Su Muqiu had always been a strange guy to Ye Xiu. The first time they met, Su Muqiu practically yelled to Ye Xiu's face; "Uwaah! Rare character!" before challenging Ye Xiu to PK in a game after learning that Ye Xiu had beat everyone in the Internet Cafe.
It become even stranger when they lived together, Su Muqiu somehow always know what time it was even without any clock nor watch in the house. And he's always accurate. Sometimes, he'd also drag Ye Xiu to random calm places, murmuring about Dating Events, though Ye Xiu did not mind because whenever Su Muqiu did that, it was always when Ye Xiu was in the mood to go out. Somehow, he knew about that too.
Also, Su Muqiu somehow always knew when someone is having bad thoughts towards his sister and was always fast to intercept and kept them away at any cost, usually accompanied by "Damn perverted shady cannon fodders, with spiked Lust Level" complaints...
But there's one thing that Ye Xiu always couldn't understand, it's whenever they talked at random times and Su Muqiu suddenly replied with a meaningful wise reply, that made Ye Xiu impressed, Su Muqiu will then looked at Ye Xiu expectantly before sighing, "Why does your Love/Affection level is so hard to increase, Ye Xiu?"
Ye Xiu could never understand Su Muqiu's weirdness, but he accepted them all the same. They're parts of Su Muqiu and Ye Xiu wouldn't have it any other ways...
Until the day where Ye Xiu's hand was grasped tightly by the pale boy on the hospital bed, Su Muqiu smiled, despite his grief, fear, panic, and desperation, Ye Xiu smiled back.
"Mucheng, Ye Xiu... I can't hold it for long..." Su Muqiu took a deep shaky breath and the other two is truly afraid that it will be the last breath.
"Brother, please..." Su Mucheng sobbed, broken and desperate.
"I'm sorry... But I truly had exhausted my prolonging points, this time... It's really..." Su Muqiu trailed off weakly.
"Su Muqiu, shut up. Stop joking in this kind of situation," Ye Xiu tighten his grip on Su Muqiu's hand.
"I'm not... joking..." Su Muqiu smiled bitterly. "I'm sorry... Ye Xiu... I love you."
Ye Xiu stared at Su Muqiu, jaw slacked in disbelief and astonishment. Ye Xiu didn't know what to say as his heart beats faster. No... This is not fair...
Su Muqiu coughed, alarming Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng who cried harder. Su Muqiu's face twisted, "Ah Xiu... Damn, how could your Love/Affection points... Increased from 201 points to 1500 points... in a second, damn it."
"Su Muqiu stop talking, you're dying!" Ye Xiu scolded.
"I know! Fuck! I should have confessed since ages ago!" Su Muqiu coughed.
"Su Muqiu!"
"Brother!"
Su Muqiu heaved a sigh, "I'll leave Mucheng to you..."
"Brother! No!" Su Mucheng hugged her brother, not caring if his blood tainted her dress.
"Mucheng... Ye Xiu... Goodbye," Su Muqiu smiled and closed his eyes, Su Mucheng's cries pierced the air. Ye Xiu's tear just fell when suddenly his head was overwhelmed by a wave of dizziness and he stumbled, Su Mucheng did not pay attention to it, thinking Ye Xiu was also consumed by his grief.
But Ye Xiu knew better, he couldn't even let out his grief when suddenly his vision is filled with datas.
[Receiving informations from the former Host, Su Muqiu]
[Loading data...]
[Transfer success!]
[Welcome to Life and Dating System Simulation, new Host! We would try our best to get Host the best treatment from everyone, and track suitable love interest!]
Suddenly, everything Su Muqiu did till now made sense to Ye Xiu.
Ye Xiu took a lot of times to get used to the System and used it to its full capability like Su Muqiu, as like to check the freshness of the things he bought, kept Su Mucheng away from damnable perverted cannon fodders with less than innocent intention, checking the time, setting alarm, seeing which way is more suitable to approach the seller to get an extra discount. And Ye Xiu couldn't help but to think it was really fortunate Su Muqiu had this, this is truly made life to be much easier!
