Li Shuoxing was surprised. He hurriedly stopped his hand and looked at the favourability pool at the upper left corner.
In the favourability pool, only 7 points were left from the 10 favourability points.
2 points were spent on the fabric and 1 point had just been deducted.
Li Shuoxing felt a pang of heartache. This is half a piece of fabric, which could’ve made half a set of clothes!
He looked at Su Mingqian again, not only unhappy but also confused.
“How come just touching him drops favourability? Is this guy’s personality too cold, do all the lovers have this type of personality, or is my little person abnormal?”
The game didn’t respond to Li Shuoxing.
The novice guide spirit was still persistently tapping the nearby workbench, indicating Li Shuoxing to follow its steps.
Li Shuoxing thought it over and over, and figured that it was because the favourability wasn’t high enough.
After all, he had lost favourability after one slight touch before, but now he only lost favourability after a couple touches.
There was some difference… right?
Following the novice guide, he selected the workbench and tapped on the ordinary fabric on it. In an instant, the fabric was spread out in front of Su Mingqian’s body.
Novice guide:
“Please select the style you want to make.”
The blank space next to the fabric immediately popped up with clothing styles, with two options: a long-sleeved shirt with trousers and a robe.
Li Shuoxing casually selected the long-sleeved shirt with trousers.
“Please cut out the front pieces of the shirt and trousers following the dotted line.”
The little person next to the mirror suddenly raised his hands flat and separated his legs, standing in place in a spread-out shape, letting the faint dotted line outline his body through the fabric.
This was just a very simple system mode, but for some reason, after entering this state, the little person was particularly nervous. Almost immediately, three text bubbles bursted out of his head.
“Are you there?”
“What’s happening?”
“Why can’t I move?”
This look was just like a small panic-stricken animal being put on a grill.
Li Shuoxing murmured inwardly for a moment. Because he was afraid of losing favourability again, he quickly replied, “It’s okay, don’t be nervous. I’ll put you down after taking your measurements.”
These words calmed the little person a little.
Alas… I can do anything to the little person as long as I’m happy.
But he has my lifeline in his hands, favourability…
So let’s live in peace. You’re good to me, and I’m good to you. Amen.
Li Shuoxing didn’t delay. Soon, following the system’s requirements, he cut out the front pieces of the shirt and trousers, and then the back pieces. After the front and back pieces were finished, he pinched them together with his fingers to form the new clothes.
The novice guide popped up.
“Clothes have dyeing and patterning functions. Please dye or pattern the finished clothes.”
Two menus popped up: dyes from 5 favourability points and patterns from 2 favourability points.
Li Shuoxing found that he had no choice.
He measured the total amount in the favourability pool and cautiously purchased the custom pattern with the lowest price.
This custom pattern was pure black, with no pattern. You could draw anything on the clothes. If you weren’t too tired, you could even paint white clothes completely black.
Li Shuoxing, of course, wasn’t that idle.
He thought:
At minimum, I could draw a horizontal line on the clothes to complete the task.
To be more artistic, I could add some flowers and grass on the clothes to increase the colour.
But neither of those two seem fun. So what else is fun…
Li Shuoxing mulled it over, then suddenly, with a flash of inspiration, wrote two words on the clothes with a large stroke of his pen!
The novice guide reappeared in time.
“You have made a new set of clothes for your lover. Although there is still a lot of room for improvement, your handmade gift is still happily accepted by your lover. You can try the dyeing and patterning clothing functions in many ways to create unique and beautiful clothes for your beloved lover. [love]”
After this line ended, the chatterbox novice guide finally disappeared.
Li Shuoxing was a bit indignant.
What do you mean by “there is still a lot of room for improvement”?
I think I cut it very well!
He tapped on the mirror and selected the new clothes for the little person. Then he saw… a crooked white sack on the little person.
On the front of the white sack, positioned on the chest, were two large ink words.
“NO ESCAPE!”
The brushwork was lofty, magnificent, very eye-catching!
Well…
In fact…
It’s a bit…
Well…
I’m done for.
If he puts on these clothes, he won’t deduct favourability, will he?
Li Shuoxing was nervous and couldn’t help glancing at the flimsy number “5” in the favourability pool. Then, he held his breath as he looked at the little person with full concentration.
The clothes that suddenly flew onto his body seemed to stun the little person on the screen.
He stood there, his head bowed hesitantly, as if he was observing the clothes on his body… After a while, he moved again. First, he grabbed the collar of the clothes and lowered his head to sniff; then, he lifted the clothes, carefully tidied up the collar and stuffed the left shoulder that slipped out back in; finally, he brushed the wrinkles of the clothes with his fingers to smooth them out.
This whole set of movements was unhurried and very meticulous, and then, a number and a sentence jumped out of the little person’s head.
+10.
“Thank you.”
Although his thank you was a little perfunctory, Li Shuoxing still suddenly felt very pleased, and he couldn’t help but whisper:
“The little person isn’t actually that difficult to nurture!”
