Chapter 180

Chapter 180

Yellow Hair’s breath suddenly caught as he watched Lin Junruo move in close.

What did it feel like to have a gorgeous woman press in on you like this while you were leaning against a bed?

Yellow Hair hardly dared to look at Lin Junruo.

This… was way too much of a test of self-control.

Lin Junruo, however, was completely unaware that anything was wrong. Once she felt the distance between her and Yellow Hair was about right, she finally let her gaze fall on him. Then, seeing that Yellow Hair was looking off to the side, she frowned slightly.

“Yellow Hair, you have to look at me,” Lin Junruo said.

Yellow Hair stiffened.

“Okay,” he replied with some difficulty.

But since he had said it, Yellow Hair still forced himself to comply.

He turned his head and lifted his eyes to meet Lin Junruo’s gaze.

Lin Junruo’s beautiful face was right there in front of him, enlarged in his vision. Their gazes locked. Lin Junruo looked utterly serious, while Yellow Hair… Yellow Hair stared at her, a little dazed. He felt his heartbeat start to speed up again.

Just then-

“Character Card Similarity: 90%. Character Card experience gained: 9%. Player, please keep working hard to upgrade your Character Card.”

Lin Junruo frowned.

90%?

What was still different?

The moment Lin Junruo frowned, Yellow Hair immediately snapped back to himself and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Lin Junruo pulled herself out of her thoughts, knelt upright, and put some distance between herself and Yellow Hair. “The System says the similarity is only 90%. Where’s the remaining 10% going wrong?”

Yellow Hair shook his head. If even Lin Junruo herself, the original person in question, didn’t know, then he definitely wouldn’t.

Lin Junruo tried hard to recall the state she and Yellow Hair had been in just now, then thought back to the scene on the Character Card. No matter how she thought about it, she couldn’t figure it out.

The environment was different, and the people were different, so maybe it was impossible to reach 100% similarity?

Lin Junruo wasn’t sure either. But whatever. 90% was 90%. The important thing was to farm experience as quickly as possible.

She looked at Yellow Hair again, full of fighting spirit. “Yellow Hair, let’s go again!”

Yellow Hair: “???”

Again?

Yellow Hair looked at Lin Junruo with a complicated expression.

Did this girl know what kind of face she had? Did she know he was a man?

Yellow Hair kind of wanted to refuse, but seeing Lin Junruo’s eager, ready-to-go expression, and then remembering that he was currently in the Realm of Death, he gritted his teeth and said, “Let’s do it!”

What sacrifice couldn’t be made for the sake of staying alive?

The two of them acted as soon as they decided and immediately continued.

“Character Card Similarity: 90%. Character Card experience gained: 9%. Player, please keep working hard to upgrade your Character Card.”

“Character Card Similarity: 90%. Character Card experience gained: 9%. Player, please keep working hard to upgrade your Character Card.”

“Character Card Similarity: 90%. Character Card experience gained: 9%. Player, please keep working hard to upgrade your Character Card. Reminder: the attempt limit for the same individual has been reached. Further attempts will no longer count toward experience.”

Lin Junruo had originally been brimming with enthusiasm, but the moment she heard the System notification, her excitement vanished. She sat off to the side, putting distance between herself and Yellow Hair.

Yellow Hair had already gotten used to it and was waiting for Lin Junruo to continue, only to see her suddenly sit to the side with a rather unhappy look on her face.

“What’s wrong?” Yellow Hair asked.

Lin Junruo looked at Yellow Hair aggrievedly. “This damn System only lets me do it five times with one person.”

In other words, even if Lin Junruo and he repeated that action a hundred more times, it would be useless. Yellow Hair let out a breath of relief. At last, he no longer had to endure that torment. But somewhere deep down, Yellow Hair also felt the faintest trace of regret.
“How much experience do you have now?” Yellow Hair finally got down to business.

“Forty-four percent. Still a long way from leveling up.” Lin Junruo sighed. Clearly, if she wanted to test whether doing this could upgrade her card to R, the answer was no.

Still, it wasn’t as if there had been no progress at all.

Lin Junruo looked at Yellow Hair and asked, “What’s the art on your card like?”

Lin Junruo couldn’t grind any more experience for herself, so next, she felt obligated to cooperate with Yellow Hair and help him grind his experience too.

Yellow Hair glanced at his own card art and said, “It looks pretty simple. Just tying up hair?”

On Yellow Hair’s card, the woman was sitting cross-legged on the floor, while the man knelt behind her. One hand held the woman’s hair, and the other held a hair tie. He was clearly tying up her hair. The scene on the card was in front of a floor-to-ceiling window, sunlight spilling over the two of them in an especially soft glow-but that wasn’t important.

Yellow Hair extracted three key words from it.

Tying up hair!

Lin Junruo climbed off the bed and said, “Then come on.” She looked at the vanity beside them, pointed at it, and asked, “Should I sit here?”

Yellow Hair shook his head. Then he looked at the white carpet in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and pointed there. “Sit over there. The card art is in front of the window.”

After saying that, Yellow Hair glanced at the card art again. Huh. Now that he looked at it, the scene on the card and the one in front of him seemed… pretty similar?

Lin Junruo didn’t think too much of it.

She walked over to the carpet and sat down, facing the floor-to-ceiling window.

Yellow Hair rummaged through the vanity and found a few hair ties. He picked one he thought looked nice, then walked behind Lin Junruo and knelt down.

Yellow Hair began gathering Lin Junruo’s hair.

It was obviously an extremely simple motion, but Yellow Hair soon furrowed his brow.

Why did a few strands keep slipping out every time he tried to scoop it up?

Yellow Hair was utterly baffled.

Lin Junruo just felt Yellow Hair fumbling with her hair over and over in the strangest way, so she asked, “What’s wrong?”

“I can’t handle this hair,” Yellow Hair said, sounding worried.

Lin Junruo asked, “Is it that hard? What does it look like?”

“Just grabbing all the hair in one handful. But every time I grab it, a few strands slip out,” Yellow Hair said, expressing his deep confusion over the matter.

Lin Junruo laughed. “Let go. I’ll gather it first, then you can do it.”

Yellow Hair had no objections.

He let go of Lin Junruo’s hair.

Lin Junruo reached both hands behind her head and easily gathered up all her hair without leaving a single strand behind. Then she handed it to Yellow Hair.

Yellow Hair followed Lin Junruo’s hands and took hold of her hair. With the hair tie in his other hand, he copied the pose shown on the card art.

Then he heard the System notification.

“Character Card Similarity: 100%. Character Card experience deducted by 10%. Player, please continue working hard to upgrade your Character Card.”

When he heard the System’s voice, a smile appeared on Yellow Hair’s face. Just as he was about to continue, he suddenly froze.

Wait. Did the System just say deducted?

Yellow Hair sucked in a sharp breath.

He let go of Lin Junruo’s hair.

“Is it done? Again?” Lin Junruo immediately asked.

Yellow Hair shook his head. Kneeling behind Lin Junruo, he looked utterly crushed. “I can’t.”

“Huh?” Lin Junruo turned to look at Yellow Hair and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Are you sure it increases experience?” Yellow Hair stared at Lin Junruo in disbelief.

Lin Junruo nodded. “Yeah. What, can it decrease instead?”

Yellow Hair nodded at Lin Junruo with a face full of bitterness.

Lin Junruo: “???”