Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Gu Jingze watched Lin Che from the side before personally trying it out.

Lin Che said, “Come, come. Let’s compete to see who catches more fish.”

Gu Jingze said, “Alright.”

She had only let Gu Jingze have a hand at it once before starting the match. She was such a bully.

Gu Jingze knew that she was intentionally taking advantage of him. However, he merely glanced at her and did not say more.

In the beginning, Lin Che was still winning. However, before long, she saw Gu Jingze’s score increase rapidly. He soon surpassed her.

Anxious, she quickly focused more of her attention on the game.

However, she still could not surpass Gu Jingze beside her.

She pursed her lips gloomily and even tried to snatch his fish away from him.

However, he was able to evade her each time. On the other hand, Lin Che did even worse because she was occupied with obstructing him. Before long, she lost to him.

Lin Che said disbelievingly, “You, you, you, you lied to me. You obviously know how to play this!”

Gu Jingze asked, “Why would I lie to you?”

Lin Che looked at him defiantly and huffed. “Again!”

Gu Jingze nodded and started to compete with her again.

However, he played even better this time. The moment he started he was ahead of Lin Che and never allowed Lin Che’s score to exceed his.

From then on, his score was consistently higher than hers until the game ended.

Lin Che looked at him skeptically.

He was seriously bad at forging friendships and did not even know how to give in to a girl.

However, he was a really fast learner.

Although she was angry, she could not help but be in awe of his skills.

This man’s intelligence truly… crushed hers completely…

Lin Che huffed. When she lifted her head up, she saw the claw machine opposite them.

“Hey, since you’re so good at games, go get me a plush toy from the claw machine.”

Hearing this, Gu Jingze looked up and said, “I don’t really know if I can.”

“Go and give it a try, but it is indeed a little difficult.”

Lin Che pulled Gu Jingze towards one of the claw machines. Lin Che started off by giving Gu Jingze a demonstration.

“I’ll give it a try and show you an example.” After one try, the toy ended up dropping from the claw very quickly. She did not succeed…

Lin Che said, “Oh no. I was so close.”

Gu Jingze shook his head. “Far from it.”

Lin Che glared at him. “You do it then!”

Gu Jingze also gave it a try. However, he did not succeed and the toy similarly dropped to the side in no time.

Lin Che scoffed. “See that, see that? This is really difficult. I’ve never succeeded before…”

Just then, a couple appeared beside them. The girl was saying noisily, “I want that doll. Quick, get that Pikachu for me.”

The boy said, “Don’t worry. I’m not leaving until I get the doll.”

“Hehe. That’s great, that’s great. I’ll hold you to it.”

Lin Che glanced at them. The boy was quite young but looked very regal. It was likely that he was from a pretty wealthy family.

She did not continue staring. She merely glanced at them before turning back to give Gu Jingze directions in operating the claw machine.

However, the girl immediately noticed Gu Jingze beside her.

She glanced at him first before nearly shouting in surprise.

Her eyes were twinkling as she looked him up and down secretly.

Nevertheless, her boyfriend noticed her actions.

He looked at Gu Jingze before shifting his gaze to the smitten expression on his girlfriend’s face. Feeling a little unhappy, he immediately rolled his eyes at Gu Jingze.

Just then, Gu Jingze failed his second attempt.

Lin Che said, “Oh no, what a pity. You were so close.”

Gu Jingze smiled and said, “It’s alright. You’ll definitely get it next time.”

The man beside them scoffed. As his girlfriend was still staring at them, he immediately pulled her towards him.

“Come, come. Watch me get one for you.” This time, he just so happened to grab ahold of a doll and actually succeeded.

Although it was partially due to luck, his ego immediately began to soar.

The moment his girlfriend actually saw a doll come out from the machine, she shouted in excitement even though it was not the Pikachu that she wanted, “That’s great. How wonderful. You’re so awesome, Hubby.”

The man snorted and cast a sideways glance at Gu Jingze. “Of course. Sometimes, looks aren’t so important. Especially now, when there are so many sissy men. Look, men like us are the capable ones.”

“How petty. I was just taking a look.”

“What were you looking at? The ones who look good are all sissies. What’s so good about them?”

“I hate you.”

“Look at how useless he is. He couldn’t even get one doll after playing for so long. If you were his girlfriend, you definitely wouldn’t get any dolls. You would only be watching other people get them.”

Lin Che did not expect him to be such a blabber-mouth. She turned her head to look at him. However, she did not dare to reveal any more of her face as she was wearing a mask over her mouth. Thus, she simply glared at him before turning away.

Initially, she thought that he would leave after he was done showing off. But she did not think that he would look at Gu Jingze and provoke him directly.

“Hey, stop playing. It’s difficult to operate a claw machine. Do you think that an ordinary person can succeed? The success rate is something that even the owner of the shop has carefully calculated. Otherwise, he would just suffer a terrible loss. Those without technique can’t succeed.”

Lin Che glared at him. “Hey, can you keep quiet? No one is as nosy as you are.”

Beside him, his girlfriend tugged at him to leave. “Enough, enough, Hubby. Just leave them alone. Let them play if they want to. There’s nothing they can do even if they don’t succeed.”

“You’re right. Not everyone is as impressive as me.”

“Yes, yes, yes. My Hubby is the best.”

But just then, Gu Jingze calmly said all of a sudden, “Don’t move.”

Hearing this, Lin Che turned around.

Similarly, the couple turned around.

Only to see Gu Jingze nudging the doll with a poker face. The concentration on his face was evident from his side profile, carrying with it mesmerizing confidence.

The next thing they knew, the doll dropped out of the machine accurately.

He had finally succeeded.

Lin Che instantly jumped for joy. “Wow, you got one! That’s fantastic!”

It immediately sent the man behind them into disbelief. They watched him deflate a little and say to his girlfriend, “Luck, it was just luck. Just watch.”

Lin Che turned around to glare at this tactless man.

However, Gu Jingze seemed not to have heard his words at all. He simply asked Lin Che, “Which one do you want?”

“Ah… are you going to continue?”

“Yeah, we still have a lot of tokens,” he said quietly.

“Alright then. I want that Doraemon.” Lin Che said while pointing to a blue plush toy inside.

Gu Jingze looked inside the machine in concentration. After gazing at it for a while, he began to operate the machine.

The man was still watching them from behind.

His girlfriend was also gazing at them in rapt attention.

When she saw how focused Gu Jingze was, she momentarily felt that he was giving off an enthralling glow that made her unwilling to shift her gaze elsewhere.

Lin Che was staring unwaveringly at the machine. Sure enough, she saw the claw accurately clench around the big blue doll. Then, the Doraemon dropped out of the machine with a thud.

“Ah, fantastic.”

Lin Che looked at Gu Jingze happily. After taking the Doraemon from him, she said, “I didn’t think that you would actually succeed.”

“Hn. What else do you want?”

“Huh? Will you be able to get it? But why weren’t you able to get it the first two times?”

“I was practicing.” He continued, “I was getting used to it.”

Was he saying that he had not been able to succeed the first two times only because he was getting used to it and practicing?

So now that he was familiar with the machine, would he be able to get many more dolls for her?

Gu Jingze was so impressive. Two short attempts were all he needed to grasp the techniques immediately…