Love, Gun, Cupid

The pay-to-win female pig possessed two types of magic, but was powerless against someone who suddenly appeared in front of her. She had no choice but to let the uninvited guest in. Seeing the first thing the uninvited guest did upon entering was to unscrew the cap and drink water, she exclaimed in surprise, "Water-drinking bro?"

"It's me." The man nodded.

The pay-to-win female pig asked nervously, "You're disguised... Why did you find me? This isn't the rule. We're just temporary teammates who got together. You shouldn't have dug up my identity like this."

Drinking Water Guy shrugged: "I'm really sorry, this mission is just a small matter of earning extra money for you guys, but it's a matter of life and death for me."

To save their own lives, people will resort to all sorts of self-preservation tactics, intentionally or unintentionally subverting the rules. You can understand that feeling, right?

He smiled at the pay-to-win pig, a charming smile, but the sudden concentration of magic made the girl very nervous.

The pay-to-win sow didn't know what this mission had to do with Drinking Water Bro's life, but she knew that he would do anything to save his own.

So, she and Brother Drinking Water exchanged usernames to establish initial trust, and Brother Drinking Water immediately asked her to search for their target, namely the specific details of that red dragon offspring.

Drinking Water Bro didn't completely force the pay-to-win pig. After meeting his temporary teammates for the first time through mind magic, he received an anonymous intelligence report that indicated the pay-to-win pig's location and the two types of magic she possessed.

What he most wanted to find was a high-spending female spy in charge of intelligence. If the teammate responsible for intelligence was reliable during a mission, then even if the mission failed, he could escape unscathed.

So after making all sorts of preparations, he came to investigate, and the result was good. The pay-to-win sow, unsure of how he found her, wisely chose to cooperate with him.

While "Brother Drinking Water" was using the coattails of someone else to intimidate him, he was also wondering who the anonymous person who told him the location of the pay-to-win pig was.

As for his initial method of controlling the pay-to-win girl, it was simply money. Before arriving, he inquired with the property management about her exorbitant electricity bills, and upon entering, he estimated the girl's spending on electronic devices and her bottomless pit of spending on pay-to-win games…

He concluded that although the gold-digging sow was diligent in taking on jobs and earned a lot of money, she was a spendthrift woman who spent money as fast as she earned it, so her hunger for money was never satisfied.

Intelligence gathering is within the scope of the "pay-to-win" sow's business. Using first-level magic, and employing principles that Drinking Water Bro couldn't comprehend, she brazenly entered the Imperial Census Database and began searching.

Soon, she learned that the red dragon cub named Jasmine lived on the 17th floor of Unit 2, Building 17 in the Jiahe residential complex. She informed Brother Drinking Water, and they teamed up to go to the scene.

One of them used mind magic to capture the residents of the neighborhood, while the other used possession magic to observe and monitor Jasmine's movements, and incidentally, to monitor the movements of Lin Jiade, who was involved with Jasmine.

The surveillance was going smoothly until that red dragon offspring named Jasmine was a disgrace to the red dragons. She was so weak that Drinking Water Bro thought the employer was just having fun with them, the mercenaries.

The tall boy talking to the red dragon's offspring was just a level four magic apprentice who had just started learning magic; even a pay-to-win sow who wasn't good at fighting could kill him.

Brother Drinking Water now understands why his employer assigned him such incompetent teammates. The target was pitifully weak, and as long as the person in charge had the necessary qualities, the other assistants could be thrown together haphazardly.

However, the mysterious woman living with the tall guy aroused the suspicion of both Drinking Water Bro and Pay-to-Win Sow. Pay-to-Win Sow searched through all the files but couldn't find any information about the woman.

Drinking Water Guy may look down on his teammates, but he is a well-mannered mercenary who never betrays his employer or stabs his comrades in the back.

He could have risked his companion's life to test the mysterious woman's abilities, but his habit killed the idea, and he shared what he had learned with the other three.

The time when Lin Jiade went to the supermarket to shop was the same time that Brother Drinking Water and his team of rotten fish and shrimp gathered.

Five people, five identities, and five different methods, directly observed the young man. Since they weren't sure about Du Juan's strength, they decided to start with Lin Jiade, his obvious weakness.

The five conclusions were strikingly similar: this is indeed a weakness. While the physical abilities of an ordinary person might be acceptable, it is too inexperienced for a magic researcher, and it would make no difference to anyone else.

Of Jasmine's two potential allies, only Azalea's strength needs further confirmation. As it turns out, Dujuan once again seemed to have detected both "Water Drinker" and "Pay-to-Win Sow" in the same way.

They couldn't even determine how far the cuckoo had gone.

The "pay-to-win" sow unscrewed a bottle of soda and gulped it down. Soon after, her boyfriend called, and the two chatted on the phone for a long time. Meanwhile, the "drinking water guy" kept drinking glass after glass of water.

