Chapter 247: Wu Hao
After her parents and little sister left, An Han felt a bit lost with nothing to do.
Normally, she disliked her parents’ strict rules and her sister’s noisy behavior, but when they were all gone and the house became completely quiet, she suddenly started to miss them a little.
Lin Yi had to visit relatives these few days, and even if she wanted to go shopping, no one could go with her.
As for Su Peng… he was probably also busy visiting relatives. The surprise visit she imagined was basically impossible.
She turned on the TV to fill the house with some voices, then lay flat on the sofa, yawning while chatting with Su Peng on her phone.
Su Peng’s days had been kind of miserable recently. He originally thought he would be dragged to blind dates every day. Later he learned that he wasn’t forced into blind dates, he was being nagged about why he didn’t bring his girlfriend home.
And the “girlfriend” his parents believed existed… was An Han.
Earlier, when Su Peng took An Han to the hospital for a check-up and used a backdoor connection, they met the hospital director, who was his uncle.
The director uncle thought An Han was Su Peng’s girlfriend, and he even talked proudly about it during the big family gathering. As a result, everyone now believed that the reason Su Peng failed at so many blind dates was because he already secretly had a girlfriend.
“Why is your uncle so nosy?”
An Han sent him a message. This misunderstanding actually made her feel a little secretly happy.
She hadn’t seen Su Peng for nearly a month. She had worried that he might meet a prettier girl during the New Year blind dates. But it seemed that she didn’t need to worry at all.
“I really can’t stand it anymore,” Su Peng replied, adding a picture of a big sad cat face. “They keep yelling at me, asking why I didn’t tell them I already had a girlfriend. But the problem is, you’re not my girlfriend.”
“Exactly, exactly.”
An Han thought about seeing Su Peng next semester. If Su Peng could still give her the same feeling as before, maybe she could try confessing first.
She probably wouldn’t fail, right? After all, Su Peng had confessed to her before. But back then, she didn’t like him enough yet.
“System, can you see my affection level toward other people?”
“……”
Other systems would at least say something like “insufficient permission,” but her system only pretended to be dead.
After chatting briefly with Su Peng, An Han originally wanted to play duo-queue games with him to pass the boring afternoon, but Su Peng was busy.
“He’s probably visiting relatives…”
She lazily got up from the sofa, turned off the TV, and walked upstairs. But after only a few steps, someone suddenly knocked on the door.
“Su Peng?!”
Her eyes lit up. She ran to the door in excitement, opened it, and her excited expression instantly disappeared.
“Oh… Cousin.”
It was Wu Hao standing outside. He looked a bit nervous and was holding a gift bag in his hand.
Wu Hao was the oldest cousin, the one who got together with their older female cousin. For a while, her mom’s side of the relatives were all talking about him and that cousin, and because of that, the “small matter” of An Han turning into a girl was completely ignored.
After stepping back to make room for him, she casually asked, “Cousin, how’s your relationship with our older cousin going?”
Wu Hao walked in, put the milk drinks on the table, and let out a relieved sigh.
“Don’t mention it. I was nagged for more than ten days straight. I came here to hide.”
“Hide?”
“I heard your parents went out to visit relatives, right?”
His eyes couldn’t help scanning over An Han. It was really hard to believe that the mischievous little boy who used to follow him around years ago had now become a beautiful girl, even prettier than his own girlfriend.
[Wu Hao’s Favorability +15]
An Han instantly became alert. She pulled her open coat tight and tied the belt around her waist, completely covering her figure. She looked at Wu Hao like he was some kind of animal.
You damn tried to flirt with our older cousin, and now you’re looking at me too?!
[Wu Hao: Favorability 45]
She let out a small breath. Okay, that level of favorability was still safe.
It looked like the favorability he just gained was only because of her appearance and her charm stat.
“You want something to drink? Coke?”
An Han walked to the fridge and took out two cans of the sugar-free Coke her dad bought for her.
In the past, her parents would never buy drinks to keep at home. But now, if she mentioned it once, her dad would buy them immediately even if her mom didn’t like it.
“Sugar-free…?”
“What else?” An Han handed Wu Hao a can, drank two sips herself, and asked, “When are you leaving?”
“I came here to visit for New Year, okay? Why are you trying to kick me out already?”
“You’re dangerous… You even went after our cousin…”
Even though it was safe now, Wu Hao really wasn’t a normal person. Back when he went after their older cousin, he didn’t even know that she wasn’t a close blood relative.
Wu Hao couldn’t help fighting back. “You’re not that great either. How did you suddenly turn into a girl?”
“……”
The two stared at each other. After a moment, An Han refused to back down and shot back. “At least I don’t have any problems with morality!”
“Do they look any less embarrassing than I do? What difference is there?”
“Even rabbits don’t eat grass near their own burrow!”
“I’m just making sure good things stay within the family!”
After trading insults and exposing each other’s faults, the atmosphere suddenly became a bit more relaxed. The awkwardness from not seeing each other for a long time slowly faded.
But right after that, both of them awkwardly looked away and silently agreed not to stab each other’s hearts again.
If I wasn’t worried that cousin might suffer tonight, I would’ve already thrown your medical report in your face.
Wu Hao sat down on the sofa, lying there like he was melting into it, and explained helplessly.
“I’ll go back in two hours. My parents are visiting relatives nearby.”
“Oh~”
An Han sat down on the computer chair. The computer was more than ten years old, so old it took ten minutes just to turn on. Her parents only used it to play simple card games or Mahjong.
She was about to say something when suddenly a system window popped up in her view. Her heart jumped. She was terrified it would be a mission asking her to increase Wu Hao’s favorability. That would be way too scary!
[Option 1: Help the cousins get accepted by the relatives. Reward: “A boyfriend falling from the sky.”]
[Option 2: Help the relatives break the cousins apart. Reward: +10 favorability with relatives.]
[Option 3: Do nothing. Reward: Random attribute point.]
She scanned through the mission goals and let out a small sigh of relief.
She instinctively wanted to choose option three, but suddenly realized, if she randomly got another body-shape attribute point… her chest size would definitely reach above C and she would become a real cow.
That was terrifying!
Even B+ already gave her headaches. She even felt inconvenience in her daily life. Now she had to shift her weight backward to stand straight because she was scared she might start hunching.
An Han glanced at Wu Hao.
She wouldn’t consider option two. Even if Wu Hao and the other cousin’s romance was something to complain about, it wasn’t a reason to break them up.
But the reward for option one… even if a “boyfriend falls from the sky,” she could just reject him. The only annoying part would be if he kept bothering her.
“You’re looking at me weird,” Wu Hao frowned.
An Han gave him a cute and harmless smile. “I’m thinking about how to help you.”
“Help me?” Wu Hao froze, then shook his head helplessly. “The main problem is Uncle. He strongly disagrees.”
“Uncle? What about Auntie?” An Han’s eyes brightened.
Uncle was the older cousin’s father and the person most against Wu Hao. But if it’s a man, then it’s easier to deal with!
“Auntie… she’s unsure.”
“I can help you!”
After thinking for a moment, An Han suddenly slapped Wu Hao’s shoulder hard and said seriously, “As long as you do exactly what I say!”
“Huh?”