Big Brother

[Unlocked cultivation character—Dangerous Little Wild Grass]

[Affection system unlocked]

[Current character affection]

[Little Wild Grass: -20 (You seem to have offended her by being so ugly)]

When Li Muyang left with the little girl, a system interface suddenly popped up in his field of vision.

Li Muyang glanced back at the little girl beside him. This brat's affection for me is actually at -20? No wonder her health bar turned red.

Still, with an affection system, now this was the galgame Li Muyang knew.

With affection levels, he could tailor his approach.

First, he brought the little girl back to his stilt house. After rummaging around inside, Li Muyang found an old, slightly tattered outfit.

It was a size too small, but with a bit of trimming, it would just about fit the little girl.

The girl was filthy, and she even had a faint smell about her. Raising a character naturally started with washing and dressing her up. First, he had to give her a makeover—at the very least, she couldn't stay this scruffy.

Li Muyang heated a pot of water, then poured both hot and cold water into a wooden tub to make a bucket of lukewarm water. He turned to the little girl beside him.

"Take a bath first and change your clothes."

Li Muyang put on a warm smile, trying to show the little girl that he meant no harm.

But as soon as he finished speaking, Li Muyang watched the affection level in the upper-right corner drop again.

[Little Wild Grass: -40 (She wants to kill you)]

"?!"

The sudden drop left Li Muyang dumbfounded. What was wrong with this brat?

I'm practically baring my heart to you, and you want to rip mine out?

The affection level had dropped for no reason at all...

But on the surface, the filthy little girl merely hesitated before nodding obediently and timidly. Then she raised her hands, as if she was about to take off her clothes right there.

Her movement startled Li Muyang, and he hurriedly waved his hands to stop her. "Wait! Hold on! I'll go outside, and then you can wash."

With that, he rushed out of the room and shut the little girl inside.

At that moment, Li Muyang suddenly guessed why the little girl's affection for him had fallen.

This brat doesn't think I'm going to watch her bathe, does she?

How can someone so young have so many devious thoughts?

You're just a little yellow-haired girl with skinny arms and legs, flat-chested and short. I'm not a lolicon. How could I possibly be interested in you?

Li Muyang sat outside the stilt house, listening to the sounds of bathing from inside, his face drawn with worry.

Little Wild Grass looked obedient and docile, but she was rebellious to the core. She was probably plotting when to stab Li Muyang.

No wonder the system had identified her as a heroine with the potential to grow into a Great Poisonous Grass. Even at such a young age, she was already deep-minded, capable of bearing humiliation and biding her time to lull others into complacency.

Right now, all Li Muyang could do was suck in a sharp breath and declare that this child absolutely could not be allowed to live...

A good while later, the girl's timid voice finally came from inside.

"Big brother, I... I'm... done washing..."

Just from the sound of her voice, she seemed like the sweetest, cutest little girl imaginable.

But Li Muyang glanced at the affection bar in the upper-right corner.

[Little Wild Grass: -50]

Good grief, her affection had dropped again.

What on earth was going on in this little girl's head all day?

Li Muyang cautiously pushed open the door. The little girl had changed into a set of clothes worn by the villagers and was sitting timidly at the edge of the bamboo bed. Her damp hair fell over her shoulders, and her freshly washed face was rosy, with just a hint of baby fat.

If this were a game CG, it would absolutely make every lolicon scream.

Unfortunately, Li Muyang wasn't a lolicon, so he had not the slightest impure thought about this cute, obedient little girl.

As he looked at the girl sitting on the bed, Li Muyang was about to speak when she suddenly asked,

"Big brother, what's your name?" the little girl asked timidly.

The moment she asked, a system dialogue box appeared in Li Muyang's field of vision as well.

[Me? My name is Leng Aqi.]

[You can call me _____ (enter a custom ID) (After choosing a custom ID, you can remake your character's appearance)]

Li Muyang blinked at the new options that had suddenly appeared.

He could choose a custom ID and customize his face?

Did that mean the game was only officially starting now?

Curious, Li Muyang selected the second dialogue option. His perspective shifted instantly.

Before, he had been watching the little girl from Leng Aqi's perspective. But after he selected the second option, his view immediately swept around the room, then settled on the face of an ugly man dressed in the clothes of a southwestern village.

A lecherous grin stretched across the man's face. A black mole with a hair growing out of it clung to his right cheek, making him look even uglier.

It was the kind of ugly face that made people hate him on sight.

Damn! The system generated a character this ugly?

No way. I have to customize his face.

Li Muyang wasn't a gaming streamer trying to make people laugh. How could he play a game with a face this hideous? He wasn't shallow, but even he couldn't stand playing as such an ugly character.

Li Muyang set to work reshaping the face, making sweeping changes to the character's features and hair.

In the end, it took a full hour before he finally had a face that was easy on the eyes.

Inside the stilt house, the young man dressed in villagers' clothes smiled brightly. His sharply defined features were handsome and spirited. His sunny smile revealed a row of white teeth, and a short ponytail trailing over his shoulder gave him an exotic air.

Li Muyang had modeled the face on his own. The features were about seventy percent like his, with a few extra touches of cheerfulness and innocence.

At first glance, he really did look like a sunny, innocent young villager.

Once he was satisfied with the game character's face, Li Muyang entered his ID.

"...Jiang Xiaoyu. My name is Jiang Xiaoyu."

Inside the stilt house, Li Muyang spoke his new ID aloud.

As he watched the little girl's face, he wanted to see whether she would react to his sudden change in appearance.

But, clearly, the little girl didn't react at all to Li Muyang's sudden transformation into a handsome young man. It was as if he had always looked this way.

"Brother Jiang Xiaoyu..."

The little girl murmured the name, as if committing it to memory.

On the surface, nothing about her changed.

But the affection level in the upper-right corner of Li Muyang's vision now read [Little Wild Grass: 0].

The little girl's health bar had also changed from hostile red to the pale yellow of a neutral creature.

The girl wasn't hostile toward Li Muyang anymore!

Li Muyang didn't believe that simply giving her a name could raise her affection so much.

So there was only one reason her affection had shot from -50 to 0.

Li Muyang had gotten handsome!

Damn! This brat's a sucker for a pretty face!

Their circumstances were exactly the same; all that had changed was his face, and her attitude had shifted this much.

Li Muyang looked at the cute, docile little girl before him, both exasperated and amused.

This brat... she's kind of interesting!