【Bai Limeng's possessiveness toward you has risen. Remaining black material unlock progress: 50%】
【Obtained Skill: Refresh (Can refresh the "state" of "matter")】
Is this skill even decent?
Early in the morning, Lin Mo discovered that Huang Mei's favorability had increased again, and it came with a perverted skill.
Why call her Huang Mei? Because green plums were too hot—once cooked, they turned yellow.
Hmm. Lin Mo remembered that in Li Zihan's black material, his future ten years from now seemed to involve a falling out with Bai Limeng.
What was the reason?
Actually, thinking about it carefully, being kept by Huang Mei wasn't so bad. Bai Limeng was very competitive in the looks and figure department.
No—his life was going to be ruined by this woman!
The revolution was not yet successful; he must not slack off, and had to avoid battles of attrition.
After pumping himself up, Lin Mo studied [Refresh] while preparing to go out to buy breakfast and head to school for exams.
But the moment he stepped out, he saw Bai Limeng, dressed in a blue-and-white school uniform, walking gracefully toward him.
"Breakfast." The girl shook the steamed buns and soy milk in her hands. "Bought them for you on the way."
She gave a lazy yawn, turning her cheek to one side, asking as if by accident:
"Going to school together?"
Lin Mo couldn't help sneering inwardly. Hmph, just a few steamed buns, and she thought she could shake his resolve? She really underestimated his willpower.
"Crab roe soup dumplings, twenty yuan each."
On that note, eating some buns didn't count as eating soft rice.
Walking with the girl all the way to school, Bai Limeng's performance was somewhat impeccable—she didn't look impulsive, nor did she say anything unnecessary.
Lin Mo admitted that he had miscalculated.
So Bai Limeng planned to start with small things, invading his life bit by bit, like making him accustomed to eating the breakfast she brought, accustomed to going to and from school with her.
In the end, if she wasn't there, watashi...
What a ruthless scheme!
Unfortunately, there was no way she could imagine that in a couple of days he would explode in performance on the exams and get promoted to the key class.
Although Bai Limeng's stats were formidable, before the system's mechanics, they seemed so weak and powerless.
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After entering the exam room, Lin Mo pulled out a carton of brain-boosting milk from his crotch.
Ah, a sip of milk before the exam was like seeing a kidney tonic ad on a children's channel, and after the kidney tonic came Yeshu.
Yeshu Brand Kidney Treasure~ She's good, I'm good~
The damn school, in order to squeeze time, had morning exams back-to-back covering all the minor subjects.
One carton of this milk's battery life was enough.
Another carton in the afternoon, and English would be smooth sailing too. Although the brain boost was based on his original foundation, and his chemistry, biology, and English foundations weren't good, it could still gain him quite a few points.
Hmm?
Lin Mo hadn't been enjoying the brain-boosting milk for long when he felt a sinister gaze from the right.
The moment he turned his head, the gaze disappeared.
But the person Li Zihan wouldn't disappear.
The girl was sitting perfectly upright at this moment, her cool eyes looking out the window, appearing very elegant.
There were few people in the early morning, and it wasn't noisy. She blended very well with the quiet environment.
But soon, once more people arrived, her beauty would render her efforts void. The girl furrowed her delicate eyebrows, visible melancholy between her brows.
There was no helping it—she was too beautiful. The students' gazes and topics always crowded onto her.
Bai Limeng also had this problem, but she didn't care and would even glare back, making others afraid of her.
Li Zihan... was simply timid. But because she was bad at and even afraid of interacting with people, she also looked very cold and aloof, which probably avoided some pointless socializing.
But gossip and gazes were unavoidable.
For example, Lin Mo's ogling at this moment.
He was drinking his milk properly, and Li Zihan was secretly looking at him when he wasn't paying attention. How could that be allowed?
He had to look back, or it would be a huge loss.
Stare—
Li Zihan: "."
After looking for a while, the girl started lying on the desk playing ostrich again, and Lin Mo lost the mood to look too. He might as well look at his own books.
Before long, the proctoring teacher came in, looking a bit impatient because cramming the minor subjects together meant handing out many exam papers, and he was trapped here for the whole morning too.
Halfway through the exam, the system suddenly popped up.
【Li Zihan's favorability toward you has dropped. Remaining black material unlock progress: 19.9%】
Such sensitive favorability, cute.
She gets unhappy after a few looks? That's a bit brainless.
But Lin Mo actually knew the girl hadn't been secretly looking at him earlier, but at the milk in his hand.
A social anxiety sufferer is a social anxiety sufferer, but how was she also a glutton?
Such small courage, but with a big stomach pouch, huh?
But this milk really... the flavor was so rich.
Thinking this, Lin Mo accidentally bit the straw and made a slurping sound. The sound was a bit sharp, immediately startling the people around him.
