It's just The Sims, how did it become my ideal love story?

Chapter 97 Not a Man? (Seeking Votes!)
"Are you sure you won't be putting too much pressure on yourself?"

When Lin Jiang came out of the music room, she was still a little worried.

Gu Huai shook his head. "What's so difficult about it? Anyway, we can come out after the exam. In fact, it might be more flexible than the class schedule."

Hearing Gu Huai say that, Lin Jiang felt much relieved. "I wish I could have grades as good as Brother Gu Huai."

This is the first time anyone has ever envied my achievements.

Gu Huai chuckled to himself.

"I'm tutoring you, aren't I? Don't rush, take your time. Do you know when people are happiest?"

Lin Jiang thought for a moment, "Is it a time of freedom, achieving all success, and having no worries?"

Gu Huai shook his head. "It's when you've been in a trough for a long time, and then one day you finally feel that things are getting better day by day, that you are improving day by day, and that those changes are visible to the naked eye."

Gu Huai thought that perhaps one day, with the help of the simulation system, he could finally be like those male protagonists in rebirth novels, full of vigor, above all others, and achieving great success. But he figured it probably wouldn't be as happy as it was now, a life where he had something to look forward to every day.

Just like a game, the process of growing up is always the most immersive and enjoyable part.

On the contrary, once you have everything, the process of repeatedly refreshing the page becomes rather dull.

"I understand, I will try my best."

Lin Jiang nodded vigorously.

"Great, but don't put too much pressure on yourself. Let's go eat now, we still have some time."

Fortunately, the only advantage of winter time is that school ends earlier in the afternoon. Although it looks like it's almost dark now, it's still enough time to have dinner.

"Hey? Time to eat?"

"Otherwise what? You're practicing the piano so much you don't even need to eat?"

Actually, I've been thinking about losing weight lately.

"You're still dieting?" Gu Huai glanced deeply at Lin Jiang, whose face was slightly flushed beside him. "Are you trying to lose weight until you're ashes?"

"No way!!"

Lin Jiang gritted her teeth in anger, but the force was less than a kitten's hiss.

Gu Huai said with a laugh, "She's short too, and she's trying to lose weight. If she goes downstairs, she'll probably be squeezed into a meat patty."

"I'll grow taller!"

She said angrily.

Am I really that short? I do seem a bit short next to Brother Gu Huai. So I definitely can't look fat!

This time, Gu Huai didn't refute, but nodded in deep agreement, "Indeed, it's good to eat more at this time. Come on, I'm getting hungry if you don't eat. Why don't you watch me eat? I eat especially well when someone is watching me."

Actually, she's someone who's completely unaccustomed to being the center of attention, but she's just saying that on purpose.

Lin Jiang snorted, "Brother Gu Huai can be quite annoying sometimes."

"So most of the time you're just likable?"

"I...I didn't say that!"

"Hahahahaha."

The setting sun had indeed disappeared, replaced by dark clouds. But the girl's face was like a brand new sunrise.

He found a steamed dish restaurant near the school. Since it was this time of day, most of the students had already finished eating, so there weren't many students inside. Although there wasn't much food left, Gu Huai still picked out quite a lot.

"You ate so much?"

Lin Jiang stared in astonishment at Gu Huai, who was carrying a plate over.

Gu Huai looked at it and then said, "This is just enough for one person. Aren't you going to get yours?"

"what?"

"Hahaha, just kidding, I'm not a pig."

Gu Huai smiled and handed the chopsticks to the other person.

Lin Jiang, blushing from being teased again, glared at the boy without much force.

"Brother Gu Huai likes to joke around so much?"

"No, it's just that I seem to really enjoy joking with you."

"why?"

Because I am special?

Her watery eyes seemed to be fixed on the rice bowl, but she was actually secretly glancing at Gu Huai out of the corner of her eye.

"Maybe it's because you look so pitiful that you seem especially easy to bully."

"How can you say that? If you feel sorry for me, shouldn't you feel sorry for me?"

Lin Jiang hummed and whined.

Gu Huai thought to himself, "You don't know how you'll joke with me in the future, do you? Who really deserves more heartache?"
However, he couldn't say that out loud; he just smiled.

