Chapter 5
Chapter 5: Rewards and Bulletin Boards
A clear prompt sounded above Wen Yu’s head.
Comprehensive Drawing Ability +30, Enhanced Color Ability +10… and—
[System: Special Bonus Dance +8 is available for collection. Please respond within 3 minutes. Failure to respond will be considered abandonment; respond with “Reselect” to randomize a new reward. This task has only one chance for a re-randomization.]
Dance +8…
Wen Yu, who had no interest in idol trainees, decided to skip the dance. As an excuse to wash his hands, he headed straight for the bathroom and used the newly appeared user-friendly function “Reselect.”
“Reselect.”
[Reselect confirmed.]
[Congratulations, you’ve received the Perfect Task Special Reward: Imposter Master (Active, Limited Uses: 2)]
Huh?
Wen Yu was stunned for a moment.
“What does that mean? Please explain.”
[Imposter Master (Active, Limited Uses: 2): Choose one of your attributes and directly elevate it to the Master level within a short period.]
An active skill!
Wasn’t this the most common active skill in online games?
Compared to the passive small attribute upgrades in the past, this reward was considered heaven-defying.
Could freeloaders be this awesome?
Wen Yu didn’t plan to try it out for now; skills with limited uses seemed powerful.
In terms of playing online games, this was a crucial skill used to defeat the final boss or save the entire team’s lives.
Returning to the dining table, seeing Fu Chengque in a daze, Wen Yu waved his hand.
“Hey!”
Fu Chengque jumped.
“You walk so silently?”
“Miss, you’ve been daydreaming too long, what are you thinking?”
“It’s none of your business.” Fu Chengque snorted, pretending to be angry, but her lips curved into a smile. “Suddenly in a good mood, not going to argue with you~ Anyway, I’ll give you credit for today. No need to teach pigs anymore, let’s teach monkeys to evolve instead.”
“Am I supposed to be flattered? Besides, earning a merit just for cooking a meal under your command? Is it that easy to gain merit under your command?”
“You wouldn’t understand.”
In the dim candlelight, Fu Chengque smiled gently.
Wen Yu was momentarily stunned, gathered his thoughts, and said, “Let’s eat!”
After dinner, Wen Yu returned to his own bedroom.
He didn’t turn on the light, but lay on the bed after taking a shower, staring at the pitch-black ceiling.
He felt that Fu Chengque had been acting strangely lately, not at all like herself.
Why was she trying so hard to persuade him to go to the park?
Why was she running around in such a hurry today, even resorting to blocking him in the bathroom?
When he agreed to the girl’s request, she seemed so happy, but the subsequent power outage seemed to drain her soul. What was that all about?
In the glow of the candle, her laughter was sweet and mysterious, as if everything was perfect.
“Does she want to do something with me? Does she like me?”
Thinking of this, Wen Yu chuckled to himself.
Shouldn’t he start thinking about what to name his and Fu Chengque’s child?
Wen Yu turned over, his gaze shifting to the door.
In his past life, he did have a secret crush on Fu Chengque until halfway through university.
Upon hearing that the girl had become a shining star, that secret crush faded away with time.
It was a feeling that was hard to describe, not one of loss or regret, but like a candle, it just went out when its time was up.
So, even though he was reborn in this life, facing a Fu Chengque whose memories were completely different, Wen Yu felt a bit out of control.
She should be like the ice and snow on a high mountain, the cool morning dew that melts upon contact, the elusive mountain breeze.
But why?
So proactive, so passionate, disregarding everything, as if striving desperately for something.
It’s incomprehensible, too strange.
Wen Yu rubbed his face and punched the air.
“Anyway, I’ll do things according to my own thoughts for now. Whatever Fu Chengque wants to do, let her. Cooperate if I can. And also figure out… what’s going on with her.”
With his thoughts clear, he gradually drifted off to sleep.
***
The weather was not good this week, with intermittent rain and sunshine.
It was always sunny in the morning and raining in the evening. As the leader of the publicity group, Fu Chengque looked out the window at the gloomy rain and sighed.
“This week is fine, but next week can’t be like this.”
Xiao Gua also nodded, “Over at the big bulletin board, we can’t do much in the rain. But I checked the weather forecast, and it seems to be sunny all next week.”
Another classmate asked, “Fu Chengque, will you be the lead writer this time or me?”
“I’ll do it.”
Fu Chengque received a boost and felt a bit inflated these days.
Taking advantage of the weather outside, she first revamped the class’s blackboard, and the effect was quite good.
