The Buggiest System 137 Of Course, As Is Suitable For A Background Character, The Girl Got Offscreened In No Time

She skipped over the girl on the floor, and feeling antic.i.p.ation race through her veins, she headed to Zhou Lei again.

'I made the most prestigious chefs in our household to cook this lunch just for him, and it's an opportune surprise that he didn't bring his own food. I can already imagine what will happen next...!'

A haughty grin crept towards Ye Muqi's face as she stared at Zhou Lei's back.

'Er... what was that?' Zhou Lei felt a s.h.i.+ver go down his spine. 'Maybe I'm just getting hungry...'

"Hmm, how about we go to the cafeteria?" Lin Guiying pulled Zhou Lei's free arm and asked him.

"I'm not in the mood to go to the cafeteria..." With his Taste stat being well over a hundred, the food being cooked and served in that cursed place might just make him puke out his stomach, even with the slightest contact with his tongue.

To tell the truth, Lin Guiying had been quite disappointed as well when she heard that Zhou Lei forgot to bring his lunch. From the day she tasted his homemade food, she was dissatisfied with everything she ate.

She tried her hardest to replicate that delicious meal by requesting various famous chefs to cook, and with her wealth and fame, it wasn't hard for that bunch to give in, even with their insanely high pride.

At the start, she had antic.i.p.ated how the meal prepared by the famous chefs would compare when pit against Zhou Lei's homemade lunch. However, although the food from the chefs tasted quite good, they weren't even in the same league as her friend's casual cooking.

This troubled her so much that even her mother stepped in and tried to cheer her up with her cooking, but failed ultimately.

In that sense, Lin Guiying knew exactly what Zhou Lei meant by not being in the mood to head to the cafeteria. Her brain translated his words from "I'm not in the mood" to "What the f×ck kind of suggestion is that? I might as well go swimming in a f×cking sewage pipe and I'll get the same taste inside my f×cking mouth!"

"Lei, you don't have to curse so much, geez." Lin Guiying shook her head disapprovingly.

'...Huh? When did I curse?' Just when Zhou Lei was about to open his mouth to ask Lin Hanying this question, a fragrance soothed his mind, steam entering his nose.

An involuntary urge made him turn his head towards where the scent came from, and eventually, his nose was a centimeter away from touching a grain of rice snugly fit inside a lunch box.

Lin Guiying widened her eyes. 'This lunch box... smells really good! However, Zhou Lei's cooking has a better scent...'

Meanwhile, Zhou Lei inched his head away from the lunch box, afraid that he might make contact with it and ruin its flavor. From the looks of it, or rather, from the smell of it, the food in front of him would taste pretty good. If not for his inhumanely high Taste stat, his stomach would have started rumbling the moment he caught a whiff of the fragrance the lunch box emitted.

However, one matter left Zhou Lei pondering: why was there a lunch box full of delicious food right in front of my face in the first place?

Ye Muqi also retracted her arm, pulling the lunch box away from Zhou Lei's face. She never thought that she placed it too close to his head...

'Oh no, now he's agitated...' Seeing the subtle backward movement of Zhou Lei's head, she thought that he got scared of her sudden appearance.

"Um, Cla.s.smate Zhou, this is for you!" Ye Muqi remembered that this was only the second time she talked to Zhou Lei, making them, at best, acquaintances, so she restrained herself to calling him with formalities. If she did otherwise, he might get creeped out. After all, no one would want a stranger to suddenly call them by a nickname now, wouldn't they?

Zhou Lei opened his eyes wide as they twitched. "This lunch? For me?"

What Ye Muqi did not consider was the fact that giving nicknames to a stranger was creepy, but even creepier was giving a full-on lunch to one!

Zhou Lei pushed his chair backwards with a subtle move, effectively distancing himself from... the pretty but creepy girl... without her noticing. "Uh, may I... ahem, may I at least know what your name is?"

Still, it would be impolite and even rude to outright deny a free lunch being given by a girl, and Zhou Lei didn't have it in his heart to be a bad guy. 'Disregarding my bad qualities, I am actually a pretty nice man...'

What Zhou Lei failed to consider that everyone was nice when disregarding their bad qualities... A fail at bragging to self, I give it 3/10 because of the lack of self-awareness!

What... aren't you rating others based on your own point of view? Who's lacking self-awareness here?!

And there ends the "Author Talks to Himself" Segment No. IDon'tKnowI'mTooLazyToCount!

After thinking that thought, Zhou Lei suddenly got all nervous.

'...Wait! System, I didn't mean that to be a braggadocious comment...!'

Zhou Lei readied himself for a ma.s.sive s.h.i.+tstorm to come from the chip inside his head. However, what he had gotten was... milder than he expected.

"Host, thoughts to self does not change others' opinion about you, and as a result, there will be no penalty point added. That being said, it changes System's (the most important) opinion about you, and this humble System thinks that you should tone down your narcissism from what it is right now to the level that of the average person. Because as it stands, even casual comments about yourself inflate your ego more than a balloon on the verge of exploding.

Host, this humble System recommends you buy the "Be Humble, Be Happy - Not Caring is Not the Same. By: System" book for a discounted price of $399. It will not only help the host in easing the process of faking modesty, but also teach him about how to be truly genuine in the midst of all the frauds in the world. It's honestly one of the best books that this humble System has to offer, and discount is limited. So why don't you buy it while it's the same price of a retractable chair? The host has money to spare anyway from the money System has given him..."

By now, Zhou Lei had closed the interface. He could not listen to the endless tirade of System any longer. The worst part was that it even encouraged him to a buy a book, whilst conflating it's own ego!

At the very least, it wasn't the punishment he dreaded to receive, but that wasn't much worse when compared to the eye rolling statements that came out of its imaginary mechanical mouth.