My first reaction to this setting was that it was bad taste, but when I think about it, there’s no lack of cute points, especially when I think of it together with the pumpkin chopping rampage from earlier…
And when I think about it more.
This cute complex and super pink complex isn’t without its clues… like the little devil princess costume he had carefully put in the wardrobe!
How could I have forgotten this!
Li Shuoxing sprang up and quickly typed, “Cub, do you like little dresses? How about I find you some pictures of little dresses?”
Su Mingqian was stunned. “You’re going to look for pictures of little dresses to show me?”
Li Shuoxing: “Yeah, do you want to see them?”
Su Mingqian: “…”
He didn’t speak for a moment.
He didn’t need to speak. The +100 that set heaven and earth on the screen had already said it all!
Li Shuoxing excitedly opened Taobao to search for women’s clothing. However, for some reason, the women’s clothing that popped up had the same style and similar design. At a glance, they looked old-fashioned, far from the layered little dress with gauze lace bows that he had in mind.
Li Shuoxing searched in silence for 10 minutes, but he still couldn’t find the kind of dress he wanted.
So he opened QQ and found Deer Over Fragrant Grass on his friend list.
Consult the one and only author who could possibly know anything about these things.
Li Shuoxing: “Is Brother Deer there?”
Deer Over Fragrant Grass: “Brother Deer is here.”
Li Shuoxing: “Let me ask you something.”
Deer Over Fragrant Grass: “Say it.”
Li Shuoxing: “I’m looking for a Lolita dress. Where should I look?”
Deer Over Fragrant Grass: “…”
Li Shuoxing: “I want a more gorgeous kind.”
Deer Over Fragrant Grass: “…”
Deer Over Fragrant Grass: “[link][link] The first link is a promotional site for Lolita dresses and the second link is a purchase site.” She finished and added, as if unconsciously, “Which one do you need?”
Li Shuoxing had already opened the two websites.
He took a brief sweep and replied with satisfaction, “Both.”
Deer Over Fragrant Grass: “…”
Another ellipsis.
Li Shuoxing was a little puzzled. Usually when chatting with people, sending ellipses was his speciality. How come recently he was being outdone one after another by others… Could it be that everyone was now fond of ellipses?
Li Shuoxing: “Thank you.”
Deer Over Fragrant Grass: “No need. I never thought you’d need this…”
Li Shuoxing: “It just happens to be useful.”
After he typed those words, he closed QQ, not even seeing another ellipsis that Deer Over Fragrant Grass sent soon after.
He closed QQ and got back on the game.
Li Shuoxing started sending pictures to the little person.
The first picture was a small light pink dress with bows, ribbons, lace and pink yarn roses, matched with a sun hat in the same style, super beautiful and gorgeous.
Li Shuoxing: “Do you think this dress is beautiful?”
Su Mingqian: “It’s very beautiful.”
His voice was very steady, very sure, and very much had the rendering power to make the listener unable to help but agree with his words.
Of course, the surest wasn’t his voice, but the big +100 floating out of his head at the moment!
He got off on the right foot.
Li Shuoxing smiled. He sent out a second picture of a dress.
This one was also carefully chosen.
It was a goose yellow dress, much simpler and cuter compared with the slightly complicated light pink dress above. It had puffy sleeves, a small high waist, a frilly hem and a lazy sheep print on it. This was a dress Li Shuoxing had selected based on his thermos!
He typed with a smile, “Cub, do you like this one?”
Su Mingqian: “I like it too.”
Li Shuoxing: “Shall I buy it then?”
Another +100 favourability!
The favourability dropped out of nowhere, but it came so unexpectedly!
But in any case, he had made up the favourability that had dropped before.
Li Shuoxing didn’t expect that he could gain favourability like this. After his pleasant surprise, he completely released himself and sent Su Mingqian dresses one by one. During this process, although there was some fluctuation in the favourability, the lowest was still 70 and the highest was 100.
In the end, Su Mingqian interrupted the seemingly endless process of looking at pictures.