Ye Xiu also met several love interests... Well actually Ye Xiu is convinced that the System thought everyone available is a love interest as Ye Xiu even saw that Su Mucheng had a Love/Affection points below her Friendship points... Even though Ye Xiu saw her as a sister...
Not only Su Mucheng, there's even Tao Xuan, Wu Xuefeng... And Ye Xiu is truly helpless. Moreover the system often gave his answer choices to made, which he usually ignored.
Hence, it's truly usual for Ye Xiu... But when he stood before Han Wenqing in the meeting, the system practically blared.
[Rare character! Rare character! Black-bellied gangster type! Processing datas...
*Drop!*
Han Wenqing (Rare)
The first son of Han Family, resided in Q City. Has one big sister and one little brother. He's a very determined and strong individual, overprotective to those he loves. A strong boyfriend material!
Age: Nineteen
Hobby: Boxing
...]
Ye Xiu felt like a stalker reading the profile and decided to look up to the guy, so that's why Su Muqiu yelled "Rare character" to Ye Xiu's face the first time they met... He couldn't help it.
"Are you Ye Qiu, One Autumn Leaf's player?" Han Wenqing asked.
[Ding! Choose one!]
{I am Ye Qiu. You must be Desert Dust, as heroic as your avatar, I see...}
{Yes... May I ask who you are?}
Ye Xiu ignored the choice box and smiled to the older player, "I am Ye Qiu."
Han Wenqing offered a handshake and Ye Xiu accepted it, "I'm Han Wenqing. Deser Dust's owner, nice to meet you here."
{Desert Dust? I never expected you're as handsome as your character}
{Was it really nice to meet me?}
"Nice to meet you too, Han Wenqing," Ye Xiu nodded. Why is this system's answer choices is really thirsty?
"I don't know Old Han, things like that usually rare..." Ye Xiu trailed off from his conversation with Han Wenqing, or as the system said [Dating Event: Han Wenqing' worry], as two people walked towards them and the system started blarring again.
[Package deal characters! Package deal characters! Fierce and brash boyfriend with nice and unlucky boyfriend combination! Processing datas...]
Ye Xiu looked to the newcomers and immediately recognize them as the new team's captain and vice captain, Sun Zheping and Zhang Jiale.
"Hey, we're the new team's captain and vice captain. I'm Sun Zheping the new captain. Thought stopping by to greet seniors..." Sun Zheping said as he nudged Zhang Jiale to stop hiding behind his back just because he was afraid of Han Wenqing's face.
"How are you, senior Han Wenqing, I'm Zhang Jiale," Zhang Jiale bowed to Han Wenqing before shifted to hide half of his body behind Sun Zheping again.
"Hn," Han Wenqing nodded indifferently.
Ye Xiu smiled, "Lighten up Old Han, those are our juniors you know? Don't scare them so soon," Ye Xiu nudged Han Wenqing who glared in annoyance. Ye Xiu chuckled, "See, you even made Little Zhang so afraid that he took out his wallet."
Han Wenqing glanced at Zhang Jiale who was indeed clutching his wallet, ready to throw it to Han Wenqing, "Put that back, I don't need that."
Zhang Jiale hastily put his wallet back into his pocket, "I'm sorry..."
"Excuse Old Han, he's always like that. It's nice to meet you too, do your best for this season," Ye Xiu encouraged. "Though, you have to get past Old Han and me to be the best..."
"Now you're the one who scared them," Han Wenqing arched his brows.
"Nonsense, I was stating out the fact. Have you seen my smile drop? I'm very kind," Ye Xiu said.
Sun Zheping, who noticed how close the two interacted, grew interested, "And this senior is...?" Sun Zheping asked to Ye Xiu.
[Choose!]
{Would you like to find out...?}
{*Grab his hand and say* I'm Ye Qiu}
Ye Xiu spared a look to the choice box and was pleasantly surprised there's a normal choice, deciding to choose one for the sake of hidden points, Ye Xiu grabbed Sun Zheping's hand and shook it.
"I'm Ye Qiu," Ye Xiu said lightly.
Sun Zheping stared in shock to the golden-eyed man before him, even Zhang Jiale gasped in surprise. "Ye Qiu? One Autumn Leaf's Ye Qiu?"
