Chapter 155

The system was too fond of playing around with words! (1)

Siyi has yet to figure out what was going on, but immediately acknowledged his boss. "Oh, alright. I will go let the others know about the meeting."

Huo Sishen's lips, that he was trying very hard to maintain his cold look, twitched a couple of times.

"Push it off till tomorrow morning."

Before Siyi was able to process what Huo Sishen had just said, Huo Sishen added with his hoarse voice, "Make it after 10 AM."

By that time, the certain someone who wanted to do some thigh-hugging... would already have breakfast prepared.

Siyi, "Eh? Oh."

Then what about Sier? Was he still tossing people over to Africa? Why did he feel that everything that the boss said today was all... bullsh*t?

Siyi turned around and took one more look before he left the study.

He noticed that the boss, who was standing under the light and covered in a layer of orange glow, seemed to have softened. The cold air was mostly dissipated. And his lips were curved upward.... He wanted to smile?

Siyi shuddered and left quickly.

***

[Received fondness from Huo Sishen!]

Gu Shishi heard the melodious sound of the system notification as she was happily soaking her feet.

The boss must have just had the steak that she had made him.

She had one herself tonight as well. It wasn't as good as the chef's cooking, but it was already leaps and bounds ahead of just any other person's.

She smiled complacently and sent a message over to the boss.

[Was it good? Do let me know if you want anything done differently. HAHA!]

She was just toying with the idea of just how awkward of a return message the tsundere boss would send when she received the instant reply from him.

[My Lifeline Boss: Mmm. Not bad.]

"Huh?"

What happened with the boss today?

Whatever happened to his mean words?

Gu Shishi was stunned for a little bit before she received notification from the system the next second.

[The male lead's fondness LV3 reached!]

[Host had levelled up to LV3 (The Wife of a Prestigious Family Who Has Seemingly Received the Fondness of Her Husband)]

"Seemingly... received?"

The heck was that?!

Looking at the word choice of the system, Gu Shishi wasn't sure what to make of that.

So... did that mean she got it or she didn't get it?

The system was too fond of playing around with words!

Luckily, the good news that followed made her ecstatic immediately.

[Maximum life increased to 10 days.]

[Current life balance: 6 days 13 hours.]

Gu Shishi let out a cry and even kicked the water inside the bucket in excitement!

Ten days... Finally, she could live up to 10 days!!!

Her life! In 2-digit number! After all these humps, it did not come easy!

Lowering her head, she spent some time on appreciating the long health bar on the screen and was so happy that she could not keep her mouth closed.

[Maximum life limit at LV 4: 30 days]

Gu Shishi couldn't help but gulp.

Level up! She must level up!

Having a full month of life meant that she would no longer need to live in fear every day!

She could even go on a short trip for half a month or so and not be with the boss all the time~

And she wouldn't need to stay inside the mansion everyday and work in recharging day in and day out...

A month's life was too important to her!

"Must work hard on leveling up! Must hurry up!"

Gu Shishi quickly became very determinant.

Any gatherings on Gu Wushuang's side, no matter what kind of crazy people would be there, she must attend them all!

Those would all be perfect opportunities to suck up blood!

Chapter 156

The system was too fond of playing around with words! (2)

Gu Shishi happily reached up her arm and was barely able to reach her notebook. She quickly scribbled on the first page again.

Rule #3, must work hard on becoming part of the boss's circle and gain fondness from everyone.

She turned off the bubble feature of the foot spa after she had finished summarizing.

Using a dry towel, she wrapped up her calves and feet that had turned pink from the soaking. In order to maintain the firmness of her calves, she patted them down with some firming toner before she applied some body lotion.

She used to stand a lot from painting. That made her a prime candidate for varicose veins as well as keratosis pilaris.

Now that she has transmigrated and that the original owner has pretty nice and smooth calves, she planned on taking good care of them and not making the same mistakes again.

All of the skin-care products inside of this room were high-end ones. In fact, she had noticed that the maid seemed to be cleaning her room on a daily basis while she was at work.

