Arc 1
My World Consist Only of You (13)
After Gu Jianan sent Ye Chen home, he went to the supermarket to buy vegetables, then cooked for her. Ye Chen ate in joy and felt that her wounds didn’t hurt.
Gu Jianan left only after he washed the dishes and confirmed Ye Chen has finished her meal.
Ye Chen lay down on the bed, with happiness bubbling from her face “38, I feel, this lifetime is so worth it!”
“Host,” said the system faintly, “Do the wounds still hurt?”
“Wounds?” The system reminded her of that and Ye Chen began to wail, “Aiya, it hurts…!”
“Why didn’t you feel it just now?” The system was a little puzzled. Ye Chen smiled, “Gu Jianan looks so beautiful that I forgot everything…”
Speaking of this, Ye Chen suddenly recalled, “Report the current value.”
“Blackening Value 10, Favorability Value 70, Plot Progression 40%.”
“70? I don’t have to worry about Ye Min snatching him after it is above 70, right?” Ye Chen cheered, “You say, what do you think Gu Jianan is thinking right now? I have helped him many times before. Why is he so touched that I helped him this time?”
“His logic is quite simple,” The system analyzed for her, “Before, you did your best but there was still a feeling of looking down at him. Now, you protected him and could even use your life to help him. This kind of emotional weight is different. You make him feel exceptionally important, so it’s easy to brush up on his favorability.”
It was the same as Ye Min in his last life. She stood up for Gu Jianan again and again because Ye Chen constantly beat him. Although it was more because of a contradiction between the siblings, it was still a sincerity that Gu Jianan never got before.
For people like Gu Jianan, it was challenging to get his sincerity. But, if you got it, you would get all of his sincerity.
Because his heart was too small, only a few could fit in his heart.
However, the system wouldn’t tell such deep analysis to Ye Chen. It enjoyed her foolishness when she innocently kept sending messages to Gu Jianan. At the same time, Ye Chen asked the system, “My main task is to accompany Gu Jianan to grow up and prevent Ye Min and Zhou Yucheng from falling in love, right? By the way, what should I do to prevent them from falling in love?
“There are various reasons for the final destruction of the world. According to system analysis, the main reason for this world is that the blackened Male Lead fell in love with the Female Lead, but the Female Lead didn’t fall in love with the blackened Male Lead. She fell in love with Zhou Yucheng, resulting in the instability of the world. In other words, if this cause of instability is not eliminated, it is very likely that even if Gu Jianan is not the one that caused the destruction, there will be other people doing it.”
“Excuse me[1]?” Ye Chen looked up blankly, “Just because a man and a woman don’t fall in love with each other, the world will be unstable. How unstable was it from the beginning?”
The system, “……”
Its host was probably a lost-cause. That’s why her thoughts were always so strange.
However, although Ye Chen was a lost-cause with a strange style of performing, she performed really well. She enthusiastically went to see Gu Jianan and sent messages to Gu Jianan every day. At the same time, she kept in touch with Zhou Yucheng with the help of games and observed his relationship with Ye Min.
Zhou Yucheng was a remarkably sensitive person. No matter how Ye Chen beats around the bush, he could quickly realize that she was inquiring about Ye Min. He only pretended not to know and let her do as she wanted.
After all, Ye Chen has been “secretly in love” with him for so many years.
It’s just that… When the past Ye Chen had a crush on him, he felt irritated. Yet, when it was the present Ye Chen that had a crush on him, he frankly enjoyed it.
He never asked Ye Chen about her feeling, but he still could see it from Ye Chen’s attitude. She always took the initiative to play games with him.
Gu Jianan, on the other hand, changed his previous style completely. Before, he was completely ignoring Ye Chen. Now, he came to Ye Chen on time every day to report about his situation; He took the initiative to assist Ye Chen in the course and cook for Ye Chen. Sometimes, on his break, Gu Jianan would watch Ye Chen play mobile games.
After watching it several times, Gu Jianan noticed that Ye Chen was always playing with the same person. He couldn’t help asking, “Is it someone you know?”
