Chapter 31.1

The system’s question was truly a problem of the century. Three hundred and sixty-five people was no small matter, and each one would even look exactly like the type she liked. It was practically tempting her to stop being human.

What woman could withstand that temptation!

Yan Qingqiu clung tightly to her rationality and said: [Let me slow down. Give me some time, okay?]

The system snorted coldly: [Weren’t you quite cold just now? Weren’t you very good at cursing the system?]

[Just now was just now! You’re really making things hard for me! Think about it. If you were given 365 AIs calling you baby, darling, master, obeying whatever you said, would you be able to withstand it?]

The system also fell silent for a while. After discovering that it would not be able to withstand it either, it said: [Fine. I’ll give you a few days to redeem it, but once the time limit is exceeded, the reward will be invalid. Host, please take note.]

[Okay, okay!]

Yan Qingqiu lay on the bed and smashed the pillow in shame and anger. Damn it. This was too hard to choose. [Answer a few of my questions first. Let me confirm some things.]

Three hundred and sixty-five wives.

Toys or whatever were simply improper.

Or three hundred and sixty-five gorgeous wives holding toys—what kind of scene would that be?

Stop, brain. She could not think about it anymore!

But, but wives as a thing—ai, they would be easy to discover, right?

Yan Qingqiu did not have a purely lustful brain. She became a little cautious.

Yan Qingqiu muttered to herself: [How would these 365 wives appear? Would they appear very suddenly? That would be too scary! Your system can handle this part properly, right? I feel like you can’t. Can your system really be this intelligent?]

System: [You can specify the environment, and we will deliver them to you once per day. But if you yourself cause a chain reaction, for example, being discovered by someone, then that is your own problem. Our system will not be responsible. Any consequences caused by discovery will be borne by you personally. We only send the prize.]

Yan Qingqiu understood.

After thinking, she asked again: [Then how long can the wives exist? What I mean is, will they disappear?]

The system’s tone was a little strange as it said: [They’ve already been given to you. Why would they disappear…]

Yan Qingqiu laughed: [What if they can’t disappear? There are too many wives, 365 of them, and they don’t have proper jobs. What if I can’t support them?]

System: […That would be your own problem. If you’re dissatisfied, you can cancel the redemption.]

Although, but. Yan Qingqiu still praised it: [Your game giving wives away is… I’m still quite satisfied with this point, cough cough.]

System: [As long as you know.]

To be honest, before this, she had never heard of any game that gave out wives. No matter what game it was, if one wanted a wife, one had to find a romantic partner oneself, or go攻略 the wife one had taken a fancy to, and most of the time, the攻略 would fail.

Yan Qingqiu opened her mouth: [Then I… last question. These 365 wives shouldn’t need me to support them, right?]

The system said: [I said they exist to obey your desire, so naturally, they only exist to satisfy your desire. You don’t need to support them, and they don’t need to eat, drink, or relieve themselves. We ourselves are a proper game. Of course, if you have that kink and insist on making them do things like eating, drinking, and relieving themselves, that’s also possible.]

It felt like you were driving.

But I have no evidence.

[That good? I feel like you’re deliberately treating the symptoms, deliberately tempting me into doing dangerous things, deliberately challenging my weak point…]

Before she finished speaking, the door was knocked twice. Yan Qingqiu’s cheeks instantly heated until sweat came out. It really scared her to death.

So annoying.

Not the person knocking. The system.

She had almost fallen for the trap of this old pervert system. The system still had the nerve to say it was an AI and did not understand how to be horny. Looking at it now, it was clearly the horniest one here!

Truly, even heroes struggled to pass the beauty trial! Beauties were simply humanity’s lifelong weak point!

The one knocking outside was Song Qingre. Song Qingre asked, “What were you muttering to yourself in there?”

Yan Qingqiu straightened her expression and replied, “Nothing. I was on the phone.”

Song Qingre’s voice sounded again. “Were you on the phone, or is there someone in your room?”

Holy shit.

Yan Qingqiu sprang up from the bed like a carp flipping upright. Was this person too sensitive? Yan Qingqiu thought back slightly but could not tell which words she had spoken aloud.

Communicating with the system through her brain was quite troublesome, and the system did not come out to talk every day either. She could never quite get used to it and could not help speaking with her mouth. She absolutely had to change this habit in the future.

She rubbed her chest, grateful she had not redeemed the reward.

Otherwise, if Song Qingre knocked on the door and Yan Qingqiu opened it, wouldn’t everything be over?

