I Can Fix Her

During lunchtime, Bai Weiran had little appetite. He bought a loaf of white bread and slowly ate it at his desk.

Today, there was a monthly meeting in the company, and two tech bigshots got into an argument.

One relied on his excellent technical skills, standing tall in the company, while the other relied on connections, achieving high performance even while lying down. They were both strong contenders, and their conflicting opinions led to arguments during half of the monthly meetings. Recently, the way these two tech giants argued had escalated.

Before arguing, one would eat a lot of garlic and durian, while the other would eat lots of chives and stinky fish. Facing each other, they intended to make each other suffer with biochemical weapons, but the end result was that not only did they suffer, but also the onlookers.

Bai Weiran endured the stench from their digestive systems all morning, so he naturally had no appetite.

As he ate his bread, he browsed through the detailed descriptions in the Yandere Girl Encyclopedia app.

The app categorized Yandere girls into different levels, with task difficulty determined by their level.

The levels were C, B, A, and S, with higher levels indicating greater difficulty.

Qin Ning belonged to the A-level category.

Each completed task would reward points, which the system automatically evaluated and informed you of the results. Naturally, higher-level rewards were better, and they would be deposited into your app account as points. These points could be used as currency across different parallel worlds, allowing you to exchange them for various skills or physical items.

Converting points into skills, hoping the user would instantly master a foreign language — that was certainly possible.

You could also choose randomly, mastering it for just one day, one month, or forever; the prices varied.

If you wanted to own an entire building in the CBD (Central Business District), that was also possible, but the number of points required was far beyond what completing a few S-level tasks could achieve.

Rather than becoming a rich overnight system, it’s more of a high-paying part time job.

But Bai Weiran didn’t mind. Since both options left him being a corporate drones, he would always choose the option that would benefit him more.

He noticed a very strict rule from the official guidelines: “You can exchange points in any world, and they take effect immediately. However, be aware that skills or items will exist in the world where they are exchanged.”

In other words, if you used points to become a jack-of-all-trades and wealthy in a parallel universe, it wouldn’t matter once you returned to reality.

And every task had an end date; becoming rich in another parallel world was just a mirage.

It was quite fitting with reality.

No matter how high you climbed in a game by spending money, once you finished playing the level, you still had to face the reality of the real world, with no escape.

And games always had an end.

The system also had its thoughtful side. To reduce the difficulty for disciplinary committee members, the cost of points exchange would be greatly reduced whenever Bai Weiran entered another parallel world, effectively giving him a discount from the point costs in his own reality.

He could enjoy high-end services and a sense of superiority at a cheap price.

But Bai Weiran didn’t want to use it!

After crossing over, the system’s built-in abilities were already quite strong. He believed they were enough to handle everything.

Having more points saved up was always better.

He had carefully calculated the point system in the app and found it to be very precise and commercialized.

For example, if he wanted to exchange points for a healthy physique, it wasn’t a one-time deal but a fluctuating cost. It changed depending on his personal physical condition. If he spent extra time working out at the gym today, the price would slightly decrease, while if he caught a cold and had a fever, the price would suddenly increase by over twenty percent.

To exchange for a sculpted, muscular physique, the price was astonishingly high. Bai Weiran speculated that the calculation involved the time spent working out at the gym, the fitness goals, the cost of the gym membership, the cost of a personal trainer, and the time spent at the gym calculated at the current hourly wage.

Bai Weiran’s goal was money, but he wasn’t greedy. His objective could be achieved after completing ten S-level tasks.

He initially chose A-level tasks out of caution. If the difficulty permitted, his next target would be S-level difficulty.

When the points were exchanged for real money, when it’s all added to his existing savings, plus the first-time buyer discount, he could buy a house himself.

Just thinking about this extra income made Bai Weiran’s brow relax.

It was much better than doing some backbreaking labor work.

Just as he was thinking this, a cup of iced Americano was placed on his desk, with water droplets still clinging to the cup’s surface.

Looking up, a fair-skinned boy shyly smiled at him.

“Um… Wei Ran, I brought you an iced Americano!”

“Thanks, how much?”

“No, it’s on me,” Ah Chao hurriedly waved his hand.

“It’s a thank-you for you, you know, for helping me talk to Sister Luo…”

Bai Weiran smiled and accepted the gesture.

Luo Qi was a somewhat troublesome figure in the office.

She was intelligent, quick-witted, and had good academic qualifications, but that was also part of the problem.

She was a top student all the way.

However, being a top student sometimes caused problems. It was difficult for her to work with others, and her requirement documents were often vague and airy. She believed that others should understand them, and if they didn’t, it was their problem.

Ah Chao was an intern programmer, and programmers were generally not very articulate. Unlike Luo Qi, who was quick-witted, if he couldn’t understand something, he’d go to her for discussion. But the two sides were not on the same wavelength. He couldn’t figure out what she really wanted, but he felt that things were supposed to be that way, so he just followed suit without discussing it. Several times, Ah Chao ended up feeling pale and unwell, unable to do anything right. And with Luo Qi saying that everything was his fault, his stress has become so bad that he wanted to quit his internship. Bai Weiran felt sorry for him and stepped in to mediate a few times.

Luo Qi had less experience than Bai Weiran, so she gave him some face in this matter.

