“Smack!”
A heavy slap landed squarely on An Hua’s backside.
An Hua’s body jolted sharply, her face turning red, but she remained silent.
“Smack!”
“Smack!”
Two more forceful slaps followed. An Hua felt a burning sting on her buttocks. But… she secretly smiled, her expression strangely gleeful.
“Alright~” Liang Sheng withdrew her hand. “Punishment’s over.”
That’s it already? An Hua reluctantly slid off Liang Sheng’s lap.
In truth, if Liang Sheng hadn’t started to feel the pain in her own palm, she would have kept spanking a few more times.
“Sigh~“
The awkward tension between the two girls had been bizarrely dispelled by the spanking.
After a morning of fun and seeing Senior Sister An Hua off, Liang Sheng turned and flopped onto the bed, frantically searching for her next “prey” before time slipped away.
“Who should it be?” Liang Sheng licked her lips.
Right now, she was nothing but a ruthless favorability-grinding machine, a fighter jet hell-bent on hitting two hundred points by any means necessary.
“How about Liang Jin?” Akino Kazuko suggested with a mischievous rub of her hands. “Sisterly cuddles are the best!”
“You’re one impure-minded freak of a system,” Liang Sheng said, poking her system’s head.
“Fine, your call it is—let’s invite Liang Jin!” Liang Sheng tapped open her cousin’s profile picture.
“Oh, right. I should check Liang Jin’s favorability toward me first.” Liang Sheng patted Akino Kazuko’s shoulder.
Akino Kazuko displayed Liang Jin’s favorability toward Liang Sheng: currently at 186 points. As for exactly when it had risen, Liang Sheng had no idea.
Favorability often climbed inexplicably, usually because the girls would think of Liang Sheng at home and fantasize about other scenarios, causing it to tick up. Drops were just as easy—a long stretch without seeing each other could cool emotions and shave off a few points.
“Whew~“
After sending the message to her cousin, Liang Sheng stretched lazily in comfort. “Kazuko, don’t you think Su Ze has been awfully quiet lately? This isn’t like him at all. That guy would never stay this idle.”
Akino Kazuko nodded in agreement. “He’s probably cooking up some rotten scheme. Either way, we can’t let our guard down—we need to wrap up our conquests ASAP.”
They were half right.
Right about Su Ze indeed not holding back any good intentions; he was quietly scheming something underhanded.
Wrong about him being inactive—they just hadn’t noticed. Su Ze had wised up, realizing he couldn’t approach those girls while Liang Sheng, that “vixen,” was around. So he waited until the green-haired girl left and the girls were alone, then swooped in with small talk, gifts, words of comfort—and sometimes hints that Liang Sheng was a bad influence.
It had little effect. The girls were head-over-heels for Liang Sheng; how could a straight-laced, self-important guy like Su Ze sway them? At most, he’d snag a few heartthrob points from them while Liang Sheng lost a point or two of favorability. Bending someone straight again was no easy feat!
Even more crucially, with his own abilities faltering, the Heartthrob System Akino Wakako’s powers had weakened too—several canon laws were sealed off, unusable.
Without those overpowered canon laws propping him up, the low-EQ Su Ze was little more than a scrub.
His system constantly roasting and berating him left Su Ze fuming and frustrated, forcing him to resort to even dirtier tricks. Not that his old tactics had been much better.
Besides him, the most agitated “person”—or rather, system—was Akino Wakako. She dreaded losing, because defeat would mean…
She wasn’t the Heartthrob System’s most unique existence, Akino Kazuko.
“Why her? Why that loser gets to have…” Akino Wakako gnashed her teeth, biting her nails in fury.
To put it nicely, Akino Kazuko was resilient; less kindly, she was an indestructible cockroach.
Back to Liang Sheng: she had clearly become a master of time management. No sooner had Senior Sister An Hua left than she summoned her cousin Liang Jin to the house.
Liang Jin was over the moon—her big sister must love her so much!
Her favorability shot up three points on the spot.
It had only been a day since they’d last met, and already her sister was saying she missed her, wanted to see her.
The cute, innocent fool of a cousin slipped into her prettiest outfit and headed to her beloved cousin’s home.
The moment Liang Jin stepped into Liang Sheng’s room, she keenly noticed that another woman had been there. She took a deep sniff, confirming it: besides her sister’s scent, there was another woman’s fragrance lingering!
But she felt too shy to ask outright, “Sister Liang Sheng, has another woman been in your room?” That would sound like checking up on her—and she was just the cousin, after all.
“Sister, your room has a weird perfume smell,” she said instead, hinting.
Liang Sheng sniffed hard a few times and rubbed her nose. “Does it? I don’t smell anything. Must be the perfume I sprayed this morning—hasn’t faded yet.”
“Perfume?” Liang Jin blinked.
“Yeah.” Liang Sheng pointed to the bottle on the dresser. “That big sister Ou Lu gave it to me last time you saw her. The room smelled too plain, so I spritzed a bit. What’s wrong? Don’t you like it?”
“I love it, love it!” Liang Jin beamed.
She’d overthought it. How silly to doubt her dearest Sister Liang Sheng. It was just perfume—no other woman. Perfect.
“What are you grinning like an idiot for?” Liang Sheng never held back with her “little sister,” slapping her lightly on the cheek.
“Sis-ter Liang Sheng—!” Liang Jin’s face lit up in a silly, cat-like grin. She threw open her arms and lunged at Liang Sheng. “I love you to death!”
“Hey, hey, hey!!” Liang Sheng shivered, clutching her fragile frame. “What gives? Are you that desperate?”
“It’s just that I love you~” Liang Jin let Liang Sheng push and pinch her cheeks but wouldn’t let go, sticking to her like a stubborn band-aid.
Once Liang Sheng finally pried herself free, Liang Jin grinned again and latched onto her arm. “Sister Liang Sheng, let’s watch a movie together?”
“Sure, you pick!” As long as you stop groping me, anything goes.
Man, this girl… I really just want to build a proper sisterly bond with you. Liang Sheng propped her head on her hand, gazing at her cousin’s face—so similar to her own, down to seven parts.
She had always craved family affection. If only Liang Jin could truly see her as a big sister, and love her as one.
“Sister Liang Sheng! Let’s watch this one!” Liang Jin jabbed excitedly at her phone.
What is it? Is it really that thrilling?
Liang Sheng squinted at the screen—then her eyes flew wide.
“What… what the hell is this?!”