Especially the character drawings, vivid and lifelike, received widespread praise.
This further strengthened Fu Chengque’s determination to add characters to the big bulletin board.
The original group member Lu Min holds a notebook and says while looking at it, “Chengque, something like stars, students, hope, future, the overall image should be like this. Shall I take charge of the articles?”
“Sure. It’s best if it’s related to the university entrance examination.”
Several girls discussed enthusiastically, leaving odd-job worker Wen Yu aside.
He didn’t mind at all and silently chanted in his heart: Please don’t involve me in this trouble.
Then he sat quietly by the window, enjoying the scenery.
After the discussion, Fu Chengque approached Wen Yu to inform him, “Wen Yu, go find a waterproof cloth from the teacher just in case. It needs to be large.”
“Can’t I do it next week?”
“Fine, if it rains on Saturday or Sunday, come over and figure out a solution.”
“Alone?”
“Who else?”
“Aren’t you the group leader?”
“I’m going swimming.”
“Even in the rain?”
“I’d go even if it’s raining knives. This is your responsibility, don’t try to shirk it.”
“You dragged me into this.”
“It’s useful for being nominated as a ‘Model Student’. You should be grateful.”
“Being ‘honest and kind, with good morals’ is my goal.”
Fu Chengque took a deep breath. “It must be resolved tomorrow.”
The next day, Wen Yu went to the general affairs office and borrowed a waterproof cloth that was originally supposed to cover the bicycle shed to cover the big blackboard.
For the two days of the weekend, there was no rain.
“Borrowed for nothing.”
Wen Yu kicked the waterproof cloth.
“It can also block the wind.”
“Can I just watch today?”
“Pass me the chalk.”
Wen Yu felt that Fu Chengque was dragging him along, not allowing him to rest.
The group’s progress this week has pushed them forward, already arriving at the front line outside the classroom.
After discussing the process, the production of the big blackboard officially began.
Fu Chengque was the lead writer. Her ideas were more traditional, with stars and decorations in the upper half, two characters in the lower half, and space left in the middle for additional details and sections like “Principal’s Message, Teacher’s Words.”
Thanks to the attribute boost, Fu Chengque’s painting this time was both fast and good.
Before, outlining the lines often required redraws five or six times, but now it only took two or three times to be satisfied.
“Chengque, your painting skills have improved so quickly!”
“Yeah, it looks super nice…”
“I feel like it’s even better than the last semester’s Class 1’s best painting. I heard it was painted by an art student.”
Xiao Gua instantly started gossiping, “The girl who dates outside of school while learning to paint?”
“Seems like it, her boyfriend seems to be a university student from that art institute…”
“On that bulletin board, someone must have helped her paint it, right?”
“Who else could it be…”
“Wow, Chengque, your skills are as good as those art students in the art institute!” Xiao Gua exclaims in amazement, “Are you planning to apply to the art institute?”
Fu Chengque rolled her eyes.
“Just praise me, if I mess up the painting, see how Mr. Chen criticizes us.”
“Okay okay… You focus on painting, we won’t disturb you.”
“That’s about right. The red one.”
Wen Yu handed the red chalk to Fu Chengque on the ladder and admired from below.
It seems to be painted alright, but lacks innovation in form.
After gaining 30 points in comprehensive painting, he felt that his level is not worse than Fu Chengque’s, but snatching someone else’s job is unethical, so slacking off is fine.
The production of the big bulletin board was orderly.
From Monday to Thursday, everyone worked overtime intensively.
On Friday, the big bulletin board production was nearing completion.
On Friday evening, with Fu Chengque applying the final stroke of green, it was perfectly finished.
“It’s done!”
“Yeah!”
Wen Yu also cheered along.
The rainproof cloth was re-covered, and it just needed to be removed early on Monday.
Fu Chengque was very satisfied, so much so that she was more talkative than usual.
“Wen Yu, come on, give your evaluation!”
“Great masterpiece!”
“Perfunctory!”
“At least it’s a masterpiece!”
“That’s about right.” Fu Chengque clapped with satisfaction, “Thanks everyone for your hard work, let’s have some drinks.”
“Chengque is generous.”
Then everyone happily went their separate ways.
***
That night, it started raining.
Fortunately, there was the waterproof cloth.
By Saturday morning, light rain had turned into heavy rain, and the gloomy sky hinted at even worse conditions to come.
Can the waterproof cloth hold up?
In the afternoon, the heavy rain turned into a downpour, accompanied by howling winds.
It seemed as if the city was about to be engulfed by the pouring rain.
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