This would be much more embarrassing than being discovered asking for little toys. In fact, “embarrassing” would not even be accurate enough. It would be completely and utterly terrifying.

Yan Qingqiu got off the bed, dragged her slippers on, and went to open the door.

Song Qingre stood at the doorway. When the door opened, there was a smile at the corner of her lips, and she looked at her warmly and gently. “Why did you open the door for me? It doesn’t seem like your style.”

The way she spoke was strange. Yan Qingqiu did not understand what she meant. If she did not open the door, what would she do?

Yan Qingqiu felt inexplicably guilty. Song Qingre seemed able to peer into the secrets in her heart. Clearly, she was dressed very properly, yet in front of Song Qingre, she always felt as though she had been bared without any reservation. Terrifying.

“This isn’t a matter of style. I’m just curious. Why are you knocking on my door this late? Is something stolen contentwrong?” Yan Qingqiu asked.

“I heard you saying something about livestock just now… What does that mean?” Song Qingre frowned slightly and asked softly.

“I was cursing someone. I was on the phone with Xingxing. Didn’t I run into Fu Ye today? He sat in that car and kept chasing me, going crazy like livestock,” Yan Qingqiu said. “Just thinking about it makes me a little irritated. I couldn’t help cursing a couple of times just now.”

“Oh.” Song Qingre nodded. She did not look inside, as if that earlier sentence had only been to tease her. She said, “Do you need an essential oil massage tonight?”

“No need. The butler said I have a bit of an allergy, and my nose can’t handle things that are too fragrant. Let’s stop tonight. I already took a bath just now, and it was quite comfortable,” Yan Qingqiu said.

Song Qingre gave an mm and did not plan to linger at her doorway. She said, “Then sleep early. Don’t play too late. If you feel uncomfortable, call the butler and have him take you to the hospital again.”

“I know. You too.”

Song Qingre lifted her hand. Yan Qingqiu raised her head and followed the movement with her eyes, discovering that Song Qingre was holding a temperature gun. Song Qingre said, “Put this by your bedside. If you feel unwell, check your temperature.”

Song Qingre was quite gentle.

Yan Qingqiu lifted her eyes to look at her and nodded with an mm.

The temperature gun landed against her forehead. Yan Qingqiu watched her press her lips together. It was as if Song Qingre had fired a shot at her. After firing that shot, Song Qingre took the temperature gun down and looked at the number on it. “Mm… no fever.”

After saying that, she handed the temperature gun to her. Song Qingre passed by her doorway and went straight to the neighboring room. Yan Qingqiu bit her lip, holding the temperature gun, and leaned out, her gaze fixed on Song Qingre’s back.

The door closed, and the whole corridor became quiet too.

Yan Qingqiu turned back, lay on the bed, and held the temperature gun in her hand. Then she rolled over and lay flat on the bed.

The whale lamp on the ceiling was on. The sheets had been pressed into folds by her movements. Light fell over her fair body, and her skin softened into a fine halo.

Yan Qingqiu held the temperature gun to her forehead and fired at herself.

“Bang.” Her red lips moved. She said, “Yan Qingqiu, you’re dead.”

Tonight, she did not need to go be a little slave. She had enough time to enjoy herself, rolling from one side of the bed to the other. After rolling for two minutes, she checked her temperature again.

It had actually risen two degrees compared to just now.

Strange.

Yan Qingqiu watched videos for an hour and, by the way, searched Baidu: What should I do if I have 365 wives and my master discovers them?

Baidu’s answer: [Little master, no one has answered this question yet. We look forward to your answer!]

How would I dare? Trash Baidu. You don’t even know this!

After cursing, Yan Qingqiu put down her phone and went to sleep. This sleep was truly something else. She had a nightmare. In the dream, she became an extremely debauched person, very rich, so rich that when eating hot pot, she could casually order banknotes as an ingredient. She spent money everywhere, and her life was decadent. Her arms were full of beauties. When eating hot pot, there were also many pairs of beauties keeping her company beside her. She admired them while eating, even pointing and commenting from time to time. She leaned against a beauty’s soft chest, fell into a beauty’s arms, and the beauty fed her milk.

Wonderful and fragrant.

Suddenly, the door was kicked open. Many people appeared at the doorway. The face was one she was incredibly familiar with. It was Song Qingre. Song Qingre held a silver pistol in her hand, her cold eyes looking at her.