Ye Chen replied casually, “Yeah, it’s Zhou Yucheng.”
“Oh.”
Gu Jianan continued to watch her play. His face was the definition of poker-face, but there was a coldness between his eyebrows that Ye Chen hadn’t noticed.
Then, the system sounded, “Blackening Value increases by 5 and the Plot Progression increases by 2%.”
Ye Chen’s hand shook slightly and she nearly dropped her phone.
What did she do?! What the hell did she do??!
“Emmm,” After pondering for a moment, the system sang happily, “I won’t tell you, I won’t tell you ~”
Ye Chen, “……”
This was revenge, it must be!
The Plot Progression was growing slowly at a growth rate of 0.01 per day. Soon, it would be the beginning of school. On the day school started, Gu Jianan rode his bike to pick up Ye Chen. Ye Chen looked at the boy in his school uniform in the sun and was pleased. She jumped onto the bike and hugged Gu Jianan’s waist. The sunlight tumbled from the gaps between the trees and became mottled spots of light on Gu Jianan’s body.
Ye Chen chattered behind Gu Jianan. Gu Jianan hooked the corner of his mouth and responded back.
They met Zhou Yucheng, who had just gotten out of his car when they arrived at school. Zhou Yucheng saw two people riding a bike into the school. When his eyes fell on Ye Chen’s purple hair and heavy makeup, he was taken aback. He went directly to Ye Chen, “Didn’t you promise me you will change your hairstyle? Why is it still like this?”
“Ah…” Ye Chen touched her nose and remembered that she indeed had promised Zhou Yucheng. She was surprised to find that her aesthetics had changed and were almost turned into previous Ye Chen’s aesthetics. She actually considered that this kind of girl was exceptionally pretty.
The alarm bell rang in Ye Chen’s heart. No! She mustn’t stray from her original aesthetics!
Both Ye Chen and Zhou Yucheng seemed to share a brain cell, “Let’s go after school. I know a barber with good skills. I’ll take you there.”
“Ok, ok, ok” Ye Chen nodded desperately.
Zhou Yucheng waved his hand and left. Gu Jianan and Ye Chen went to park their bike. He asked nonchalantly, “Do you want to change your hairstyle?”
“Mn.” Ye Chen nodded. She raised her hand and played with her hair, “I promised Zhou Yucheng to change it. This style is too ugly.”
Gu Jianan pursed his lips. He didn’t know if it was because the beauty that only he had seen was about to be revealed in front of others, or because of a sentence from Zhou Yucheng, but he discerned some anger and grievances in his heart. He couldn’t really tell what these emotions were. He just subconsciously felt it was wrong, so he held back all his anger that was about to erupt, “I think it’s fine. You look good.”
Hearing this, Ye Chen stared at Gu Jianan in shock.
“Are you blind? Do we need to go to the doctor to check your eyes?”
Gu Jianan, “……”
Ye Chen couldn’t help but fall into deep thought. Was it her fault that Gu Jianan’s aesthetics became skewed?
Not good. She mustn’t tolerate that the aesthetics of a beautiful young man like Gu Jianan became skewed.
That’s why in the afternoon, she said goodbye to Gu Jianan decisively. She got in Zhou Yucheng’s car and followed him to the barbershop.
Zhou Yucheng was influenced by a group of women around his mother and sisters and had an excellent aesthetic.
While Ye Chen was in the waiting room, Zhou Yucheng carefully reported to the barber about Ye Chen’s haircut. After four hours, Ye Chen finally ironed her hair. Meanwhile, Gu Jianan has been sending her messages.
Ye Chen has never seen Gu Jianan so proactive, so she responded quickly and positively. Zhou Yucheng glanced at it, and remarked, “I’ll treat you to dinner after this. Then let’s go and buy clothes for you. If you change your hairstyle but keep the same wardrobe, it’ll be pointless.”
“Mn?” Ye Chen was taken aback, and subconsciously said, “How come you suddenly care about how I dressed?”
