Title: Spending the Villain's Money to Extend My Life
Translator: Fringe Alpaca
Chapter 63 - Acknowledgement From Others went up quite a bit today. Including Zhao Xian?
Soon, the next indicator from the system made her squinted her eyes.
[Red Mounting (Beginner Level Painting) made the viewer felt like he was there in person!]
[Number of Success: 1]
Gu Shishi quickly turned and looked at the boss who was sleeping like a baby.
A few strands of hair from his bangs fell on his clear forehead, making him seem all the more peaceful and harmless.
So the boss had experienced being in the painting, huh?
Gu Shishi’s eyes flickered with joy.
She didn’t think the boss would become her very first guinea pig!
Even though he didn’t say anything to her explicitly, but deep down he was shocked by her painting skills?
Was that why he was waiting up for her so late into the night?
She had conquered him with her painting skills!
But, the boss was a tsundere and would never say that out loud.
He’d have to use his action to express his appreciation for her, but she had put him to sleep before he was able to do anything…
Yup, yup. That must be it.
Gu Shishi was very pleased by her own imagination.
She had been taking and taking from him and had been feeling useless. Now, she was finally able to repay him!
As Gu Shishi was cheering for herself, she noticed another fine print on the system’s interface.
[After 100 uses of the effect, mid level painting skill will be unlocked.]
“Mid level?!”
Gu Shishi shouted out loudly and immediately covered up her own mouth as she looked at the man sleeping next to her carefully.
The boss was still sound asleep; he merely frowned slightly but did not wake up. It looked like he was having a nice dream as his brows slowly relaxed.
Whew… lucky she didn’t wake him up.
Gu Shishi patted herself on her chest, feeling lucky.
Quickly, she started drooling over the interface.
She had, indeed, noticed the wording “beginner’s level” before. If the “beginner’s level” could already make someone felt like they were in the painting in person, then she couldn’t even begin to fathom what mid-level could do!
Plus, she thought as evil as the system was, she wouldn’t be seeing mid-level for a while.
She would never imagine that just using the beginner’s level for 100 times would open up mid-level skill.
Hmm, 100 times….
At the rate of one a day, that would only take 3 months’ time.
She gritted her teeth; or she could do 2-3 a day.
Oh!
It was so close she could almost feel it!
Gu Shishi was pleasantly surprised when she realized she could click open and read the details of the mid-level skills.
[As Though Assisted By God (Mid-Level): Infused with the artist’s concentration. If focused enough, the art piece would come from the heart. The artist’s concentration that was absorbed into the painting would affect the emotions of the viewers.]
“Huh?”
The emotions?
That includes: happiness, anger, worry, contemplation, sadness, fear, and surprise; as well as sensations such as visual, auditory, olfactory, taste, touch, and conception.
The beginner’s level allowed the viewers to feel like they were at the scene in person; and the mid-level would be able to affect their emotions?
That’s amazing!
Gu Shishi couldn’t help but ball her fists in excitement.
She must try out this ability!
Her master was right, an art piece that only allowed the viewers to look at them for entertainment was but a low-end production.
Especially when it came to Chinese ink painting. The soul of a painting is the emotions that the artists infused into their work.
Gu Shishi couldn’t help but wish she could try out this mid-level ability right away.
However, she has not yet unlocked this new ability; she could only drool over it.
Some things could not be rushed.
What she really should do was to practice the beginner’s level 100 times and work on mastering the ability to the point that she would no longer need to rely on the system’s cheat.
As she was thinking about it, Gu Shishi set her goal.
“100 times… that means 200 hours… that’s 10 days’ worth of life!!”
Gu Shishi did some calculations with her fingers, then again looked at her three-days’ worth of life since her illness and just wanted to cry.
[Doting of the Male Lead: LV2. 30% to LV3.]
[Acknowledgement of Others: LV1. 70% to LV2.]
“Eh? The boss had really increased his fondness for me today!”
Ever since the day when she asked him to add her on Wechat and his fondness for her rose to LV2 in one shot, the bar had almost remained at the same spot since.
Even the little red packet didn’t do anything. It looked like giving him a gift was, indeed, a good idea!
“Acknowledgement From Others went up quite a bit today. Including Zhao Xian?”