Yan Qingqiu retreated. In front of a pile of beauties, Song Qingre walked over step by step. Then, with a leather-shoed foot, she stepped on Yan Qingqiu and pinned her to the ground. Yan Qingqiu thought Song Qingre was going to sleep with her, so to survive, she took a little initiative and pinched Song Qingre’s calf. Then Song Qingre mercilessly pulled the trigger.

With a bang, Yan Qingqiu’s brain was opened wide.

It hurt. She raised her hand and touched it again and again. Her palm was full of red blood. After a while, her whole palm became sticky.

Song Qingre dipped her fingers in the blood from the hole in Yan Qingqiu’s head and wiped it across Yan Qingqiu’s face. A large X was smeared on her cheek. Her thin lips moved slightly. She patted Yan Qingqiu’s face and said coldly, “You’re not her.”

Yan Qingqiu woke with a start.

Damn. That was too terrifying.

Yan Qingqiu rubbed her face and wiped away the cold sweat. She lay on the bed panting.

After a long while, she got up again and looked at her phone. Three in the morning. Squinting, she opened her social app. Su Xingjie had sent her several messages, asking her to come out for dinner tomorrow.

Yan Qingqiu replied with an okay, then looked at her chat interface with Song Qingre. She and Song Qingre chatted very little, but every time they opened their mouths, it was full of color.

··

When she woke up again, the weather had also begun to turn cool.

Yan Qingqiu changed out of short sleeves and wore a white shirt with a pair of white pants. She tied her hair into a bun.

After breakfast, Song Qingre had to go to the company. Yan Qingqiu went to get the car. She drove the car out of the garage. It was still yesterday’s blue SSC. She held the car key and pressed it, and the car door automatically rose.

Song Qingre had originally wanted to say there was no need for Yan Qingqiu to send her, but Yan Qingqiu pointed at the dark circles under her eyes and said, “When you go to the company, you’ll definitely be busy and won’t be able to rest. I drive slowly, so you can sleep a little on the road. Otherwise, getting through the whole day will be rough. Young people have to pay more attention to their bodies and stay up less.”

The butler also prepared to get the car, but Yan Qingqiu did not let him follow. Yesterday, after driving back, she had more or less become familiar with it. Besides, she would send Song Qingre over, and if she waited a little, the bodyguards would come. The butler did not need to treat her like a child.

Yan Qingqiu drove slowly. Song Qingre had stayed up late last night and was indeed sleepy now. She rested her forehead against the headrest and dozed lightly for a while. When they arrived, Yan Qingqiu woke her.

“I’ll come pick you up tonight. If you’re not at the company, call me.”

After Song Qingre went upstairs, Yan Qingqiu slowly drove the car toward ER. But she drove too slowly. There were more cars in the morning than at night, and no one was beside her to give pointers, so she was a little unable to handle it. She turned the car toward Yan Corporation, and in the end, Yan Fu called a bodyguard down to drive her.

ER did not have anything important to deal with recently. Su Xingjie had a meeting at the company, and seeing Yan Qingqiu come over, she immediately measured her bust, waist, and hips. At the same time, she asked how Yan Qingqiu had considered it and whether she wanted to become a model.

Yan Qingqiu nodded along with her words.

Su Xingjie was pleasantly surprised, practically wishing she could swear to the heavens that she would raise Yan Qingqiu to the sky. “Now I finally don’t have to worry about running into ungrateful wolves anymore. Qiu-bao, don’t worry. Starting today, you are ER’s number-one sister.”

Yan Qingqiu became shy, her face red.

Don’t be like this. It was making her a little embarrassed.

Su Xingjie also took her to measure her height and weight, asking how much salary she wanted. The base salary for the company’s number-one sister was twenty million, and runway invitations, ads, and endorsements were all calculated separately. The numbers made Yan Qingqiu almost dizzy from being smashed by money.

Holding Yan Qingqiu’s measurements, Su Xingjie became slightly dumbfounded. “Something isn’t right… Qiu-bao, why did you grow again? Your bust grew again, and your barefoot height also increased by 1.3 cm… This is too fast.”

“Maybe I’ve been supplementing myself recently, so it grew. I also think it’s strange. What do you think the reason is? Should I go to the hospital and get it checked? But yesterday I went to the hospital and they said everything was fine, that this is normal. I’m still a little nervous.”

“Don’t be nervous, don’t be nervous. If the doctor said it’s fine, then it’s fine. Don’t overthink it, and definitely don’t randomly take medicine.” Su Xingjie held the measuring tape. Seeing her anxious appearance, she was afraid of scaring her and quickly restrained her confusion.

