After gaining a Talent, Sis Miao was delighted!
But she hated the Talent's name!
Xia Miao had every reason to suspect that the system was making veiled insults at her... No, this was already a direct insult to her face!
Damn system!
Xia Miao raised her middle finger in her heart to express her disdain.
Xia Miao was quite satisfied with this Talent. After all, an Active Skill required her to consider Mana, cooldown time, timing, and other factors.
Passive Skills, on the other hand, triggered automatically and were far less troublesome than Active Skills.
Xia Miao stretched deeply on the grass and yawned before she finally stood up, reluctant to leave.
She had to admit that this place was an excellent spot for sleeping!
She was a little reluctant to leave now.
Since she had already slept until now... how about... sleeping a little longer?
As soon as the thought crossed Xia Miao's mind, she received a notification from the Virtual Terminal Login Device.
“Ding! You have received an offline message!”
After she opened it, Nangong Wen's loudspeaker-like voice rang in Xia Miao's ear.
“Xia Miao! Log off and come eat crawfish!”
It was past ten at night, and neither of them had eaten dinner, so they needed a late-night snack to satisfy their hunger.
Xia Miao exited the game, took off her girlish pink glasses, and walked out of the bedroom.
Two large basins of steaming crawfish sat on the dining table: one with garlic and one spicy. This was clearly Nangong Wen's handiwork.
Because she considered takeout both expensive and terrible, Xia Miao's best friend had taught herself many dishes online. Her cooking had reached, at the very least, the level of an ordinary restaurant chef's.
Xia Miao had also enjoyed plenty of delicious food thanks to Nangong Wen.
“Come eat! Try my culinary skills!” Nangong Wen waved when she saw Xia Miao emerge.
“Why is dinner so lavish today, Chef?” Xia Miao smiled and teased her. “It would be even better if the crawfish were shell-less. Peeling them is a hassle. Why don't you be kind and peel them for me too? Hehe!”
“I might as well feed them straight into your mouth!” Nangong Wen snorted. “There must be good news, or do you think you'd be eating crawfish? Guess what it is!”
Nangong Wen was in a good mood, so she could not be bothered to argue with Xia Miao. Otherwise, she would have shown Xia Miao exactly why flowers were so red!
That wouldn't be impossible...
Xia Miao muttered inwardly but did not dare say it aloud. Otherwise, her bottom would suffer.
“I'm too lazy to guess. Tell me~” Xia Miao took a disposable plastic glove and answered while peeling crawfish.
“I reached Level 10 and joined Tulip Studio! They even helped me complete the Class-Change Quest, and now I'm a noble mage! My monthly salary starts at 5,000! Hurry up and praise me!”
Nangong Wen puffed out her chest and raised her head like a proud little rooster.
That works too?
Nangong Wen's words left Xia Miao slightly stunned and surprised.
She did not doubt Nangong Wen's story. She was surprised that, during the time she had slept, her best friend had reached Level 10 and found a job with a decent salary.
That efficiency was a little too fast.
“Rich Lady Sis!” Xia Miao threw herself to the floor and hugged Nangong Wen's slender, smooth, elastic thigh. She rubbed it back and forth, then looked up at her pitifully. “Please take care of me!”
“That depends on how you perform tonight, little bunny~” Nangong Wen lifted Xia Miao's chin with one finger and said with obvious meaning.
“Come on, let the storm rage even more fiercely!” Xia Miao flopped onto the floor, spread her arms, closed her eyes, and posed as though ready for anyone to pluck.
“Stop fooling around. Get up and gorge on crawfish!” Nangong Wen kicked her lightly and rolled her eyes. Then she asked, “What level are you? Once you reach Level 10, I'll ask whether they can recruit you too.”
Hearing this, Xia Miao paused halfway through getting up. Her guilty gaze shifted elsewhere as she replied, “Emmm... almost... I'm almost Level 10!”
Unfortunately, Nangong Wen saw through the gesture at once.
Nangong Wen narrowed her eyes and examined Xia Miao from head to toe. Her voice turned sinister. “Exactly. How. Many. Levels?”
Xia Miao broke under the pressure. She looked away and stammered, “Uh... one... Level 1...”
“I'm only missing a zero to reach Level 10...”
“Close enough... right?”
..
“You haven't leveled up at all... Xia Miao! You're doomed!”
Nangong Wen leaped up from her chair in anger and pounced at Xia Miao like a vicious wolf.
“Help!”
The room filled with a pig-slaughter-like scream...
This one-sided torture ended with Nangong Wen pinning Xia Miao onto the bed and spanking her several times.
A moment later, Xia Miao gnawed on crawfish through a grimace, stealing glances at Nangong Wen from time to time.
“What are you looking at? Eat. Once you're finished, I'll take you leveling!” Nangong Wen glared at Xia Miao and said crossly.
To have such a virtuous best friend, what more could a husband ask for!
Xia Miao thought this with tears streaming down her face.
She had become this hopelessly lazy, yet Nangong Wen still insisted on dragging her along, even sacrificing her own leveling time to help her!
If she had had a best friend or brother like this in her previous life, Xia Miao would not have lazily starved herself to death...
She was so moved!
She almost wanted to offer herself to Nangong Wen tonight.
After enjoying a wonderful feast of crawfish, Xia Miao logged into the game at Nangong Wen's urging.
As soon as she went online, Xia Miao received a friend request.
Ding!
Player “Wen Wu Shuangquan” has requested to add you as a friend.
“Wen Wu Shuangquan”—good heavens, that was quite literal.
Xia Miao commented on it and accepted the friend request.
As soon as she accepted, a message from Nangong Wen arrived.
Wen Wu Shuangquan: “Send me your coordinates. I'll come find you!”
After sending her coordinates, Xia Miao lay on the ground with one leg crossed over the other. She admired the vast, brilliant starry sky while she waited.
As she watched the stars, Xia Miao closed her eyes without realizing it.
Thud!
A moment later, a withered cane struck Xia Miao hard on the forehead. The crisp sound shattered the silence of the night.
Did that sound good? If it sounded good, then you had a good head!
“It hurts, it hurts, it hurts...”
Xia Miao first opened her eyes in a daze. Then, crying out in pain, she covered her forehead and rolled around on the grass.
“Stop pretending. I didn't even use any force!” Nangong Wen was not falling for it. She reached down and hauled Xia Miao up from the ground, her tone leaving no room for argument. “Let's go. I'll get you to Level 10 in one night and show you the strength of this mage!”
Thus, the two hurried nonstop toward the leveling area.
Since it was the game's opening day, players who had only just entered the game still packed the Leveling Area, even though it was nearly eleven. Monsters were nearly impossible to find.
Fortunately, the Professional Players from those Guilds and Gaming Studios had already reached Level 10 or above and moved to other Leveling Areas. Most of the players here were Casual Players and Independent Players, so competition for monsters was less intense than during the day.
With Nangong Wen, a Level 10 Mage, carrying her, the two of them tore through the Leveling Area, fighting over monsters with unstoppable momentum!
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