Chapter 133

The Tsundere Boss Was Displeased (1)

Even just sitting inside his car, Huo Sishen's aura was 2.8 meters tall.

Combining his cold and deep voice along with his chilling and restrained aura, whoever that was stared at by his profound, black eyes would surely have the hair on the back of their necks stand up right away.

Gu Shishi was doing fine, as she now had a pretty good idea of what the boss truly was.

He was just a tsundere who never said what he meant.

She took a look at the user interface. Sure enough, his fondness toward her went up another 1% when he told her to get inside the car...

Ling Xiaomei, on the other hand, had never experienced anything like this before.

Intimidated, her smile disappeared and she said, "Shishi, I just remembered that I seemed to have left my purse inside the classroom."

She shuddered under the man's cold stare and quickly pulled her arm free. "You go. Don't wait for me."

Having said that, she winked at Gu Shishi.

Then, she lowered her voice and said, "This third wheel is going to bow out~"

Gu Shishi didn't even have the chance to stop her. When she recollected herself, she still didn't have the guts to call Ling Xiaomei back.

The boss was a germaphobe and didn't like others getting close to him. Having a stranger sharing the same seat at him would certainly drive him insane.

Mr. Chauffeur would normally take the car out for a cleaning after he had dropped her off at the mansion.

So her having Ling Xiaomei riding with her wasn't a big deal, but it's best she not pushed the envelope today.

As soon as Gu Shishi got inside the car, she sensed that the atmosphere inside the car was a bit off today.

Even Siyi, sitting in the front, dared not turn around.

"Mr. Hao, did you just get off work as well?"

She forced herself to break the ice.

[Beep! Fondness from Huo Sishen dropped!]

Huh?

Gu Shishi was stunned.

What just happened?

"Oh, do you still have some work to finish up after you get home?"

[Beep! Fondness from Huo Sishen dropped!]

Gu Shishi shut her mouth right away.

Perhaps ,the boss was in a bad mood today and didn't want to talk to anyone?

She carefully rotated her body a little in the back seat and looked over at the boss, trying to find any kind of a sign that would give her some sort of an idea.

Huo Sishen's face resembled that of an iceberg with no traces of emotions to be seen.

When she looked over, she even met his cold, black eyes that were looking at her right away.

That look was definitely bone-chilling. Gu Shishi broke out in sweat.

"You want me to work overtime?"

Huo Sishen's handsome brows furrowed together.

He had his chauffeur come and picked her up every day. And she didn't even know what time he usually got off work? Was that what she meant by never leaving his side?

His cold eyes scanned over her snow-white face and innocent, big eyes. His mouth shut tightly.

"Of course not..."

Gu Shishi shook her head right away! She wanted to say something else but was stopped by three consecutive chimes.

[Beep! Fondness from Huo Sishen dropped!]

[Beep! Fondness from Huo Sishen dropped!]

[Beep! Fondness from Huo Sishen dropped!]

[Warming. Fondness about to drop below the lower limit of LV2 and go back down to LV1!]

Gu Shishi's little mouth dropped open and she was about to start crying.

NOOoo!

She was almost at LV3! This couldn't be happening!

Her brain, stimulated by the sense of danger, was extremely active. Unfortunately, before she was able to form any words, Huo Sishen had already shut his handsome eyes.

The middle portion of the leather backseat seemed to have a very clear line dividing the two of them...

On the left side, the air that was about to freeze, and on the right side, there was Gu Shishi shuddering pitifully.

The boss, with his eyes shut, crossed his arms in front of himself.

He was frowning.

On his handsome face, there was a don't-talk-to-me-or-all-fondness-will-be-gone look.

Gu Shishi took a deep breath and poked at Siyi seeking his help.

"What happened?"

She could only mouth her words to him. She was only too worried that she might inadvertently disturbed the boss.

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Author's rambling: Boss Hao: She didn't even know what time I got off work! AND she wanted me to work overtime! How dare she!

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Chapter 134

The Tsundere Boss Was Displeased (2)

Siyi smiled bitterly at her and turned back around.

Toward the end of the day, the boss suddenly said he wanted to go and check out the remodeling process in the nearby commercial area.

When they were done, he told the chauffeur to detour to pick up the "stupid woman" - Miss Gu, to go home with him.

He didn't want her to cry annoyingly later on.

All was well and the boss was in a good mood still.

But the moment he saw Miss Gu, the air inside the cabin of the car just thinned out immediately.

Siyi shrugged and spread out his hands.

He didn't know anything nor did he dare to speculate anything.

Gu Shishi sighed pitifully.

Once they were back at the mansion, she still dared not make any noise.

She followed docilely behind the boss and only dared to take a step forward when he took a step.

It was obvious that Huo Sishen's mood was getting progressively worse.

When he reached the bottom of the stairs, he turned around and saw her head dropped lower than a chick eating rice and she was standing about 2 meters away from him.

Another beeping sound!

The fondness level decreased again. All the way to LV1!

[Failing to return to LV2 within half an hour will reduce the maximum life limit back to 5 days!]

[Any extra life saved up will be lost!]

She was stunned. Gu Shishi had broken down, and she almost cried out loud.

Half an hour?! That wasn't enough time for her to do any damage control!