After looking at six or seven dresses in a row, he was getting a little tired and began to feel that they all looked the same.
He said, “Ximu, it’s about enough. You’re still sick and should go rest.”
Li Shuoxing still wanted to continue, but he controlled his hand.
It was indeed about enough.
If he kept going, he felt like the system would report another bug.
The most important thing was—
Li Shuoxing glanced at the favourability pool in the upper left corner. 999 appeared in it, shining with gold.
He took a screenshot with satisfaction.
That’s a good number.
I have to go at it little by little.
Take my time~
Li Shuoxing said goodbye and went offline. He took another dosage of the cold medicine on the table and then went to bed, soon passing out under the effect of the medicine.
In his sleep, there was nothing to worry about.
So Li Shuoxing had no idea that not long after he and Deer Over Fragrant Grass had finished chatting, she had quietly found someone.
Deer Over Fragrant Grass: “Interfinger, do we have a good relationship?”
Interfinger Storm: “Isn’t that nonsense? We’re two iron brothers.”
Deer Over Fragrant Grass: “Then I’ll tell you a secret. Don’t tell anyone else.”
Interfinger Storm: “Tell me. I promise not to tell anyone.”
Deer Over Fragrant Grass: “You know that author crossdressing trend that’s been popular at Terminal lately… It’s the thing where readers heckle the author to crossdress and then reward the author?”
Interfinger Storm: “I think I’ve heard of it. Why? It seems that several authors have really crossdressed.”
Deer Over Fragrant Grass lowered her typing voice. “Today, Eunuch came to ask me for a Lolita dress…”
Interfinger Storm: “…”
Deer Over Fragrant Grass said mysteriously, “I gave him the address and then beat about the bush, and he actually told me he was going to use…”
Interfinger Storm: “…”
Five minutes later, Deer Over Fragrant Grass and Interfinger Storm ended their conversation.
Interfinger Storm turned around and messaged someone.
Interfinger Storm: “Old Sang, are we iron brothers?”
Sang Wugui: “If you want to borrow money…” He breathed deeply. “It’s not impossible.”
Interfinger Storm’s tone was also mysterious. “I’m not borrowing money. I’ll tell you a gossip about Eunuch, but first you have to promise me that you won’t spread it out. We’ll share it between us two brothers.”
Sang Wugui readily promised. “Tell me, tell me.”
He turned around and messaged someone else.
“Junior brother, aren’t you a fan of Caramel Ximu? I have a piece of gossip about him here to tell you.”
…
***
After resting comfortably for a whole day, Li Shuoxing woke up the next day refreshed and energised.
He sat up in bed, stretched long and hard, then tried his voice in the air.
Mm—
Comfortable throat.
Voice as usual.
My cold is completely gone and my voice is fully recovered!
Li Shuoxing was very happy. Under the bright sky outside the window, he was in a rare good mood and made himself a nice breakfast. As he ate his breakfast, he sat down at his computer and checked his novel.
First, he looked at the data.
The data growth was quite considerable.
Good mood Ă— 2.
Then, he looked at the discussion forum.
The discussions in the discussion forum had also increased a lot.
There was also a very popular post with the title…
“Can we really get a sexy author to crossdress online for a general gold alliance of 100,000 yuan?”
Em.
Emm???
Li Shuoxing unconsciously blinked his eyes and subconsciously looked at the top of the page.
No mistake, it wasn’t My Campus Belle XXX or Urban Extreme XXX , but Nine Crossings , his novel.
So.
Why.
Would such a weird post appear in the book review forum?
Li Shuoxing calmed down and clicked to enter.
First, he saw the original poster’s long name that won by sheer numbers, “Great Modest and Rigorous Headline Quotations”.
Li Shuoxing: “…”
Too long.
Wouldn’t it be tiring to type such a long ID?
He went on to read the content of the topic post.
