Lu Mingfei, why are you slaying dragons if you're not involved!

Chapter 240 Devoted to Love
Nono: [?]

Lu Mingfei: [How should I appease a girl if I accidentally made her angry?]

"Do you need to ask me?" Nono replied.

“Of course… wait, what does ‘still need’ mean? I sense deep malice and misunderstanding from this wording!” Lu Mingfei’s fingers flew across the keyboard. He didn’t have much time, so he could only try to speed up each step.

"Let's look at this from a different angle. First, suppose you are a billionaire..."

"This hypothesis is so far-fetched that I can hardly imagine it."

"Shut up! The point of this assumption is that you're a billionaire and you're specifically asking me, a poor person, how to make money!"

"Is it that exaggerated?"

"Please, have some self-awareness, okay? It's rare to see someone so successful who doesn't even realize it. Maintaining ambiguous relationships with three girls at the same time, all of whom are aware of each other's existence, and you still manage to keep things under control..."

With abilities at this level, you still ask me something so simple? I'd even call you a "master of balancing acts" without a problem—you're an absolute scumbag! You've probably honed your skills through numerous secret relationships in the past, haven't you?"

"Senior sister, you've misunderstood. Who has ever looked at me before? This is the first time..."

"That's a born scumbag!"

"Putting aside the scumbag boyfriend for now, what should we do, senior sister?"

With time running out, Lu Mingfei had no choice but to reluctantly accept this label, which he felt was completely unworthy of him. In his view, a scumbag was someone who neither took initiative nor refused, was irresponsible, and was also a womanizer... But he himself was quite manly in terms of initiative and responsibility, and he would never stoop to that level.

"Okay, since you asked the question sincerely..."

Lu Mingfei waited for a while, until he had wasted another electric shock warning opportunity, before he finally couldn't help but send three question marks.

"???"

"It's nothing, I just dealt with a little bug... Where were we? Oh right, what should we do? First of all, you're right about one thing: all girls need to be coaxed! Secondly, you must understand the characteristics of each girl. Finally, you need to create happiness for them based on their characteristics!"

"Happiness?" Lu Mingfei was taken aback.

"For example, let's take you as an example. If you were a girl, what would be the happiest moment for you?"

"Sleeping eight hours a day..."

"I'm not talking about now, I'm talking about the past! You weren't this twisted before!"

"Back then, let me think."

For a moment, Lu Mingfei felt as if he had been transported to another world, and it took him a great deal of effort to find his past thoughts from his long but empty memories.

"They probably have an endless amount of pocket money to spend on internet access, right?"

"That kind of happiness is too simple."

"This thing comes in simple and complex versions?"

"Of course, simple happiness is easy to get used to and easy to forget. For example, if you suddenly had a thousand dollars of pocket money every day, you would be overjoyed for the first day, the second day, and even for the next week or month. But what if it lasts longer?"

You'll eventually get used to it and think it's nothing special. Then you'll find it hard to recall the happiness you felt when you first encountered it. Habits become second nature, and people don't find happiness in ordinary things.

But complicated situations are different. To give another example, let's say you used to have a crush on a girl named Chen Wenwen. I read in your profile that you were once deeply in love with her.

"It's a crush..." Lu Mingfei weakly corrected.

As for where Nono got the information she mentioned, there's no need to ask. It would be strange if it wasn't Fingel; that guy, known as the "King of Paparazzi," is absolutely a top professional when it comes to this kind of thing.

"It takes skill to have a crush so that the whole school knows about it... That's not important. Anyway, back then you probably didn't have any feelings for either Su Xiaoqiang or Liu Miaomiao in your class, right?"

"I'm starting to regret letting Fingel go. Maybe we should find a chance to silence him? Just how much did he collect from that damned data?" Lu Mingfei said indignantly.

"You don't really think that all of Fingel's information is genuine, do you? A lot of it is just something he made up by taking rumors from various gossip posts, adding some changes and speculations. Otherwise, why would I need to confirm it with you again?"
Getting back to the point, back then you were Chen Wenwen's top lieutenant, loyal and devoted. You would do anything without hesitation if she asked, and if she needed you, you probably would have put a leash on yourself and run after her like a dog, right? "I shouldn't be that pathetic, right? That would be too cheap. I should at least play hard to get..." Lu Mingfei found that he couldn't even empathize with his past self.

"Let's not worry about how loyal you were back then. Let's just say, just say, one day you suddenly have a burst of courage and decide to confess and turn your 'crush' into a real crush. You're going to confess to Chen Wenwen! But just as you're about to confess, another boy confesses to Chen Wenwen and she accepts."

"The development of this so-called youth-themed literature is just too tragic," Lu Mingfei commented, completely unfazed.

"But just when you're at your lowest point, Su Xiaoqiang or Liu Miaomiao... let's say Su Xiaoqiang, I feel like she's the type to do something like that. She suddenly picks you up in a Ferrari, dressed in a full Dior women's suit in public, with her stunning beauty and a commanding presence, and says to you, 'Mr. Lu, is the farce over? We should go to heaven now!' What would you think?"

"Why go to heaven?"

"Because I think this scene is like an angel descending, which sounds really cool."

"That's really cool!"

"So even if you didn't have feelings for Su Xiaoqiang before, you would fall in love with her immediately, right?"

"I'm head over heels in love!"

"This is the greatest feeling of happiness! If something like this really happened, I'm afraid no one would ever forget it. So, what are your thoughts after I've said that?"

"Senior sister, you type so fast..."

"Are you serious?"

"Okay, I think I get it. Basically, it's about happiness, right? Based on different personalities and levels of anger, different levels and types of happiness are provided to compensate!"

"..."

"What's wrong, senior sister? Did I make a mistake in my summary?"

"No, you really understand?"

"Thank you, senior sister! Goodnight, senior sister!"

"Hey, hey, don't rush me. I have other things to do after you're done. Chu Zihang sent a really strange message to Su Qian..."

Nono sent a message but didn't receive a reply for a long time. Realizing something might have happened, she was completely bewildered.

Is she... asleep?
Use it and then throw it away?!

Lu Mingfei was, of course, unaware of these matters, at least not yet. The brief exchange had already exhausted all his warning opportunities; any further and he would be electrocuted again. Besides, he was already quite tired. After saying goodnight, he put down his phone and fell asleep almost as soon as his head hit the pillow.

……

"That's it?"

Zhao Menghua looked down at the item in front of him, "A... cassette tape?"

The text message displayed on my phone read: "[For tomorrow night's piano concert, insert the cassette tape into the sound system and play it.]"

The content is simple, and the tasks are not difficult.

But why would that mysterious being pay such a high price to do something so simple?
Zhao Menghua shivered inexplicably and felt a sudden urge to back down. He already knew that Lu Mingfei had been picked up by helicopter in public, and although he didn't know why, he had to admit that the guy seemed to have become someone he couldn't afford to offend.

Or... should we just forget about it?
He subconsciously looked down at his phone, but the empty message board made him tense up and reaffirm his resolve.

Now that things had come to this, there was no time for him to back out. The mysterious entity behind it possessed abilities far beyond his imagination, and he couldn't even comprehend how it had done it.

"With such amazing methods, success is definitely assured..."

Zhao Menghua muttered to himself, his low voice echoing in the bedroom.

"everything will get better!"

(End of this chapter)