"Is there any other Ye Qiu who owned One Autumn Leaf?" Ye Xiu raised his brows.
"Well, no... Nice to meet you, senior," Sun Zheping looked down to the smaller and cold hand in his bigger one, it's even smaller than Zhang Jiale's... Is this even a man's hand? But it's so nice, Sun Zheping watched as Ye Qiu's hand retreated and offered to Zhang Jiale who accepted it.
"Nice to meet you," Zhang Jiale said and Ye Qiu nodded.
"Nice to meet you two."
[Ding! The two noticed the beauty of your dainty hand, host! Congratulation!
+30 points of Sun Zheping's interest! (30/100)
+35 points of Zhang Jiale's interest! (35/100)
+20 points of Friendhip to both!
+10 points of charisma!
+The difficulty of gaining Sun Zheping's and Zhang Jiale's Love/Affection points is decreased corresponding to the amount of Interest points!]
So that's what it does?! To make them conscious of his hand?! Do they have a hand fetish or something!? Ye Xiu looked at the two in front of him solemnly, they bade goodbye and be on their way after that.
Han Wenqing glanced at the younger man beside him, "What are you looking at?"
Ye Xiu looked at him, "Old Han, do you think there's something off in them?"
"Off? Like what?"
"Like, they seemed to not be able to take their gazes off of my hands for a while," Ye Xiu held up his hands to show it to Han Wenqing.
Han Wenqing stared at Ye Xiu's hands silently.
[Ding! You made Han Wenqing become more conscious of your beautiful dainty hands, host!
+10 points of Han Wenqing's interest! (85/100)]
"What?" Ye Xiu asked the system when Han Wenqing looked at him.
"Maybe hand fetish," Han Wenqing said.
"Hand fetish?" Ye Xiu repeated dibelievingly.
"You attracted many weird people, eh?" Han Wenqing crossed his arms with a raised eyebrow, mocking. Or at least, Ye Xiu would think so if he didn't see the system's notification.
[Ding! You had activated Han Wenqing's jealousy short event!
Appease him to get a special reward~!]
Oooh an event, Ye Xiu did not even registered the 'jealousy' part when he already turned to Han Wenqing to make Han Wenqing forget about the hand fetish problems.
[Rare character! Rare character! A fatherly doting type! Processing datas...]
Ye Xiu did not even bat an eyelid as he introduced himself to Tiny Herb's new captain, "Hello, I'm Ye Qiu."
Wang Jiexi bowed respectfully towards Ye Xiu, "Nice to meet you senior, I'm Wang Jiexi, please guide me in the future."
"You don't need to be so polite, we're captains. Besides, I know you have the capability if Old Lin Jie chose you," Ye Xiu smiled as he dismissed the overload personal datas of Wang Jiexi with a blink.
"You flatter me," Wang Jiexi straightened and Ye Xiu finally could see his eyes clearly.
"Woah, your eyes," Ye Xiu blurted out.
Wang Jiexi twitched, "Yes..?"
[Ding! Choose one!]
{Your eyes are so clear, I could see myself in it.}
{It's sparkling~}
{It's rather cute}
{I think I just find out why Rainbow is only half a circle...}
Ye Xiu almost twitched as the choice boxes swarmed his vision. He looked at the choices and almost wanted to vomit before he looked at the last choice... Rainbow? What is this? A random fun fact?
"I think I just find out why Rainbow is only half a circle..." Ye Xiu chose the last choice and Wang Jiexi's brows jumped at the sudden change of topic.
"Err, why?" Wang Jiexi asked.
[Ding! The key word has been said!]
[Activating auto answer!]
Is the only thing Ye Xiu could hear from the system before his mouth automatically blurted out, "Because the other half is in your eyes."
"..."
"..."
Silence fell and the two captains looked at each other blankly. Ye Xiu wanted to facepalm so badly, the system could do that...?
"Excuse me?" Wang Jiexi blinked.
"Goodbye, Big-eyed Wang," Ye Xiu smoothly bade as he turned around and walked off coolly.