The maid would refill her skin-care product whenever she had used them down by half.

Her body lotion went particularly fast as she applied them on her legs, but she never had to worry that they'd run out one day.

Plus, these were super fancy stuff. A dame-level Mystery of the Blue Ocean cost upward of 1,400 yuan a jar.

Unfortunately, the refilling of that was classified as normal everyday items and was heavily discounted.

Gu Shishi applied a thick layer on her calves then rubbed whatever remaining on her hand onto her arms and palms.

When she was all done, she stood up happily and dumped out the water inside of the foot spa. She was only halfway there before she heard another "Ding".

[Reward package for leveling up to LV3 has arrived. Please accept.]

Gu Shishi paused for a little and clicked open the system before she realized what she had forgotten.

She has a prize!

[Prize: Improved-Tactile Sensation Pill.]

[Effect: Permanent hair removal. Can choose the desired part of the body. Control future growth of hair once and for all. Can avoid the awkward period when hair starts to grow back.]

[The tactile sensation will be wonderful forever!]

[Note: To resume hair growth, use the Hair Follicle Repairing Pill in the market.]

Gu Shishi read the entire thing once.

She was a little dumbfounded as she read the instructions in the system.

[Areas to choose from: 1. Armpits; 2. Lower Arms; 3. Lip Area; 4. Small hair around the hairline/forehead; 5. Calves; 6. Brazilian Wax (strongly recommended) ...]

[Select all that apply.]

Gu Shishi blinked.

That was somewhat high-end... and complicated.

And, what was that Brazilian wax?

She had no idea what it was, so she did a search online. She blushed completely when she had it figured out.

Brazilian wax referred to hair around a girl's delicate area. To ensure that no unsightly "bush" would be seen when she was wearing a bikini swimsuit.

Gu Shishi sweated.

This prestigious woman circle was so shameless!

But... that was a problem!

How embarrassing would it be to be under public scrutiny when one went swimming!

Gu Shishi rested her palm on her forehead. Now she got why it was strongly recommended by the system.

"Okay, select all..."

Gu Shishi stopped hesitating.

As an adult... always select all!

Let this reward carry out 100% of its function!

As soon as she had finished speaking, a round little pill appeared inside her palm.

[Take with water. Effect will start in a few hours.]

[Suggest to clean your bedding after waking up tomorrow morning.]

Gu Shishi, "......"

Before she could even take the pill, she received a Wechat message from chirp monster Gu Wushuang inviting her to her girl friends' swimsuit party this weekend.

Gu Shishi, "......"

So the Brazilian waxing would be put to good use already?!

So fast!

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Author's Rambling:

Boss Huo: I am for sure the most difficult male lead in history, NOT!

Siyi: HAHA.

Sier: HAHA.

Gu Shishi: HAHA.

Lobster (author): HAHA.

Chapter 157

The system was too fond of playing around with words! (3)

Gu Shishi was woken up by her alarm clock at 5:30 AM the next morning.

She felt miserable and dizzy and the urge of wanting to lay back down on her pillow and go back to sleep made her want to cry.

She was tired. Oh so tired!

Mr. Chef got up so early every morning to prepare breakfast? How did he do that? Is he a fairy?

Gu Shishi wanted to keep on rolling in bed, but Mr. Chef had mentioned that the boss might want breakfast as early as 6:30 AM. He was in the habit of working out in the morning.

In addition, he needed to be in the office to have meetings on all even number days. That's not even a schedule that a human being should have!

Gu Shishi tossed painfully in bed and did not want to let go of the blanket... she buried her head inside of it.

After a little while, she noticed some odd sensation...

Something felt a little bit prickly.

She was wide awake almost immediately and sat straight up. She looked down and shrieked!

The bed was... covered in the little fuzzy hair that fell off from her body...

She felt dazed...

Everything that the system had told her was true!

No only was there hair on her bed sheet and her blanket, there was even little fuzzy hair on her pillow...

She quickly touched her cheeks and immediately had an odd look on her.

It did feel smoother than before!