She hadn't even figured out the reason that caused the boss's fondness for her to decrease. She would die at this rate!

Gu Shishi's knees weakened, and she almost dropped to her knees.

If the fondness level continued to drop, it'd go back down to LV0...

All the life that she had saved up would be gone!

Boss... whatever had she done wrong?

Yet, it was already too late.

When she was receiving one impact after another from the system, the door to the study slammed shut in front of her!

The boss was nowhere to be seen when she looked up again.

Even if she wanted to earn more fondness, there was no stage for her to perform on...

"Oh, my gosh. I am going to die! I am going to die for real this time!"

"Master... I am going to come and meet with you soon..."

Gu Shishi just wanted to cry.

She had just taken a couple steps before she thought of something very important.

"It's going to get rid of all my extra life? They will all be wasted? No way. I'd rather convert them all to skills instead of having them go to waste!"

She gritted her teeth.

The max life for LV2 was 7 days. If she returned to LV1, she'd only have a maximum of 5 days.

The two extra days would be lost.

What's there to think about? She was going to spend all of them!

"Convert to beginner's painting skill. For 4 hours!" said Gu Shishi with no hesitation.

[Maximum daily exchange: 10.] Came the cold system reminder.

"Oh!"

Gu Shishi plopped onto her giant bed and screeched like a marmot.

What a scam!

She quickly navigated to the [Merchandize] screen. Sure enough, there was a fine print there that she hadn't noticed before.

Back then, she treasured her life a lot and her health bar being always low, so she had never converted over 3 times in a day.

Gu Shishi sighed again and resigned to looking at the only other merchandise.

[Diluted Version of Summer Day Balancing Lotion (10% effectiveness of the pills): 24 hours of life for 10 mL.]

So expensive... just looking at it made her feel like she was bleeding.

Plus, she had already had the actual pill and had no interest in the diluted version, but now she had no choice but to exchange for it.

"Give me 10 mL of it!"

[Delivered. Please confirm receipt.]

Her health bar dropped a big chunk immediately.

Gu Shishi clutched her heart painfully and pulled the balancing lotion out of the dimension.

10 mL of the balancing lotion sat inside a small, transparent bottle.

It looked just about the size of a bottle of nail polish.

This system was so frugal!

Gu Shishi admired it for a little bit and precisely tucked it away inside her drawer.

That a whole day of life right there!

She sat there, dazed, lamenting over her loss.

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Chapter 135

The Tsundere Boss Was Displeased (3)

Gu Shish's cellphone vibrated.

[MeowMeow: I had spoken with your store manager. She said it will be okay for you to teach offsite. But I will be attending classes onsite for the time being.]

She paused for a bit and the words "typing.." flickered on the screen.

Finally, a question came over.

[Do I need to bring anything? Pen? Paper? Your studio offers mainly gouache and oil painting lessons, right?]

Gu Shishi took a look and sighed sadly.

[You signed up for 5,000 yuan worth of lessons?]

If the boss continued to remain upset at her, she wouldn't make it, and she wouldn't be able to attend her 5,000 yuan worth of lessons.

This time around, the reply came even slower.

After a long while, Chen Kexin sent over a somewhat apologetic response.

[... I signed up for 50,000 yuan Ugh... when you start the offsite lessons. I will pay you separately for your travel time and transportation.]

Gu Shishi: "......"

50,000 yuan?

At 300 yuan a class?

Has she gone insane?

She facepalmed herself and sent over to Chen Kexin her personal WeChat contact info. [You can contact me here for lesson-related matters. I only use this guru account to post my work.]

Another long silence.

Gu Shishi didn't know that Chen Kexin was undergoing some serious struggles as they spoke.

Chen Kexin has yet to figure out who was in the right between Gu Shishi and Wushuang. For now, she only wanted to stay neutral.

She wanted to keep her distance with Gu Shishi and only contact her through her official means when necessary.

How did matters develop to the point that they had exchanged not one but two Wechat contacts? And that Gu Shishi was going to be her instructor?

She had prepaid such a large deposit. Didn't that mean she'd be seeing Gu Shishi monthly, weekly, or even daily?!

That didn't even cross her mind till Gu Shishi just pointed it out, and Chen Kexin was shocked by what she had done!

But now she could only comfort herself that she had nothing to lose.

A true oil painting master could sell their work for millions or tens of millions. Now she was willing to teach her, and the tuition was so cheap... and she might even teach her grandmother in the future as well and help her grandma feel less lonely and maybe even make her happier.

Any way she looked at it, she had nothing to lose!

Things had already come to this point, and she had already paid for her lessons. How could she possibly not add her instructor's WeChat contact?

After some more struggle, Chen Kexin finally added Gu Shishi.

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Gu Shishi quickly received the friend's request from MeowMeow, and she accepted it within a second that it had come in.

She clicked open the chat window.

She was about to set the time of the first lesson with the girl and tell her what she needed to bring with her, but then something else caught her attention.

MeowMeow's profile picture was the same as before, as was her WeChat ID.

Yet... there was a pink row of pink words after her WeChat alias.

[MeowMeow (Item that could earn her fondness had been unlocked: Summer Day Balancing Lotion)]

Gu Shishi reached up her hand and rubbed her eyes.