236 The Perfect Couple (1/2)
Su Yan looked at his boyfriend who seemed like he was choking on something. He couldn't help but frown. Could it be Nie Chang had also realized just now that they might indeed be incompatible in that regard? What were they supposed to do now?! Argh, he had just gotten used to the idea of doing it on Friday!
Nie Chang cleared his throat and patted Su Yan's back before he could get even stranger ideas. ”Don't worry about that. I'm sure there's another explanation.”
”Another explanation?” Su Yan continued to frown. ”What kind of explanation is that supposed to be? In which other way are we incompatible? Isn't everything else perfect about us? We've known each other for so long and we've always gotten along well. And now we're even a couple. What else does the system want?”
Nie Chang chuckled. Who would have thought that his little darling would get this indignant because someone thought that they weren't the perfect couple? ”How bad could it have been? Didn't you say it was a high rating?”
Su Yan nodded but still pursed his lips. ”It was! But it was only ninety-eight percent. I don't think that's fair. It's supposed to give a full score for a relationship as great as ours! What's with those two missing percents? That's so stupid!”
”Well …” Nie Chang didn't feel that achieving ninety-eight percent of compatibility was bad at all but his little darling was obviously dissatisfied with the system's decision. So he should find a way to explain this that didn't have to do with any birds.
He looked at the lotus pond for some inspiration but it wasn't that easy to come up with something reasonable from the top of his head. Especially since he didn't even know how exactly that task had worked! But there should be some sort of reason behind this rating, shouldn't there? Well, even if he couldn't accurately guess it, he had to come up with something. He couldn't just let it be. Su Yan would scare himself with his own explanations otherwise. And who knew what else his little brain could conjure up? It was way too active in that regard.
”Let's see … I don't know why exactly the system would rate something a certain way but as for the compatibility of a couple I do have some ideas on that. I think for one, it would probably take the personalities of the two people into consideration. After all, that should influence a lot of their decisions and some personalities might clash. Other than that, it could also depend on how much a couple has in common and how much they differ. Like do they spent their time on the same things? Do they share beliefs? Or is there a fundamental difference in the way they see the world?”
Su Yan nodded. ”That sounds logical. But how does this explain why we don't match?”
Nie Chang snorted and ruffled Su Yan's hair. ”Ah Yan, we're missing two measly percent. Do you really want to call that 'not matching'? That sounds a little hard to me.”
Su Yan puffed up his cheeks. ”We deserve a hundred! So if the system doesn't want to give us a hundred, that's basically like saying we don't make a good couple.”
Nie Chang coughed. It seemed finding an explanation was even more important than he had thought. ”Uh, maybe … it was because of the time. I mean it was last week when you got that task, right?”