Chapter 43: Too Scary!
As expected, Long Xing’s favorability toward me has already passed eighty.
After the National Day holiday, I must be more careful around him! Who knows what that guy might do to me!
And Su Peng... his favorability is still below eighty, so it’s within the safe range. But what does that “charmed state” mean? And what’s with that symbol showing it’s still increasing?
[Su Peng’s favorability +5]
Another system message appeared in An Han’s view, and Su Peng’s favorability jumped straight from 77 to 82.
His heart skipped a beat.
He still didn’t understand what a favorability over eighty actually meant, but it probably indicated something like “liking”. Otherwise, the system wouldn’t have given that extra notification.
He turned his head to look at Su Peng, only to find Su Peng staring directly at his face, breathing heavily, his eyes filled with a hazy look.
Looking down, the obvious bulge in his pants made An Han instantly realize that Su Peng was completely overcome by desire and might do something illegal at any moment.
An Han really couldn’t figure out what had gone wrong.
But he did know, if this continued, he’d have to pay a visit to the proctology department.
“An Han...” Su Peng’s voice was low and rough as he unconsciously leaned closer.
An Han suddenly stood up, speaking in a very serious tone.
“I just remembered I have something important to do. How about you head back first?”
“What’s wrong?” Su Peng froze mid-movement, a bit of clarity returning to his eyes.
That only made An Han panic even more. He quickly opened the door, grabbed Su Peng’s arm, and started pulling him out.
“I’ve got something urgent to take care of, you go first!”
“I’ll call you later to play games, okay? Take your laptop with you!”
He hurriedly pushed Su Peng out of the dorm, then ran to grab Su Peng’s laptop and shoved it into his arms before slamming the door shut with a loud bang!
But right after that loud noise, the door bounced back and hit An Han right in the forehead.
“Ah!”
“You okay?” Su Peng asked worriedly as he pushed the door open again.
“I’m fine! I’m fine!”
An Han didn’t know what to do with that concern. One hand on his forehead, the other still pushing Su Peng out.
“Why are you blocking the door with your foot?!”
“Hurry up and go!”
Su Peng looked completely confused.
“What’s with you all of a sudden? Why are you so desperate to kick me out?”
Just moments ago, An Han was still warm and friendly, and now he suddenly turned cold.
“Your forehead’s swollen, let me see.”
But the gentler Su Peng acted, the more anxious An Han became. Ignoring the pain on his forehead, he kept pushing him out.
“It’s fine, I can handle it myself!”
“What really happened?”
An Han’s brain worked overtime trying to come up with a reasonable excuse.
No good, there was no excuse that made sense!
He could only beg helplessly, “I really have something urgent, Su Peng, just wait for me a bit, okay?”
“You can’t tell me what it is?”
Those big eyes blinked, shimmering with a pleading light. His soft voice and delicate expression made Su Peng’s heart race. He took two steps back, struggling to calm down.
“Then I...”
He didn’t even finish his sentence, but those two steps he took just happened to move him outside the dorm room. Seeing the chance, An Han quickly slammed the door shut and locked it.
“Done!” he let out a breath of relief, but then his eyelid twitched again.
[Su Peng’s favorability +5]
Good thing he managed to push Su Peng out! Otherwise, that favorability score would’ve exploded!
Even if he didn’t know what would happen once favorability passed 100, there’s no way it’d be something good!
But seriously, why did Su Peng have that “Charmed” status?
Panting, An Han leaned back against the door and weakly slid down to sit on the floor.
This was too hard.
He could hear Su Peng’s footsteps pacing in the hallway, going back and forth, not leaving. An Han listened carefully and only after a long time did he hear the door of the next dorm open and close.
He scratched his hair in frustration, messing up his once-neat hairstyle, then started checking other people’s favorability toward him.
“Wu Dongming: 65... Chen Junjie: 43, Wang Sheng: 50.”
So, it seems like anyone below seventy is just normal friends.
Above seventy, though, probably means they’re... interested in my body.
Besides these few friends he spent a lot of time with, he also checked some classmates he didn’t really talk to much.
Those people, the ones he only knew by name, all had favorability around thirty.
“Okay, I kind of get it now. But what’s going on with Su Peng...?”
An Han muttered to himself, then suddenly looked down at his flat chest.
“Wait... could it be because of the chest wrap?”
He hadn’t gained any new skills or seductive abilities these past few days. The only new thing he had was that chest wrap.
“Can I check the item’s details?”
“Alright, no, I can’t, the system already explained once.”
Still, An Han stood up, tidied himself up a bit, and headed out of the dorm.
This was something he could easily test.
It’s totally normal to chat a bit with a food stall owner, right?
But if the stall owner’s favorability also starts going up for no reason... then something’s definitely wrong!
With a gloomy face, An Han hurried out of the dorm building and went to the school’s food street.
Because of the National Day holiday, there were fewer stalls than usual, and the road that was normally packed with students after class was now quiet and nearly empty.
Looking around, An Han spotted a friendly-looking sushi vendor and walked up.
“Boss, how much for one serving of sushi?”
He tried to smile sweetly, standing casually in front of the stall.
The vendor was scrolling on TikTok, but when he heard the voice, he looked up and grinned.
“Eight yuan. Tell you what, pretty girl, I’ll throw in an extra sausage for free.”
Pretty girl?
An Han’s smile froze, and he clenched his fists.
If this guy were someone he knew, he’d have smacked him right there, or at least cursed him out.
But he kept a polite smile on his face. “Alright, I’ll take one.”
[Sushi Stall Owner’s favorability +20]
If the system’s upgrade mission target were this vendor, it’d be done in a single meeting.
As An Han waited with his arms crossed, he noticed the man kept sneaking glances at him while making the sushi.
[Sushi Stall Owner’s favorability +10]
[+10]
[+10]
It hadn’t even been a few minutes, and the man’s favorability had already reached fifty, higher than his own dormmates.
That was terrifying!
[Sushi Stall Owner’s favorability +5]
An Han’s eyelid twitched again. Since he didn’t know the man’s name, he couldn’t check his status in the system. But clearly, the “charm effect” was working on him too.
“I just remembered something urgent. You can keep making the sushi, I’ll come back later.”
He made a quick decision and turned to leave.
Back to the dorm! Take off the chest wrap and try again!
If the man’s favorability still shot up like a rocket even after that, then An Han’s peaceful days were officially over.