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Chapter 16




Li Shuoxing was shown another face of the game.
Not only is he concerned about my career.
He’s even concerned about when my career will take off.
It seems natural to go from the former to the latter. But—
Cub, you’re really just a love nurturing app, not a learning improvement app, so let’s focus on our own work, okay?
Li Shuoxing’s typing fingers fluttered. “You care about this a lot?”
Su Mingqian: “Yeah.”
Li Shuoxing was puzzled. “Why?”
Su Mingqian paused for a moment, his eyes flashing slightly, a little nervousness and guilt in his voice. Of course, all these details wouldn’t appear in simple text. “Because the more popular the book is, the better it is for the author. And people who write stories want their stories to be seen by more people, right
”
The more people see your story, the more people see my name.
It may not do much good for now, but it’s the first step in getting the word out about me from here.
I see!
It seems the cub is just concerned about me, which is essentially not much different from “it’s cold, put on more clothes” and “have you eaten well today”. It’s just that the game producer has a higher level of thinking and knows how to care for men from a career perspective.
Li Shuoxing automatically misinterpreted and completed Su Mingqian’s thoughts. He reassured the little person, “Don’t worry, I’m quite popular. Many people read my books. There’s no problem supporting my family.”
Then.
+10.
Sure enough!
Li Shuoxing was very pleased and continued to say love words. “There’s no problem raising you either.”
However.
-3.
Huh?
Before Li Shuoxing could react, a new text bubble had emerged from the little person’s head in the game.
Su Mingqian: “Can you find some wooden boards? I want to try to build a wardrobe. My clothes are starting to pile up and I need a wardrobe to put them in.”
Li Shuoxing’s thoughts were led away by the little person. He gave up investigating the inexplicable -3 and said, “Wait a moment, I’ll take a look.”
After sending the message, he opened the store, and, sure enough, wardrobes were for sale in the store. There were two types: one costing favourability points and one costing contribution points.
[Plastic Wardrobe]: 50 favourability points
[Solid Wood Carved Wardrobe]: 100 contribution points
He then turned to the raw materials. The plastic sheets were super cheap, even cheaper than clothes and fabric, a piece costing just 1 favourability point. There was also solid wood, and it wasn’t expensive either, 25 favourability points a piece. He calculated that if he made it himself, the plastic wardrobe would be about 6 favourability points, and the solid wood wardrobe would be about 150 favourability points.
Now, with 367 favourability points, he could afford a solid wood wardrobe.
However

Li Shuoxing took a look at his contribution points.
1206.
Now that I have so many contribution points, why buy plastic sheets and do the hard work? It’s not like leaving them can generate contribution points anyway.
I’ll buy it!
Li Shuoxing directly paid for the solid wood carved wardrobe.
Simple and direct transaction.
The solid wood wardrobe instantly appeared in the spare space of the room, with thick wood colour, neat lines, and propitious cloud patterns decorating the corners. It looked a lot nobler than the other furniture in the room.
Li Shuoxing was satisfied, and he paid more attention to the little person’s reaction.
The little person on the screen calmly walked over to the wardrobe, opened the door of the wardrobe, looked inside for a moment, took out the hangers and dust bags that came with the wardrobe, then walked back to the bed, picked up a pile of clothing from the corner, shook it out, and stretched the dress.
Hmm

Hmm?!
His lazy eyes abruptly flashed.
Li Shuoxing straightened his back and watched as the little person laid the little devil princess outfit flat on the bed, smoothed down the lace, and combed the ribbons, tidying everything up before he hung it up on a hanger, put it in a dust bag, and placed it inside the wardrobe.
As for the crown, wings, and shoes, Su Mingqian also arranged them carefully.
He took another dust bag, put them in one by one, then folded it into a neat square and placed it under the dress.
Having played the game for so long, it was the first time Li Shuoxing had seen the little person treat something with such care.
Could it be

Li Shuoxing was starting to think about spreading his wings on the edge of danger.
Li Shuoxing communicated, “Do you think this dress is beautiful?”
Su Mingqian actually thought the dress was too complicated. “It looks very beautiful.”
Li Shuoxing tested, “Then, do you think it suits?”
Is she asking me if she suits this dress?
Su Mingqian still answered easily, “It should suit very well.”
Li Shuoxing couldn’t help but say, “Then do you like it?”
Su Mingqian: “It’s okay, I quite like it.”
Li Shuoxing got excited. “Then do you want to—”
Su Mingqian: “Hmm?”
A very innocent-looking text bubble popped out of the little person’s head.
The overly excited Li Shuoxing calmed down a little.
Wait a minute.
My cub has always been good at saying the opposite of what he thinks and is such a tsundere. He always likes to randomly deduct favourability.
Although he seems to take a liking to this dress now, he hasn’t directly expressed his intention to wear it.
So it’s better to take it slow.
Hasty men don’t get hot tofu <sup>1</sup> ćżƒæ€„ćƒäžäș†çƒ­è±†è… is an idiom meaning that one will just have to be patient; haste will ruin everything. Eating tofu also refers to molesting and taking advantage of others. .
It’s not easy to save up favourability points. Don’t go back to before liberation because of a dress

