Mid-Autumn Festival Travel Plans

Girls were incredibly sensitive about all sorts of things.

For example, changes in a man's demeanor.

The gender ratio in the Computer Science Department was rather extreme. There were twenty-five people in the class, only six of them girls.

Aside from Chen Yusheng, who was absorbed in studying and making money, the other five girls had all paid more or less attention to Su Bai during the month since school started.

After all, he was the class heartthrob.

But after observing him, they found that Su Bai's financial situation seemed fairly ordinary, and he was rather withdrawn, preferring to stay alone in his dorm playing games.

The girls' interest in him diminished considerably.

After all, female college students all yearned for vibrant, colorful lives, and boys who could make life vibrant and colorful usually came from well-off families.

Yet over the past few days, Su Bai seemed to have gained an indescribable air whenever they saw him in class.

Was it confidence? Or perhaps a calm composure born of having something to rely on?

Chen Yusheng looked up at Su Bai. She wanted to sit with him, but the six girls in class were all sitting together. If she acted differently, she would feel a little embarrassed.

So she did not dare speak up in front of everyone.

"Hello, Director Xia."

"Mhm, hello." Xia Lin stared at Su Bai, her gaze involuntarily wandering over his body, and she actually felt a little thirsty.

For three days in a row, Su Bai had stayed off campus.

Every night, he sent her a short video proving that he was at the hotel.

It counted as a safety check-in.

It did not sound like there was anything wrong with that, but Su Bai—whether deliberately or simply carelessly—always made each video a little suggestive.

Either he was at the swimming pool, or he had just finished showering.

Or he was in the executive lounge, wearing a bathrobe that faintly revealed his strong chest muscles.

In short, every scene was luxurious and high-end, paired with his exceptionally good physique.

For the past few nights, Xia Lin had watched Su Bai's short videos before bed. First, she could not fall asleep. Then she dreamed about Su Bai.

She had actually dreamed about her student for several nights in a row.

It was completely inappropriate!

Now that she was seeing Su Bai face-to-face, Xia Lin recalled those fragmented, absurd dream scenes, and her cheeks could not help flushing.

Even worse, Su Bai was wearing a fitted athletic T-shirt today, one that accentuated his broad shoulders and upright figure, making him look especially masculine.

Xia Lin could not help wanting to look, yet she also felt guilty inside. She was rather conflicted.

Ding! Xia Lin's favorability has increased. Current favorability: 51

Su Bai had discovered the favorability information regarding his counselor, Xia Lin, the night before last.

At the time, he had just sent Xia Lin a selfie video as a safety check-in when the system notification appeared.

And every so often, her favorability increased by a little.

The same thing had happened again last night.

This made Su Bai wonder—could Director Xia be interested in him?

Before leaving today, Su Bai studied his chat history with Xia Lin.

He summed up a pattern: the three selfie videos all had something in common. They had all been filmed in luxury hotels, and each had happened to capture his good physique, enhanced by the Body Enhancement Fluid.

That was why Su Bai wore clothes today that better showed off his figure.

Sure enough, just as he had expected, after Xia Lin saw him, she clearly experienced an unusual emotional fluctuation.

And her favorability had increased. It had already risen to 51.

Just nine more favorability points, and she would be willing to date him...

No, Director Xia, you...?

Looking at Xia Lin, who appeared so proper and dignified, he had not expected her to be so into bodies.

That was a good thing, Su Bai thought.

He had heard that Xia Lin came from a scholarly family and had quite a bit of influence behind her. And that influence was not limited to River City—it carried a deeper meaning.

After all, she was from Magic City.

She was probably of far more solid standing than a flashy little rich kid from Magic City like Chu Mingzhe.

There was no harm in getting closer to Xia Lin.

If her favorability could continue rising and reach above 80, allowing her to be bound as a spending target, then the Indulgent System would gain another way to generate spending cashback.

After all, "indulgence" meant experiencing heartfelt happiness and enjoyment, while everyone found pleasure in different things.

Put that way, collecting Confidantes of different styles was actually beneficial to Su Bai's accumulation of wealth!

Mm, nothing wrong with that. It was all for making money—nothing shameful about it!

Su Bai pondered it but didn't say much more to Xia Lin. He quickly walked to the back of the classroom and plopped down beside Wang Haoran.

"Dummy son, did you finish grinding through the main story for me?"

"Finished it. I'm running the event for you now. This event's pretty hard—players on the forums are all crying about it."

"Is my account having any trouble?"

"What trouble? You've got the newly released 6+5 main DPS, plus the Abyss environment buff. You can clear it however you want!"

"Good."

Su Bai didn't really care about the rewards from difficult stages in games anyway. The resources were just for pulling characters, and for pulls, he could always spend money.

Still, since he was already playing a mobile game, he naturally wanted to complete achievements with a collector's mindset.

Like collecting confidantes... interesting!

After the two finished talking about the game, Xue Tao couldn't help asking, "Su Bai, have you been staying off campus these past few days?"

"Yeah, a relative came to see me."

"Oh, I see."

"What's up? Did you need something from me?"

"No, just asking."

Honestly, Xue Tao felt that Su Bai had been pretty mysterious lately. He had switched to an Apple phone, and he had been staying out overnight.

Oh, and he'd even become friends with Chen Yusheng.

By now, it seemed the entire Computer Science Department had heard that Su Bai and Chen Yusheng played League of Legends together.

After all, the Computer Science Department was full of monks and short on meat. They were all straight STEM guys, secretly yearning for romance, and it was pretty repressed.

And a peerless beauty like Chen Yusheng was as dazzling as a diamond in the Computer Science Department.

Countless people wanted to get close to her, Chu Mingzhe included.

People had racked their brains trying all kinds of approaches—classy ones, unexpected ones, and even the pure spend-like-an-idiot kind.

For example, one rich guy had reserved a set meal costing over two thousand at a Western restaurant near the school and invited Chen Yusheng to eat.

To avoid making Chen Yusheng uncomfortable, that guy had even directly told her on WeChat that she could bring her roommates along, and he himself didn't even have to show up.

That was seriously insane.

And Chen Yusheng didn't give him the time of day.

Meanwhile, Su Bai was getting along so well with Chen Yusheng. How could people not be jealous?

"By the way, what's it like playing games with Goddess Chen? Must be exhausting, right? Pretty girls seem to be bad at games and full of demands." Xue Tao probed.

"I think it's pretty nice. She's not bad," Su Bai answered honestly.

At that moment, Chu Mingzhe took off his headphones and said with a resentful look, "Su Bai, I know you're Silver rank. Silver players are all wild and free-spirited, but promise me this: when you play with her, take good care of her and go easy on her, okay?"

"...I'll try."

Su Bai was about to break out in a sweating-yellow-bean emoji.

No, seriously, did no one in the class know that Chen Yusheng was King rank on the Korean server?

Looking at Chu Mingzhe's constipated expression, Su Bai found it hard to comment. This guy had probably read too much melodramatic romance fiction and fried his brain.

Fortunately, Xia Lin soon announced the start of the class meeting.

After several trivial matters, Director Xia began leading everyone in discussing the day's most important agenda.

"Next week is the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday. The school is holding a freshman autumn outing vlog event. Students who are staying at school instead of going home for Mid-Autumn Festival can contact a few classmates to travel around River City together, film and edit the process into a vlog, and submit it afterward. The school's Youth League Committee will collect the vlogs for judging. Prize winners will receive cash rewards, and it can also count toward your practical quality credits."