I'm in high school, is my dating system working correctly?

Sleepy.

No way, offering companionship services is really a way to shorten one's lifespan.

[Yesterday's goal of quitting addictive substances has been achieved]

[Current duration: 5 days]

What woke Lu Yu was not an alarm clock, but a system check-in reminder.

Last night, I chatted with Cheng Bailu about the songs we listened to after school. As we talked, the conversation drifted to English, and then Cheng Bailu asked if Lu Yu had finished his homework.

Alright, I'll transform into a mom and go urge Lu Yu to do his homework.

Then Lu Yu struggled with English until late at night, thinking that since he had accepted Zhou Qianyun's chat fee, he should reciprocate.

Fortunately, there was a lot of science homework yesterday, even for students in the top classes.

After midnight, Lu Yu harassed Zhou Qianyun on QQ, only to receive a reply of "Get lost, don't bother me while I'm doing my homework."

They didn't even have time to scold Lu Yu.

In the typical Chinese campus youth, a ray of sunshine is barely glimpsed amidst homework and exams.

Anyway, Lu Yu has completed his daily check-in.

The cotton mill station had arrived, but the bus hadn't pulled into the station yet. Lu Yu, who was yawning, saw a girl in a school uniform waiting on the platform.

"Good morning."

With a plastic bag in her hand containing a sticky rice chicken wrapped in lotus leaves, Cheng Bailu put down her schoolbag and sat down next to Lu Yu.

"Good morning... haha—"

Yawning again, Lu Yu took the glutinous rice chicken that Cheng Bailu handed him as a matter of course, and casually opened the paper bag on his schoolbag.

Inside, several soft, steamed rice cakes were packaged in plastic bags.

"Here, eat it while it's hot."

Lu Yu stuffed one of the bags into the girl's hand and then unwrapped the lotus leaf wrapping the glutinous rice chicken.

Looking at the two steaming rice cakes in her hands, each emitting a faint fragrance, Cheng Bailu thought of the "chatting fee" Lu Yu had mentioned last night. Understanding the young man's intentions, her heart began to beat a little faster.

She pursed her lips and said earnestly.

"You can't eat in the car."

"It's okay, I eat fast. Wow, it's delicious!"

As he spoke, Lu Yu had already stuffed half of the glutinous rice chicken into his mouth.

The girl next to me stared at the steamed rice cake in her hand for a long time, and after some hesitation, she carefully covered it up and didn't open it.

"I ran into Uncle He this morning. He said that both of them have been caught and that they were indeed wanted criminals."

Seeing Lu Yu and his two companions devour the glutinous rice chicken, Cheng Bailu started a conversation.

"Then the bonus will be approved today, and we just need to go to the police station after school."

This means that the two of them will go home together today, get off at the same stop, and walk the same route together.

"Yay!"

Lu Yu crumpled the lotus leaf and the plastic bag into a ball and held it in his hand.

The bonus should be that 1,500.

Tomorrow there should be more training and rewards for checking in for seven days without using enhancement agents, and his little treasure trove is expanding rapidly.

These few hundred or a thousand dollars might be just a drop in the bucket for a homeless person truly on the verge of bankruptcy, barely enough to keep them afloat, but for a high school student like him, it's a huge sum of money.

"Yes, that's nice."

Cheng Bailu nodded slightly and glanced at his knees.

"Is your injury getting better?"

"It's fine now, just avoid strenuous exercise to prevent it from cracking again."

Hehehe, a young body is so useful.

Lu Yu, having finished eating, yawned again.

"Did you stay up late last night? Did you finish your English homework?"

The girl asked, worried that chatting with her was delaying Lu Yu's homework time.

"I barely finished writing it. English is truly my lifelong enemy. When will the whole world speak Chinese?"

Lu Yu felt it was time to restore the glory of his Great Tang Dynasty.

Cheng Bailu was amused by his words, pressed her lips together, and said softly.

"Then you should get some sleep. I'll wake you up when we get close to the station."

"Granted."

Lu Yu was already extremely sleepy, and after being told this, he couldn't refuse. He immediately leaned against his backpack and squinted his eyes.

Cheng Bailu glanced at Lu Yu, who had fallen asleep immediately, for a few seconds before turning away with a smile and taking out her phone to memorize vocabulary words.

I was very efficient today; I had already reviewed ten words by the time we were almost at the station.

The last one is fascinate, v. meaning to be captivated, fascinated, or deeply attracted.

*

"Xiao Cheng is here."

At the Cotton Mill Street Police Station, Chen Danshen is on duty today. He is He Youwu's colleague, and the two of them are responsible for this area.

"Hello, Uncle Chen, this is Lu Yu."

Cheng Bailu introduced the boy next to her.

"Good job, young man. These two guys we caught this time provided a lot of clues. I believe that fraud gang will be completely brought to justice soon."