From then on, Ah Chao was extremely grateful to Bai Weiran, utterly devoted to him, and even had the demeanor of Bai Weiran’s little brother. Although their workstations were far apart, one in the planning area and the other in the programmer’s area, Ah Chao still deliberately greeted Bai Weiran every morning and glanced over when leaving work, giving a greeting.

After giving him the coffee, Ah Chao didn’t leave immediately but started chatting with Bai Weiran.

“—Um, Wei Ran, are you busy lately?”

“It’s so so, I’m not particularly busy right now.”

“Oh…” Their eyes met, and Ah Chao took a sip of his own caramel macchiato, looking nervous but bravely asking the question in his heart.

“Just recently, I’ve noticed that you always leave at eight on the dot. I thought you had something to do, are you going to accompany your… your… your…” The words “girlfriend” got stuck in his throat, and the boy’s long, narrow eyes became moist, somewhat pitiful.

Bai Weiran didn’t hear him because his phone vibrated again.

[Attention! The room you created is under attack by A-level girl Qin Ning, receiving 4 points of damage.]

[Attention! The room you created is under attack by A-level girl Qin Ning, receiving 3 points of damage.]

“Sorry, I need to use the bathroom, I’ll be right back.”

Leaving Ah Chao behind, he hurriedly left and locked himself in the bathroom, disappearing into the space in an instant.

At the same time, he appeared out of thin air in Qin Ning’s room.

The girl was wearing sportswear and wreaking havoc, vigorously smashing things against the wall. As soon as she saw Bai Weiran, she directly threw a chair at him — the chair stopped right in front of Bai Weiran.

“Let me out! Let me out!” She screamed in despair, hysterical.

“I can’t stay here anymore, Teacher Lin is going to fall in love with someone else!”

Bai Weiran looked at Qin Ning’s tear-streaked fair face and sighed inwardly.

The task was harder than he had imagined.

At first, he thought it would be simple—have her read more books, talk some sense into her, isolate her from that man, and gradually make her realize that life was better off without him.

The idea was right, but the process wasn’t as easy as he thought.

Yandere girls’ emotions were much more unstable than those of ordinary people. The biggest commonality among them was that their rationality and emotions were separated. While most people had both rational and emotional control, Yandere girls were driven solely by emotions.

Qin Ning could accept his company and rationalize his words one moment, but the next moment, she could become uncontrollably hysterical because she dreamed of Lin Luo being with another woman, then Qin Ning would become frenzied again.

At such times, if left unattended, her situation would only worsen.

It was like a well-known experiment about addiction.

Let the mice stay in a box, with water laced with addictive drugs. Once the mice were addicted, they were divided into two groups. One group was placed in a comfortable environment, with spacious cages and various toys. The only difference was that one group had companions, and the other didn’t.

Surprisingly, the researchers found that the mice with companions quickly overcame their addiction, the mice would play with their friends, and by the end of the experiment, integrated into the group.

But the mice without companions, even when given superior living conditions, quickly lost interest in anything, only wanting to drink the water that made them feel good, and their addiction grew stronger.

But the current situation didn’t allow him to let Qin Ning leave, since she would go to find Lin Luo.

It was also impossible to bring in some of Qin Ning’s friends to accompany her.

With the kind of friend she previously has, it would only make things worse.

Bai Weiran could only choose to come by himself when things like this happen.

Ignoring Qin Ning’s struggles, he grabbed her soft wrist and forcibly pressed her down onto the bed.

With her black hair spread out, the girl lay on the bed, tears streaming down her face.

“Let me out, I’ll give you a lot of money, I must get out, I have to get out, or else teacher Lin will fall in love with someone else, I will die, I will die—!”

“That’s just a dream,” he said.

“But teacher Lin!”

Raising his voice slightly, Bai Weiran’s gentle tone drowned out hers.

“—He doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’ve slept well?” Bai Weiran gestured, and a damp towel appeared in his hand. While exerting invisible pressure on the girl, he gently wiped the tears from her face.

Qin Ning knew that once the masked man appeared in the room, her struggles would be in vain. So she stopped struggling and just sobbed, still thinking about the scenes from her nightmare.

“I can’t sleep well.”

“Why not?”

“…When I slept, I always dreamt of teacher Lin, and I kept waking up.”

“Well, I understand, but no matter what, you are the most important. Try not to think about him for a minute today, okay?”

You are the most important—

“You say this every day,” Qin Ning said, unconsciously tilting her head slightly upward, making it easier for Bai Weiran to wipe her tear-stained cheeks.

His gentleness carried a sense of peace and comfort.

“…I’ll keep saying it in the future. Every time you have a nightmare, I’ll say it.”

The girl stared at him, her tearful eyes like two rain-drenched, sparkling black grapes.

“Girls don’t like it when you say such things.”

“I didn’t ask you to like me,” Bai Weiran shrugged.

“Don’t forget, I’m the one who tied you up.”

Qin Ning couldn’t help but laugh at his candidness. She couldn’t move, so she stared at the ceiling for a while before finally closing her eyes slowly.

Bai Weiran was sure she had calmed down, about to leave, when he heard a soft voice.

“…Could you bring me some grilled eggplant tonight? I liked the one you brought last time.”

Bai Weiran smiled beneath his mask.

It seemed that grilled eggplant, generously seasoned with garlic and chili, had a magical effect. Even the princess of a parallel world couldn’t resist it.

He was delighted that she could enjoy such cheap and delicious food.

“No problem.”