Life Exchange Game - Chapter 2 - The Young Miss

Hearing the voice, Xia Yu was startled, and the pen in his hand fell to the ground.

“Did I scare you?” The female voice sounded again.

Looking around, Xia Yu confirmed that there was no one else in the room. The voice was directly echoing in his mind.

He had no mental issues, so the speaker must be-

The original master of this body?

That’s right, he chose the single player mode, occupying the young girl’s body without letting her use his own body, so the girl’s consciousness was still in this body.

In other words, the girl would helplessly watch him use her body as he pleased?

What a mischievous game.

“Hey, can you hear me?” The voice persisted, surprisingly without panic.

“I can hear you,” Xia Yu replied.

“Ah, so you really are someone else. I thought I was sleepwalking, scared me to death,” the voice said.

“What’s your name?” Xia Yu asked.

“My name is An Siyao,” the voice answered. “What’s your name, and why are you in my body?”

“I’m not telling you,” Xia Yu replied.

The girl’s family seemed influential, revealing his name would be suicidal, and Xia Yu didn’t want to deceive her, so he simply refused to explain.

“That’s mean,” An Siyao muttered.

Her voice carried a hint of coquettishness. If she used the body Xia Yu was occupying now to speak, he might feel guilty, but just a voice couldn’t make him react.

Ignoring An Siyao, Xia Yu picked up the pencil, spread out the paper, and prepared to try something.

He intended to test the drawing bonus Lv1 that the system had mentioned.

What should he draw?

After thinking for two seconds, Xia Yu decided to draw the young girl he was currently inhabiting.

He started to draw.

Five minutes later, looking at the stick figure on the paper, Xia Yu fell into contemplation.

There were art classes in school, even teaching watercolor and oil painting, but drawing wasn’t Xia Yu’s strong suit, and he often avoided these classes.

So what exactly was the drawing bonus Lv1 for? This was entirely his real skill level.

Maybe the activation method was wrong.

Turning the paper over, Xia Yu softly said, “Drawing bonus, activate.”

Five minutes later, looking at the drawing on the paper, Xia Yu fell into contemplation again.

“A long-haired snowman?” An Siyao questioned.

“No, it’s you,” Xia Yu replied.

“But the waist and neck are missing!” The girl weakly retorted.

“No worries, once I bury you in the snow, you’ll look just like this,” Xia Yu threatened, feeling upset.

An Siyao immediately quieted down.

After a while, the girl tried to change her snowman image: “Um, you should start with the skeleton!”

“How do I do that?” Xia Yu didn’t believe the drawing bonus Lv1 was fake; there must be a way to use it, he just hadn’t found it yet.

“You want to draw comics, right? Open the computer, there’s a lot of drawing tutorials in the D drive, one of them is about comics,” the girl said.

Xia Yu’s gaze swept around, but he didn’t find a computer.

“It’s in the drawer below.”

Following the girl’s guidance, Xia Yu pulled out a laptop.

On the lid was a conspicuous pig’s head.

This was the best computer brand in this world, Pighead.

Xia Yu worked to afford a laptop, but he never dreamed of owning a Pighead brand.

Resisting the urge to play games on the computer, Xia Yu opened the folder An Siyao mentioned, filled with various drawing tutorial videos.

“These are drawing lessons my mom got for me when I was little, the videos are a bit old,” the girl seemed a bit chatty, she kept talking, “Later, my dad heard I wanted to learn, so he found me an artist teacher, so I never watched these videos.”

Xia Yu paused. Finding a drawing teacher wasn’t unusual, but an artist teacher and a drawing teacher were completely different levels.

“Just to ask, how much does the most expensive painting by that artist sell for?” Xia Yu wanted to understand just how remarkable a person he had possessed.

“The most expensive painting?” An Siyao thought for a moment, “About five million, I think. The teacher said his paintings wouldn’t be worth much while he’s alive, but they’ll definitely appreciate after he dies.”

The girl’s tone carried a hint of embarrassment, as if a painting worth five million was something shameful.

Xia Yu felt like he needed a cigarette.

Not seeking more blows, he opened a video and started watching.

After watching, he confidently picked up the pen.

Half an hour later.

“……”

“Don’t be discouraged, at least there’s progress. Now it’s an oddly posed long-haired snowman.”

Xia Yu felt he needed to calmly analyze.

What exactly was the drawing bonus Lv1?

“You’ve made progress, keep it up!” An Siyao encouraged Xia Yu.

“Aren’t you afraid of me?” Xia Yu asked while picking up the pen.

“Why should I be afraid?” The girl answered.

“You think this is a dream?” Xia Yu asked.

“Isn’t it?” An Siyao tried to pinch herself, but she couldn’t control her body.

Xia Yu reached out to help the girl.

“Ouch, that hurts!” An Siyao’s voice sounded tearful.

“Now you understand, this is reality, and I, through something akin to sorcery, am controlling your body. I can use your body to do whatever I want,” Xia Yu tried to make her understand the seriousness of the situation.

Attempting to fail, feeling a bit upset, he hoped to gain pleasure by making the girl unhappy too.

“Can you not do bad things?” An Siyao’s tone carried a plea.

“No.”

“Then please be careful, it hurts if you get hurt.”

“???”

You accepted it so quickly? No begging, no cursing?

Are rich kids all this calm?

Impossible.

Surely, I’ve possessed a peculiar person.

Xia Yu continued drawing.

“This time you can tell it’s a person!” An Siyao’s voice was full of surprise.

So, who’s possessing whom? Why are you happier than me?

However, this time the drawing indeed looked like a person.

Do I really have such talent?

No one starts out hating something; there must have been unbearable setbacks. Xia Yu’s talent in drawing wasn’t great.

So, the so-called drawing bonus Lv1 is actually a talent boost?

Xia Yu picked up the pen again.

At two in the morning, a prompt appeared before Xia Yu:

[Eight hours of game time has ended]

[Exiting game]

Xia Yu’s vision went black, and when he opened his eyes again, he was back in his own home.

At two in the morning, the surroundings were eerily quiet.

Turning on the light, Xia Yu picked up his phone and watched the recording.

After he went to An Siyao’s place, his body lay still for a while, then got up from the bed, went to the desk, and started doing homework, then went out for a shower, and returned to sleep.

This system takeover was quite intelligent.

Picking up the homework, Xia Yu checked it, it was even better than what he would do, all the questions were solved.

After a quick flip through, he set the homework aside and began experimenting with serious matters.

Taking out a blank sheet of paper and a pencil, Xia Yu began to draw.

A minute later, a character drawing appeared before Xia Yu, though rough in detail, the shape was correct.

A line of text appeared before him:

[Skill acquired – Drawing]

[Drawing Lv1: Beginner-level drawing ability]

So, the bonus’s function is to practice diligently during the body swap, and then inherit the experience after the game ends?

How can the drawing skill be used?

Submit a manga like “Mountain Bandit King” for profit?

However, drawing and manga aren’t the same thing. There are many mangas more refined than Naruto or One Piece, but they don’t become popular.

Moreover, he was only doing pencil drawings now; reaching the level of using dip pens for manga seemed like a long way off.

Aside from drawing, there were two other bonuses from An Siyao, one was the flower arrangement bonus, which was useless, and the other was the music bonus.

Xia Yu had already asked An Siyao before; her home had a piano.

Xia Yu remembered the corner café was hiring a pianist, though he hadn’t seen how much it paid per month, but it was surely three or four times higher than his cashier job that paid a thousand a month.

A Pighead computer didn’t seem so unattainable now.

A street corner pianist should be much easier than becoming a manga artist, right?

That’s it, I’ve decided.