Dating sim loading: My girlfriend is a cunning young lady Chapter 12 - 10. Decide to be a handsome guy in Tokyo

The month-end exams had finished, and a so-called "Golden Week" of holidays had begun, spanning from April 29 to May 5.

Dubian Che arrived in Tokyo during the cherry blossom peak, but in the blink of an eye, the cherry blossoms had withered, and the trees were now lush with green leaves. A month had passed.

It must have been rice-planting season back ho.

Each year during this season, Dubian Che's parents in this life would head out to plant rice at four in the morning, returning only at noon for a short rest, spending the entire day in the fields.

As a child, since he was bright, his parents doted on him. Even when he wanted to help, they would insist that he either stay ho to read or go out to play. Once he was a bit older and the village acquired a rice planting machine, his own physical strength declined, not even allowing him to help weed.

He couldn't bend over for long periods of ti, the sharp weeds would easily cut through his skin, and leeches greedily sucked his blood, while horseflies buzzed annoyingly above his head.

"I guess I could still manage to plant potatoes."

The more he thought about it, the more he felt useless apart from being studious, and Dubian Che made an excuse for himself.

Although planting potatoes only required cutting them, digging the holes, burying them, and then covering them with dead leaves collected from the mountain.

Before the holidays began, Dubian Che had phoned ho, agreeing to stay in Tokyo for a part-ti job during the Golden Week and return only during the sumr vacation.

Dressed in casual clothes, Dubian Che took the train to Shinjuku and found the Walg Clothing Store where he was supposed to work.

"Are you Dubian Che? Your job is to stand at the crossroads up front and hold an advertising sign. You can rest briefly if you're tired, but not for too long, understood?"

"Understood."

The crossroads where Walg Clothing Store was located served as an entrance to the Shinjuku bar street. Standing there, he could observe almost every woman entering and leaving.

But holding an advertising sign for several hours...

Originally, Dubian Che had wanted to find a job doing traffic volu surveys—sitting there, counting pedestrians and vehicles with a counter. Unfortunately, the world wasn't that convenient.

There were part-ti jobs for traffic surveys, but not at this crossroads.

If he didn't work, a high school student lingering near the red-light district would definitely find himself questioned by the police.

Besides, looking for soone while working would also make him money. He had just over four thousand yen left.

This kind of physical labor paid much better than a regular store employee.

Although he had credits that could be exchanged for a considerable amount of money, he wanted to save them to exchange for intelligence, physical strength, and charm. Besides, there were still two days left until May, and maybe so desirable skills would appear by then.

Dubian Che stood at the bustling intersection holding the advertising sign. Besides him, there were people dressed in mascot costus distributing flyers, all doing similar work.

With so many people coming and going, using the "detector" on every passing woman was not practical.

The ones who were not young wouldn't do, nor the ones who weren't pretty, or were not single, or whose dress and appearance were too conservative.

"Hey, handso, want to join for a coffee?"

"Eh~~? Xinghui, this young guy is clearly a high school student!"

"As long as he's handso, it's fine. Maybe he's still a virgin~~!"

Dubian Che looked at the woman who was flirting with him, her shirt daringly open revealing her seductive collarbone, looking fairly beautiful.

[Person: Heitian Xinghui]

[Charm: 5]

[pass]

"Sorry, I'm working right now. If you need to buy clothes, please visit Walg."

After saying this, Dubian Che bowed and walked away.

Fooling him with makeup tricks!

According to his estimate, her charm should have been at least six points!

The woman nad Heitian Xinghui still wanted to follow him but was pulled away by a companion yelling, 'There are police here'.

A female university student dressed as a maid distributing flyers laughed, "You really are popular."

"I just want to work quietly," Dubian Che said with a bitter smile.

This female university student was the sa, ever since they first t, she had been constantly looking for an opportunity to chat with him.

Is sister-brother romance popular in Tokyo? Or is it just that being handso is enough?

Growing up in a remote village with only five staff and students in the entire school, ranging in age from first grade to third-year junior high, Dubian Che had never been so popular.

