Coral Sea Star System, Planet A.
The most authoritative dating matchmaking center in the interstellar world, “Rose Society” building, basement level three, central server room.
Ning Shuyin was crouching, her fingers trembling over the keyboard.
Soon, four photos of exceptional men appeared on the light screen before her.
Domineering, gentle, innocent, and devilishly charming—as expected of men from a novel, every single one of them devastatingly handsome.
“Why does a liberal arts student like me have to transmigrate into an interstellar novel as a hacker!” Ning Shuyin muttered under her breath.
[Host, don’t get distracted. Hurry and remove these four bad men from the female lead Su Qianqian’s dating match list. Safe environment has 1 minute remaining, 59 seconds, 58 seconds…]
The system’s countdown urged Ning Shuyin on.
“Oh, right away.”
Just yesterday, Ning Shuyin had been an ordinary logistics worker on Earth, struggling to make rent and pay bills, battling piles of delivery boxes every day.
During the shopping festival, she worked overtime continuously, so exhausted and dazed that she accidentally fell from a ten-meter-high stack of packages.
When she woke up, she found herself transmigrated into this interstellar novel called “The White Rose of the Sixth Star Zone,” becoming a technician at the Rose Society and also a good friend of the novel’s female lead, Su Qianqian. Her entire purpose for existing was to be a wingman tool—to help ship the story’s male and female leads together.
Last night, she had stayed up all night reading this novel thoroughly.
It made her… blush all over.
On one hand, interstellar society was open, and the men were indeed handsome and virile.
On the other hand, this author really dared to write such things.
No wonder Ning Shuyin had never read this book on any platform—it was absolutely the kind that could never pass censorship!
She closed the novel with a racing heart and flushed cheeks, and glanced at the author’s name on the cover: Nan Ren Duo.
Well, not even pretending anymore, huh.
Today, as a newbie, she was already being pushed by the system to complete her first wingman plot:
Infiltrate the “Rose Society” in the middle of the night and “optimize” the female lead Su Qianqian’s dating match results.
She needed to delete four vicious villain male supporting characters and replace them with the official male lead—the gentle and refined Interstellar Alliance University professor, Gu Lei.
Ning Shuyin confirmed the information on these four villainous men—
Interstellar Alliance Fleet Marshal: Situ Linchen.
Chief Biologist of the Alliance Academy of Sciences, top-tier medical genius: Luo Lan.
Chairman of the Universal United Chamber of Commerce, heir to the interstellar number one financial conglomerate: Zhou Zhiheng.
The uncrowned king of the “Outer Star Domain”: Caesar.
On the surface, their professions were glamorous, but in reality, every one of them was ruthless and vicious.
By the mid-to-late stages of the novel, when they formally entered the main storyline, they would torment the male lead Gu Lei and female lead Su Qianqian to the point of utter misery, making readers gnash their teeth in frustration.
[Host, select them and move them away.] The system reminded her.
Technology in this world was extremely advanced, and Ning Shuyin wasn’t proficient at using it.
The virtual cursor trembled over the four names, like drunken zigzag movements in a video game.
Now’s the moment!
She struggled to select the four names and dragged them away from under Su Qianqian’s profile.
Done!
[Host, data successfully removed.]
Ning Shuyin felt a surge of joy and was about to proceed to the next step.
But suddenly, a dialog box popped up on the light screen before her:
[No target path specified for the moved items. They will be automatically stored in the operator’s cache.]
A second notification box followed immediately:
[Dating partners have been matched for Ning Shuyin: Situ Linchen, Luo Lan, Zhou Zhiheng, Caesar.]
Ning Shuyin froze, her back instantly soaked with cold sweat.
She… what had she done?
“No, System, you’ve got it wrong! Wrong!”
She cried out desperately in her mind: “I was trying to delete them, not make them ask me out on dates!”
【It’s fine.】
The System was very calm.
【Host, hurry and inject Gu Lei’s matching data. We’ll deal with the rest later. Safe environment has 15 seconds left, 14 seconds, 13 seconds…】
Ning Shuyin: “…”
Are you sure this is fine?
Sure enough, the lives of female side characters in novels were worthless.
Seeing the countdown had only ten seconds left, Ning Shuyin fumbled to pull up Gu Lei’s data and completed the match with Su Qianqian.
【Ding! Host’s beginner mission completion detected. System rewards have been issued.】
【This mission was completed beyond expectations. Rewarding host with items: “Meme Attractor” and “Character Favorability Detector.”】
【Safe environment has ended. Please evacuate as soon as possible.】
The safe environment the System had created dropped to zero.
Ning Shuyin could only stare at the four match results under her name, on the verge of tears. By the eerie green glow of the safety indicator lights, she fled the server room.
Outside the Rose Society’s spinning-top-shaped building, the midnight cold wind blew.
In the night sky, streams of luminous aerial navigation tracks stretched across.
Elegantly designed private aircraft glided through the air.
At the horizon, cloud-level apartments—the residential zone of the wealthy—had smart service devices floating outside them, twinkling like stars.
Ning Shuyin clumsily operated her Light-brain and summoned a leaf-shaped hoverboard vehicle from the street.
It was a bit like the shared bikes on Earth.
She stepped onto the vehicle and glided homeward through the cold wind.
A-Star was located in the Perseus Arm of the universe. The vast majority of intelligent species living here were Perseids.
Ning Shuyin hadn’t expected that she too would one day become an alien.
The Perseid race had ascended the perilous peak of evolution eons ago, with far more males than females.
Due to the genetic traits of their bodies, the stronger a male was, the harder it was for him to reproduce. This led to an extremely high status for women in the star system.
But the prerequisite was awakening a “Special Ability.”
Women who awakened Special Abilities could become star system “Navigators.” Using their “Perception” ability, they served as guides in war or exploration—a scarce resource.
Only a Navigator’s constitution could withstand a powerful male’s genes without dying, enabling the continuation of the next generation.
Her good friend, the novel’s female lead Su Qianqian, was one of the chosen—not only an S-rank Navigator but also possessing a Healing Ability. She was the undisputed “White Rose” of the star system.
As for Ning Shuyin’s character, she was just an ordinary working girl with no Special Ability.
【Ms. Ning, you have arrived at your destination. Please pay the vehicle rental fee: 1 Star Coin.】
The hoverboard stopped in a dim alley. Her small apartment was just ahead.
“Ding!” Ning Shuyin completed the payment. On the screen, her account balance went from 531 to 530.
“…”
She glanced at her finances and was speechless.
She pushed open the door. The apartment was small, with the living room and bedroom combined into one space. Simple, but neat and orderly.
She had just thrown herself onto the half-worn fabric sofa when the Light-brain on her wrist lit up again.
A-Star Time 00:01.
【Rose Society Warm Reminder: You have received a date invitation.】
【Partner: Interstellar Alliance Fleet Marshal, Mr. Situ Linchen.】
【Time: Tomorrow 18:00.】
Clearly, the data tampering had taken effect. The consequences had already come knocking.
“System, what happens if I don’t go on the dates?”
[Host, according to Article 30 of the Interstellar Alliance Citizen Dating Match Act, participation in “Rose Society” matched dating carries legally binding results.]
“…Speak plainly.”
[Both matched parties must complete three dates. Otherwise, it will be considered contempt of law, punishable by a minimum of three interstellar months in a C-level prison.]
The system’s explanation ended there.
It offered no further details about the Act’s specific provisions.
For example, the third date had to be an “intimate date,” involving certain “deep compatibility verifications.”
The system’s reasoning was—some overly stimulating clauses were better left for the future.