He decided to give the little person a little reward. It was almost time for lunch, so he decided to add a dish for him today!
Li Shuoxing came out of the production workshop and went back to the room. Just as he lit the stove, the game narration suddenly popped up.
[Su Mingqian hides a shovel when you are not paying attention.]
[He seems to want to do something with the shovel.]
Li Shuoxing: “…”
He passed out.
If the human mood could be visualised, Li Shuoxing believed that at this moment, a -100 favourability must be jumping out of his head. He felt deep disappointment and great anger towards this little person!
He left the phone in his bedroom, locked himself in his study, then opened the document and passionately typed.
As for the problem of the main character’s personality, hmph, without him, Su Mingqian, would I, Li Shuoxing, be unable to write?!
Li Shuoxing wrote with a negative mood, turning his anger into motivation and devoting himself into writing. He spent a day and a half writing. Besides eating, going to the toilet and sleeping at night, he was sitting in front of the computer typing the entire time. When he couldn’t write anymore, he looked at the word count, a total of 16,900. Counting the original 10,000 of stock, his drafts totalled 27,000.
The sunset glow of another day shone through the window and spilled on the white tiles, rendering layers of crimson red, like frosty forests in distant mountains, a warm red.
Li Shuoxing collapsed on the sofa, breathing heavily in and out. Then, he stretched his back hard to relieve his painful spine.
He didn’t pay attention when he was writing. Only when he finished writing did he realise that his whole head was numb… and hungry.
Hungry enough to eat a pig.
Li Shuoxing returned to his room and took out his phone left in the cupboard. He tapped on the takeout and ordered a big meal for himself.
The time spent waiting was always boring.
Li Shuoxing had a look at his QQ and Weibo, then opened the game again.
That’s right.
Still that Love Bar game.
This game abuses me thousands of times, and I still treat it like a first love.
He calmly opened the game and didn’t see the little person at first. Then, with a closer look, he found the little person squatting at the junction of the kitchen and bedroom, hands holding his knees, head slightly leaning against the wall, unmoving, thinking about who knew what.
The game had no sound effect, and the time was consistent with the time in reality. It was also dusk, but there was no sunset. The unlit room was grey blue, as if shrouded in some kind of gloomy atmosphere, and Su Mingqian, leaning against the wall in a small ball, had a very pitiful look.
Li Shuoxing wasn’t fooled by the little person’s cute appearance.
His heart was unperturbed.
Prior contact had made him understand that this guy wasn’t a little cutie but a little rascal.
He didn’t rush to poke the little person, but first opened the flashing game narration, ready to see what the little person had done during the day. Did he go out with the shovel and dig a tunnel to escape?
As soon as the game narration popped up, the long content scrolled across the screen.
This time the content seemed to be much longer than the previous time, and there was a time distinction.
Li Shuoxing read from the beginning.
Yesterday, 12:00am
[Su Mingqian returns to the room.]
Su Mingqian: “Are you there?”
Su Mingqian: …
[Su Mingqian eats rice.]
[Su Mingqian goes for a walk in the courtyard and reaches its boundary.]
[Su Mingqian returns inside and reads a book.]
Yesterday, 6:00pm
Su Mingqian: “Are you back?”
Su Mingqian: …
[Su Mingqian eats rice.]
[Su Mingqian takes out a book, turns to the part describing food and eats rice against the book.]
[Su Mingqian doesn’t finish the rice.]
[Su Mingqian goes to the production workshop.]
Today, 7:00am
Su Mingqian: …
[Su Mingqian does not eat.]
[Su Mingqian goes to the courtyard, shovels a couple shovels of soil with his shovel and piles it up next to the door.]
Today, 12:00am
Su Mingqian: …
[Su Mingqian puts rice on the table.]
[Su Mingqian sits blankly.]
[Su Mingqian’s eyes seem to gleam. He raises his hand to wipe them.]
[Su Mingqian goes to the courtyard and turns the pile of soil into a human shape.]
[Su Mingqian penetrates the soil human’s chest with a shovel.]
[Su Mingqian looks around and seems a little scared.]
[Su Mingqian takes the shovel out of the soil human’s chest and then pushes the soil human flat to put everything back the way it was.]
[Su Mingqian returns to his room as if nothing happened.]
Today, 5:30pm
Su Mingqian: “Liar.”
Su Mingqian: “Anyone?”
Su Mingqian: “…Who will come to talk with me?”
[Su Mingqian goes to the courtyard and stands in front of the barren grass for a long time.]
[Su Mingqian pulls up some weeds.]
[Su Mingqian returns to the kitchen and fries the weeds. The weeds turn black.]
[Su Mingqian looks at this blackened dish for a long time.]
[Su Mingqian empties the dish into the rubbish bin.]
[Su Mingqian sits down in the corner.]
Li Shuoxing read the narration without missing a word.
He drew a cold breath and his heart fluctuated violently.
Is… is this cute and pitiful little thing really the little rascal I know?