The System Says My Childhood Sweetheart Is My Future Blind Date - Chapter 18

The two of them set off after having dinner.

The mall where the claw machine arcade was located was a bit far, so Shen Yuan and Li Zhi took a taxi there.

Jiyang is a small place, a county-level city.

Many people come here looking for opportunities, but many also fail.

Otherwise, how could new shops keep opening up?
According to Shen Yuan’s incomplete statistics, from junior high school to his senior year of high school, excluding chain stores, no more than 30% of the small individual shops he ate at in the first year were still operating in the second year. And

in the third year, only 5% were still operating.

This is an exaggerated number.

For a while, Shen Yuan even felt that he was cursed, because every place he ate at went out of business.

Li Zhi was also cursed.

Because all the shops that went out of business were places he and Li Zhi went to together.

Hehe.

When they arrived at the mall, Li Zhi couldn’t wait to get out of the car.

“Let’s go! Let’s go! I’m going to fill it up!” ”

Fill it up” is a Jiyang dialect term meaning a lot, like filling a container to the brim.

Li Zhi’s combination of being a novice and a playful person was perfectly embodied.

However, Shen Yuan wasn’t in a hurry to go to the claw machine.

“I ordered milk tea, I’ll go get it first.”

Li Zhi raised an eyebrow: “Then I’ll treat you to a claw machine!”

Was she really asking me to play? She clearly wanted to pocket the prize.

“Clatter… ”

Inside the claw machine, passersby couldn’t help but glance at the beautiful girl holding a cup of mango pomelo sago.

Beautiful.

Youthful and energetic.

Just standing there, Li Zhi was practically the subject of conversations like, “That pretty girl from my high school.”

And then there was the Jiyang Middle School uniform, symbolizing the strength of Jiyang’s strongest high school.

She was beautiful and academically gifted.

Even the act of putting red bills into the machine had transformed from reckless spending into a balance of work and play.

Which window did God close for her?

Shen Yuan could say with certainty that God was fair.

Because Li Zhi didn’t know how to play the claw machine.

100 yuan, 300 game tokens.

And Li Zhi only took the 20 tokens for the trial.

The pretty girl was quite self-aware.

Clutching her game tokens, Li Zhi looked enviously at the basket full of tokens Shen Yuan had placed in the cart.

“At least 15, no, 20!”

Shen Yuan chuckled, thinking to himself that this was a bit of an insult to his buddy.

“Okay, okay, I’ll make it up to you if you don’t get any! Go see if there’s anything you want.”

Li Zhi nodded and went to “inspect” the shop.

As for Shen Yuan, he was free to do as he pleased.

Shen Yuan didn’t immediately start playing, but wandered around the shop for a while.

Perhaps because it was newly opened, or perhaps the owner had a conscience,

the quality of the plush toys in the shop was surprisingly good, not the kind you get for 30 yuan for 100.

But good quality also meant another thing.

The claw machines were looser.

A little bit of conscience, but not much.

In just 3 minutes, Shen Yuan saw Li Zhi walk over looking unhappy.

Shen Yuan glanced at Li Zhi; good heavens, she hadn’t won anything.

But when Li Zhi walked up to Shen Yuan, the unhappiness on her face immediately disappeared.

Shen Yuan had already grabbed three. That’s

an average of one per minute.

Li Zhi looked at the plush toys on the cart and asked in surprise, “How did you grab them?”

“I reached in and took them.

” “Never mind if you don’t want to say.”

Shen Yuan chuckled, his gaze lingering on a little kid who walked away from a machine looking unhappy. He quickly stepped in front of that machine.

“Let me tell you a secret,” he said, “one of the tricks to winning at claw machines is patience. Go find machines where someone’s already trying, wait until they give up, then try again. If they win, switch to another machine and wait.”

Shen Yuan said, inserting three coins and aiming.

The claw steadily grabbed the SpongeBob SquarePants doll. ”

Great, good teamwork.”

Seeing the surprise in the girl’s eyes, Shen Yuan casually grabbed a handful of coins from the coin basket and handed them to Li Zhi.

“Go try it, just wait around.”

The girl happily went off to play, clutching a handful of coins.

Shen Yuan observed Li Zhi while wandering around the store.

Seeing someone leave empty-handed, he’d grab one.

He caught a doll by using the hook tag, then grabbed another by using the machine’s guaranteed minimum.

Since others would trigger the guaranteed minimum anyway, he figured he might as well do it himself.

An extra one was good to exchange for a bigger doll.

Then Shen Yuan saw Li Zhi happily take out an ugly-cute little chick doll from the machine.

“Look, look, I caught it!”

Li Zhi showed off the ugly-cute little chick in her hand, her face beaming with joy.

Shen Yuan mercilessly refuted her: “It’s pretty ugly, you’ll have to exchange it later.”

“No! I caught it!” Li Zhi held the ugly-cute little chick to her chest, looking at Shen Yuan warily.

Shen Yuan suddenly felt a little envious of the ugly-cute little chick.

No way, she should be killed!

“What’s so good about something so ugly?”

“I don’t care, I just like it!”

Li Zhi put the ugly-cute little chick in the cart and said seriously to Shen Yuan: “You can’t touch it!”

“Okay, okay.”

Saying that, Shen Yuan leaned closer to Li Zhi and whispered: “How about it, my method worked, right?”

Li Zhi nodded with bright eyes: “Yeah, I just saw a kid stop trying, so I went up and caught it in two tries! But…”

Looking at the ugly-cute little chick, Li Zhi curled her lips: “It is indeed a bit ugly.”

Shen Yuan laughed.

After the initial excitement wore off, the pretty girl started to show her disdain.

”

I heard this doll shop has pretty good quality dolls, and they’re easy to win, why don’t I give it a try?”

Guo Weifeng stopped at the shop entrance, a smile he thought was sunny on his face.

“Really? But I don’t know how to win.”

Tong Churou maintained her signature smile, her expression perfectly controlled.

However, if Shen Yuan were here, he’d probably say her expression was a bit perfunctory.

Actually, Li Zhi was a little mistaken.

After the lower realm witch entered the upper realm, she discovered that seducing the upper realm was much easier than the lower realm.

Although the upper realm’s geniuses were exceptionally intelligent, precisely because of this, they had very little experience in love.

Unlike the lower realm, where love was often passionate and intense.

The upper realm’s geniuses were busy with their antics.

The lower realm witch, with a few simple tricks, could easily bewitch the geniuses before her.

Hearing Tong Churou’s words, Guo Weifeng smiled brightly: “It’s okay, winning a doll is all about having fun.”

Guo Weifeng scanned 100 yuan on the machine.

This feeling of spending “a fortune” made him feel good about himself.

Guo Weifeng’s family was well-off; 100 yuan was nothing to him.

Watching the game tokens flow out with a clatter, Tong Churou’s face also showed an expectant expression.

Of course, this was accompanied by her words.

“Weifeng, so many game tokens! I’ve never seen so many in my life!”

Hearing this, Guo Weifeng wished he could spend another 100 yuan to hear the clattering sound of the tokens.

Seeing Guo Weifeng’s satisfied expression, a hint of displeasure flashed in Tong Churou’s eyes.

What is he muttering about? With the time it takes to play this claw machine, I could have learned a whole new concept!