During lunch break, Bai Weiran had no appetite and only bought a pack of white toast to eat slowly at his workstation.

Today the company was holding a monthly meeting, during which two technical experts started arguing.

One relied on his solid technical skills to hold a high position in the company, while the other relied on having connections at the top to maintain high performance by simply lying low. In any case, the two of them rarely saw eye-to-eye and spent half of each monthly meeting arguing. Recently, their methods of arguing had even escalated.

Before arguing, one would eat lots of garlic and durian, while the other would consume chives and fermented fish. They would face each other and argue, intending to use their "biochemical weapons" to make each other uncomfortable. However, the end result not only affected them but also the other company workers who were caught in the crossfire.

Having smelled bad breath all morning, Bai Weiran naturally lost his appetite.

While eating his toast, he browsed through the detailed introduction of an app.

The app, called "Sickly Girls Collector," had different levels of sickly girl, with tasks of varying difficulty depending on the level.

There were four levels: C, B, A, and S, with higher levels being more challenging.

Qing Ning belonged to level A girls. Bai Weiran, as a game planner and a senior gamer, had confidence in himself to challenge a task just below S level from the very beginning.

Upon completion of each task, there would be rewards, which the system would judge and inform you about accordingly. Naturally, higher-level rewards were better, and they would be stored in the form of points in the app account. These points could be used as common currency in different parallel worlds, and they could be exchanged for any ability or physical item.

If you want to exchange the points for a skill, like becoming an instant expert in a foreign language, that's no problem. You can even choose to be proficient for just one day, one month, or forever, with different prices for each option.

If you want to own a whole building in the CBD, you can, but the number of points needed is not something that can be achieved by just a few S-level tasks.

This isn't a system for getting rich overnight; it's an alternative way of living for high-level workers.

However, Bai Weiran didn't mind. As a company worker himself, he would rather choose to be a "dog" with gourmet meals than one that can only lick bones without meat.

He noticed that there was a very strict rule highlighted in red by the app – "You can exchange points in any world, and they will take effect immediately. However, be aware that skills or items will only exist in the world where they are exchanged."

This means that if you become an all-powerful and wealthy individual in a parallel world through exchanging points, it will still be useless in your own reality.

Furthermore, tasks always have an end – the wealth you accumulate in other parallel worlds is nothing but an illusion.

This has some similarities to the real world. No matter how high your rank is in a game and how much money you invest, once you stop playing, you must face the reality of the world, and there's nowhere to escape.

Eventually, the game will come to an end.

The system also has considerate features – to reduce the difficulty of tasks for workers like Bai Weiran, when he enters other parallel worlds, the price for exchanging points is reduced to one-tenth of his own reality's cost. This allows him to enjoy high-quality services and experience great satisfaction at a low cost.

But Bai Weiran doesn't want to use it!

His abilities after traversing through the system are already strong, and he believes they are enough to handle anything.

The more points he accumulates, the better, as it's more practical.

He has also carefully calculated the points system in this app and found it to be very precise and commercialized.

For example, if he wants to exchange points for a healthy body, the price is not fixed but floating, changing according to his personal physical condition. If he works out more at the gym today, the price will be slightly lowered, but if he catches a cold or falls ill, the price will suddenly increase by more than 20%.

To exchange points for a well-exercised, muscular body, the price is astonishing. Bai Weiran guesses that the calculation is based on the time spent working out at the gym, gym fees, personal trainer costs, and the time cost during gym time, with the latter based on the current hourly wage.

Bai Weiran's evaluation: This is an app that's not suitable for the wealthy.

For the big bosses who earn large sums daily, their hourly wage is too high. Wanting to exchange a muscular body would require completing thousands, if not tens of thousands, of tasks.Bai Weiran's goal is money, and he is not greedy. His goal can be achieved after completing ten S-level tasks. Initially choosing an A-level task is also out of caution. If the difficulty permits, his next target will be set at the S-level. By then, the points can be exchanged for real money, combined with his existing savings and first purchase discounts, he can buy a house on his own. Thinking about this extra income, Bai Weiran's brow becomes incredibly relaxed, smoother than even an iron could achieve. This is much better than the VX advertisements and part-time original painting jobs that are constantly pushed on him.

As he was thinking about it, a cup of iced Americano was placed on his table, the cup's walls still adorned with water droplets. He looked up to see a fair-skinned boy smiling shyly at him. "…Wei Ran, I brought you a cup of iced Americano!" "Thank you, how much is it?" "No, it's free." Chao hurriedly waved his hand. "This is to thank Wei Ran. You helped me out with Luo Qi…" Bai Weiran smiled and accepted the kind gesture.

Luo Qi is a somewhat troublesome person in the office. She is smart, responsive, and well-educated, but this is also where the problem lies. She has been successful all her life, but it has become a hindrance. Working with others is difficult for her as she often finds their needs and documents vague and thinks that others should understand her without much explanation. This becomes a problem when working with someone like Chao, an intern programmer. Programmers are generally not very eloquent, and when Chao doesn't understand Luo Qi and tries to discuss with her, the two are not on the same wavelength, so one side doesn't understand what she wants and the other side thinks it's unnecessary to discuss further.

After several times of this, Chao has grown pale and frustrated, feeling like he can't do anything right and it's always his fault. He’s even considered quitting during his internship period, but Bai Weiran took pity on him and stepped in to meditate between them. Luo Qi, having less experience than Bai Weiran, gives him some respect in this regard. Since then, Chao has been extremely grateful to Bai Weiran and assumes the role of Bai Weiran's devoted follower. Even though their workstations are far apart, Chao still makes a point to greet Bai Weiran every morning and evening.

