122 A Reason to Break Up (1/2)

When Nie Chang came back from the bathroom he found his boyfriend sitting on the couch hunched over his notebook. He wore his shirt inside out and had somehow forgotten to close his belt. His expression said that he didn't care about any of that though.

Nie Chang scratched his head. What was he supposed to do now? Disturb him and drive him to Auntie Zhu's shop to get breakfast? He'd probably get cussed at for that and after that, he'd be ignored for the rest of the day or maybe even the week. Even if you gave him a hundred guts he wouldn't risk that.

He shook his head and went to the kitchen, looking through the things in the fridge. His spoils were extremely lacking though. As someone who couldn't cook, Su Yan naturally didn't have many ingredients at home. Nie Chang had actually been quite surprised that he had managed to find enough for yesterday's meal.

With another glance at the person in the living room, Nie Chang took the spare key to Su Yan's apartment and left.

Su Yan didn't notice that his other half had gone, though. In fact, he didn't even think of Nie Chang who seemed to have gone to the bathroom for a rather long time. He was completely concentrated on the file in front of him.

Su Yan wasn't actually writing. Instead, he was just making some notes on the story he might write. This was something he had already done when planning his fanfictions, after all, he still had had to write everything that would happen to the characters even if they themselves weren't his own creation.

It wouldn't have been a problem with some shorter stories since he'd be able to remember every little detail until the story was completely written. But if the story was longer it might take him several weeks or even months until it was finished. He might forget something until then or even worse he might have overlooked something at the beginning that didn't make sense. When the story was written that kind of thing would be too glaring to ignore.

How could he let anyone point out some plot holes in his story? He didn't want to have any in the first place! So, he had to sit down first and plan a bit before actually writing the story.

It seemed especially hard this time though. It wasn't that he lacked inspiration but he couldn't help but worry about the system while he tried to think about the story. What if it had some requirement for the thing he wrote next? Wouldn't it be bad if he started a story and then after a few chapters the system told him he had to write something else? What if he didn't have the time to write both simultaneously? Then he'd have to drop one and the readers of that story would complain. Then maybe he'd try to write both but couldn't concentrate on either of them and thus their quality dropped. That would be a disaster!

Ah, this couldn't go on! He had to take a look!

Su Yan took out his phone and opened the Lovely Writing System. Before he could click on the main task another window popped up though.

[Special mission

Result: Failed

The host has exceeded the time limit of 1 week. The special mission is judged as failed. The host may choose whether to receive punishment or substitute the task for another one of a comparable level.]

Su Yan stared at the characters on his phone's screen and raised his brows. Hah? He exceeded the time limit of a task? What was this about? What kind of task was this even?! He couldn't remember anything like this!

He looked at the three buttons at the bottom of the window with a dark expression. It seemed everyone was ganging up on him. First, there was that reader who had no idea what great literature was and now, even the system wanted to bully him! Wuwu, he'd cry to Nie Chang later on!

For now, he could only decisively click on [Details]. After all, he first had to know what this was about. The system opened a smaller window for him.

[Reiteration of task: Observe the men in your surroundings and pair them up! Find at least 10 highly compatible couples.

Time Limit: 1 Week.]