No.1 Mao Mei quickly returned to her original spot with the ice cream in hand.
"Here!"
She handed over the ice cream to Su Huai with a bit of a temper, pouting, and showing a rare moment of cuteness.
"The best ice cream from the supermarket, aren't I considerate?"
Su Huai glanced at the name on the packaging bag—goodness, Zhong Xuegao!
He then looked at the classic Dove bar she was holding, and he couldn't help but make a guess.
Gou Huai smirked and raised his eyebrow teasingly, "I'll bet fifty cents that when you picked it up, you had no idea how much it cost."
"What! I treat you to the best ice cream out of the goodness of my heart, and you actually doubt me?"
She panicked.
Her ears turned slightly red in her agitation, and although she was looking at Su Huai, her eyes were somewhat evasive.
Indeed, she had been pricked.
Gou Huai continued to smirk, "Really? I don't believe it. Aren't there Häagen-Dazs in the supermarket, which is not more expensive than this one?"
"How did you know?!"
An exclamation burst out, and Chen Nuanhan asked before realizing she had just incriminated herself, making her cheeks burn with embarrassment.
"I don't care, shut up and just enjoy your ice cream!"
Chen Nuanhan, annoyed and angry, simply decided to abandon all reason.
Su Huai laughed out loud, took the Dove bar from her hand, and unwrapped it on the spot, "Experience the ice cream assassin yourself, I like the ones with chocolate... If you come across an ice cream you don't recognize again, don't touch it, got it?"
Su Huai was short on cash, dog food, and favorability, he lacked everything, but he certainly didn't lack patience.
Two ice creams, one costing five yuan and the other fifty yuan, even if the price differed tenfold, he wasn't going to snatch the more expensive one just for a bit of dog food.
Leaving it for her to eat and watching her break her defenses—that's much more interesting, isn't it?
"Hmph!"
Chen Nuanhan turned away, pretending not to want to deal with Su Huai, gnashing her teeth at the Zhong Xuegao ice cream.
This thoroughly amused Su Huai.
Young Chen Nuanhan was quite fun as long as you didn't talk about emotions with her.
"Eat up, and once you're done, describe the taste to me, it's at least forty or fifty yuan worth of ice cream... tsk, tsk, tsk~"
Those meaningful and unfinished "tsk, tsk, tsk" sounds completely broke through her defenses.
How malicious could this person be?
"Eat eat eat, eat your ass!"
With a bang, an infuriated Chen Nuanhan threw the ice cream into the trash bin, producing a dull sound.
Not satisfied with just throwing the ice cream away, she stamped her right foot a couple of times with force, her body twisting in frustration.
It was the typical reaction of a fierce little princess, almost cute.
Su Huai didn't take it seriously, nor did he intend to placate her, leisurely watching as the favorability rating dropped back down to the 20s, slurping his ice cream loudly.
The jerk was doing it on purpose.
Chen Nuanhan was extremely annoyed and no longer curious about the remaining explanations, storming off to sit on the other side, ignoring Su Huai.
So, a delighted Su Huai opened the panel to check and found the feeding critical hit.
[Target Chen Nuanhan spent on an ice cream for you, original price 5 yuan, with a 15x critical hit, you received 75 pieces of dog food]
Huh?
The critical hit multiplier wasn't low... but how was this figure calculated?
When in doubt, ask. Su Huai actively communicated with the system, "How is the critical hit rate determined?"
[A comprehensive score above 90, each point above increases the multiplier by one]
[Favorability is divided into levels every ten points, each level increase doubles the critical hit rate]
[The final critical hit rate is the product of the two multipliers combined]
Su Huai did some quick math and suddenly felt shocked.
"Holy shit! So if there's a comprehensive score of 99 and then add a favorability rating of over 90, could that possibly result in an 81x critical hit?!"
"If she buys me a mansion for 50 million yuan, could I end up with 4 billion pieces of dog food?!"
[Theoretically, correct]
The response from Mr. Tongzi was very indifferent, waking Su Huai up to reality.
Snap out of it, a woman with a score of 99 in comprehensive attributes doesn't exist in reality!
Even if she did exist, it would be difficult to achieve such high favorability.
And even if both conditions were met, she would still need to have that much money in the end...
So the ultimate multiplier seemed like a dream, or a carrot dangling in front of a donkey—merely there to be looked at.
