Translator: Dragon Boat Translation
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
“Did I what?” An Siyao misunderstood. “I took a shower last night! I wash in the morning too!”
“No, I’m not saying you have body odor.” Xia Yu didn’t realize it until the girl brought it up. She actually smelled like a fragrant body wash.
He then changed his tone. “Actually, you do smell.”
“I’ll shower every day at 5 o’clock in the future!” An Siyao sounded worried.
“It’s okay. It’s a good smell.” Xia Yu raised his arm to smell it.
An Siyao was embarrassed that a guy was borrowing her body and smelling her.
She wailed, “Don’t do anything weird!”
Xia Yu assured the girl he wouldn’t. Then, he began to think of her lack of sleep.
Xia Yu didn’t want to exploit such an adorable girl for her skills.
“How about if I come every other day?” He said.
An Siyao didn’t reply right away, after a minute, he heard her muffled voice.
“Are you not interested in me anymore?”
“???”
After explaining that he was worried about her lack of rest, he promised her that he’d come twice every three days and give her one day of good sleep.
After the last five minutes of game-playing had passed, Xia Yu returned to his own body and sat up. He thought of how he spent his time with An Siyao. Should he have handled himself better?
I was just using someone’s body in a game, why does it feel like I got another clingy younger sister?
Whatever. It was a good thing.
He got out of bed and looked out at the moon. He had told An Siyao that today would be her rest day, so he had an opening for a body-swap.
Should he try to have some fun with a random girl?
No, this wasn’t the time to play. He better swap bodies with the black cat and gain more Cleverness skills. The sooner he became a qualified pianist, the sooner he could earn money.
Checking his [Music Lv2] on the control panel, Xia Yu knew he’d get there pretty soon.
He picked up a book from the bookshelf.
Writing novels earned money too; he could make a lot of money by submitting to magazines. If he published mid- to full-length novels, he could earn money when he became a popular writer.
Too bad his first body-swap target was An Siyao and not a girl with writing talent.
Piano was great, but writing made money without having to leave his apartment; it was more convenient.
Piano had its unparalleled advantages though.
—The image!
Sitting in front of the piano, he could effortlessly move his fingers to perform elegant songs, while looking regal and high-brow.
If he played at a school concert, he would receive tons of love letters.
He stopped day-dreaming and turned on the lamp to read a novel.
With [Night Vision Lv 1], he could read in the dark as easily as if it was a rainy day. Usually, rainy days were hard for reading.
At 7:30 in the morning, he finished washing up and had breakfast. Xia Yu and Youxue left home together for their schools.
Today was Friday, and he’d have time off in the evening.
When he got to class, Xia Yu gave his homework to Gui Zixiao, who waited by the door.
“Why can’t you copy it at night? I can take a photo and send it to you,” Xia Yu said.
“No, if I did it at home, there’s no urgency like I get at school.” Gui Zixiao shook his head.
Xia Yu had nothing to say to that.
“We have to give suggestions for the cultural festival this afternoon. Do you have anything?” Gui Zixiao asked.
The cultural festival was a big deal at school; it was as important as game day. Game day was for sports competitions while the cultural festival was organized by the students. People from outside the school would also come to see it.
Xia Yu had completely forgotten.
“Did you forget? Do you want to join our team?” Gui Zixiao took out a stack of copied papers and gave them to Xia Yu.
Xia Yu looked through the papers. They were plans for a costumed waitress cafe, with details of what coffee to serve, coffee prices, what kind of maid costumes the waitresses had to wear, how to get the costumes, and who should wear them, etc.
There were six signatures at the bottom of the plan.
Gui Zixiao gave him a pen, looking at him expectantly. “No matter where you’re from, when you sign, we’re all brothers!”
“I refuse.” Xia Yu put down the stack of papers and returned to his seat.
Shortly after he sat down, three girls approached him.
The girls all nudged each other until a tall girl delivered their plans. “Xia Yu, would you want to support our plan?”
He glanced at their papers.
Costumed Waiter Cafe.
Ah, women weren’t much different from men.
“Sorry, I have my own plans already.” Xia Yu turned them down gently.
“Sorry to bother you.” The girls looked disappointed.
Xia Yu was only a little good-looking, but he was still popular in this class of 40-plus people. With his support, a costumed waiter cafe would have a bigger chance of getting approved.
After the group of girls left, more people came to ask Xia Yu for his support. The plans were all very bizarre: break-up experience, kabedon experience, jump rope competition, etc.
After saying no to all of these plans, Xia Yu wrote his own.
At noon, the class leader started collecting everyone’s proposals. She looked curiously at Xia Yu’s plans.
—After school tutoring.
Was he crazy?
…
The day of classes passed quickly. When Xia Yu got home, he closed the door and entered the black cat’s body.
He familiarized himself with his now 20-centimeter tall vision and left his house.
His home wasn’t a good place to practice cleverness, so he went to a nearby park.
The lights were very dim in the park. No one other than young lovers lingered here.
He ran a bit in the park. He crawled onto the slide and monkey bars for kids, trying to practice. At around midnight, he was bored and left the park, wanting to explore the city.
Many people had seen the city of Zilang at night, but no human had seen it at a 20-centimeter high point of view.
Even familiar roads felt different with different angles.
If he was an artistic cat, he could have written a poem.
He went into a convenience store. With the clerk staring at him in shock, he used one yuan to buy a sausage.
After the snack, he played some more. At 1:50 a.m., he returned home.
Opening the bathroom door, he looked for a place to do his business.
He chose the toilet instead of the litter box.
It was convenient that he was good at jumping now, or it’d be hard for him to get onto the toilet.
Just before he could do his thing, someone dashed in.
It was Youxue.
“…”
The human and the cat stared at each other for five seconds, then Youxue grabbed him.
“I knew you were not an ordinary cat!” The girl exclaimed.
Was he exposed? Xia Yu grew nervous.
Picking up Xia Yu, Youxue excitedly said, “You’ll do, we’re going to the national competition together!”
“???”