Her cheeks had always been smooth, but there was still small fuzzy hair around her mouth and her hairline wasn't as defined as it could be, there were always a few small hairs. Now it's completely clean!

She reached out her arms and her legs...

All she could say was that the effect was perfect!

The quality of her skin did not change, except it was now smooth like an egg. She even felt that she was a whole shade paler!

Gu Shishi gulped.

She touched herself and it felt amazing. The kind that you didn't want to stop stroking.

As the saying went, her skin was like solidified grease. She was really able to achieve it!

Plus, the effect of the hair loss was very natural and didn't look odd at all.

She looked like she had just come out of a spa, and she was glowing all over.

"To think that Butler Lin asked me if I wanted to go to a spa. I have saved money for the boss again."

Gu Shishi was very proud of herself.

There weren't many frugal girls like her out there anymore.

The last time she looked at the spa brochure, hair removal by laser cost over 1,000 yuan, and a whole set of permanent removal process was 5,000 yuan.

And we were talking about one specific area.

To have hair removed from all areas like how she had would cost at least 20,000 to 30,000 yuan minimum.

And, that wasn't even permanent.

Anything that said "permanent" was nothing but a hoax.

In this respect, the system was simply amazing.

As Gu Shishi thought about all these, she quickly rolled out of bed.

She quickly tidied up her beddings, shook them a few times, and snuck downstairs to get the clean tools and swept the floor to destroy all of the evidence.

She finally went to prepare breakfast for the boss after she had finished doing all those.

As she was preparing the toast and bacon for the sandwich, she took a sneak peek in the system to see what the reward for the next level was going to be.

[Halo: 24 hours of cosmetic effects on the eyes (can be changed daily).]

Gu Shishi let out a small cry and almost crushed the egg that she was holding in her left hand.

This next skill was very self-explanatory from its name alone.

There were many cosmetic effects for the eyes, but most of them have to do with making the eyes seem brighter.

The eyes have always been the window to one's soul.

Even in drawings, the gracefulness and look of a character also depended a lot on how the eyes were done.

That went to show how important the eyes were!

Chapter 158

The dang system was just taking her for a fool! (1)

Plus, she has good eyesight and didn't wear contact lenses. She could only be envious of the actresses with beautiful eyes.

But now, all she needed to do was to exchange for this reward and she, too, could have the bright eye effect.

Without having to tolerate foreign objects in her eyes or the feeling of dryness or tiredness!

Perfect~

Gu Shishi has a good eye for artistic beauty. She was, naturally, very excited that she would be able to make herself prettier.

Plus, all of the halos from the system provided effects that were noticeable to the naked eyes. The effects were even more prominent in the eyes of an artist!

[The reward will be available when hours accumulated in the marketplace exceeds 500. (50/500).]

Gu Shishi, who valued her life very much, finally crushed that egg in her hand with a loud "CRACK".

That's terrible! The expenditure was mandatory by the system!

500 hours! That was the equivalent of 20 days of life!

[You need to think about it this way. That little bit of life will buy you permanent beauty effects.]

[Host, you know how many women would kill for an opportunity like that? Per survey studies, 99.9% of women are willing to trade a month's worth of life to enhance on their looks!]

Gu Shishi rolled her eyes. "Well... let me live till a woman's average age first! Then we'll talk!"

[Host. Keep working at it. You can conceivably live till tens and thousands of years.]

"......"

Gu Shishi lifted up the cleaver with her left hand and slammed it down on top of the cutting board!

Tens of thousands of years... The boss wouldn't even live that long! How was he going to be able to send her gifts after he dies?

The dang system was just taking her for a fool!

[He will have sons, and his sons will have sons... so on and so forth. It's not entirely impossible.]

[Plus, have you calculated the daily interest on $10 billion USD?]

Gu Shishi's mouth dropped open.

The boss's sons? Who's their mother?

Her...?

And, this interest.... Psst....

She immediately put down her cleaver and opened up the calculator app.

Ten billion dollars USD. Even at 1% interest, she will have $10 million USD in interest a year?

One thousand yuan would allow her to live another day...