But even a mere 50x multiplier was still pretty tempting.
For Su Huai spending money on her was like getting it for free, while her spending on Su Huai equated to a 50x multiplier in dog food, each brushing transactions of hundreds of millions. Oh, taking off~~~
As for who "she" is...
Well, it's definitely Xiaojiu!
Chen Nuanhan doesn't cut it, scoring low and being poor, not worthy of pairing up with me, Huai.
Gou Huai floated in his daydream for a while before glancing at his once-idolized goddess... crap! Her profile was still freaking deadly!
Su Huai guiltily averted his gaze, sighing dejectedly.
Though his body reverted to 19 years old, his resistance to beauty simultaneously weakened.
Young and infatuated, look how eloquently this is described. How did the ancestors understand it so well?
It seems I really can't mock the simps anymore—who doesn't have this preference when young? It's all damn karma...
Su Huai could control his actions, attitude, and pace, but couldn't fool his own heart—he still craved Chen Nuanhan's face and figure, how low!
While reflecting on this, the real Gou King, Wu Tianyou, came back excitedly.
"Su Huai! I made it happen!"
"I can tell," Su Huai said sarcastically, looking at him, "I'm about to go from Huai to just Su Huai again."
Wu Tianyou grinned, not bothering to argue, and proudly showed off the documents to Chen Nuanhan, "Nuannuan, look, we'll be classmates now. I've got your back from now on!"
"As if I need it!"
Chen Nuanhan stood up with a huff, impatiently grabbing her suitcase handle, "If you're done, hurry up to the dorm. How long have you held us up?"
Wu Tianyou was momentarily stunned, then glared at Su Huai.
"Old Su, what did you do to Nuanhan now?"
Dammit, you sure know how to pinpoint the main conflict...
With the money in hand and the business done, Su Huai no longer indulged him, but instead coldly glared into Wu Tianyou's eyes.
"Little brother, don't get ahead of yourself. You think it's over just because you've finished the paperwork? Don't you want your usual grades? Not afraid of failing or being held back? Not scared of the instructor targeting you or the head calling your name?"
Being called "little brother" made Wu Tianyou rage at first, but when he fully comprehended Su Huai's words, his pupils contracted violently and he involuntarily swallowed.
In fact, Su Huai was merely bluffing and boasting—he didn't have that much influence over Liu Yutang, did he?
But Wu Tianyou wasn't aware of the real situation and was nearly fully convinced under Su Huai's imposing manner.
It was a kind of authority and certainty he had never seen in a peer, extremely intimidating.
Visible to the naked eye, all his arrogance and pride withdrew.
"Tsk, look at your pitiful self!"
Su Huai uttered disdainfully, and Wu Tianyou's face instantly flushed red.
But this wasn't the end. Su Huai extended his right index finger and poked Wu Tianyou in the chest, speaking contemptuously and deliberately, "Better remember this, as long as you're in the School of Management, I'm your long-lost wild dad. If you don't like it, just cross the line, and then we can settle it man to man. Got it?"
Those words were quite a burn, weren't they?
Yet, after Wu Tianyou's expression went through drastic changes, surprisingly he didn't explode but quickly conceded like a wise man.
"Huai, why you gotta be like this? I was just joking with you, why take it seriously... hehehe..."
With a forced chuckle, he quickly grabbed his suitcase, shamefacedly following behind Chen Nuanhan.
"Nuannuan, wait for me, don't take the wrong path!"
Heh, Gou King?
What a joker!
Su Huai sneered with disdain, unfazed.
Wu Tianyou was never a threat. When in a good mood, he was a toy; in a bad mood, at most, a punching bag.
Get angry or take him seriously? Su Huai didn't have the time for that.
But since he was about to be tossed to Chen Nuanhan as company, it was indeed necessary to issue an early warning to establish some deterrence, to prevent future pests.
It didn't matter if he wasn't subdued this time; there was plenty of time, Huai could toy with him for a lifetime.
Do you like it?
Come on, open up, tell Huai, you like it!
Strolling absentmindedly on the main campus road, Su Huai was like a tiger descending the mountain—languid at first glance, lacking any spirit, but upon a closer look at his eyes, they clearly spelled two words—ferocious and thirsty.
Back in this era, he wasn't in a hurry to do anything: make money, establish prestige, show off, or flirt. Nothing was urgent.
But, he already considered everything along the way as his to claim.
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