Before Zhou Yucheng could answer, Ye Chen suddenly remembered that yandog[2] in their natural habitat is like this. For example, she couldn’t bear to see Gu Jianan hurt his face. If Zhou Yucheng was indeed a yandog like her, she certainly understood how reluctant he was to let her damage her beauty.
So, she replied meaningfully, “It’s all right. Don’t explain. I understand. I fully understand, comrades.”
Zhou Yucheng frowned. What did she understand?
Another four hours later, Ye Chen’s hair was permed. Zhou Yucheng ordered someone to remove her makeup and repaint it in a more normal way. When Ye Chen came out of the dressing room, Zhou Yucheng was stunned.
He always knew Ye Chen was good-looking, but he never thought it would be so good. With white porcelain-like skin, watery peach blossom eyes[3], and a clean temperament. When she saw Zhou Yucheng standing there staring at her, Ye Chen was embarrassed and waved her hand in front of his face, “Zhou Yucheng?”
Zhou Yucheng regained his senses. For a moment, he actually felt that his heart jumped wildly.
Embarrassed, he averted his gaze, “Let’s eat”
They ate and went shopping after that. They didn’t go back until the evening. Ye Chen went home with bags, small and big, under the escort of Zhou Yucheng. As soon as she opened the door, she saw Gu Jianan in the living room.
He was doing his homework. When he saw Ye Chen coming back, he looked over with cold eyes, and then he was astonished.
Ye Chen, with wine-red waves on her hair, plain and light makeup that can hardly be seen, combined with the inherent beauty between her eyebrows and eyes… She brought her beauty that she doesn’t usually show…
Gu Jianan stared at Ye Chen in silence. Ye Chen grinned, “How is it? Perfect, no?”
Gu Jianan quickly came back to his senses. He lowered his face and stared at his homework, “I called you fifteen times.”
Ye Chen was surprised and quickly took out her mobile phone. Only then did she find that there were 15 missed calls and 27 unread messages on it.
Ye Chen had no words to defend herself with. Gu Jianan commented indifferently, “You really had a good time with him.”
Ye Chen stared blankly at her muted mobile phone. Who did it? Zhou Yucheng? Or did she accidentally do it herself?
She hurriedly explained, “No, I accidentally turned it on mute…”
“It doesn’t matter,” Gu Jianan packed his homework, “It’s fine. You don’t have to explain anything to me. Just have fun.”
With that, he went out with his school bag on his back and slammed the door.
He had never closed the door like this as if he was about to smash the door. When he walked out of the door, Gu Jianan clenched his fists, thought for a while, and couldn’t help but slammed the security door on the corridor with a loud “bang”.
The system sighed, and Ye Chen probed tentatively, “He… What’s wrong with him?”
“I guess, he…” the system mused, “is intimidating you.”
Ye Chen, “……”
“Let me tell you some good news,” the system abruptly announced, “Today, the Favorability Value has increased by 5, Blackening Value has increased by 10, and Plot Progression has increased by 5%!”
Ye Chen felt that she seems to have opened up a whole new world method of brushing up favorability.
The author has something to say:
Ye Chen, “I feel I have found a new way to brush the favorability value!! Is it really that easy for me to brush it if I continue to play with Zhou Yucheng?!”
Mo Shu Bai, “Don’t seek death… Listen to me. Really, be good, don’t seek death…”
Ye Chen, “Look at how fast the favorability is rising now! “
Mo Shu Bai, “You really are seeking death…”
Footnotes
It is in English in the original ↵
颜狗 – yángǒu. a person who has a special affection/weak for good-looking people. Face-con. Visual animal. ↵
桃花眼 – táohuāyǎn; Peach Blossom Eyes. The characteristics of peach blossom eyes are very obvious. First, the tail of the eye is slightly upwards, the second eye is slightly curved, and third, it is like a peach blossom, forming a crescent shape when smiling, and the eyes are affectionate and intriguing. The image is in the attachment below (the left one). ↵
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Ry’s Corner
“Do we need to go to the doctor to check your eyes?”
Lol. You tried, Gu Jianan. You tried.
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