Chapter 227: The Abstinent Gigolo 27

 Seeing Yun Zhe faint outright, Zhou Xiaoxiao actually relaxed instead.

If he’d continued shouting nonsense like before, who knew what the nurses would start thinking?

Still, she worried he might’ve secretly taken something he shouldn’t have, so she quickly asked the nurses to call a doctor over.

…

Meanwhile, after watching Yun Zhe get frightened badly enough to wet himself, Tang Wan finally felt somewhat satisfied.

Serves him right.

Clearly he was a coward, yet he constantly liked pretending to be some fearless hero.

Back then, he’d shamelessly stolen Xi Jingtong’s credit too.

Utterly shameless.

At that moment, Little Cutie puffed out his chest proudly.

“Host, how was it? I did pretty well this time, right?”

“Mm.” Tang Wan nodded in satisfaction. “You did very well.”

Hearing this praise, Little Cutie finally relaxed.

But then he nervously poked his fingers together.

“H-Host… can you help me with something?”

“Hm?” Tang Wan looked surprised.

The system actually needed her help?

As if sensing her confusion, Little Cutie immediately made a pitiful crying face.

“Host… it’s like this…”

“Because I secretly showed you the protagonists’ live monitoring footage earlier, and then helped you prank the male lead tonight…”

“I was just detected by the main system.”

“Now I’m about to receive punishment.”

Tang Wan immediately frowned.

“Punishment? What kind of punishment? Is it serious?”

Although she often got annoyed at Little Cutie for being unreliable, he had still accompanied her through many worlds.

Now that her anger had faded, she naturally couldn’t just ignore him getting punished because of her.

Little Cutie looked like he was about to cry.

“The main system is going to downgrade me and permanently delete some of my functions…”

If he got downgraded, he’d become no different from an ordinary low-level AI.

Tang Wan immediately asked, “Then what should we do?”

Little Cutie cautiously raised one finger.

“As long as Host… spends… this many points later to help me restore my level, it’ll be okay…”

Seeing this, Tang Wan frowned.

“One hundred points?”

Little Cutie blinked desperately.

Tang Wan’s expression darkened.

“One thousand?”

Little Cutie nodded instantly.

“Yes!”

Hearing this number, Tang Wan nearly cursed aloud.

“Damn! Isn’t that way too expensive?!”

She worked herself half to death completing an entire mission world just to earn around one thousand points.

And now restoring Little Cutie alone would cost all of it?!

If she hadn’t gotten that ten-times bonus reward before, her wallet would’ve been emptied instantly.

Still—

under Little Cutie’s nervous gaze, Tang Wan eventually sighed.

“Forget it. It’s only one thousand points.”

“I can afford it.”

After all, Little Cutie had violated regulations just to help her vent her anger.

She couldn’t really leave him to suffer alone.

…

“Host! Waaaah! You’re so good to me!” Little Cutie cried emotionally.

The next moment—

a cold mechanical female voice echoed out.

“System 88 violated Article 199 of the Interstellar Artificial Intelligence Management Act.
According to regulations, the following punishments will now be enforced…”

Soon afterward, a notice appeared across Little Cutie’s system interface.

“Dear Host, System 88’s violation has been processed.
Since you possess ownership rights over this system, you may spend points to restore its original level.
Would you like to spend 1000 points to restore System 88?”

Seeing this, Tang Wan carefully read through the punishment details.

Then—

after noticing that downgraded Little Cutie would lose access to the interstellar public network and be banned from hundreds of online games—

Tang Wan slowly revealed a devilish smile.

“Can I delay the upgrade for a while and restore him later instead?” she asked calmly.

“Of course.”

“That’s good.” Tang Wan nodded leisurely. “Then let’s not restore him for now.”

Who told this idiot to keep doing reckless things all the time?

Let’s see how he survives without his games now.

Little Cutie: “!!!”

Host!!!

This is NOT what we agreed on!!!