Unexpected Gains

As he looked at his mission results panel, Wen Nan fell into thought.

A score of 91, with an Excellent rating. It was exactly what he'd expected—

Not that Wen Nan was especially confident or narcissistic. It was just that he felt he'd done a great job with this so-called "spend a pleasant evening" mission. There had been a few bumps along the way, but overall, he'd enjoyed himself the whole time.

As for the extra reward, [Spin the Wheel], it seemed to be reserved for players who earned an Excellent rating. The other three players had only received [Average], so for now, he was the only one with this bonus reward.

Still, Wen Nan didn't think any of that mattered. He hadn't cared much about the mission results from the beginning, and he'd never worried about whether he could pass—

He couldn't understand why his three roommates had looked so nervous when they checked their mission results panels.

They'd looked more tense than he had when he checked his college entrance exam results back in the day.

Wen Nan thought, It's just a dating strategy game, and this is only the first main mission. All I have to do is date someone. How could anyone possibly fail? What's there to be nervous about?

Compared to his score and rating, Wen Nan was more concerned about the progress he'd made with the five characters he'd chosen—

Even in dating games, the difficulty varied from one game to another. Many games set every character to be guaranteed to fall for the player, letting them immerse themselves in the joys of romance without a care. But other games raised the difficulty to make things more engaging and immersive, meaning it was possible to fail to win over certain characters.

When he'd first entered this map, Wen Nan had figured it was just a beginner Trial Zone, so it shouldn't be too difficult. He'd assumed every option was set to guarantee success, which was why he'd taken all five remaining characters at once.

After a whole evening of dates, though, Wen Nan realized he'd been wrong. This dating game seemed to be the second kind—the characters here could be difficult to win over.

According to the system, if he failed to win over even one character, the entire trial would count as a failure.

Wen Nan had to admit that taking on all five targets at once without a second thought had been a bit impulsive.

But he didn't regret it.

If he could do it all over again, he'd still take every one of them.

Come on, it was just a Trial Map. If he didn't even have the guts to go for all of them, what was the point of playing a dating攻略 game?

Besides, a game was only fun if it had challenges and difficulty.

Even though he didn't regret his choice, after this mission ended, Wen Nan had no choice but to start paying attention to his progress with each character—

There were three main missions in this Trial Zone. Once they were over, if he'd failed to win over even one character, he'd fail the whole trial.

So he had to be especially careful with every one of them.

That was why, compared to the mission score and rating, Wen Nan now cared more about the [Target Affection Level].

And the results on the panel before him were even better than he'd expected—

Qiqi's affection level was a whopping 99%, practically a complete success.

That wasn't surprising. She'd been the woman he chose from the start, and her affection level had already passed 90% when he activated the Taming Sigil. What he hadn't expected was that even after they parted ways, her affection level had continued to rise by another 9%.

Of the five characters, the one who surprised Wen Nan most was the school beauty, Wu Yuwei. Her affection level was a staggering 83%?!

Honestly, after that showdown between Qiqi and Wu Yuwei, Wen Nan had chosen Qiqi and left Wu Yuwei alone at the school clinic. He hadn't expected the school beauty to have much affection for him left at all.

He wouldn't have been surprised if her affection level had dropped below 60%, or even all the way to zero.

Given the situation by the bleachers, Wen Nan hadn't necessarily needed to make a last-second choice between the two. He could have given them both an ambiguous answer and kept them hanging—

He could have said something profound, like "I love you, but I love him more," or "I hope the three of us can live happily together forever," like some two-timing woman. In real life, Wen Nan might have been torn to shreds, but in a dating game aimed at men, he might actually have gotten to enjoy having both women by his side.

But in the end, Wen Nan had chosen to put Wu Yuwei's route on hold.

The reason was simple: he didn't like her.

He felt the whole point of a dating game was to do whatever you wanted.

At that moment, he hadn't felt anything for the delicate school beauty. But when he kissed Qiqi, he'd genuinely felt his heart skip a beat.

So, compared to the transfer student admired by countless people, Wen Nan had chosen the childhood friend who was his alone.

He'd try things out with his childhood friend first. As for the school beauty, she was only a three-star difficulty, after all. He could put her off for now and try winning her over when the time was right and he felt something for her.

Looking back now, that decision had unexpectedly brought him twice the reward—

Qiqi's affection for him had been pulled up to 90%, letting him activate the Taming Sigil at the crucial moment. He'd made his childhood friend his exclusive character, and she'd helped him get out of a crisis.

Even more unexpectedly, the school beauty Wu Yuwei's affection for him had risen to 83% as well.

That was the second-highest affection level among the five characters, just behind Qiqi's.

He'd rejected her, and that had made her like him even more?!

How could a character in a dating game fall harder for someone the more he rejected her?

Wen Nan didn't understand, but he was deeply shaken.

Of course, the other thing that shocked Wen Nan was Little Chili's affection level. It wasn't quite as high as School Beauty Wu's, but it was still 72%.

On the screen floating above Wen Nan's head, the four options—[Pure and Cute Deskmate], [Beautiful and Juicy School Beauty], [Feisty Personality, Hot-Bodied Sports School Girl], and [Cold and Scheming Straight-A Student]—had all turned green.

Green meant the character had reached the threshold for a successful route.

Just as the Fatso had said, in this Trial Zone, a target only needed to reach 60% affection to count as successfully won over.

In other words, from now on, as long as Wen Nan made sure none of these four characters' affection levels dropped, he'd have only one goal left in the next two main missions—

Raise the affection level of [Fair and Tender Neighbor Auntie] to at least 60%.

At the thought, an hourglass figure appeared in Wen Nan's mind.

Fair—she really was fair.

Tender... he hadn't noticed that. What part of her was tender?