But after arriving in Tokyo, he was bombarded with love letters and flirtations.

Suddenly, he rembered a line from a forr life's Shinkai movie "Your Na":

"In my next life, please let be a handso guy in Tokyo."

Maybe the life of a handso Tokyo guy was just like this? Was he just making a big deal out of nothing?

He needed to adjust to his new identity properly.

Standing there, his legs were sore and his arms could barely be raised. After using the "detector" three tis, Dubian Che hadn't found a single target.

He had tried to pick the most attractive won to use the "detector" on. Apart from Heitian Xinghui who had flirted with him earlier scoring five points in charm, the other two scored six and seven points, respectively, but all showed [pass].

He didn't know whether charm needed to reach eight points or whether there were other hidden conditions that needed to be t apart from charm.

After returning the advertising sign to the store and receiving his wages for the day, normally one wouldn't be paid daily, but temp work during the Golden Week was an exception.

After working for four hours, he earned a total of 5200 yen.

With an hourly wage of 1300 yen, it was quite high, but the job was also labor-intensive.

Dubian Che felt that if he continued with this job, advancing his physical strength to 4 points, even 5, was just a matter of ti.

However, he was still too naive and had underestimated society.

The won in society—especially those going to the bars in Shinjuku—had remarkable makeup skills, and their perceived beauty tended to be much higher than their natural looks.

With his inability to discern whether a woman was wearing makeup, looking for a match here was simply a waste of points and ti.

School was better, formally prohibiting makeup. Even the most beauty-conscious female students would only dare to apply light makeup and brighten their hair a bit.

That won above high school age should all be [pass]—deeply aware that won, once they graduated from high school, underwent a change as radical as a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly, Dubian Che made his resolution.

The 1000 credits spent on the "detector", plus the money spent on dinner—a bento, as his lunch was provided by the clothing store—ended up costing him over nine thousand yen more than he gained.

Thus, during the remaining six days of the Golden Week, apart from a trip to Akihabara with Kunii Shuichi and Saito Keisuke, Dubian Che spent his ti working and studying, no longer wasting points in Shinjuku Kabuki.

During the early hours of May 1, the ga store updated.

[Items: Detector (1/1000), Healing dicine (1/1000)]

[Money: 100 yen/1 credit]

[Intelligence: 1 point/100,000 credits]

[Charm: 1 point/10,000 credits]

[Physical Strength: 1 point/5000 credits]

[Skills: Entry-level—Flower Arranging (100), Master—Cooking (1000), Expert—Driving (10,000), Grandmaster—Free Fighting (100,000)]

Dubian Che carefully studied the newly added [Healing dicine]—true to its na, it could only heal injuries, not cure diseases.

But it wasn't too bad, as long as one didn't die imdiately, and there were also points, one could survive.

The first appendix said, "Player death is in no way related to this ga, and there is no obligation to revive," always giving him the feeling that this was not just a simple love ga.

In any case, it's better safe than sorry.

Next up were this month's five skills, besides the repeated "Cooking" skill, the other four were all new.

Dubian Che was really interested in the Grandmaster level "Free Combat."

Isn't every man interested?

Even if one does not actively start fights, it's always better to be formidable in a fight than not. As the saying goes, a true gentleman keeps his weapons concealed, ready to not offend others unless offended, and then he must be able to demand their lives in retaliation.

There was also the Master level "Cooking," according to the appendix, which was enough to cook a al to perfection; he could also say goodbye to convenience store bentos.

The leftovers could be taken to school for lunch, saving a bit of money.

Wait, wait, wait!

Rather than saving money, it was better to save points! What if there was an even better skill next ti? Like "Free Combat," and more "Free Combat."

He really wanted the Grandmaster level "Free Combat!"

He had enough reason to suspect: the ga was tempting him to beco a scumbag, striving to earn points!

On May 3rd, at 7 PM.