Li Shuoxing reluctantly retracted his widely spread wings and backed away from the danger zone. He continued to reply, “No, I just wanted to ask you, what girls’ clothes do you like? How about I buy what you like and show them to you?”
The flashing words on the light screen made Su Mangqian ponder.
He tried to decipher the deeper meaning of these words.
In what kind of relationship would a girl ask a man what kind of clothes he likes?
And how should the man answer in such a relationship?
Su Mingqian thought through the two questions and understood how to respond to those words. He said tactfully, “Anything’s fine. What I like isn’t as important as what you like. I’m sure everything you buy is beautiful.”
Critical hit.
Critical hit × 2!
Critical hit × 3!
Three arrows to the heart, Li Shuoxing’s mind was dizzy. By the time he came back to his senses, his fingers had already slid the little devil princess outfit onto Su Mingqian, getting a puzzled expression from the little person.
Calm down
 calm down calm down calm down!
Now it’s still the double favourability period. If I get favourability points deducted, I’m really going to lose a fortune!!
Li Shuoxing reluctantly let go, letting the dress go back into the wardrobe.
His hands itched and his heart itched even more. He tapped randomly on the buttons in the game, desperate to do something to vent his urge, and ended up tapping on a new section of the store and seeing the skin gift bag in it.
[Courtyard Skin Limited Time 24-hour Discount Gift Bag]
[Courtyard Skin]: Halloween – Pumpkin Party Starts Today
[Price]: 1000 contribution points (originally 1888)
[Access]: Contribution points purchase, lottery, planting pumpkins
It wasn’t strange that the courtyard skin was for sale; it’d only be strange if it wasn’t.
But

Li Shuoxing’s eyes focused on the price, then looked at his remaining contribution points, a trace of suspicion flashing in his mind.
This crap game shouldn’t be recording my top-up data, and then deliberately discounting to a price I can just afford, to clear my contribution points in one fell swoop, right

But even if suspicious, men could do anything when high.
Li Shuoxing was still full of excitement and wanted to please the little person, so he typed a question to Su Mingqian. “Do you like the current courtyard? The current courtyard is time-limited and will disappear in five hours. If you like it, I’ll buy it so that you can look at it all the time!”
Su Mingqian refused. “You don’t have to. I don’t need it.”
Li Shuoxing’s shopping desire was unprecedentedly tenacious. “Really? Don’t worry about the money. It’s not very expensive to buy a decoration.”
Su Mingqian refused again. “I don’t want to live in the dark every day.”
That’s a good reason!
Li Shuoxing sobered up. He thought about it carefully and felt that although the courtyard skin was beautiful, it really would be unbearable to only see the dark night every day.
Su Mingqian added, “I really don’t need the whole courtyard, but can I keep some of the things in the courtyard?”
Li Shuoxing: “That won’t work
”
In the middle of this sentence, Li Shuoxing watched the store interface flicker, and the courtyard gift bag sold on it changed.
The originally lone gift bag he could only choose to pay for or not pay for became a large category. When he tapped on it for a look, there were pumpkin heads for 15 contributions, owls for 30 contributions, candy land for 120 contributions, crystal pumpkin carriage for 300 contributions

Li Shuoxing: “
”
He really is the game’s son, making a request to unlock a setting.
He stiffly changed his words. “That works. What do you want to buy?”
Su Minqian raised his finger and pointed to the small lounge area he’d set up in front of the bookshelf. “Rug, coffee table, tea set, two cushions.”
Li Shuoxing found these three items in the long list of items.
They were very cheap, a total of just 70 contribution points.
He gathered the things the little person requested without a ripple in his heart.
The system also intelligently removed the words limited time behind the corresponding furniture in the room.
Li Shuoxing: “It’s done. Now the lounge area you set up won’t disappear.”
Su Mingqian was satisfied. “Thank you.” He also reminded Li Shuoxing, “Don’t forget to buy vegetable seeds in the next few days. The reason we cleared the courtyard was to plant vegetables.”
Li Shuoxing: “
”
He’d completely forgotten about this setting.
Speaking of planting vegetables

Li Shuoxing paused and suddenly thought of the words “planting pumpkins” he’d just seen on the skin gift bag’s detail screen.
He looked back and found the note.
[Planting Pumpkins]: Whenever the player harvests a pumpkin, there is a 10% chance of obtaining a “pumpkin head fragment”. Collect 99 fragments to exchange for the Pumpkin Party skin.
He went through the planting category again and found that, in addition to the mixed vegetable seed packet, the store had added another new item.
[Pumpkin Seed Packet]: 3 contribution points
[Note]: Pumpkin seed packet containing 10 pumpkin seeds, which take 3 days to mature.
At these two pieces of information, Li Shuoxing fell into deep thought.
He asked the little person, “Cub, do you hate eating pumpkin?”
Su Mingqian: “No.”
He then asked, “Then are you okay with always eating pumpkin?”
Su Mingqian: “How long is always?”
Li Shuoxing estimated, “About a month?”
Su Mingqian: “
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ćżƒæ€„ćƒäžäș†çƒ­è±†è… is an idiom meaning that one will just have to be patient; haste will ruin everything. Eating tofu also refers to molesting and taking advantage of others.