"Ugh, school again..." Chen Luo watched the Chinese teacher drone on at the podium, unable to muster even a shred of enthusiasm.
From Friday night to Saturday night, Chen Luo had lived through an exceptionally long day—packed with enough experiences to last a normal person a lifetime.
But Sunday? Disaster.
Since he hadn't touched his homework on Friday or Saturday, he'd spent the entire day grinding through practice tests.
Thank god I'm not a third year student yet. Rumor had it that they got two test papers per subject during the holiday breaks. Per. Subject.
A "vacation" more exhausting than school itself.
Luckily, Chen Luo had the Herrscher of Sentience as a cheat code. He had her pull him into her consciousness space, copied the test papers inside, and finished all ten in just two real-world minutes.
The catch?
The Herrscher of Sentience hit him with the classic "Since you're already here..." and forced him into 20 days of training. Twenty. Consciousness-space days.
And because the tests were done in the mindscape, he still had to rewrite them in reality.
By evening, it was time to run the bar again—though no new customers showed up. He had to keep milking Venti, Theresa, and Himeko for commissions.
Primogems +125
Even those 125 came only after aggressive upselling and psychological manipulation. The sheep were getting harder to shear.
Still, compared to scraping five Primogems for chores like cleaning, this was basically passive income.
A pittance, but a pittance earned while sitting down.
However...
[Save Private Kiana] (Cross-World Mission):
Description: Kiana's aunt Theresa misses her dearly. Help Theresa locate her niece and bring her back to St. Freya Academy.
Reward: 1000 Primogems + St. Freya Teacher's License + Random Stigmata.
Difficulty: 4-Star
This mission appeared after Chen Luo finally explained the commission board to his three freeloaders—who'd genuinely thought the bar only handled drink-related requests.
As for the mission's actual difficulty...
Keeping the Herrscher of Sentience's backstory secret to maintain her cover? A masterstroke.
But Chen did plan to fill Theresa in about the plot during the mission. Some tragedies are worth preventing.
Why not do the same for Venti?
Because of commissions.
Venti wasn't exactly harmed by his canon events. Hell, the real tool man running errands throughout the whole incident was the Traveler.
And telling Venti now would be pointless anyway.
"Purifying" Dvalin prematurely wasn't optimal. Since the protagonist's power can purify the wind dragon, why not let the protagonist do it? Letting Venti purify the wind dragon was risky. The prince or princess of the abyss wouldn't attack his or her own sibling, but they would attack Venti.
At most, I'll warn him before La Signora goes for his Gnosis.
The Kiana retrieval mission wasn't hard—the challenge was timing when he should do it.
Luckily, the Third Honkai Eruption hadn't hit Nagazora yet, meaning Chen Luo had a window to find Kiana before Theresa.
But with Anti-Entropy already lurking there, the clock was ticking.
Good thing summer break starts in six days. Once school's out, interdimensional travel won't conflict with attendance. These 6 days can still be squeezed out.
Chen Luo feels that his talent awakened at a good time. He awakened before summer vacation, which allows Chen Luo to be more immersed in the commission. Thanks to that, he will not give up some commission because he is afraid of not being late for class the next day.
Chen Luo has a hunch that this summer vacation may be the most magical summer vacation he has ever had.
Including but not limited to saving the world.
Probably...
It turns out that saving the world in high school is a men's romance.
Sigh...
Just as Chen Luo pondered how to trick Venti into drinking Anemo Archon-brewed wine tonight, another sigh echoed beside him.
Chen Luo turned his head and saw his deskmate sighing there.
"What's your problem?" Chen Luo whispered.
Chen Luo's Chinese teacher is a very strange teacher. He has a high level of teaching and a long teaching experience. He is a gold medal teacher in the school, but he has a strange rule, that is, he never cares what the students are doing in class.
This also leads to a problem. The classes with good discipline and willingness to listen will get better and better in Chinese, and those classes with bad discipline and don't like to listen will get worse and worse in Chinese.
His teaching level is sufficient, but the awareness of managing students is not enough.
So Chen Luo's chatter went unnoticed.
"Just... life troubles," Yun Xia muttered.
"You have money problems?" Chen Luo blinked.
He'd assumed his "rich family, broke kid" situation was unique, but he didn't expect it to apply to Yun Xia as well.
Yun Xia's family must be rich, because she always rides a limo to school, and is escorted by bodyguards.
If you say that she has no money, Chen Luo doesn't believe it.
"Not like yours. I'm not starving—just family drama." Looking at Chen Luo's concern about her, Yun Xia couldn't help but sigh again.
"Chen Luo, Chen Luo, you said you have nothing to do, why are you so enthusiastic to help others?" Now Yun Xia wants to strangle Chen Luo to death
Why volunteer as a weekend nurse? Just stay home gaming, watching TV, Finding drama variety shows!
"Uh... how should I answer that to make you happy?" Chen Luo saw that sewas in a bad mood, he tread carefully.
"Chen Luo!" His front-row classmate turned around. "Kang Ning wants you to fold her a paper pineapple. She'll pay for materials..."
[Ding! New commission!]
[Charm Test]: After the famously charitable "Saint Chen" rejected a request yesterday, someone wants to test their allure. Fold an absurdly tedious paper pineapple.
Reward: 5 Primogems
Difficulty: 1-Star
"Tell her if she just wants to flaunt her 'charm,' she can get lost." Chen Luo shoved the classmate's head back around.
A paper pineapple may not be finished even if you spend a day on it.
Not even dogs would grind for 5 Primogems.
I, Chen Luo, am a big businessman, how could I be interested in these 5 raw stones?
"Chen Luo~" His back-row classmate poked him. "Can you erase the board for me later? My stomach hurts."
[Ding! New commission!]
[Erase the Board]: They genuinely have a stomachache. Help out.
Reward: 5 Primogems
Difficulty: 0-Star
"Sure." Chen Luo nodded.
...Okay, five Primogems are actually quite fragrant.
After all, it's just wiping the blackboard, which can be solved in half a minute. And he really has a stomachache, which can be seen from the commission introduction.