[Sign-in days: Yuzao Haoi・One week]

[Player receives sign-in gift pack]

[Money·100,000 yen]

[Charm Half-Price Voucher (Player's charm must be below 10 points, and can only exchange one point)]

Exchanging for one charm point cost 10,000 points, even at half price it was 5,000; he now only had 4,000 left and still needed to keep exchanging for a "detector."

Otherwise, he could exchange one point to continue improving himself on the "Tokyo Handso Guys" path.

May 6th, the first day back at school.

In the morning classes, whether teachers or students, there was a restless feeling as if they hadn't yet shaken off the holiday lifestyle.

By noon, the school bulletin board posted the monthly exam rankings.

"Shall we go have a look?" Saito Keisuke said to the other two.

"What's there to see in that!" Kunii Shuichi scoffed.

From the two's conversation, one could roughly estimate their usual rankings.

Saito Keisuke had the capacity to compete for the top twenty in the school, the number of students that Goda High School had previously sent to first-tier universities, while Kunii Shuichi's na needed to be searched from the bottom.

Dubian Che thought for a mont, "Let's wait for twenty minutes. It's too crowded now, can't get through."

Twenty minutes later into the lunch break, whether it be the cafeteria, bakery, or bulletin board, the crowded places would have thinned out.

"Okay." Saito Keisuke nodded in agreent, then took out his cellphone to share a ga app with the two.

Upon seeing it, Kunii Shuichi said, "Ahh, I've been playing this ga, I advise you not to fall into it!"

Curious, Saito Keisuke asked, "Why?"

"I suspect their advertisent is false! There are no SSRs in the draw pool!"

"It's just your bad luck," Dubian Che laughed.

"Nonsense! How could I possibly have bad luck!" Kunii Shuichi firmly believed it was the ga company's fault.

"By the way," Dubian Che recalled sothing from their family class, "Kunii, how are things going with Yamakuchi Naomi?"

A proud and shy smile spread across Kunii Shuichi's face, "Hehe, we've been chatting on LINE every day."

"You dog! Make sure to treat us!" Saito Keisuke hit him with a punch.

"What treat?"

"What, trying to weasel out? Didn't we agree? Whoever gets a girlfriend treats!"

"No problem, no problem!"

Dubian Che was very quiet at the ti; his thing with Yuzao Haoi... probably didn't count, right?

After chatting for a while, the three stood up to go to the first-floor bulletin board, where there were still three or four students gathered.

Dubian Che started reading from the very front.

"Rank: 1; Na: Kiyono Lin."

Well.

"Rank: 2; Na: Jiutiao ijie."

"..."

"Rank: 3; Na: Dubian Che."

That was a relief, he kept his original ranking.

After all that hard work, if he had dropped in rank, he truly would've had to pack his bags and go back ho, kneeling before his hard-working parents.

Saito Keisuke was impressed, "Amazing, Dubian! If you keep in the top five, you can get directly recomnded for Tokyo University in your senior year!"

"With this strength, I wouldn't need a recomndation," Dubian Che nonchalantly said.

Saito Keisuke nodded, "That's true too."

"What rank did you get?"

"Thought I did well, but ended up with rank thirty-one. I plan to discuss with my parents about enrolling in a cram school."

"Starting a cram school in freshman year?"

"Fall behind once, fall behind every step, Mr. Xiaoquan also said: 'The start is very important.'"

Dubian Che nodded and looked towards the always silent Kunii Shuichi, "Kunii, how did you do?"

Kunii Shuichi looked dejected, "121st place."

With four classes in the freshman year, each with forty students, being 121st was quite behind.

Dubian Che patted his shoulder, "Don't give up, we three didn't do well this ti, let's work hard together to improve in the next exams."

"You did well and you're still not satisfied?!" Kunii Shuichi angrily looked at Dubian Che, his loud voice attracting passersby.

"Kunii, during Golden Week I realized sothing."

"Humans have limits, are you planning not to be human?"

Dubian Che shook his head solemnly, "As a Tokyo handso guy, even if I can't be number one in grades, I must keep improving, that's how to be charming."

"Get lost!"