“As titled. A general gold alliance is a little difficult. Does Eunuch accept payment in parts? I’ll start with a great silver alliance, and Eunuch can just put on a pair of silk stockings. I can pay in advance. If it’s not enough to buy a pair of stockings, one is fine too, but it has to be the kind that goes to the root of the thigh.”
Li Shuoxing: “…………”
He looked on with difficulty.
#1: “OP is really great, modest and rigorous, I’m convinced!”
#2: “OP gets what he pays for, a sincere person.”
#3: “6666 Eunuch has also caught up with the crossdresser trend? I knew this wind was blowing!”
#4: “Thinking about that beautiful picture, I can’t help but raise a strange smile.”
#5: “I’ll raise funds for a dress, a cheerleading dress, the kind that flies up and down when jumping.”
#6: “Actually, bikini swimsuits are fine too. How about two small pieces, two silver alliances?”
…
#233, Mixed Touch King: “Raise funds for a silver alliance to sponsor the OP. No need to add small pieces, just let me have a touch after Eunuch wears the silk stockings.”
Once this came out, the competitors worshipped and there was no competition.
Everyone was neatly lined up, worshipping the boss while urging the author to hurry out and agree to do it if he was a man!
True Man Li Shuoxing: “…”
He coldly closed the post, then opened it again, calmly banning Headline Quotations for three days before he closed the post again and deleted it coldly, obliterating everything into nothingness.
It was ten o’clock.
Li Shuoxing entered the backend and prepared to update.
When updating, he couldn’t help but bracket a sentence after the title of the new chapter.
(The author doesn’t wear women’s clothing!)
After posting the new chapter, Li Shuoxing closed the page.
Although his double good mood had been cut by one, there was still one left.
He was still in a very good mood. He had recovered from his cold today and could voice chat with the cub now. He was also kind of wondering what kind of feelings the cub would show when he heard his real voice.
Li Shuoxing went online.
It was 10am. The little person had gotten up and was exercising in the courtyard.
Li Shuoxing first poked the little person’s arm.
When the little person lifted his head up because he felt the force, he turned on the voice function and, with a smile, spoke in his perfect voice, “Cub, I’ve recovered from my cold and my voice is better.”
Su Mingqian, who opened his mouth at the same time as Li Shuoxing but spoke a step slower, was stunned.
He stood in place.
Stiff.
Like a weathered stone.
Li Shuoxing inexplicably sensed some danger. He put away the smile on his face and asked with a little doubt, “Cub, what’s the matter with you?”
Su Mingqian didn’t speak and of course didn’t move.
Li Shuoxing always felt as if some of yesterday’s images were being repeated. He reached out his hand to push the person who’d once again gone rigid… But before his hand touched him, the rigid person suddenly moved again.
Su Mingqian spoke abruptly, “Is your voice better?”
Li Shuoxing: “Yes, it’s better.”
Su Mingqian shook his head. “Your voice isn’t better.”
As his voice fell, favourability -999.
?!
This number was so exaggerated that he didn’t respond for a moment. He instinctively replied, “My voice…”
“No!”
A shout rang out from Su Mingqian.
His whole body shook hard with agitation. He said incredibly loudly, “No, your voice isn’t better at all!”
As his voice fell again, another -999.
Su Mingqian turned around, ran with big strides to the production workshop, and slammed the door, blocking Li Shuoxing’s view.
At the same time, the system narration flashed, refreshing three lines in a row.
[Su Mingqian is extremely agitated.]
[Su Mingqian’s mood is fluctuating greatly.]
[Su Mingqian has fallen into a self-closing state.]
After the three lines, the system prompt came out as well.
System: “The system has detected that your lover’s mood fluctuation has reached a critical level, and he has fallen into a state of escape. The system friendly prompts you to temporarily go offline and not do any actions to stimulate your lover. While you are offline, reflect well on how to live in harmony with your lover, have loving interactions, and build a better tomorrow together.”
Li Shuoxing was completely confused.
Now, one sentence was circulating in his mind.
It turns out that the upper limit for a single increase or decrease of favourability in this crap game isn’t 100, but 999?!