Chapter 476: “How about you be my pillow for three days as a reward?”
“How do I change Little Jiu’s cultivation time?”
Bai Feng lowered his head, lost in thought. Though he could force Little Jiu to keep training according to her current schedule, that would crush her enthusiasm. Better to tweak it a little.
The main reason Little Jiu disliked her schedule was basically the imbalance between training and playtime. So long as she felt they were equal, everything would be fine.
Maybe I should do a “buyout” plus a ‘pay-per-time’ system? Adjust play and training time to be equal, but if she wants a new game or DLC, she’d have to spend extra cultivation time. That might actually motivate her to train harder!
The more Bai Feng thought about it, the better he felt about the plan. Now all he had to do was figure out how much ‘training time’ buying a game would cost.
With that settled, Bai Feng returned to his own bedroom, reaching out to lift the quilt. Sure enough, Little Jiu had already curled up in bed, clutching the Image Retainer and playing games.
He’d been worried she’d cause some trouble out of dissatisfaction before, but seeing her just playing games eased his mind a bit.
“Stop playing, I’m going to sleep.”
“Oh…”
Little Jiu packed away the Image Retainer and snuggled obediently beside him.
Bai Feng watched her for a moment, feeling something was off. She’d been crying and causing trouble during the day, so why was she suddenly so well-behaved at night?
He carefully looked at her in the blanket, ensuring nothing strange was inside before lying down. Then he casually grabbed her.
Forget it, just sleep.
And just as Bai Feng closed his eyes to drift into dreams, Little Jiu suddenly opened her eyes.
“Hmph, this time I’ll definitely get you to change my training time!”
She gently raised her head, preparing to execute her supposedly perfect plan.
And what was this plan…?
Little Jiu’s face blossomed with a confident smile. She slowly slipped out of Bai Feng’s arms, hiding her few tails in his hands as a disguise. She crawled carefully beside him, gently shifting Bai Feng’s arm onto her own.
In the next moment, her form transformed—her face took on a youthful, proud expression. She pressed lightly against Bai Feng, her body half-cuddled in a pose that looked like she was being held.
Yes, this was her plan. To put it simply—‘raw rice cooked into mature rice.’ As long as she transformed into her human form and slept as his pillow for one night, wasn’t that equivalent to Bai Feng ‘agreeing’ to her proposal? When she asked to tweak her training schedule tomorrow, she could do so with even more confidence!
“Hmph, sleep now!”
Little Jiu finished all that and shifted into a comfy position, continuing to sleep.
Bai Feng, pretending to be ‘asleep’: “…”
He was totally baffled by Little Jiu’s moves. He even considered whether he should wake up just to ask what she was doing.
But as he stroked her fluffy big tail, he hesitated — she didn’t usually let him touch her tail nicely, and now was a rare chance for him to do so openly.
After a moment’s hesitation, he decided—keep sleeping! Not only because he was reluctant to part with that fluffy tail, but also because he was curious about what Little Jiu was up to. She couldn’t just be sleeping, right?
Morning came.
Bai Feng opened his eyes and realized he still didn’t understand Little Jiu’s logic. She’d really just laid beside him in her transformed form and slept the night—badly, at that!
He looked down at her, nearly octopus-shaped, sprawled all over him. He felt somewhat speechless. He pinched her little face: “Wake up.”
“Wwm…”
Little Jiu slowly opened her eyes, looking at Bai Feng in confusion. After a few seconds, she recalled what she’d done last night.
She instinctively averted her gaze but then forced herself to stiffen her little face, showing insouciance.
“How come your bottom line is so low now?” Bai Feng pinched her soft little face again.
Today, Little Jiu dared to sleep on his bed in her human form—what she’d do tomorrow, he couldn’t even imagine!
“That’s none of your business!” Little Jiu raised her hand to slap away his pinch. “Well, since you’ve already used my transformed form as a pillow for a night, you should cut back on my training time!”
“…Just for this?”
Bai Feng stared at Little Jiu with some helplessness.
In fact, he had some guesses—he just didn’t expect her plan to be so simple, or rather, so crude.
Is Little Jiu not worried he’d call her bluff?
“Would you cheat me?” Little Jiu asked cautiously.
“Are you kidding? Didn’t I kind of agree earlier?” Bai Feng flicked her forehead lightly. “And you just slept as my pillow for one night and want less training?”
“Then, then I can do tonight and tomorrow night too…”
Little Jiu looked away and mumbled softly.
Bai Feng eyed her for a moment: “Normally, at this time, you’d be swearing I’m a pervert, right?”
“You… you know you’re acting like a pervert but still ask that?” Little Jiu instantly looked a bit upset.
“Alright, I won’t tease you anymore.” Bai Feng smiled and tousled her head. “Actually, before sleeping last night, I was already thinking about how to modify your training time, and I’ve come up with a concrete plan.”
“Huh?” Little Jiu froze. “Then I’ve just been a human pillow for nothing?”
“Looks like it,” Bai Feng nodded with a smile.
Little Jiu pouted, growling inwardly. She’d made such a huge sacrifice, only to find it was all for nothing!
“No way! I won’t accept it! You owe me some benefits. I can’t just be used for free!”
“You wish.” Bai Feng stretched out a finger and tapped her forehead. “And look at your sleeping posture—who’s using who as a pillow? I think I’m the one getting the short end of the stick here.”
“That’s… that’s because I can’t control how I sleep!” Little Jiu argued with some guilt, yet she still acted confident. “Anyway, you gotta give me something!”
“Then how about you be my pillow for three days as a reward?”
Little Jiu: “?”
How shameless can this guy be!
“Alright, alright, no more joking. You better get off me now,” Bai Feng said, rubbing her head. “We’ve got lots to do today!”
“Hmm…”
Though she looked quite angry, Little Jiu obediently climbed off him and sat on the bed, continuing her sulk.
“Little Jiu, wanna go get some food?” Bai Feng, having successfully gotten up, asked the sulking girl beside him.
“Mm…”
Little Jiu responded gloomily, nodding as she sulked and trailed after Bai Feng.
Bai Feng: “…”
Is your anger an independent system?