The people around her were all quite sensitive. Even if she changed only a little, these people could see it right away. They could instantly tell that she seemed like a different person. She spent every day with Song Qingre, yet Song Qingre had not said anything…

Her family had not expressed any doubt toward her either.

Maybe because they were too close, it was hard to notice problems. She and Su Xingjie had not seen each other for a few days, so if she changed a little, it was easier to notice.

The two good sisters went shopping together. They visited luxury stores, looking at jewelry and accessories. Yan Qingqiu had originally thought she was free of desires and wants, but after going inside and browsing once, she realized she truly did not understand herself at all…

She liked shopping in this kind of store far too much. She bought a pearl necklace and took a fancy to a large-carat diamond ring. After thinking about it, she could not quite bear to buy it. She did not have that much money in her pocket yet. Su Xingjie almost bought it for her, and Yan Qingqiu had to persuade her in every way before she did not spend the money.

Yan Qingqiu also bought several bracelets and earrings. In that instant, it made her feel as if she were playing some kind of dress-up game. When she came out of the high-end luxury store with big and small bags, Yan Qingqiu had spent five hundred thousand.

Su Xingjie then took her to ER’s physical store to try clothes casually.

Su Xingjie told her to take whatever she liked. Yan Qingqiu chose an autumn outfit and asked as if casually, “Sister, let me ask you something. If you stolen contentcould be given 365 wives, would you want them?”

“Three hundred and sixty-five wives? What would I do with that many?” Su Xingjie asked back, very unable to understand. “Bringing three models around is already enough to take my life.”

Yan Qingqiu looked at the low-V dress Su Xingjie was trying on. Her chest was truly full. Su Xingjie looked at herself in the mirror, lightly raised her forehead, shook her head, and said, “Average. I have to tell Xiao Wen when I get back that the waistline wasn’t done well.”

The store manager beside them answered tremblingly. This was the director, after all.

Yan Qingqiu sat on a chair and waited with her. Su Xingjie looked at several outfits, and in between, she even helped a wealthy lady match clothes. Unexpectedly, this good friend of hers had such a good figure, yet was abstinent.

What a pity.

She said softly, “Three hundred and sixty-five wives, each one looking exactly like the type you like. During your heat period, you can do whatever you want to them.”

“…Then…” Su Xingjie choked and wavered a little.

“It’s the kind your heart desires most.”

Su Xingjie turned her head to look at her good sister, doing a simple mental struggle. She pressed her lips together and lightly swallowed.

Yan Qingqiu thought: Sure enough, beauties were popular everywhere. Three hundred and sixty-five wives were everyone’s dream. Even an abstinent sister could not hold out against it.

She tapped the table with her finger. “What do you think, sister?”

“If I think about it… I do want it a little. But in reality, raising stolen content365 wives would still be a little tiring. One, one would be enough.”

“The wives don’t need to eat or drink,” Yan Qingqiu said.

“Then I would just… look at what my heart desires, satisfy my curiosity, and see what kind of wife I want in my heart. That would be fine.” Su Xingjie said this very cautiously and looked at Yan Qingqiu. “Why did you suddenly think of asking this?”

“It was just a sudden thought. Say, if a person had 365 wives, what kind of earth-shaking changes would happen to their life?” Yan Qingqiu said with emotion. She asked Su Xingjie partly because she herself could not make up her mind, and partly to prove that she was not the only lustful one. Everyone was equally lustful!

“I don’t know about anything else, but I feel like she would die from being drained. Even ancient emperors had empty periods. Being squeezed dry by wives every day like that feels a little hard to handle,” Su Xingjie said with a smile. She did not take Yan Qingqiu’s words seriously, only feeling that she was joking.

But for a good friend to make this kind of joke was also rather strange. It was just that ever since Yan Qingqiu stopped liking Fu Ye, she seemed to have become a bit lustful.

From one strange direction to another strange direction.

“You want 365 wives?” Su Xingjie asked.

“Not really, but… I’m just thinking about it.” Yan Qingqiu was vague. Who could imagine that as long as she gave the order, she would immediately have 365 wives and reach the peak of life? This kind of good thing had never happened before and would never happen again!

Su Xingjie directly took out her card and had the salesperson swipe it, buying Yan Qingqiu’s share together.

After buying, they gave the things to the bodyguards. The two of them went to “The Heiresses’ Back Garden,” a restaurant where rich young ladies often went, to have afternoon tea.

Su Xingjie sat in a wicker chair, holding a spoon and sending dessert into her mouth while listening to Yan Qingqiu’s future plans. Yan Qingqiu kept telling her there was no need to promote her too much and to just let things happen naturally.

