[You have met the requirements. With Xia Youxue’s consent, you are no longer subject to game time restrictions.]
[With Xia Youxue’s consent, you are no longer limited by the number of daily game sessions.]
[This account will gain its own exclusive slot and no longer occupy regular slots.]
Unlocking time restrictions was a benefit available at LV3, but the removal of daily game session limits thrilled Xia Yu immensely.
Without restrictions on the number of game sessions, he could play as many times a day as he wanted, for however long he desired.
As for no longer occupying regular slots, that benefit was less significant. Xia Yu already reserved a backup slot, and Youxue had always been by his side, able to use the backup slot whenever needed.
After reading all the notification text, Xia Yu rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
“The rewards for LV4 are great, but what about my LV3 rewards?”
He tapped on the notification text, watching it change.
[Xia Youxue’s bonus has been upgraded to LV3. Please choose one of the following rewards:]
[1. Skill Level Up Card LV3 +1]
[2. Bonus Solidification Chance]
[3. Hosted AI Personality Change]
“That stingy system again! Trying to swallow my rewards!”
Xia Yu thought for a moment and chose option 2.
He recalled a quadratic equation in his mind, then saw a prompt indicating he could upgrade his level. Xia Yu clicked confirm.
The “Exam-Oriented Education” skill at LV4 was now his.
He still had points left to allocate—one at LV3, one at LV2, and one at LV1.
Youxue only had three bonuses, so the LV1 bonus would go unused.
Looking at the remaining options—Buddhist Philosophy and Coquetry—Xia Yu felt these skills weren’t particularly useful.
Well, he could just leave them unassigned.
After all, they cost nothing, so he might as well put some points in.
He randomly allocated points, upgrading Coquetry to LV3 and Buddhist Philosophy to LV2.
Then he began thinking about the bonus solidification.
Bonus solidification meant transferring a talent to himself, allowing him to possess that talent. With this ability, he could practice skills and improve levels within his own body.
Previously, he had used a solidification chance on Dexterity. His reasoning was that dexterity had wide applications—whether playing piano or self-defense, any physical movement required dexterity.
This also increased opportunities to practice dexterity. Currently at LV4, Xia Yu felt he was close to reaching LV5.
Returning to the matter of bonus solidification, Xia Yu first considered Pharmaceutical Production.
However, shortly after, he dismissed this idea.
He could practice dexterity with every movement, but he couldn’t practice pharmaceutical production with every action.
After some thought, he decided to use the bonus solidification on Exam-Oriented Education.
[After use, you will gain Exam-Oriented Education Bonus LV1. Confirm?]
Only LV1? Well, it wasn’t bad. For bonuses, level-up effects were far less significant than skill level-up effects.
Xia Yu suspected that bonus levels mainly existed to pad out rewards.
He clicked confirm and gained Exam-Oriented Education Bonus LV1. With this, Xia Yu felt he was practically guaranteed first place in the college entrance exams two months away.
Without game session or time restrictions, Xia Yu could have gone into Youxue’s body to benefit from the Exam-Oriented Education bonus—Youxue would certainly have agreed, though she wouldn’t have been happy.
Unlike An Siyao and Xu Youxiang, Youxue was at the age of carefree happiness. She barely had enough time to play each day—let alone give her time to someone else.
Therefore, Xia Yu needed this bonus.
He could have allocated the bonus to Pharmaceutical Production, but in the four months remaining, even with full effort, he could at best raise it to LV6, requiring extensive time conducting herbal experiments—Youxue, Kong Hanyue, and others might even think he had gone mad.
Choosing Exam-Oriented Education, however, would allow him to easily raise the skill to LV6 through mission rewards. This wasn’t even a choice—it had only one answer.
After finishing his thoughts and confirming no other issues, Xia Yu comfortably stayed in Youxue’s body, idly accumulating game points.
The benefits had just been issued, similar to winning “another try” in a lottery—this meant the next session would be free, not this one. Today’s game opportunities had already been used up.
Although he could log out anytime, without remaining continuously logged in for eight hours, he wouldn’t receive full game points for the day.
Youxue was still excitedly exclaiming how amazing it was, already plotting to have Xia Yu run for her during gym class.
After a while, the girl calmed down. “Brother, you should go back now. We should go hiking.”
Xia Yu regretfully informed her, “We have to wait eight hours. Disconnecting will hurt your body.”
“Eh?”
“It’s your body I’m using. Take responsibility!”
“Eh—”
After feeling disappointed for a while, the girl found a new game.
She directed Xia Yu to use her body to climb the mountain and take photos for her.
While taking photos, Xia Yu compared them with the ones Youxue had taken the previous day.
His were slightly better.
It seemed he still needed to spend more money to compensate for the girl’s lack of photography talent.
At 4 p.m., after the game session ended, the two were already on the bus heading back.
Licheng and Zilang had no high-speed rail, so they had to take the bus.
Exhausted from the day, Youxue’s body couldn’t withstand the fatigue and fell asleep leaning on Xia Yu.
Xia Yu checked the game points—indeed, 1.5 times the normal amount.
He looked at Youxue.
What a treasure she was.
One day’s worth of points equaling 1.5 days for others!
Every eight hours while the girl slept, he could play without affecting her daytime fun.
If she still objected, he could even give her his own body.
At home, there wouldn’t be any problem.
When the bus arrived at Zilang Station, Xia Yu woke Youxue.
“We’re home.”
“Hmm?” The girl opened her eyes, looked around dazedly, then leaned back on Xia Yu’s shoulder and continued sleeping.
“If you don’t get up, I’ll carry you. Don’t blame me for ruining your image if any of your friends sees.”
Under Xia Yu’s threat, Youxue reluctantly opened her eyes.
After getting off the bus, she sleepily held Xia Yu’s hand like a puppet, following behind him half-asleep.
Walking like this was dangerous—Xia Yu feared she might suddenly trip and fall.
Arriving at the supermarket, he bought a cold Sprite can and pressed the icy metal against her neck.
Startled, Youxue woke up.
“Use this to sober yourself up.” Xia Yu handed her the Sprite, intending for her to drink it to relieve her drowsiness, but the groggy Youxue misunderstood his intention.
Whenever she felt sleepy, she pressed the cold can against her neck for physical stimulation.
Drooping her head, dragging her feet almost falling over, Youxue took the can, pressed it against her neck, gave a jolt, lifted her head energetically for a few steps, then lowered her head again, raising the Sprite in her hand…
Finding it amusing, Xia Yu didn’t remind her and even recorded a video.
When they got home, Youxue finally regained her senses. She opened the Sprite tab, took a sip, and sighed.
“There’s something I want to discuss with you,” Xia Yu coughed and began.
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