Chapter 4 The Harder You Work, The Luckier You Get... But Not Sober

[You have received a chilled cola from a suitable target, system activated]

Mr. Tongzi?!

Su Huai was truly shocked and pleasantly surprised.

Not even a ding, you appeared so suddenly, I was completely unprepared...

Clutching the drink, Su Huai turned and squatted down on the curb to delve into his newfound cheat.

Chen Nuanhan hadn't even received a thank you, involuntarily frowned, feeling a huge discrepancy.

With her princess syndrome, she was quite upset, but considering Su Huai's recent meltdown, she still afforded him a measure of patience.

"Hey, are you all right?"

After a thought, she generously forgave him and offered her kind concern, bending down to gently pat Su Huai on the shoulder.

"We are classmates, after all, if you really have any troubles, feel free to confide in me…"

"Oh... okay."

Su Huai responded indifferently, without even lifting his head, in what could be described as a perfunctory response.

Chen Nuanhan straightened up, her hand pinched her waist, genuinely angry now.

She felt that she had gone above and beyond, even acted perfectly, and if you're not grateful that's one thing, but what's with the act?

What, are you playing hard to get with me?

So low!

However, Su Huai was in no mood to bother with her.

So what if you're a top beauty?

I'm a man you could never aspire to in your life, you know?

I've got a big daddy now!

But just as he started to feel smug for less than a second, Mr. Tongzi landed him a heavy blow.

[Hello host, the 'More Effort More Luck' system is at your service]

[Current system level: 1]

[Based on the host's intense desire, the effort direction for this level is: Hard munching soft rice, I am a war wolf]

Damn it!

At this revelation, Su Huai's head buzzed with noise.

What kind of dog-shit system is this?

My most intense desire is clearly not to strive, to just wait for pie to fall from the sky, to ascend to the pinnacle of life through random windfalls, and now you're telling me the more effort the more luck?!

Does it make any sense?!

And this dog system's direction of effort is also pretty unreliable, if I actually had what it takes to munch soft rice hard, wouldn't I have become a male escort in my last life and avoid starting all over again?

Muttering curses under his breath, Su Huai gritted his teeth and read on.

[Only goddesses with a composite score above 90 can be targets for the war wolf, the higher the score, the richer the rewards obtained]

[At level 1, a maximum of three targets can be anchored, which cannot be changed once set]

[Upon anchoring a target, you will gain the following abilities—]

[Freebie: Get a 1:1 return on the amount of money you spend, give, or pay off for the target that day, deposited into your system account at 24:00 every night]

[Feeding: The amount of money the target spends, gifts, or pays off for the host will be multiplied by a critical hit multiple and turned into dog food, stored in the system granary. Dog food can be used to buy regular items from the shop, and the critical hit multiple is determined by both the target's composite score and Favorability Rating]

[Radar: Scans for attributes of eligible targets with scores above 90]

[Favorability Lucky Wheel: Draw a mystery reward every 10 points of Favorability, with a maximum of 100 Favorability points, each eligible target can provide up to 10 draws]

Is that it?

Su Huai scoffed, extremely disappointed with the lousy brother system.

I'm telling you clearly, making me a lapdog is out of the question; your lordship will ascend to the pinnacle of life with or without you!

No matter who she is, no matter how pretty, I won't lick even a bit!

Su Huai casually opened the shop, out of curiosity to see what was available, and suddenly his eyes popped.

The first slot: Dog food exchanged for cash, 1:1, with a daily limit of 100,000.

The second slot: Beauty score +1, an improvement at the genetic level, the initial purchase price 100 dog food.

The third slot: Grow an extra 1 millimeter, the initial purchase price 100 dog food.

Gulp...

Su Huai swallowed, then abruptly looked up, his eyes fixated on Chen Nuanhan with a wolfish glare, his pupils gleaming with greed.

Girl, I suddenly feel like trying hard again...

Whether I have money or whether I am handsome doesn't matter, what's important is, I hope my daughter is a beautiful baby from the moment she's born.

Can everyone understand the tender heart of a loving father towards his daughter?

Moreover, even though Su Huai could no longer shamelessly suck up to anyone, that doesn't mean he can't get favorability and dog food.

