The System is Abstract, Luckily, So Am I

Chapter 216 : When It Comes to Business, Lin Li Has a Talent for It

"What courtesan? What's the price?" Bai Bufan's ears automatically filtered out the most important part.

(Translator's Note: The poem title "Zeng Ji" translates to "Presented to a Courtesan").

Lin Li: "?"

"Are you sick?" The two spoke in unison.

"No, how do you even remember this? Are you going on 'Who's Still Standing'?" Bai Bufan looked at Lin Li in surprise. (Translator's Note: A Chinese game show testing general knowledge).

"It's something you remember after one glance."

Lin Li brushed off Bai Bufan's hand, adjusted his collar, and started acting cool again.

Going on "Who's Still Standing" wasn't impossible. He heard that show had a question bank anyway. Before he knew that, he was amazed when he watched it, thinking everyone was a little immortal, omniscient and omnipotent.

Bai Bufan was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "Meng Shan Shi Hai (Vows of eternal love)."

"Hai Di Lao Yue (Fishing for the moon in the sea)." Lin Li immediately followed.

"Yue Xia Hua Qian (Under the moon and before the flowers)."

Ding, Qu, Chen: "?"

Why did these two guys start a Chinese idiom solitaire with zero frames of startup animation? They only just realized what was happening.

"Qian Tu Wu Liang (Boundless prospects)."

"Liang Li Er Wei (Act according to one's capability)."

When Bai Bufan said this idiom, both of them smiled.

"Wei Suo Yu Wei (Do whatever one wants)." Lin Li smiled.

"Not a bad idiom," Bai Bufan struck a JoJo pose, covered his face, and laughed loudly. "Then I'll follow with—Wei Suo Yu Wei."

"You actually gave an answer without even thinking? What a formidable opponent. I've got it! Wei Suo Yu Wei!"

"You're not bad either, but my idiom vocabulary is stronger! Wei! Suo! Yu! Wei!"

Watching the two of them just shouting the same idiom over and over, the three girls holding microphones fell silent.

What exactly are you two getting so fired up about!

It seemed these two started the idiom solitaire just for this moment.

"This is a KTV, idiom solitaire is not welcome here. Can you do something you're supposed to do in a KTV!" Ding Sihan waved the microphone in her hand and scolded helplessly.

"That works too."

Lin Li nodded, then said to Bai Bufan: "Bro, stop touching, sing a little. Your fingers are getting all wrinkled."

"Touching my ass. I'm telling you to stop stealing from my fruit platter." Bai Bufan immediately got into character, tapped Lin Li's hand, and gave him a disdainful look. "Wang Gang can stay, you take your other sisters out, and have someone bring me a new batch quickly..."

Ding Sihan: "?"

"What kind of KTV is this! Isn't this a bit too improper!!"

"Business KTV (Shang K). The fastest shortcut to doing business," Lin Li said matter-of-factly.

Princesses don't only appear in Disney, they can also be in KTVs.

Lin Li and Bai Bufan received a scolding (microphone enhanced version).

Then the five of them continued singing. To stop Lin Li from consistently performing with his trash-talking mouth, Bai Bufan was ordered to sit next to him and keep an eye on him.

After all, no matter what brilliant or ordinary moves you make, nothing beats reporting you.

Any sign of trouble would be met with a combined attack, so Lin Li had no choice but to behave helplessly.

The afternoon slipped away song by song.

There were choruses, solos, and duets.

When Lin Li and Bai Bufan sang, they always had various tricks, swaying while singing, calling it the "Two-Sway Dance."

Although it was comical, it brought the atmosphere to a high point, so when Qu Wanqiu and Ding Sihan sang, they would also stand up and twist a few times without feeling embarrassed.

He only mocked when it was time to mock. At this time, Lin Li would only cheer and encourage vigorously.

...

Chen Yuying's phone rang, so Lin Li, who was holding the microphone, paused, leaving only the accompaniment in the room.

Chen Yuying answered the phone, walked out the door, replied a few times, came back, nodded to everyone, and explained: "My dad is driving over here. He should arrive in about ten minutes."

"That's really close. I wonder who he's guarding against," Lin Li commented sharply.

Chen Yuying blinked.

So hard to guess.

Lin Li then snapped his fingers: "Since it's almost over, 'Unforgettable Tonight', start!"

"Okay~" The other three slumped on the KTV sofa, although weak, were very supportive of this decision.

"You guys are really weak," Lin Li looked at them and smiled.

It was already 4 PM. They had been singing intensely for three or four hours, singing seriously and occasionally getting up to sway, so right now, except for Lin Li, everyone was quite tired from singing.

Lin Li was indeed more hyped than them, but he had abundant Qi and Blood and recovered quickly. Even if he was tired, resting for one song allowed him to sing three or four more.

