Chapter 1

Chapter 1

I was just using Su Yu to grind out the last bit of affection points when the System, which had been offline for three years, suddenly let out a piercing screech:

[We got it wrong! This is a clean romance!]

[The male lead is sexually frigid and despises intimacy!]

[Ahhh, that red bar is the hatred value! Host, you’re done for!]

I jolted in fright. The blush drained from my face as I scrambled off the bed.

“N-no more…”

“Let’s just go to sleep!”

The mature man pressed his damp lips together, laughter glimmering in his peach-blossom eyes.

“Are you getting tired of this?”

“Then we’ll do what you like.”

He pulled open the nightstand drawer, took out a foil packet, and started to tear it open.

Startled, I lunged forward and snatched it away, shaking my head like a rattle drum.

“No, no, no! You just got back from a business trip, so you must be exhausted, right? You should get some proper rest. I can’t let you wear yourself out any more.”

He paused.

“But every time I come back from a trip, you cling to me all night and say you want to make up for the past week.”

My heart hammered wildly, and I blurted out, “Things are different now. You’re already thirty. I think we should live a little more cleanly and temperately!”

The curve of Su Yu’s lips froze. He lowered his gaze almost instinctively to glance downward, and a shadow flashed through his eyes.

“…All right.”

He got up and went to the bathroom, and soon the sound of running water came from inside.

I hurriedly dumped the whole drawer full of ultra-thin 001s into the trash.

Then I asked the System in my head, my voice trembling:

“I clearly remember transmigrating into a smut novel. How did it turn into a clean romance?”

The System sighed over and over.

[This one’s my fault. I had just bound to you and was in a rush to report back to headquarters, so I accidentally sent you into a clean romance.]

[Your pervert image has already deeply hurt the male lead. You can’t be the female lead anymore.]

[Work hard and get the male lead’s hatred value down to 0. I’ll make you the black-history supporting female character and switch you to a different mission target.]

[When the mission ends, I’ll even apply for triple bonus pay for you.]

Even though “black-history supporting female character” sounded awful no matter how I looked at it, triple bonus pay made me hesitate for all of 0.01 seconds before nodding.

“I’ll do my best!”

After a long while, a muffled, suppressed groan came from the bathroom.

The sound of the running water gradually softened.

But the System’s excited shrieking grabbed all my attention, and I failed to notice anything strange.

[Ahhh, it’s dropping, it’s dropping! The male lead’s hatred value is down to 40!]

[As long as you stop clinging to him, the hatred value will keep dropping.]

[Quick, hurry up and move to the guest bedroom! I think the binding can be undone tonight!]

The hatred value had gone down.

But my chest felt oddly uncomfortable, as if something had pricked it with a needle, leaving behind a faint ache.

I lowered my head, picked up a blanket, and prepared to go sleep in the guest bedroom.

Just then, the bathroom door opened.

The man, wearing nothing but a towel around his waist, called out to me, his voice carrying an odd rasp. “Xiaoxiao, it’s so late. Where are you going?”

“I think this bed is a little cramped, so I want to sleep in the guest bedroom-”

Before I could finish, Su Yu’s face darkened, and his voice rose sharply.

“Jiang Xiao, you’re going to sleep in a separate room from me?!”