Kidding me, who needs to lick when you're really savvy... that's called sincere love.

Spread the belief in the wolf warriors, let the goddesses feel the fear, who else but me?

Black and yellow old slick, ready for battle!

Su Huai stared at Chen Nuanhan, trying to activate Mr. Tongzi's radar function.

[Suitable Target: Chen Nuanhan]

[Height: 168]

[Weight: 48]

[Appearance: 95]

[Figure: 92]

[Overall: 95]

[Favorability: 10+ (Anchor the other party for a chance to draw the lottery)]

[Evaluation: An exotic beauty with wild allure, grass growing wild, and dew glistening. Vibrant and radiant, and so very bright.]

Wow, such a high evaluation?

And with an appearance score of 95, figure of 92, the average should be 93.5, what pulled up that overall score?

Er, must not think too deeply about this...

Su Huai felt a bit surprised but, after quietly recalling for a moment, he finally remembered her glory.

Capital Normal University didn't have an official campus beauty ranking, only the underground goddesses argued for by the Color Critics' Alliance, representing the aesthetic preferences of the male minority.

But no matter how the rankings went, Chen Nuanhan never dropped out of the top three.

Keep in mind, First Normal University isn't like Construction Engineering University, a monk's temple; of nearly 30,000 students, 76% are female, and the quality is extremely high.

So the normal male students at the university are extremely popular, while the females not so much.

Think about it, with a gender ratio of 1:3, and because the energy is too yin, resulting in half the male students being effeminate, too nerdy, gynophobic, or just too ugly, effectively there is one normal guy for at least six girls.

Then again, lurking within the male dorms are a bunch of cunning zeros gobbling up the normal males with the female students. Is there any hope left?

As a result, the campus ecology is severely unbalanced, with the dry dying of drought and the flooded dying of deluge—truly no exaggeration.

In several specialized faculties, a term circulates: "Iron Drought and Tender Feelings."

It has nothing to do with men; it's a self-deprecating term used by female seniors.

A drought that lasts four whole years, not even getting to taste meat, let alone a first kiss—isn't it practically turning into an iron lump?

Over in the female dorms, each one is a master of risqué talk. When they hold dorm chats at midnight, the conversations could scare men to death—purely out of frustration, since apart from trash talk, there wasn't much else to entertain themselves with.

Under such competitive pressure, Chen Nuanhan was still the top pursuit target for all normal males in the faculty. Just those Su Huai knew about and who had made their move openly numbered around 20, from domineering upperclassmen to puppy-like underclassmen, sweeping up three grades in one go, which shows just how cool she was.

Let's be honest, if Chen Nuanhan had attended a tech university, the bootlickers would have lined up from West Third Ring Road to Princess Tomb.

Attending Premier Normal University was truly a misstep, failing to utilize her lethal beauty.

If she went to the monk's temple to be the darling of the group, any one of the hundreds of bootlickers would have been hers to choose from, and she'd marry into a wealthy family after graduation, her life sure to be more comfortable than in her previous life.

Then again, if she wasn't in a place like the Spider Cave of First Normal University, she wouldn't have clung to Su Huai without letting go.

Su Huai wasn't tall, handsome, or rich; as a boyfriend, there was nothing particularly outstanding about him, but he was still a proper Northeastern man, the kind who dared to confront a pickpocket while out shopping, and most of the time he was more reliable than Wu Tianyou.

If not for Chen Nuanhan's character and popularity, she wouldn't have needed to bother with a loser like him.

Isn't it because she saw that Su Huai, when faced with problems, wasn't a coward and could be depended on?

Of course, her relationship with Su Huai wasn't yet that close. It was only after she had settled in and sized up the campus environment that she started warming up to him.

So, you see, girls really do mature earlier than boys.

Su Huai didn't figure out until almost 30 what special value he held for Chen Nuanhan, while she saw through him not even a month into school, so Su Huai's loss is not unjustified.

But now it's different.

Su Huai would certainly anchor one of the three spaces on Chen Nuanhan, but he was in no rush to start flattering.

In matters of affection, putting yourself in the other's shoes doesn't always work; it's very hard to trade sincerity for sincerity.

Need, that is the key.

So let's wait and see who ends up needing whom more...