"It's not a good thing to make others feel sorry for you, because the things that come from feeling sorry for you are likely to slip away easily. So what you get yourself is the most secure."

Gaining sympathy is pointless; the emotions it evokes are fake. So, do I need to become a better person to earn it?
The girl poked at the rice in her bowl. She looked up at Gu Huai and nodded forcefully.

"Yeah, I remember."

"Okay, don't take my words too seriously. I was just saying things offhand, and they're all unverified."

"No, I think what Brother Gu Huai said makes a lot of sense, and for some reason, it feels different from the big principles that my parents often tell me."

Are they different?

What difference could there be? When he talks about these things, he just sounds like a middle-aged man with a strong fatherly attitude.
She answered with certainty, "Yes, because I can understand what my parents say, but I just can't absorb it, and it's very difficult and tiring for me to try. But what you say always motivates me."

Is it because of your persuasion skills, that passive ability? Or is it because Lin Jiang is the kind of person who is easily influenced, so the effect is obvious? The main thing is that you need to persuade in the right direction, otherwise it's hard to say whether it's motivation or pressure.

He replied with a smile, "Maybe it's because we're the same age, so what I said might make you more likely to believe and empathize with me."

"I think it's not just because of that."

Lin Jiang blinked, completely forgetting that she still had the chopsticks in her mouth; she probably didn't even realize it herself. But looking at those pink lips with the chopsticks in them, Gu Huai inexplicably felt that the scene was incredibly alluring.

There are clues to why Lin Jiang was able to become the Lin Jiang she became later.

"What's that for?"

Gu Huai held his breath and concentrated, not wanting to think too much. It was true that the numbers were expanding, and people were becoming more and more depraved. Men with money become bad, and those with high numbers become even worse!
Lin Jiang faced the boy directly with her bright, rosy face. She bit her chopsticks and then spoke softly.

"Maybe it's because you're a really good person that people trust you so much?"

Is he a good person?
Gu Huai couldn't help but laugh, "You're the really good person."

The girl was caught off guard by the response. Her cheeks flushed red as she lowered her head and began to mash the rice in her bowl as if in revenge, muttering to herself.

"Brother Gu Huai is joking around again. Waaah."

"Hahaha, eat some meat, don't just eat rice. Are you a rice immortal?"

"Meat is too oily and will make you fat."

"How will you grow tall if you don't eat meat? You little one."

"I'm not a little one!!"

"Okay, little pudding."

"That's the name of the popsicle!"

After finishing his meal with the girl, Gu Huai got up to pay the bill, but Lin Jiang took out her phone to scan the code first. It was clear that she had been preparing for this for a long time, not giving him a chance to snatch it.

"Why did you pay the bill? You didn't even eat much."

Lin Jiang replied with rosy cheeks, "Because Brother Gu Huai has been helping me a lot lately, and I haven't been able to repay him in any way, so I can only treat him to a meal."

Gu Huai thought for a moment, then said inexplicably, "You really like treating people to meals."

After all, even their later reunion was paid for by her.

Lin Jiang winked cutely at the boy, "No, my mother always tells me not to spend money on men, it's not worth it."

"Then why did you treat me to a meal?"

The boy's questioning gaze made Lin Jiang's cheeks flush even more. Just as she was thinking about how to answer his question, how to subtly express that he was different from her, not an ordinary man, nor an unworthy man.

Then I saw Gu Huai's tightly furrowed brows.

"Am I not a man?"

"."

God's.

Lin Jiang rolled her eyes more brightly than the rising moon.

"Alright, go to class now."

As they walked to their respective floors in the hallway, Gu Huai said with a smile.

Lin Jiang nodded vigorously, "Yes, thank you, Brother Gu Huai."

"You're welcome, it's nothing."

"Nothing is ever a given, especially something this troublesome. I'm off now, bye-bye~"

"OK, all right."

The boy, with his hands in his pockets, thought as he walked up the stairs.

There is indeed nothing in this world that is obligatory. Just like I don't understand why, after so long, she would take the initiative to appear in my life and bring me that rare yet dazzling light.

However, if there's no clue, then let nature take its course.

It also makes it something that should be done.

It doesn't matter what kind of Gu Huai she becomes, but she will definitely become that Lin Jiang.

This simulation is about to end!

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(End of this chapter)