Translator: Dragon Boat Translation
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Xia Yu returned to his own body and sighed with satisfaction.
Other than the misunderstanding with Feng Yumo, the experience he had at the girls’ high school was perfect.
The food was delicious. An Siyao’s friends, Feng Yujia and Feng Yumo, were friendly too.
The meatballs were the best.
Xia Yu took out his mobile phone and looked up the name of those meatballs. They’re called white jade meatballs.
After seeing their four-digit price, he exited the web page.
When he became a world-renowned pianist, he could have as many of them as he wanted.
The East Land School actually has these expensive foods all the time.
He sighed at the gap between the rich and the poor, then checked out the game’s control panel. Two of the testing tasks were completed. He could now pick a reward.
He looked past the body-search feature and picked Lv 1 Curing and 5x the experience.
He couldn’t pick the same reward twice, or he’d have picked the Curing twice.
[Lv 1 Curing: Make any Lv 1 attribute a constant]
[5x Experience: Gain 5x the experience for any skill. Effective for 24 hours. Can stop at any time.]
Lv 1 Curing was just as Xia Yu had imagined. The reward of 5x the experience was even better. Initially, he thought it only gave him five times the experience during the body-swap, he didn’t realize it lasted 24 hours and could be used three times.
He clicked on Lv 1 Curing, prompting six attributes to appear in front of him.
[Music Lv +1, Drawing Lv +1, Flower-Arranging Lv +1, Cleverness Lv +1, Scaring Lv +1, Night Vision Lv +1]
He was only learning piano to get a part-time job, so he didn’t want to pick Music. Drawing was even more useless, so he didn’t pick that either. Flower-Arranging and Night Vision weren’t very helpful either.
The only skills left were Cleverness and Scaring.
Scaring was practical, but it wasn’t exactly diverse in its purpose.
Xia Yu looked at Cleverness.
Cleverness could help in fights, in piano-playing, and drawing. It would help with almost all non-theoretical skills.
This was a very applicable skill.
He clicked on Curing.
Then, he saw the skills he had now.
[Music Lv 2, Drawing Lv 1, Cleverness Lv 1, Scaring Lv 1, Cleverness Lv +1]
He tried saying, “Game props?”
His experience history appeared in front of him.
[5x the experience 24/24]
Closing all the control panels, he thought of how to try the Cleverness skill.
Since he had the addition, he needed to practice more.
He couldn’t be running up and down like the black cat. What he needed was a way to practice without going outside.
After some pondering, he took out a pen to play with.
As he twirled the pen with his fingers, the pen started to spin.
Twirling the pen was a skill that required Cleverness.
Initially, Xia Yu wasn’t very good at it, often dropping the pen, but soon he kept improving.
He practiced from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., until he finally stopped with reluctance. Taking out his phone, he messaged Gui Zixiao, asking his friend about how he behaved at school today.
His body was deposited with the game system during the day.
“You’re asking me how you seemed at school today?” Gui Zixiao was surprised by the question.
His friend typed, “Why, do you have a crush on someone? You want to know how people see you?”
“Just tell me, unless you don’t want tomorrow’s homework,” Xia Yu threatened.
Gui Zixiao became serious. “You looked the same to me. Let me ask someone else.”
Three minutes later, Gui Zixiao sent another message.
“People said you seemed very serious at school. You’d normally look at your phone in classes outside of Chinese and Math, but today you didn’t play with your phone.”
Wait, how did people know I played with my phone in classes outside of Chinese and Math?
It wasn’t a big deal to see classmates on their phones, but to notice a pattern would take some effort.
Xia Yu was about to ask why, but he erased the words he typed.
Why did Gui Zixiao tell him this? Wouldn’t the person who made the observation want to keep this a secret?
Or maybe this person wanted to be discovered?
Cautiously, Xia Yu didn’t ask more questions. He just replied noncommittally and ended the chat.
On the other side of the conversation, Gui Zixiao closed his chat with Xia Yu and opened the chat with a female classmate.
“I was going to make him realize you were watching him and see how he felt. He seemed really guarded though. He didn’t ask any questions.”
The girl sent a sighing emoji.
After dodging a potential crush, Xia Yu kept practicing twirling the pen. After he became good with one twirling method, he tried another way. When some fingers were skilled, he practiced with other fingers.
By 7:30 a.m., he could twirl the pen with any finger and twirl the pen four different ways.
When the alarm rang, he put down the pen and went to wash up.
He could log onto the game at 8 a.m., but he didn’t. If he logged onto An Siyao’s body now, he could only help her go to school. It could have been enjoyable being at an elite girls’ school, but Xia Yu, with only 2500 yuan in savings, just wanted to make money.
After arriving at his school, he continued to practice pen-twirling, even during class.
The girl who was watching him was only paying attention to his handsome face at first, but she couldn’t help noticing his spinning pen.
The pen was flying back and forth rapidly, leaving nothing but a blur. She was amazed.
Her observation was noticed by Gui Zixiao, who also looked at Xia Yu. He too became mesmerized.
Xia Yu’s pen-twirling was simply too skilled. His wrist stayed still, only his fingers were moving to make the pen dance, with not a moment of rest.
Gui Zixiao’s gaze wasn’t as subtle as the girl’s, so he was seen by the math teacher during class. The math teacher glanced at where Gui Zixiao was looking and snorted.
He didn’t blame Xia Yu. What was so great about pen-twirling. Gui Zixiao was the problem, being so distracted in class.
He called up Gui Zixiao to answer a question. When the student couldn’t answer, the teacher continued to lecture.
He didn’t care about Xia Yu’s pen-twirling. Research has shown that some hand movements helped people concentrate. The pen-twirling wasn’t bothering anyone anyway.
Yet the math teacher couldn’t help noticing Xia Yu as well.
When he realized what was happening, he couldn’t stop himself from staring at Xia Yu.
He watched Xia Yu spin the pen from his right thumb to his right pinky, then tossing the pen to his left hand for more twirling. The math teacher was mesmerized.
Why was this pen so incredible?
Xia Yu, who was looking for a challenge, added a pen. He spun two pens from one hand to another, occasionally moving the pens on his wrists, tossed them into the air, then collided the pens, before separating them.
It wasn’t until he realized that the math teacher had stopped talking and the whole class was quiet that he realized something was wrong.
He looked up. Everyone in the class, including the math teacher, was staring at him.
What are you looking at?
Xia Yu was surprised.
A little sheepish, he tucked away the pen, pretending to focus on the math problem on the blackboard.
When he put away the pen, the math teacher and all the students sighed in unison. The math teacher withdrew his gaze reluctantly.
Xia Yu, a little spooked by their attention, stopped twirling his pen in class. After school, he went to the store where he worked and told the owner he was quitting.
He couldn’t leave the job right away. He had to wait until the store owner had a good replacement.
He would just need a few more days to complete his piano-learning. It was enough time for a replacement to be found.
At his job, he took a pen from the store and twirled it.
A middle-aged man, who came in for some soy sauce, stared at the pen-twirling, then added the pen to his purchase.
At five-thirty, when his coworker came to take over the shift, the guy was surprised at the empty pen holder. “There haven’t been any exams lately. Why are all the pens sold out? We had a week’s worth.”
Xia Yu shook his hand, expressing his confusion.
When he got home, he said hello to Youxue, and ate dinner quickly. Then, he went into his room and locked the door.
He logged onto An Siyao’s body.