“What happened last night?” An Siyao misunderstood. “I took a shower, and I will in the morning too!”
“No, I didn’t mean you smelled bad,” Xia Yu said. He hadn’t noticed until the girl mentioned it. He sniffed and realized she had a faint scent of body wash.
He changed his words, “Actually, there is a smell.”
“I will take a shower every day at five o’clock in the future!” An Siyao sounded flustered.
“Don’t worry, it’s a nice smell,” Xia Yu replied, lifting her arm and smelling carefully.
Feeling deeply embarrassed that a boy was using her body and smelling her, An Siyao screamed, “Don’t do anything weird!”
After calming the girl down, Xia Yu considered her sleeping issues.
He couldn’t treat such a lovely girl merely as a tool to level up his skills.
“I will come every other day from now on,” Xia Yu said.
An Siyao didn’t reply immediately. After a minute, Xia Yu heard her voice, slightly choked up:
“Have you already lost interest in me?”
“???”
After explaining that he was only concerned about her sleep, Xia Yu agreed with the girl to visit twice every three days, leaving one day for her to rest.
Five minutes passed, and Xia Yu returned to his body, sat up, and began to think whether there was something wrong with the way they interacted.
“I was only using someone else’s body, so why does it feel like I have gained a clingy little sister?”
Well, whatever, it’s probably a good thing.
Getting out of bed, Xia Yu looked at the moon outside the window. He had promised An Siyao to let her rest today, so his body-swap schedule was open.
So, should he find another girl to play with?
No, this wasn’t the time to fool around. He should swap with the black cat instead, level up his agility, and become a qualified pianist to earn enough money to live comfortably.
Opening his skill panel and looking at the 【Music Lv2】 displayed, Xia Yu knew that day was not far off.
He picked up a novel from the bookshelf.
Actually, writing novels was also a way to make money. Payment for submissions to magazines came quickly, and if a medium-length or long novel became popular, the profits could be substantial.
Unfortunately, his first possession was An Siyao, not some girl with a talent for writing.
Although playing piano wasn’t bad either, he still thought writing novels, a job you could do from home, was more convenient.
But piano had advantages novels couldn’t match—
—It looked cool!
Sitting at a piano, fingers dancing through a beautiful piece, exuding elegance, nobility, and aristocratic charm.
At a school concert, he would receive piles of love letters the same night.
After finishing his daydreaming, Xia Yu turned on the light and started reading.
His night vision at Lv1 was like a cloudy day, and while he could see clearly enough in the dark, reading was still a bit difficult.
At 7:30, after washing up and having breakfast, Xia Yu walked to school with You Xue.
Today was Friday, and they would have the weekend off.
Arriving at the classroom, Xia Yu handed his homework to Gui Zixiao, who was waiting by the door.
“Can’t you just copy my homework at night? I could take a picture and send it to you,” Xia Yu said.
“No, there’s no thrill in copying homework at home like there is at school,” Gui Zixiao shook her head.
Xia Yu had no reply.
“We need to submit our cultural festival activity proposal this afternoon. Xia Yu, did you finish yours?” Gui Zixiao asked again.
The cultural festival was a major event like the sports meet. While the sports meet focused on athletic competition, the cultural festival allowed students to organize their own performances, and even outsiders would come to visit.
Xia Yu had completely forgotten about this.
“You didn’t write it, right? How about joining our team?” Gui Zixiao took out a stack of photocopied papers and handed them to Xia Yu.
Flipping through the pages briefly, Xia Yu saw it was a plan for a maid café, detailing what kind of coffee to use, how much to charge, what kind of skirts the maids should wear, where to borrow them from, and who would wear them. At the bottom of the proposal were six signatures.
Gui Zixiao handed him a pen, watching expectantly, “No matter where you come from, once you sign this, we’ll be like siblings from different parents!”
“I refuse.” Xia Yu put down the stack and returned to his seat.
Shortly after he sat down, three more girls approached his desk.
The girls pushed each other forward until a tall girl placed a proposal on his desk. “Xia Yu, would you please support our plan?”
Xia Yu glanced at the proposal.
A male host café.
Hmph, women were no different from those men.
“Sorry, I already have my own plan.” Xia Yu politely declined.
“Sorry to bother you.” The three girls left disappointed.
Although Xia Yu was only slightly handsome, that was enough to make him the class heartthrob among forty students. If he supported their male host café plan, its approval rate would significantly increase.
After the three girls left, more people came, hoping Xia Yu would support their bizarre plans, such as breakup experiences, wall pin experiences, and cat’s cradle competitions.
He rejected all of them and casually wrote a plan himself.
At noon, the class monitor collected the proposals and curiously glanced at the paper Xia Yu submitted.
—After-school Tutoring Class.
Are you a devil?
…
The day’s classes quickly passed, and Xia Yu returned home, closed his door, and entered the black cat’s body.
Familiarizing himself with the twenty-centimeter-high perspective, he opened the door and went out.
His home wasn’t suitable for practicing agility, so he went to the nearby park.
The park’s streetlights were dim, and except for couples, no one usually stayed there.
After running around the park for a while, Xia Yu climbed the children’s slide and small horizontal bars to intensify his training. At midnight, when it was quiet and lonely, he felt bored and left the park, wandering around the city.
Many people had seen the night of Zilang, but no one had seen it from a twenty-centimeter height.
Even walking familiar streets, Xia Yu felt completely unfamiliar due to the change in perspective.
If he were a literary cat, he could compose a poem right now.
He entered a convenience store and, under the astonished gaze of the clerk, bought a sausage with the one yuan he had brought.
After finishing his late-night snack and wandering around for a while, at 1:50 AM, he returned home.
Opening the bathroom door, he needed to go to the toilet.
Between cat litter and the toilet, he chose the toilet.
Luckily, he was already used to jumping. Otherwise, using the toilet would be difficult.
As he was almost finished, a figure rushed in.
It was You Xue, who had come to use the bathroom.
“…”
For five seconds, human and cat stared at each other before You Xue grabbed him.
“I knew it—you’re not an ordinary cat!”
Had he been exposed? Xia Yu panicked slightly.
Holding Xia Yu up, You Xue excitedly said, “You’re the one! Join me and participate in the national competition!”
“???”
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