Chen Danshen looked Lu Yu over with satisfaction.

Although they were just local police officers, their assistance in solving this case was a great achievement, and it was all thanks to Lu Yu and his team.

"Come and sign this, I'll transfer the money to you directly."

Chen Danshen took out two award agreement documents, which confirmed that she herself had received the prize money and that someone else had impersonated her.

"Will we get the money so quickly?"

Lu Yu checked last night and found that the proper bonus had to go through a long process. He wondered if the system had intervened in the process to get it so quickly.

"Yes, I was also surprised. It was approved very quickly. You guys are probably just really lucky."

Chen Danshen expressed her agreement.

The two signed the papers, and Chen Danshen transferred the money to them directly.

A beep.

Each person received 1,500.

"Because they operate as a gang, the reward for arresting an individual is not much. However, if you have a lead on the ringleader, you can get a reward of 10,000 yuan."

Chen Danshen then went on and on explaining that the bonuses were actually paid for by their bureau itself. Compared to He Youwu, this police officer was even more talkative.

Finally, he added a word of advice, telling the two of them not to make a big fuss, to just say a few words to their families, and not to shout it out in public to avoid retaliation.

As they left the police station, Cheng Bailu and Lu Yu both checked their phones one last time.

This might be common for Lu Yu, who has a systematic approach, but for Cheng Bailu, it was a huge sum of money.

"One thousand and five..."

She looked around to make sure it wasn't her imagination.

"That's quite a lot, enough for two months of my living expenses."

Lu Yu remarked that Feng Jiahe had to take care of his own dinner while working the night shift, so he received a larger allowance each month.

This caught Cheng Bailu's attention. She pursed her lips and remained silent.

Her monthly living expenses budget is only a little over three hundred yuan.

I eat at home for breakfast and dinner, and at the school cafeteria for lunch. With a budget of 15 yuan per meal, I can eat two meat dishes and one vegetable dish, with an extra yuan to spare, which is enough.

If you don't want to eat in the cafeteria, you can order a set meal and take it to the courtyard to eat. It's quite cheap, but it might be awkward if you run into classmates.

If you really run out of money, just buy instant noodles.

However, Cheng Bailu is thrifty and has a slush fund of scholarships each semester and the principal's Olympiad prize money, so she is unlikely to fall to that point.

It wasn't that her mother was unwilling to give; it was just that this was enough for her.

Because I spent five yuan this morning buying glutinous rice chicken for Lu Yu, my lunch budget for today was only ten yuan, resulting in a deficit. I had to use my reserve fund and we ate one meat dish and one vegetable dish.

Of course, the bag of steamed rice cakes that Lu Yu gave her was delicious, and it would cost five or six yuan to buy, so Cheng Bailu wasn't hungry.

She felt a little uneasy after hearing about the difference in their living expenses.

Lu Yu's phone vibrated, and he thought it was his mother urging him to come home for dinner. But it turned out to be a transfer from Cheng Bailu, two hundred yuan.

"What are you doing?"

Confused, he looked up and saw the girl staring intently at him.

"You spent 278 yuan on your birthday, this is to pay you back."

This girl.

Looking at the transfer, Lu Yu knew that this wasn't about drawing a line, but about her dignity.

Unlike Lu Yu, who shamelessly mooches off rich women, Cheng Bailu is not someone who can accept others' "charity" with a clear conscience.

Even this 1,500.

For him, it was just a gift from fate brought to him by the system's operation. He would receive a few hundred yuan tomorrow, and even a cashback of ten thousand yuan a month later.

But for her, that should already be a considerable income.

Even so, she immediately took out two hundred of it to repay the "debt" that Lu Yu had never cared about.

For some reason, Lu Yu thought of Zhou Qianyun and the first time he rode in her Mercedes. At that time, although he was stubborn, he was still very careful and worried about damaging such an expensive car.

It wasn't until Zhou Qianyun poked his waist and they wrestled in the car that Lu Yu stopped caring.

People tend to treat others in ways that they perceive as acts of kindness.

At this moment, just as at that moment.

Lu Yu placed his finger on the transfer account and then withdrew it.

"How could you...?"

Cheng Bailu frowned, about to speak, when Lu Yu shook his phone.

"This money was spent on your birthday celebration, and it also included the emotional value I provided. Giving me back the money alone isn't enough."

He chuckled softly.

"you mean......"

The girl was naive.

The sound of flapping wings came from afar, and in the twilight glimpsed from the buildings bathed in the glow of sunset, bird trails defined the sky.

"My birthday is July 7th. You need to use this money to prepare a nice birthday present for me."

He was both flippant and serious; it was hard to tell how much of it was a joke and how much was the truth.

Cheng Bailu looked at Lu Yu, blinked several times, and then lowered her eyes as if to avoid him.

"...Okay, then you wait for me."

*

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