"We can still sing two more songs, one of them being 'Unforgettable Tonight'..." Chen Yuying put her phone on the sofa, went to the song selection screen, hesitated for a moment, then turned to look at Lin Li: "Lin Li, do you know how to sing 'The Summer Blown by the Wind'?"

"Never heard of it. Whose song is this?" Lin Li shook his head and asked curiously.

"Sung by Guo Donglin and Jin Sha. It's a song from many years ago, quite nice." Bai Bufan seemed to be an expert and explained for Lin Li upon hearing this.

"Guo Donglin can sing?" Qu Wanqiu sat up straight, somewhat confused.

"Guo Donglin is JJ Lin, and JJ Lin is Guo Donglin. Isn't this common knowledge?" Lin Li glanced at Qu Wanqiu upon hearing this, thinking she was making a fuss over nothing.

(Translator's Note: A joke about the physical resemblance between the comedian Guo Donglin and the singer JJ Lin).

Qu Wanqiu: "..."

Is... is this common knowledge?

Whose common knowledge is this?

"Okay, never mind then." Hearing that Lin Li didn't know it, Chen Yuying lowered her head regretfully and continued operating the song selection screen.

"Don't 'never mind'. Class Rep, have you forgotten? This song is just like cheating. I don't know how, but I can learn. Just give me a minute to listen to half the song." Lin Li snapped his fingers, grabbed his phone, and immediately headed out the door.

Three seconds later, the KTV door opened, and Lin Li poked his head in and added: "Change of plans. NetEase Cloud Music is making me watch a 30-second ad before I can listen, so I need a minute and a half."

Chen Yuying: "..."

This change of plans really couldn't be blamed on Lin Li.

Soon, Lin Li returned like a king, came to Chen Yuying's side, confidently clicked play, picked up the unused microphone on the table, and clinked it against the one in Chen Yuying's hand like a toast.

"I've learned it."

"Mhm." Chen Yuying nodded, she believed him.

"[Still_remember yesterday_that summer_the moment the breeze blew past_seemed to blow over everything_only loneliness was willing to settle]" Although he had only listened to it once, Lin Li, who had replaced Guo Donglin, looked at the lyrics on the big screen, and his voice was also very pleasant.

"[Now the wind is still blowing_the autumn rain follows_but the heat in my heart hasn't faded]" Chen Yuying's voice was very ethereal, singing with a different feeling from Jin Sha.

He looked at the lyrics, she looked at him.

Occasionally, when he remembered the next line of lyrics and didn't need to look at the screen, he would turn his head to look at her, and she would smile sweetly.

...

[The blue longing suddenly turned into a sunny summer]

[The warmth in the air won't be very far away, and winter seems to no longer linger]

...

[This summer blown by the wind]

[This summer blown by the wind]

As the duet came to an end, with just one look, the two tacitly changed the "that" in the final lyrics to "this."

The moment Lin Li gripped the microphone tightly, the cool wind in the KTV obeyed his command, blowing wantonly in the room.

Chen Yuying, thinking it was the air conditioning suddenly cooperating with this moment, smiled even more brightly.

"Whoa!!!"

When the song ended, the three people on the sofa immediately applauded for them.

"Speaking of which, it's starting to cool down now. This summer blown by the wind is indeed officially over. Let's have our last toast of the National Day holiday!" Lin Li put down the microphone, picked up his drink from the coffee table with his left hand, and opened the front camera with his right hand.

Everyone smiled and squeezed in front of the camera. At the crisp moment of clinking glasses, the image was recorded.

After the five of them finished singing "Unforgettable Tonight" together, everyone got up, simply cleaned up the trash, and left.

"Why do you keep covering your butt?" Lin Li asked Bai Bufan in confusion.

"It's nothing." After singing all afternoon, Bai Bufan's voice was a bit hoarse. He shook his head and naturally let go of his hand.

But after letting go, his expression changed, and he immediately crossed his hands behind his back again, explaining: "Just a habit of keeping my hands behind my back, it's quite nice like this."

Damn it, what exactly is going on?

Why do I feel like wind is blowing into my butt crack ever since we came out of the home KTV?

What kind of symptom is this? It's blowing and making it itchy. Could it be that I've developed hemorrhoids?

Bai Bufan, forcing a smile, felt a little anxious in his heart.

Mayinglong, save me! 

(Translator's Note: A famous Chinese brand of hemorrhoid ointment).

"As long as you're fine, as long as you're fine." And the culprit, while continuing to manipulate the wind to increase the dose, said with concern.

—After all, since [Wind Control] was already activated, the remaining time couldn't be wasted.

Blowing girls' skirts was still too indecent, but blowing a boy's butt was just right.

(End of Chapter)