After delivering the coffee, Chao stayed and chatted with Bai Weiran. "…Wei Ran, have you been busy recently?" "It's been manageable. The values always need to be adjusted slowly, but it's not particularly busy right now." "Oh…" As their eyes met, Chao nervously drank his own caramel cappuccino but still bravely asked the question in his heart. "I've noticed that Wei Ran leaves at eight sharp recently. I thought you were busy with something, maybe spending time with a girl...girl...girlfriend?" The word "girlfriend" stuck in his throat and wouldn't come out, while the boy's narrow eyes moistened and looked quite pitiful.

However, Bai Weiran did not hear what he was saying, as his phone began to vibrate.【Warning! The room you created is being attacked by A-level girl Qing Ning, taking 4 points of damage】【Warning! The room you created is being attacked by A-level girl Qing Ning, taking 3 points of damage】 "Sorry, I have a stomach ache, I need to go to the restroom." Bai Weiran hurriedly left Chao and went to the restroom. After locking the door, he disappeared into the space.

At the same time, he appeared in the room with Qing Ning. The girl, dressed in sportswear, was causing a commotion, slamming things against the wall in frustration. When she saw Bai Weiran, she threw a chair at him directly, but the chair stopped right in front of Bai Weiran. "Let me out! Let me out!" she screamed in a hysterical breakdown. "I can't stay here anymore, my teacher is going to fall in love with someone else!"

Looking at Qing Ning's tear-stained, fair-skinned face, Bai Weiran sighed in his heart. The task was harder than he had imagined. At first, he thought it would be simple: read more books, tell her some reasoning, and lock her up to isolate her from the man. Eventually, he hoped, she would realize that life without him is not impossible, or even better without him.The idea was right, but the process wasn't as easy as he thought. Emotions of a yandere girl are much more unstable than those of normal people, and their biggest problem is that their rationality and emotions are separate from each other. While normal people have their emotions and rationality mutually constrain each other, yandere girls' emotions are not controlled by their rationality.

One moment, Qing Ning can accept his company and rationally agree with his words; the next moment, she can go mad and lose control of her emotions just because she dreamt of Ling Luo rolling around with some other woman, crying and making a fuss to go out. If he leaves her alone at this point, her situation will only get worse.

It's like the famous experiment on addiction to drugs. Let the mice stay in a box, and mix addictive drugs into their water. After making sure that all the mice were addicted, they were divided into two groups for the experiment. One group was given a comfortable environment with a spacious cage and various toys. The only difference was that one cage had companions while the other did not.

The experimenters were surprised to find that the mice in the cage with companions quickly gave up the drug-laced water and played together, integrating into their social group. On the other hand, the mice without companions, even if given better conditions, quickly lost interest and only wanted to drink the water that made them feel happy, becoming more and more addicted.

But Qing Ning couldn't be allowed to leave, as she would seek out Ling Luo. Even if she didn't go looking for him, that man would find a way to get in front of her. It was also impossible to capture a few of Qing Ning's friends to accompany her and throw a party, right? That would make the situation even harder to settle.

Bai Weiran could only choose to be with her at any time. Ignoring Qing Ning's struggle, he grabbed her soft wrist and forcibly pressed her down onto the bed. The black-haired girl lay on the bed, sobbing and tears streaming down her face.

"Let me go, I will give you a lot of money, I must go out, or the teacher will fall in love with someone else, I will die, I will die...!" she cried.

"It's just a dream," he said.

"But the teacher!"

Bai Weiran raised his voice, gently covering hers. "…he's not important. What's important is, did you sleep well?" Bai Weiran beckoned, and a damp, wrung-out towel landed in his hand. He wiped the tear-streaked cheeks of the girl while using an invisible pressure to suppress her resistance.

Qing Ning knew that once The mask man appeared in the room, her struggle would be useless, so she stopped struggling and just sobbed, still thinking about the nightmare. "I can't sleep well."

"Why can't you?"

"…When I think about the teacher, I can't."

"I know, but no matter what, you are the most important person. Practice slowly, even if you think about him one minute less today, okay?"

You are the most important person—

"You say this every day," Qing Ning said but involuntarily tilted her neck slightly, making it easier for Bai Weiran to wipe her face.

His gentleness felt soothing and comfortable.

"…I will say this every time you have a nightmare," he said.

The girl stared at him, her tearful eyes looking like two crystal-black grapes moistened by rain.

"Girls won't like what you're saying," she said.

"I don't need you to like me either," Bai Weiran shrugged his shoulders. "Don't forget, I'm the one who tied you up."

Qing Ning involuntarily giggled at his honesty. Unable to move, she stared at the ceiling for a while before slowly closing her eyes.

Bai Weiran was about to leave when he heard a faint voice.

"…Can you bring me grilled eggplant tonight?" she asked. "I liked the one you brought me last time."

Bai Weiran smiled under The mask.

It seems that the power of grilled eggplant filled with minced garlic and spicy flavor is irresistible, even for the young ladies of parallel worlds.

He was glad she could enjoy such delicious and affordable food."No problem."

He had just left the room, returning to the real world, when he heard someone knocking relentlessly on the bathroom door.

"Hey, hey, comrade inside, did you fall into the pit?"

"..."

Next time, better find another place to hide!