Translator: Dragon Boat Translation
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Xia Yu was freaked out by the voice and dropped his pencil on the floor.
“Did I scare you?” The girl spoke again.
He looked around. He confirmed there was no one else in the room, so the voice must have originated directly from his mind.
He didn’t have mental conditions, so the person who spoke must be—
The original owner of the body?
Right, he chose the Single Body mode and occupied the girl’s body, but he didn’t give his body to the girl to use, so the girl’s consciousness was still inside her own body.
That is to say, the girl would have to watch her body being used?
What a gross game.
“Hey hey hey, can you hear me?” The voice insisted. What surprised Xia Yu was how she didn’t sound nervous at all.
“Yes, I can,” Xia Yu replied.
“Ah, so it is another person. I thought I was sleep-walking. I was terrified,” the voice said.
“What’s your name?” Xia Yu asked.
“My name is An Siyao,” the voice answered. “What’s your name? Why are you in my body?”
“Not telling you,” Xia Yu replied.
The girl was probably from a powerful family. She said her name in spite of its danger. Xia Yu didn’t want to lie to her, so he just refused to explain.
“What’s happening?” An Siyao mumbled.
Her voice had a coyness to it. If she used her own body to say this, Xia Yu might feel pity, but since she was just a voice now, he didn’t react.
He ignored her and picked up the pencil to draw. He was ready to attempt drawing.
He wanted to try what the system just prompted, the Drawing Skill Lv 1.
What should he draw?
After a few seconds of thinking, Xia Yu decided to draw the girl he was occupying right now.
He moved his pen.
Five minutes later, there was a stick figure on the paper. Xia Yu began to think.
There were art classes at school, they even taught gouache and oil painting, but drawing wasn’t Xia Yu’s strength, and he often skipped those classes.
So what’s the point of Drawing Skill Lv 1? He was still drawing like himself.
Maybe, he didn’t start the function correctly.
He flipped the paper and said, “Drawing Skill addition, activate.”
Five minutes later, seeing what he drew, Xia Yu began to think again.
“A long-haired snowman?” An Siyao questioned.
“No, it’s you.” Xia Yu answered.
“But where’s my waist and neck?” The girl complained weakly.
“It’s okay, this is what you’d look like if I buried you in the snow.” Xia Yu was in a bad mood.
An Siyao instantly became quiet.
After a while, the girl tried to change her snowman image. “Um, you need to start with the bone structure.”
“How?” Xia Yu didn’t think Drawing Skill Lv 1 was virtual, there must be a way to use the addition, he just didn’t know how.
“You want to draw comics right? Turn on the computer. There are lots of drawing tutorials in Drive D. One of them is on drawing comics.”
Xia Yu looked around him. There was no computer.
“It’s in the lower drawer.”
Xia Yu found a notebook computer with the girl’s help.
There was a prominent logo on the laptop cover, a pig head.
The computer was the world’s best brand, the Pig-Head Man.
Xia Yu worked at his job so as to earn enough to get a laptop, though he never thought he could afford this brand.
He resisted the urge to play games. Opening the folder An Siyao mentioned. He saw all sorts of drawing tutorials.
“This is what my mom taught me when I was a kid. The videos are a little old.” The girl liked to chat as she kept talking. “When my dad heard I wanted to learn, he found me an art teacher, so I never watched these videos.”
Xia Yu’s body stiffened. Finding a drawing teacher wasn’t that extraordinary, but a drawing teacher and an art teacher were totally different.
“Can I ask how much is the most expensive art of the art teacher?” Xia Yu wanted to know if he was occupying someone very talented.
“Most expensive art?” An Siyao thought for a few seconds. “Around five million yuan. My teacher said his art wouldn’t be that expensive when he is alive, but it’ll increase in price when he died.”
The girl sounded slightly apologetic as if an artwork priced at five million yuan was embarrassing.
Xia Yu wanted to smoke.
He stopped looking for rejection. He opened a tutorial video and started watching.
After seeing the video, he picked up the pencil again, fully confident.
Half an hour later.
“…”
“Don’t feel bad. You got better. Now it looks like a long-haired snowman in a weird posture.”
Xia Yu felt that he needed to analyze everything.
What exactly is Drawing Skill Lv 1?
“You’re improving. Keep going!” An Siyao encouraged him.
“Aren’t you afraid of me?” Xia Yu asked as he picked up the pencil.
“Why afraid?” The girl asked.
“You think this is a dream?” Xia Yu said.
“Isn’t it?” An Siyao wanted to pinch herself, but she couldn’t control her body.
Xia Yu reached out and helped her.
“Ouch, it hurts!” An Siyao’s voice sounded like she was crying.
“Now, you know this is reality. And I’m using something like witchcraft to control your body. I can do whatever I want with your body.” Xia Yu tried to make the girl realize the seriousness of the situation.
His attempt was not working, and he was in a bad mood. He wanted to make the girl unhappy too.
“Can you not do anything bad?” The girl started to beg.
“No.”
“Then, please be careful. It would hurt me if you were injured.”
“???”
You just accepted this? No more begging? No cursing?
Are kids of rich families all so relaxed?
Impossible.
He was indeed occupying someone odd.
Xia Yu kept drawing.
“Now, it looks like a person!” An Siyao’s voice sounded pleasantly surprised.
Who’s getting occupied here? Me or you? Why are you happier than I am?
His drawing did look more like a person now.
Am I this talented?
No one dislikes something from the start. There must have been some unthinkable obstacles. Xia Yu’s drawing talent wasn’t great.
So the so-called Drawing Skill Lv 1 was added talent?
Xia Yu picked up the pencil.
At 2 a.m., words appeared in front of Xia Yu.
[Eight hours of game-playing has ended.]
[Exiting game]
Xia Yu’s vision went dark. When he opened his eyes again, he was back at home.
It was very quiet at 2 a.m.
He turned on the light. Picking up his phone, he started watching the video of himself.
After he occupied An Siyao, his body lay down for a while before getting up. His body went to the desk and finished homework before taking a shower and coming back to sleep.
The system was good at taking control of his body.
Xia Yu looked over his homework. It was better than what he could have done himself. All the questions were answered.
He flipped through his homework before setting it aside. Then, he began doing serious things.
Taking out a piece of paper and a pencil, he began drawing.
After one minute, a character sketch appeared. The details were not refined, but the figure was good.
Words appeared in front of him.
[Received Skill — Drawing]
[Drawing Skill Lv 1: Introductory-Level Drawing Skill]
So the addition worked when he tried hard to practice during the body-swap, and then, he’d get the experience after the game ended?
How else can he use the Drawing Skill?
Drawing something like “Bandit King” to make money?
Drawing and comics-drawing weren’t the same. There were many comics more intricate than Bandit King, but they weren’t as popular.
He was still drawing with a pencil. He had a long way to go before he could draw with a brush pen.
Other than Drawing Skill, An Siyao had two more additions, one was Flower Arranging, which was useless, and Music.
Xia Yu had asked An Siyao before; she had a piano at home.
Xia Yu remembered how the corner coffee shop was looking for a pianist. He didn’t know how much the job paid, but it would be three or four times as much as his job as a cashier, which paid 1000 yuan/month.
Maybe buying a Pig-Head Man computer wasn’t an impossible dream.
Being a pianist would be less hard than a comic artist, right?
He decided to go with being a pianist.