Su Xingjie sighed. “Your ideals are still as simple and unadorned as ever.”

“Mm?”

Su Xingjie said, “When we were studying, you were like this too. You kept brainwashing me, saying you wanted to be a rice worm, a salted fish, eating and drinking every day while letting your dad support you. You said you didn’t want to work hard in this life, and whatever great achievements could be left for others. You said that every time. But actually, whenever something happened, you were more serious than anyone.”

Hearing about the past, Yan Qingqiu became a little interested.

“Back then, Luo Xi, Zhao Jiayu, and Tang Ling were in the same school as us. I wouldn’t say they knew everything, but level-ten piano, Latin dance, ballet—these most basic things, they definitely knew. Every time there was an event, they were the ones opening.”

As expected of children from rich families.

Yan Qingqiu had just wanted to say, What about me?

Then she thought, I couldn’t have been useless, right?

At least give the supporting female character a little face and let her know some relatively high-class plot skill.

“Although you weren’t as impressive as them, you knew a little of everything. Besides, your strength wasn’t here. You were especially good at writing. There was a novel you wrote that everyone in school fought to read,” Su Xingjie said. “It’s just that the content was written rather precociously.”

Yan Qingqiu felt relieved listening to this. If the supporting female character really had other skills, like playing piano or composing lyrics and music, and was highly skilled at them, then she would truly die. She did not know any of that at all.

Yan Qingqiu said seriously, “Actually, I’ve always persisted in creating. Recently, I’ve also accumulated some readers.”

“Really? Can I see?” Su Xingjie said curiously. “I still [bailiantales.com]preserved some of your old manuscripts from before.”

“When there’s a chance. They’re not organized yet.”

“That’s fine. When you publish a book, I’ll be the first to buy it.”

Yan Qingqiu coughed twice and nearly got frightened by her sister’s outrageous words. That really was not necessary. With the things she wrote, she was afraid that if they were published, she would go to prison!

But the things the butler wrote felt like they could be organized into a volume and published. The butler’s writing was pretty good. It should make money, right?

Yan Qingqiu asked curiously, “Speaking of which, back when I dyed my hair, why didn’t you think I had changed?”

Sometimes it was normal for parents not to sense it. Parents did not have much contact with their children, and everything could be summarized as rebellion. But friends around her should have been able to feel it too, right?

Su Xingjie pressed her lips together. She did not answer directly and said, “Qiu-bao, why don’t we go sweep up some more jewelry?”

Yan Qingqiu did not continue asking either. She only temporarily interrupted Su Xingjie’s worries. “A person has three stages in life: rebellion, growth, and now I’ve grown up. I won’t be stupid like before.”

That was not what Su Xingjie wanted to say. She felt that Yan Qingqiu had forgotten many things, but she was afraid that if she spoke too deeply, Yan Qingqiu would keep asking deeper questions. There were some things she did not really want to say either.

Yan Qingqiu did not continue pressing. She patted her shoulder. “Let’s not mention those things. Come on, let’s go buy stuff.”

Su Xingjie took her to luxury stores to buy things. Behind the two of them followed a group of bodyguards, a grand and imposing procession.

Just as they were about to enter, Yan Qingqiu looked at the store beside them and said, “I’m tired of looking at those. Let’s go to that kind of affordable store and buy a few little trinkets.”

Yan Qingqiu felt that a small accessory costing tens of thousands was truly burning money. As long as bracelets and necklaces were enough to wear, that was fine. Constantly spending tens of thousands made her feel that she could spend one million in a day.

When they went in to buy things, Su Xingjie said softly again, “But your current behavior is better than before. Before, you really were a little… how should I put it? Just very strange.”

Yan Qingqiu looked at her, holding a hair clip in her hand.

By coincidence, just after they entered, Luo Xi came out of the luxury store next door. Luo Xi first froze, then held up her phone and took photos of them.

Su Xingjie instantly felt that this would not do. She frowned and glared back. Luo Xi took another two photos. Su Xingjie hurriedly said, “Qiu-bao, let’s hurry and leave.”

Yan Qingqiu turned her head and looked over. She clapped her hands, and the bodyguards instantly blocked the doorway. Luo Xi smoothly put away her movements and ran off.

Yan Qingqiu bought two hair clips, five yuan each. On top was a spring chicken, fluffy and fuzzy. On one chick’s chest was the word Best, and on the other was Friend.

After paying, she took them out, looked at Su Xingjie, then clipped the two chicks onto the hem of her own clothes.