Chapter 2.1

This scene was a bit awkward.

Just as everyone said nothing, the sounds “Ding, Ding, Ding” sounded successively in Ye Chen’s mind. Ye Chen then heard the system say: “Host, a task came.”

“Read it.”

“Main task 1: Brush Gu Jianan’s favorability up to 100. Current favorability is -30.”

“Main task 2: Prevent Gu Jianan from destroying the world. The current progress is 0.”

“Main task 3: Reduce the extent of Gu Jianan’s blackening. The current extent of blackening is 70.”

“Current task: Stop Gu Jianan from killing people. Three months later, Gu Jianan will murder his parents. Prevent this incident from happening, consequently preventing the consequences of Gu Jianan’s blackening and leading to world destruction.”

The change in Gu Jianan’s life destiny changed from the moment he murdered his parents. However, the murder of his parents also signaled the beginning of his life’s darkening.

As Ye Chen was immersed in the task, Ye Min walked in front of Gu Jianan. Faced with Ye Chen’s silent expression, she said furiously: “None of you even think about touching him today!”

Having said that, Ye Min looked back at Gu Jianan and said sincerely: “Don’t be afraid, I will protect you.”

Gu Jianan seemed to have heard nothing, his delicate and handsome face indifferent.

Ye Min’s words pulled Ye Chen back from her thoughts. Looking at the scene in front of her, she began to recall what happened.

Today was the first day of their freshman year of high school. At the age of 16, Ye Chen was originally going to go to an aristocratic private school. After all, she did not have good grades so coming to such a key high school full of honor students was just asking for trouble. But despite being young, she was very mindful. She fell in love with her primary school classmate Zhou Yucheng early on. After finding out that Zhou Yucheng entered the number one high school with the highest grade in the city, she wheedled and pestered that cheap dad of hers to think of a way to also put her into the first high school, and arrange it so that she was also in the same class as Zhou Yucheng.

Zhou Yucheng placed first, and Gu Jianan just happened to place second. The school arranged their seat positions according to the results, thus, Gu Jianan became Zhou Yucheng’s deskmate. Ye Chen hurriedly went to find Gu Jianan quietly and wanted to change seats with him, but Gu Jianan’s reaction was…

No response.

Since the fourth grade of elementary school, Gu Jianan didn’t know how to speak. Unless necessary, he rarely communicated with the outside world. He basically ate alone, read, and did exercise questions. Ye Chen naturally took Gu Jianan’s reaction as a provocation, and immediately went to call over her childhood friends, a bunch of children who fought and caused trouble since young. Since their family was rich, there were still several in number one middle school. These people then also called out their friends. A dozen or so people then stopped Gu Jianan within the school after school had let out, and directly dragged him to the corner of the playground to beat him up.

Ye Min, as an excellent student who entered through grades, was naturally also in the key class. While she was packing up her school bag, she heard Ye Chen’s name. After inquiring a little, she knew what this sister of hers had done again, so she hurried over. Although she didn’t know Gu Jianan, she didn’t like to see her sister bullying people so much.

As soon as others heard that she was Ye Chen’s sister, they always showed a meaningful expression. Ye Min expressed that she was also troubled.

Seeing how Ye Chen did not respond, Ye Min’s guts grew bigger. She looked at Ye Chen coldly, raised her voice, and said: “How many times have you been told by dad? You are still such a disappointment every day. Since you entered number one middle school, just study hard. Beating people up on the very first day, did you want to lose all of Ye Family’s face?!”

“What should I do? I feel like what she said makes a lot of sense. This Ye Chen’s three views really don’t work.”

Ye Chen silently praised Ye Min in her heart. The system was somewhat helpless as it said: “You must not be OOC (violating the character’s original personality), this will cause points to be deducted.”

“You can rest assured in the way I handle things.”

Ye Chen made a chest patting gesture towards the system in her heart, then raised her head slightly and said coldly: “What has anything I love to do got to do with you? Whenever I see you I get annoyed! Let’s go!”

After finishing, Ye Chen decisively turned around and hailed the people around her: “Head back.”

Everyone present: “…”

System: “Violation of character personality, -1 point.”

Ye Chen’s body was stiff, but she controlled herself. Don’t look back. The point was already lost, and it was too late to redress it. Don’t do anything now, hurry up and leave!

Ye Min was originally ready to fight with Ye Chen, but she didn’t expect it to be over just like that.

Not just Ye Min, but everyone around was very puzzled. The teenager who kicked Gu Jianan at the beginning was Ye Chen’s loyal lackey, a son of a foreman, named Zhang He. He hurriedly caught up, and asked, a little uncertain:”Big Sis Ye, we’re just going to forget it like this?”

“Just forget it,” Ye Chen said lightly: “Looking at that little bitch makes me upset. Head back.”

Everyone felt that Ye Chen’s decision was a bit strange, but none dared to say anything, all going their own separate ways. Ye Chen called the driver over and had the driver drive her back to the house.

Her father didn’t like her, and she didn’t like that “Ye Min’s” home either. Besides, both her parents had money, so she lived alone in a high-end community and with an aunty.

She liked to bring back her punk-ass friends to play. It wasn’t convenient for the aunty to live-in all the time, so she became an aunty who came to cook and clean for her every day. Ye Chen usually lived alone.

This apartment was very large. As the penthouse of the whole building, it had windows standing from the floor to the ceiling, overlooking the entire city. When Ye Chen came back, the aunty just finished preparing her meals. Seeing how Ye Chen came back, she knew she didn’t like to see herself so she quickly hid herself in a small room and waited for Ye Chen to finish her meal. The aunty left after she washed the dishes, leaving her as the only one left in the room.

“It’s so lonely.” Ye Chen lay on the bed, looking at the mirror, a bit rueful: “The life of the rich.”

Ye Chen, who was not ugly, could even be said to be beautiful and very beautiful at that. Compared with the female lead Ye Min, her facial features were even more refined . She had a pair of peach-shaped eyes that could shoot out electricity, making her facial features extraordinarily dazzling. Such exceptional beauty was a test of the person’s temperament. If you played it well, then it would surely be a bone-deep charm. If not, then it would just be considered gaudy.*

*TN: Author had a typo in the last sentence it seems since she wrote ‘if so, then it would just be considered gaudy’.

Moreover, the original body’s owner not only couldn’t make use of these facial features but also loved a ‘smart’ style¹. Every day, makeup was painted on so thickly that the original looks couldn’t be seen. Donning an explosive purple afro, with iron chains hanging and dangling all over the body, Ye Chen felt like her entire being was on the edge of collapse.

¹TN: 杀马特 (sa-ma-ter) is a way to make fun of the word ‘smart’ in Chinese (it sounds similar). The style, however, is a mix of punk rock and emo.

“Can I not dress like this?” Ye Chen despaired.

“A reasonable opportunity is necessary. If you suddenly changed, it would be considered as an OOC deduction point.” The system answered very coldly and reminded: “Besides host, don’t dwell on this kind of problem now. Shouldn’t your current key issue be what you’re going to do about this mission?”

“What should I do?” Ye Chen thought for a while as she laid on the bed, then brooded: “I have to get close to him first. Say, in what way do you think I should start treating him well so that it doesn’t appear so deliberate?”

“Need to find a suitable reason. Oh right, System, you have a pain shield, right?”

Ye Chen remembered this major concern. Many things required this in order to be completed. The system resolutely said: “Yes, I am a very complete system.”

Ye Chen nodded, pondered for a while longer, and laid down on the bed: “Forget it, sleep comes first.”