After the pay-to-win female pig finished her phone call, he said, "You actually... have a boyfriend?"

"What's with that surprised look on your face?"

The guy who drinks water bluntly asked, "Is your boyfriend from a well-off family? Doesn't he feel pressured by your extravagant spending?"

"You're really infuriating. We keep our own money. What, you suspect my boyfriend is a backup plan to betray you?"

That's exactly what Drinking Water Bro suspected. He used magic to observe the pay-to-win sow and shook his head slightly: "It's my fault. You go and keep your boyfriend company tomorrow. I'll call the Barbary Witch to take over."

The pay-to-win female pig said indifferently, "If she could still use necromancy, she would be a reliable teammate. But in Fuxing City where everyone is cremated, she's just a burden."

"Besides her level 3B necromancy, she also possesses a level 4 spell, which allowed her to escape even from the red dragon loli," the man explained.

That's right, Drinking Water Bro had the Pay-to-Win Sow investigate the backgrounds of the other three teammates. He wouldn't betray his teammates, but he also had to prevent himself from being betrayed by them.

He's drinking water constantly to suppress the curse within him, a price he paid for trusting his temporary teammates in the past.

He assigned the Barbary witch, who was debuffed for being too funny, to the surveillance job. This was partly to make the most of each team member and prevent conflicts from arising when dividing the bounty.

Secondly, the Barbary Witch is currently the weakest member of their team and works alone, so if she unfortunately makes a mistake, the loss to the team will be minimal.

Thinking of this, the ever-concerned Water Guy dialed the Barbary Witch's number, warning her to be careful. But after the call connected, an unpleasant voice came through the receiver.

"What are you doing?" asked the guy who was drinking water hesitantly.

"Sleeping with men, you have a problem with that? Alright, alright, we can talk about it tomorrow. These three ducks I ordered were very expensive."

The guy who was drinking water paused for a moment after the call ended. He ran his hands through his hair and sighed deeply. It was a simple task, yet he felt so exhausted.

"I might as well finish this job and then go back to my hometown and buy a country estate to retire in," he thought.

Chapter 44 The Date 1

On the morning of September 22nd (Saturday), Du Juan took Lin Jiade to a nearby clothing store. After a shrewd shopping spree comparable to that of a neighborhood auntie, she dressed Lin Jiade up and even had time to go to the local hair salon to get a new look.

Tony was Lin Jiade's senior in civil engineering. After graduation, he gave up his job as a programmer and spent money to learn hairdressing and styling, which became a joke in the neighborhood.

In the first year, Tony was so busy that he ate and slept at the store; in the second year, he had three apprentices; in the third year, he took over the store and the number of apprentices doubled.

Now, in his fourth year, 26-year-old Tony has already bought a house. In downtown Fuxing, young people on average don't call themselves mortgage slaves until they're 30. Tony is undoubtedly an outstanding person among his peers.

Despite having to repay a loan for seventeen years, Tony's tired face was filled with joy after he saw a glimmer of hope for the future, and he passed on his joy to Lin Jiade through his craftsmanship.

Lin Jiade looked at his new look. It was trendy and cool, and it made him stand out by 5% on the street. But no matter how he looked at it, he felt uncomfortable.

Back home, Du Juan pressed him in front of the mirror and personally tidied him up. Lin Jiade awkwardly looked away, avoiding eye contact with the Cupid intern fiddling with him behind his back.

But the tickling sensation of her fingers gliding across his skin, the elusive yet palpable presence, the delightful fragrance, and the breath escaping from her nostrils—all these combined to create an inescapable reality. Her presence dominated his senses, filling his world.

He tensed up, his eyes fixed on the ceiling, his heart pounding, his cheeks and ears burning red, his lips dry, his skin itchy. He felt like poor Tom, being played with in the palm of his hand.

The Cupid intern could definitely see and understand, but the other party maliciously pretended not to know, instead making him tidy up his appearance even more meticulously and gently, making Lin Jiade feel like he was being tortured by beauty.

"All right."

Du Juan patted Lin Jiade on the shoulder and said with satisfaction, "Sit here and don't move. I'm going to take some pictures."

"what?"

"To report my internship to my family."

Du Juan took out the phone made by the heavens and pressed the shutter button. Lin Jiade only had time to cover his eyes with the back of his hand.

After it was over, he was about to complain when Du Juan suddenly leaned down and whispered in his ear, "This is the first time I've ever groomed a boy. My skills are pretty good, aren't they?"

The "first time" satisfied Lin Jiade's vanity. Whether it was the truth or a lie, he felt as if he were Xue Pan seeing Lin Daiyu, and his body went limp.

He quickly turned his head to look at Du Juan and saw her smiling eyes, fair cheeks, delicate nose, pink lips, long neck, sexy collarbone, warm hair, black dress, white stockings, black high heels... This is beauty, longing, desire, thirst, unattainable longing, temptation.