[Ding! You gained Wang Jiexi's interest!
+50 points of Wang Jiexi's interest! (50/100)
+20 points of friendship!
+10 points of Cuteness to Host!
+You had give Wang Jiexi a nickname! (check your reward)
+ Date Event with Wang Jiexi is available at Thursday, in the hallway of Glory Hotel...]
What? He unlocked an event already? This Wang Jiexi... isn't he too easy?
"Old Ye! Old Ye! Old Ye!"
Ye Xiu sighed and braced himself as a pair of arms sneaked around his neck from behind and a new weight forced Ye Xiu to bent down with difficulty, "Shaotian, you're heavy..." Ye Xiu said and the weight on his back was lifted, but his right arm is seized.
"Are you free? Let's see that big aquarium in the common floor," Huang Shaotian said with a tug to Ye Xiu's arm.
[Huang Shaotian invited you to a date]
{Accept}
{Decline}
"I already did date event with you yesterday..." Ye Xiu said bluntly.
Huang Shaotian blinked, "Eh? Yesterday is yesterday, today is today. Besides, it's not a date. If you want a date I can reserve something for us!"
{Encourage}
{Act bashful}
"That's not what I meant... Why are you getting attached to me so quickly when we only know each other for less than half a year?" Ye Xiu sighed as he looked at Huang Shaotian's datas.
[Huang Shaotian (Rare)
A lovely chatterbox that won't made you lonely if you date him.
Age: 18
Hobby: Playing games, reeling people up, flirting with Host.
... see for more
Interest: 90/100
Love/Affection: 1050p
Friendship: 100p
His readiness to marry you: 58.9%]
What's with that readiness to marry? Their time together could not even reach two weeks!
"Senior, I hope Huang Shaotian is not disturbing you," Suddenly, Blue Rain's captain showed up and smiled at Huang Shaotian and Ye Xiu.
"... No problem, Yu Wenzhou," Ye Xiu smiled, trying to not look stiff. Of all "love interest" the system had introduced, the strangest seemed to be Yu Wenzhou...
[Yu Wenzhou
A mysterious character, a kind anf gentlemanly guy to most of people. But what hid under that smile?
Age: 18
Hobby: Sketching
... see for more
Interest: 100/100
Love/Affection: 1900p
Friendship: 70p
His readiness to marry you: 100%]
It's baffling how he's ready to marry Ye Xiu when even Han Wenqing's percentage is still 98.7%
And Han Wenqing is the first guy he met in the Alliance that still present till now... Additionally, with the System marking this guy as 'mysterious', even Ye Xiu felt the need to be cautious.
Yu Wenzhou's smile faltered, "Senior, you can just call me Wenzhou, just like how you called Shaotian by his given name..."
Ye Xiu's eyes narrowed very slightly, how could Ye Xiu call him 'Wenzhou'? The reason why Ye Xiu is not calling him that is precisely because Ye Xiu wanted to put some distance to Yu Wenzhou, a distance that Huang Shaotian didn't need. "That won't do, you're a captain after all. Shaotian, on the other hand, is just a vice captain, his name is also a bit mouthful." Ye Xiu patted Huang Shaotian's head and received notification that he had finished his simple task [Pat Huang Shaotian's head].
[Ding! You triggered Yu Wenzhou's jealousy event! Do your best to appease him! o!]
What? Event? Ye Xiu looked back to Yu Wenzhou who was still smiling as always, not a change in his expression could be seen even for Ye Xiu who was a master of reading expression.
What did he say? It was fine before...
System what the hell?
"Maybe... in the future?" Ye Xiu said unsurely.
"I don't mind, I understand if Senior is not comfortable yet," Yu Wenzhou said gently. They bade each other a goodbye before Ye Xiu got dragged by Huang Shaotian to his date event.
[Ding! Appeasement failed!
- Minus (-) points for intelligence
-Yu Wenzhou blackened for 5%]
Ye Xiu stopped dead in his track, wait what?!
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Just some stupid ideas. Feel free to take it if you have enough free times and good imagination. Yup! A one-shot (Or more if I have more, don't ask me for update. This is a one-shot until proven not)
Bye!