Li Zihan, who had been secretly paying attention to him, was directly scared into afterimages, her head nearly hitting the desk.
"Hey, hey, that male student, don't make strange sounds during the exam!"
Lin Mo awkwardly covered his face, making an apologetic gesture.
But this feeling of being stared at with special attention really was uncomfortable. He could somewhat understand Li Zihan's feeling.
But... if it was just this, it didn't seem enough to make her never interact with others. There were definitely some other reasons.
Forget it, stop thinking and take the exam first.
He discovered that this [Refresh] was pretty awesome. Using it directly on a mistake could turn it back to blank, making his handwriting look much better.
Using it for English in the afternoon—people were all visual creatures. When teachers saw essays with few corrections, they would give quite a few more points.
Out of curiosity, he also used Refresh on the half-drunk brain-boosting milk.
It directly refilled to full?!
Heaven-defying, unlimited refills?
What the hell? Then wouldn't he only need to buy drinks once from now on? Finish drinking and directly refresh! Eat everything halfway then refresh? Eat at a buffet, finish eating, refresh his stomach, then continue eating?!
Big stomach pouch energy.
"Ding ling ling ling~"
The exam finally ended. A bunch of complaints filled the exam room:
"Damn, the stupid school crammed them together to save trouble, starving me to death."
"Hurry hurry, if we delay any longer there'll be no food left!"
"Wait wait. Her QQ number—"
"Do I really need to wake you up with a piss! Someone like her is out of your league! Let's go!"
"True. Wait, bro, I don't think I know you?"
"Hey, we're all classmates. Can't bear to watch you get your goblin citizenship."
That guy who had been talking big yesterday was casually dragged away by Lin Mo, and the classroom quieted down somewhat.
Just like yesterday, Li Zihan was still bent over the desk, unwilling to leave.
But unlike yesterday, today's exam duration was very long. It was now close to 12:30. Normal people who had taken exams all morning would be starving.
There was one more difference.
The girl carefully turned her head. In her beautiful eyes that usually showed no ripples, there was even less light.
That person wasn't here. No closed windows or drawn curtains.
Nor any delicious milk.
But he was different from what she imagined. He wasn't her kind.
He could talk to others normally. In the exam room, scolded by the teacher, stared at by unfamiliar classmates, he wouldn't be afraid.
Perhaps yesterday was just a casual act of kindness from him.
But the milk was so delicious. If she could never drink it again in the future, she...
"Guru lu lu~"
Her stomach let out an unruly growl. Li Zihan's face suddenly turned pale, hurriedly looking up around her. Fortunately, no one was left.
She rummaged through her bag but couldn't find food. Pondering, it was probably because she had been thinking about that delicious milk and forgot to bring food.
She usually didn't go to the cafeteria because she didn't want to be watched while eating.
Normally she would bring small cakes or bento from home. If she forgot, she could only starve.
Today, she was especially hungry.
Besides the physical consumption from exams, there might also be a bit of craving. Thinking of this, she couldn't help frowning.
Then just forget it.
Things and people she didn't want to face, just hide and forget, regardless of whether they or he were good or bad.
Learning to forget was probably the bravest thing she could do.
"Damn, dropping favorability really is unpleasant after all."
"Yesterday your bag was still bulging. You didn't bring food today?"
Suddenly, hurried footsteps came from outside the window, along with some fierce-sounding cursing.
She was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously lay on the desk, covering her stomach and closing her eyes—this was her stress-induced self-protection measure, though objectively unnecessary.
Sure enough, that voice drew closer and closer, even stopping beside her.
"Thud."
Something heavy was placed on her desk.
"Disclaimer: I only know your taste ten years from now. Don't blame me if you can't eat it."
"Leaving."
Ten years from now... what was he saying... but, it smelled so good.
The footsteps gradually faded away, accompanied by the sound of closing windows and drawing curtains.
Finally, Li Zihan's curiosity defeated her social anxiety. She opened her eyes and saw a cafeteria boxed meal appear before her.
"Tomato scrambled eggs. Stir-fried pork with chili. Lion's head meatballs."
They were all her favorite foods.
The girl was dumbfounded for a long time, then saw the milk beside the boxed meal, the straw already inserted for her.
That person's voice echoed in her head again. So he had been staring at her... was he trying to remind her that she hadn't brought food?
Then how did he know she wouldn't eat in the cafeteria?
She opened her mouth, her lips trembling.
Suddenly, strands of intense curiosity toward him wound around in her heart like a ball of yarn, making her breathing tremble, yet warm and cozy.
It seemed something was dissolving her fear of the unknown.
She took a sip of milk, squinting her eyes in happiness.
There was one more unforgettable milk, and also...
A strange person.