9 A Real System? (2/2)

He looked around and spotted one of his male co-workers out of all people. Or, well, the guy wasn't working at the info counter. He was one of the security guards. He wasn't much older than he himself, maybe two or three years. As far as Su Yan knew, the guy was still single but didn't show much interest in women.

That type of clean guy … he would probably be what people called the 'second male lead'? The kind of nice guy that always helped the female lead and because he loved her so much even lent the male lead his aid until he finally stepped back in a show of great self-sacrifice so that the male and female lead could have an unperturbed happily ever after. One probably couldn't pair up such a guy?

Su Yan took a glance at his phone and lifted his brows. That strange program had actually already displayed a new line of text: [Target locked. Please choose a suitable partner for the target.]

So, just appraising a person would make that man the first part of the couple? Interesting. This really seemed like a legit system.

Su Yan looked around and spotted a young girl in a frilly, flowery dress. She seemed to be just old enough to have finished school this year or the last. The innocent type that would rouse a man's protective instinct.

A security guard and a frail young girl … Even if that person would only be the second male lead it should be enough for a rating of at least 50%, shouldn't it?

Su Yan looked back at the screen.

[Processing answer.]

Su Yan smiled. He was sure he had chosen a good couple this time.

[Processing complete. Calculated compatibility of the chosen couple: 0%]

What?! Su Yan's eyes went wide. How could the compatibility be even lower?! 3% was a really bad result but 0%? That was … Something had to be wrong with this method of evaluation.

He clicked on the photos again and searched for an explanation of why those two didn't fit. There wasn't anything. Only the information on the people themselves. He didn't dare read anything about it. One was a pretty maiden whose privacy he certainly couldn't invade and the other was a co-worker. If he accidentally let something he shouldn't know slip one day he'd be in deep trouble.

Su Yan pondered. If that thing on his phone was a real system, then it shouldn't be malfunctioning this easily. Maybe it was because of the thing he had already noticed himself: That co-worker of his would only be a plausible second male lead if he was a character in a novel. Of course, the possibility of a second male lead and the female lead getting together was zero. The calculation had to be based on that.

Hmph, I have one hundred chances. It can't be that difficult to find ten highly compatible pairings! Just you wait! Thus, Su Yan started checking out the men around him without noticing that his female co-workers were starting to look over in his direction and whisper.