The Body Swap Game - Chapter 23
Chapter 23: Xu Youxiang
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Based on what the coffee shop owner had said, making 8000 a month as a pianist was low, but Xia Yu didn’t want to go to a higher-end coffee shop.
First of all, he didn’t have any certificates. Second, he could only work part-time, not to mention that the high-end coffee shops were farther away.
It sounded like the high-end coffee shops in Zilang didn’t exactly lack pianists.
Xia Yu signed the contract and left the coffee shop.
Thinking of the 8000 yuan he’d earn next month, he went to a pastry shop and spent 80 yuan on a cake.
Counting all the other expenses he’s had lately, now he only has 2300 yuan left in his bank account.
He brought the cake home, then he grabbed Youxue from her room.
“Oh, there’s cake!” The girl excitedly started eating the cake with a spoon.
Watching Youxue shake her feet with happiness, Xia Yu felt happy too.
After taking two bites, her excitement had ebbed. Youxue asked with worry, “Is the cake really expensive?”
“It’s okay. I found a better paying job.” Xia Yu wiped off the cream near Youxue’s mouth with his hand.
Seeing Xia Yu’s fingers, Youxue smiled, but when he wiped off the cream on a napkin, her smile disappeared.
“The brother in the book didn’t do this,” the girl mumbled.
“What?” Xia Yu asked.
“The cake is delicious!” the girl said loudly.
“I’ll buy it more often.” Xia Yu started eating his share of the cake too.
After trying one bite, Xia Yu frowned. Compared to the pastries at An Siyao’s house, this cake is really not that great.
Too bad he couldn’t take those pastries home.
After eating the cake, Xia Yu returned to his room. He got a new message.
It was from the class leader.
Class leader: “According to rules, you’re now the planner for the cultural festival. Where is your plan?”
How troublesome is this?
Xia Yu: “I have to take care of my sister. Can I resign?”
Class leader: “[crazy face] What do you think?”
Xia Yu: “Ask the teacher to do a lecture?”
Class leader: “[knife emoji] How is this different from class?! You know the project will be part of the class leader’s records. Do you want my record to be tarnished?”
Class leader: “[crying face] Please help me!”
Xia Yu: “…”
Class leader: “You know how crazy I felt when I tallied the votes? I actually voted for you. If I didn’t, we wouldn’t be here now. Why did I do that?”
Xia Yu: “[strokes head]”
Hearing the class leader’s complaint, Xia Yu wrote,
Xia Yu: “So it’s on your record, but what does it matter?”
Class leader: “It’s embarrassing! Those teachers would ask about this in interviews!”
Class leader: “Fine, I won’t ask you anymore. Don’t worry about it. I’ll handle the project.”
The two of them stopped chatting.
Xia Yu put away the phone. He wasn’t sympathetic, and he actually thought the whole thing was funny.
At six o’clock, he lay in bed and started the game.
[Please pick a body swap target.]
[Random search/Free search]
Xia Yu picked “random search.”
[Search has found that you have opportunities for a target body search. Use it?]
“Use.”
[You can enter three keywords, 2 for looks, 1 for skill.]
Three keywords?
Xia Yu considered and wrote: adorable, between 14-30 yrs old.
With these words, he wouldn’t end up logging onto older women.
As for the last keyword for skill, he hesitated.
What to use?
Wisdom, intellect, athletics, beauty?
Xia Yu thought that he needed to earn more money for now.
Those 1000 yuan/plate white jade meatballs were out of his reach at his current pianist salary.
So he needed a quick money-making skill.
Other than scams, what made money quickly was business. Should he pick a business skill? Or finance?
If he had some start-up money, he could pick a business skill, but he didn’t.
A few decades ago, when there were more opportunities, one could start from nothing. Nowadays, it’s not possible without start-up capital.
Finance needed capital even more than a regular business, so it’s not a good choice.
Well, then he would have to think of something with technology or creativity.
Physical industries were already dominated by capitalists and hard to break into, but there were still opportunities on the internet. The several trendy internet businesses in Xia Yu’s former life hadn’t appeared yet.
Programming will have to do!
With programming, he could use his former life’s memory to create some apps. He would get start-up capital, then invent some mobile games, and get rich with a game like Krypton Gold Pig.
He chose programming, but before confirming, he deleted programming and wrote computer skills instead.
[Cannot search for skills which are too broad]
Hm.
He wrote programming and started the game.
After the darkness in front of his eyes went away, it took five seconds for the light to appear.
A wall in blue.
He blinked and got used to his new body. He turned his neck to look around.
He was in a room just slightly larger than his own. The room, painted in sky-blue, had a dresser on one side and a desk on the other.
There was a computer on the desk; it was actually the model released by Pig-Head Man last year.
From the looks of the room, the body he logged onto was of someone from a family of ordinary means.
After he finished looking around, a notification sound came on.
[Body switch complete]
[Creating skills based on the target body…]
[Addition completed]
[Receiving addition: Programming Lv 1, Makeup Lv 1, Fashion Lv 1]
“???”
Other than programming, there were skills for makeup and fashion.
Compared to flower-arranging, these skills had their uses.
He could help Youxue with makeup, or help her pick out clothes.
He checked the area near the bed. There was no mirror, but there was a cell phone.
Picking up the cell phone, he turned on the front camera and saw his current body.
This was a girl who was younger than An Siyao, but maybe more mature than her. She had shoulder-length black hair and was adorable.
He looked at the person’s social media page and saw a group called “college friends.” Xia Yu was now sure of the target body’s age.
Based on what he had seen, this was a college student with a baby-face.
After some observation, Xia Yu decided to work. He picked up the computer nearby.
A sharp voice came on in his head, “What are you doing? Stop!”
In the next instant, Xia Yu had fallen onto the floor.
“???”
How did I fall suddenly?