$10 million USD... that's 10,000 days...

Parvenue riches were scary!

She lowered her head and quietly put away her cellphone and quietly finished pan drying the eggs and placed them inside of a sandwich.

She added some lettuce and bacon before she applied a thick layer of mayo, sliced it down the middle and put toothpicks through them.

Biting down on her lips, she then shamelessly drew a big heart with the sauce....

Love boss. Must be healthy!

***

Huo Sishen was woken up by his biological clock. He worried that he woke up too early and that breakfast was not ready yet.

So he planned on going for a jog first then spent a couple of hours going through some of the documents. He would give her till 9 AM.

Yet, he caught sight of the girl before 7 AM.

He raised his brows in surprise. She had never showed up in the kitchen before 7:15 AM before.

Did she get up early for a change for him?

Huo Sishen stood at the entrance from afar and felt that he was washed over by a feeling of warmth. Sweat from his morning job dripped from his bangs, and he didn't even bother to wipe them away.

How long has it been...

Nobody had tried to do anything nice for him behind that glass kitchen door. There had only been hired chefs making the same meals over and over again.

Yet, right now, she was standing in the kitchen in her pink rabbit fur slippers wearing the black apron that was one size too large for her with a very loose knot tied behind her.

The apron that was a little too long fell all the way to her knees and her very pale and slender calves were exposed...

They were like white fat with no foreign materials inside of it. He couldn't help but squinted as he looked at her. Black looked very good on her.

Her skin was like a fancy piece of white jade, clear and translucent. It was best stored in black, velvet cloth.

She was too pale, so much that he wanted to wrap her entire body up in black...

Huo Sishen's lips were shut tight and even his entire chin was tightened. It took a long time before he moved his cold eyes away from her face.

Chapter 159

The dang system was just taking her for a fool! (2)

As he was watching her, he noticed that while she was preparing breakfast, she frowned a little, then smiled a little. After she fished out her cellphone, she mumbled something... and finally pulled up the calculator. It looked like she had punched a series of numbers inside of it...

Huo Sishen raised his brows.

Whatever was she doing?

Judging from what he was seeing, he was to have a sandwich for breakfast today.

Was it that complicated? Was she calculating his calories with the calculator?

Huo Sishen squinted, and his thin lips stuck out a little.

Okay, not too bad.

Even if the taste wasn't all that, but at least her attitude was worthy of praise.

He turned around and walked upstairs to take a shower. He changed and walked back downstairs for his breakfast after he was all cleaned.

Gu Shishi was no longer in the kitchen.

He saw the smiley face drawn on the plate with mustard, and his lips twitched a little.

His cellphone that was sitting on the table vibrated immediately.

A message popped up.

[Mr. Huo, I have left your breakfast on the table, okay~ I poured you some orange juice. Have a good day at work today!]

[Please rate my service after the beep. Please give me a 10 rating if you are very pleased with my service.]

[BEEP~~~]

Huo Sishen, his hand on his forehead, let out a loud chuckle all the way from his chest.

Siyi, who was walking from the kitchen to report to him, "...... ? ! !"

Was the boss laughing? Out loud?!

***

It was only 7 AM when Gu Shishi finished preparing breakfast.

She yawned and had planned to go back to the bedroom for some more sleep.

As she walked past the little garden, she happened to run into Butler Lin who was directing the workers to bring inside gifts for mid-autumn festival.

What Gu Shishi cared about the most right now were... gifts!

She was wide awake all of a sudden.

She walked over to Butler Lin and asked weakly while blushing what the gifts were... and most importantly, would she receive any of them.

As much as Butler Lin had been an elite butler for many years, he was stumped by that question.

"Miss Gu, these are gifts prepared for the employees at the mansion as part of their employee benefit."

He looked perturbed. He made his purchase based on the number of employees at the mansion and did have a couple extras. But he never heard of the mistress of the house wanting to be included in employee benefits before!

"Eh? You mean I don't get one?"

Gu Shishi got Butler Lin's meaning right away. She was stunned all of a sudden.