chapter 15

[Random Mission Completed: Random Points +1]

After circling around half of the neighborhood, Su Yang arrived in his basement. He tossed his bag to Gru which extended two withered branches out to catch it accurately before placing it on the floor.

Su Yang changed into his slippers while humming a melody. He went to the bathroom to wash the brick and his hands.

As he washed his hands, he complained, “Always saving a damsel in distress…It was fun at first, but it’s getting boring. Does the system have any innovative missions?

“Can’t I help an old lady cross the road? If not, why can’t I send some blessings to some aunties? Anyhow, I got 21 yuan from this, so I guess tomorrow’s meals will be settled.”

After he realized that the girls he saved never repaid him by marrying him, with the most they did buying him a meal, Su Yang applied the rule of ‘a million changes in a single method’, thus he started to collect fees.

First of all, he was poor. Secondly, he had been extra poor lately.

However, he had his own principles as well. While collecting the fees from the girls, he would pick up some taxi receipts as proof at least, so the girls that he saved could claim it from their companies.

After all, Su Yang had practically protected the employees of the respective companies.

This was much more practical than buying him a meal. The girls could save money and Su Yang could earn a little money, hence it was a win-win situation.

After he dried the brick and wiped his hands, he tidied up and checked the system. In the Random Points column, his points had increased from 0 to 1. He then went to bed in silence.

On the morning of the second day, Su Yang was woken up by notifications from his Wechat. He slowly opened his sleepy eyes and picked up his phone beside his bed. He tapped it and saw a message from Chu Xia, the secretary of the class committee.

Chu Xia was a beautiful girl who was 172 cm tall. Slightly slender, had a palm-sized face and delicate facial features. She had always been told that she was photogenic, so her closer classmates always teased and encouraged her to enter the entertainment industry and said that she might even become a famous actress overnight.

To be honest, her features were really attractive. During the first day of military training, she was spotted by a faculty lecturer and was immediately invited to host the welcoming dinner as a freshman with the fourth-year seniors. This made her famous among the freshmen and first-year students of the faculty of arts. Whilst she captured the hearts of many men, she also painstakingly shielded herself from the harsh sun.

Therefore, after the military training ended, everyone was deeply tanned, but she alone remained as fair as a rose which made her the target of the girls in the class for a while.

Su Yang recalled many other girls in the class getting together and isolating her. Be it during lectures, meals, or even back in the dorm, no one wanted to be friends with her. However, sometime later, Chu Xia was accepted by the other girls again although no one knew why.

This matter became a mystery that the boys in class hoped to find out, but the other girls in the class kept their mouths shut no matter how the boys bribed them for an answer.

Su Yang was quite close to Chu Xia, or rather, she was quite close to everyone in the class. She was earnest and responsible. She even cared for her classmates and was a beautiful secretary of the class committee, so everyone liked her.

Su Yang unlocked his phone and tapped on the Wechat app.

[Chu Xia: Don’t try to escape English class today. There’s a new lecturer. Names will be taken one by one.]

‘A new lecturer?’

Su Yang’s blurry mind slowly cleared up. It seemed like he could no longer skip class today.

‘I was thinking of going to work today. Fine, I guess I’ll go to class. It’ll be bad if I fail the subject…’

With that in mind, he replied with ‘thank you’.

He was truly grateful for Chu Xia because since he was working part-time, he always skipped classes. She was the one who covered for him all the time. Otherwise, he would have failed the subject due to his lack of attendance.

After he replied Chu Xia, Su Yang suddenly noticed a new contact in his friend list with the nickname ‘Puffy Qu’.

The profile picture was the side profile of a girl’s face. She resembled the girl whom he saved last night. Su Yang tapped on her profile and saw the transfer record. 

‘Yeah, it should be the girl from last night.’

The girl was just a passerby and would remain as such in the future, so Su Yang deleted the contact.

After he deleted the contact, he tidied up and told Gru to take care of the house and not let strangers in before he headed out for his English class.

English was a major subject in university and the class was held in a lecture hall of the main faculty building. When Su Yang reached the lecture hall, many students were already inside, including Chu Xia.

Her black hair tumbled over her shoulders. Wearing a beige coat with a black T-shirt inside, she appeared simple but fashionable. She was chatting happily in the middle of several other girls. The presence of youth overflowed from her delicate features.

When she saw Su Yang enter, she waved at him by way of greeting.

Su Yang nodded and sat down in an empty seat at the last row of the lecture hall. While he was scrolling through his phone, he was thinking about where he should use the Random Point from last night.

‘Should I add the point to a pen? The pen might automatically write down the location of a treasure, or maybe it can become a fairy that can predict the future! Even if the pen fairy can’t predict the future, I can use it to perform a magic trick and earn some extra money.

‘Close-up magic! A pen that moves by itself! Hmm, that’s quite catchy…No one will be able to find its flaw!

‘Or should I add the points to my bank card? Will I be able to withdraw endless money? Then, I’ll become the CEO of a famous company, marry a rich and fair bride, and reach the peak of my life!

‘I won’t be arrested by the bank, will I?’

The more Su Yang fantasized about it, the more excited he got.

A man always had the right to dream.

Even though there was a high chance that the item that he added the point to would turn out strange, his life was already bland enough, so why could he not fantasize sometimes?

While his fantasies ran wild in his head, a pair of high heels click-clacked outside the lecture hall.