He quickly lowered his head and ended his chaotic thoughts and the erotic ideas that had arisen in his mind with a slap.

Du Juan is his benefactor, yet he has inappropriate thoughts about her. Is that reasonable?

Cupid smiled and said, "No, I didn't mean to blame you. It's just that you're very important to me, so your attention makes me happy."

Seeing that poor Tom was about to explode, Du Juan put away her teasing intentions and said seriously, "Wear this outfit to your date with Jasmine this afternoon, and then adjust your clothes according to her reaction."

After all, we're not the same kind of people, and our aesthetic tastes might differ to some extent.

Lin Jiade had inexplicable confidence in Du Juan. He did as she said, and as soon as he went out in the afternoon, he felt that people were looking at him... Perhaps it was an overemphasis on self-awareness brought about by increased confidence.

He came downstairs fifteen minutes early, but Jasmine arrived even earlier. She sat in the gazebo, arms outstretched, lazily looking at the sky outside.

Today, Jasmine wore a black dress that reached her knees, with white transparent lace fabric spliced ​​on the sleeves and chest area. From a distance, it looked as if Jasmine was wearing another garment under the sleeveless dress.

Sheer white stockings covered Jasmine's calves, and brown round-toed leather shoes contained her small feet. Lin Jiade felt embarrassed to look for too long, so he went to the pavilion.

Jasmine grabbed her cane and stood up, her expression pained. Lin Jiade reached out to help her, but seeing Jasmine's determined and stubborn appearance, he knew that his sympathy at that moment would only hurt Jasmine's self-esteem.

So he casually asked, "Have you brought everything?"

Today, Jasmine's medium-length hair was tied into a short ponytail with fluffy ends. When she nodded, two red "bells" swayed around her collarbone.

"Are you dressed in a cute style today?" Lin Jiade pointed to the right side of his head. "This jasmine-shaped hair clip suits you very well."

“I saw the outfit recommendations online and then bought it myself,” Jasmine whispered. “You too, it looks even more… flashy.”

"What do you think would be better?" Lin Jiade asked.

"Everything is fine. What makes me feel at ease is you, not the direction of your hair."

Lin Jiade felt a little ashamed because, even now, appearance still held a significant place in his heart when it came to relationships. For example, Jasmine looked very cute today, so compared to when she wore that ugly and dowdy school uniform, his "liking" for her was much greater and stronger.

Jasmine carried two bags, one for personal belongings and the other for study materials. Their unusual third date, which was also their first date in real life, still started at the library.

They arrived at the community library, which was converted from the third to fifth floors of a building. The librarian yawned boredly at the entrance, while a few elderly people and children sat sparsely at the long tables and chairs inside.

It's likely that only those generations who are no longer susceptible to the internet's influence, those who are about to be influenced by it, and people like Jasmine who seek tranquility would come to the library to pursue knowledge and seek outdated forms of entertainment.

Jasmine chose a table and sat down against the wall. Lin Jiade sat to her left. Once Jasmine got into the zone, she became quite serious, and Lin Jiade also took out his phone to check today's schedule.

Because it was their first real-life date, even though he had memorized the hundreds of words of itinerary in his notes perfectly, he was still inevitably nervous. Jasmine seemed calm, but she even made several mistakes when copying texts and kept glancing at Lin Jiade.

If she happens to catch Lin Jiade peeking at her, their eyes will meet, and they will both quickly turn their heads away, leaving behind a feeling of panic and a sweet aftertaste in their hearts.

As the sun sets in the west, the lines of light and shadow move across the table, and the two people's arms unconsciously touch, their faces blushing at the same time.

Chapter 45 Date 2 (Bonus Chapter for Winning the Game)

Lin Jiade felt a little awkward but didn't move his arm away. Jasmine didn't seem to mean it either. Seeing her head down and not saying anything, he was about to grab her hand when he suddenly remembered that there were elderly people and children here, and it wouldn't be appropriate.

He relaxed his body with regret and casually asked, "Is your attendance count okay?"

“I talked to the teacher. My situation is special. I only need to attend one-third of the classes to graduate this academic year.”

"That's great, it's a pity I don't know your teacher. Otherwise, I could help build rapport or something."

"I'm not so weak that I need help from ordinary people."

"The ordinary people in front of you are very hurt."

“What kind of ordinary person can make a contract with Cupid?” Jasmine said softly.

That was just a coincidence.

“Ling Jiade, witchcraft, oracle and magic, no matter which one you get involved with, everything that happens to you is no longer accidental.”

Lin Jiade asked curiously, "What do you mean?"

Jasmine shook her head. Lin Jiade glanced around; indeed, this kind of thing wasn't suitable to discuss in public. He asked in a low voice, "Before you were injured...were you doing well at school?"