-existent company, including its development history, scale, and industry status, saving you the trouble of registering a new one."
It's just a shell without money, but Luo Jiayu's bank card makes up for this gap very well.
"Then can we also give our entire consortium a name?" Luo Jiayu asked, "Like a leading company in the industry personally stepping in to clean up the entertainment industry?"
Teacher Zhao answered first: "Sure, what do you two want to sell?"
Luo Jiayu: "Tsar Bomb."
Chu Yu: "Baby toy car."
"..." Teacher Ji turned around and discussed with his partner, "Let's just start a regular entertainment company. Buying back the debut spot will be a victory."
"I think so too."
Chu Yu's head was still tilted towards the sun, and Luo Jiayu gently pressed his head down.
"Are you sleepy?" he asked him, "Do you want to take a nap?"
Chu Yu hummed, closed his eyes and yawned, leaning back in his chair. As soon as he relaxed, he soon felt sleepy.
Luo Jiayu looked at him for a while, lowered his head, took off his coat, put it on the man, and then carefully and little by little put his childhood friend's head on his shoulder.
The small square faces a large group of sycamore trees outside the wall. When the wind blows, besides the rustling sound of leaves, there are also a few sporadic excited shouts.
There were a few fans squatting outside the wall. They originally just wanted to take a gamble to see if they could run into a contestant passing by, but as soon as they arrived, they accidentally saw a scene of explosion in front of them.
Luo Jiayu quickly noticed the movement outside the wall and raised a finger to his mouth, worried that the person next to him would be woken up.
The fan covered her mouth, made an "OK" gesture, turned around and took a Reuters photo and posted it on the internal forum with the caption "The young couple is secretly dating again."
Luo Jiayu was very sad. The fans also knew that he was picking the right time to have a secret relationship. They were squatting there and didn't want to leave. He had wanted to kiss Chu Yu secretly after she fell asleep, but he felt embarrassed to do so because a group of people were watching him.
So the arrogant and aloof guy can only wait there and leave the result to fate, to see whether the fangirl leaves first or the childhood friend wakes up first.
I had anticipated everything, but I never expected that I would be the first to fall asleep.
The bright and beautiful weather was so sleepy that when Chu Yu woke up, half of the sun had already set and the station girl in the distance was nowhere to be seen.
His first feeling was that his head felt heavy. When he raised his eyes, he found that Luo Jiayu had his eyes closed, his head leaning against his, his breathing steady, and he was sleeping soundly.
Lively people often have very different temperaments when they are asleep and when they are awake. With their eyes and mouth corners retracted, they appear much quieter. Chu Yu carefully tried to move away, but his childhood friend's head fell down. He quickly held it up and gently put it back on the back of the chair.
Afraid that the person would catch a cold, he lowered his head and saw the coat being used as a blanket covering him, so he returned it to its original owner, and the coat returned to Luo Jiayu, and he also put one of Chu Yu's coats on top of it.
Judging from the fact that his childhood friend would not wake up in a short time, Chu Yu thought about it and decided to leave the bench briefly, walk to the edge of the lawn, then squat down and start picking the wild flowers on the lawn to play with.
He plucked all the well-growing grass leaves and flowers, and turned himself into a little boy picking flowers and plants.
After collecting all the raw materials, he sat back down next to Luo Jiayu and began to concentrate on weaving a flower crown. Weaving is a long and delicate job. When he finished, it was getting dark and the wind was getting stronger. He shrank his body in only a thin shirt, and then put the flower crown on the head of the person next to him.
As soon as the little crown was put on, Luo Jiayu opened his eyes. He looked like he had just woken up and his mind was not very clear yet.
"Little princess," he said, secretly enabling the real-time camera function in his brain system. "Come and compare."
The 1.8976 meter tall princess was too rebellious and did not listen to the old king at all. Instead, she hugged him tightly, rested her chin on his shoulder, buried her head in his neck and rubbed it, mumbling something inaudible under her breath:
"……like."
Chu Yu's body stiffened: "...What?"
The next second, the flower crown was pushed back onto his head, and Luo Jiayu regained his usual spirited look with his eyes and mouth corners raised. Because he took the opportunity to stand up while doing this action, Chu Yu had to look up at him.
The second after Luo Jiayu returned the flower crown to its original owner, he quickly took out his phone from his pocket, opened the camera, and clicked the continuous shooting button at his childhood friend who hadn't reacted yet, smiling so much that his eyes curved into crescents:
"Little princess, come and compare."
The initial anti-clay sculpture plan failed miserably.
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