Huh? Isn't This A Galgame?

Hearing the system prompt in his mind, Wen Nan's eyebrow slightly arched.

It seems that his previous suspicion was correct.

The reason he left the office midway to come to the activation point to upgrade Qiqi was because Wen Nan intended to use this activation time to wait for the cooldown of his Mind Reading Technique to end.

He needed the Mind Reading Technique to verify his suspicions regarding the identities of the three women.

However, he didn't expect that while his technique was still in cooldown, one of the women couldn't hold back and came to him proactively.

Given the situation, Wen Nan had to try to coax information without the aid of his skills.

Looking at it now, this attempt was very successful.

The three women Carl Milak left to Wen Nan weren't characters he brought in from the outside under his control, but rather Strategy Characters originally set in this instance.

That's why these three women have such far-fetched backgrounds that don't sound like they could supervise Wen Nan's work professionally.

It's not that Boss Mi is too lazy or careless, but because the backgrounds of these three women were predefined in the instance, and no matter how high Boss Mi's skill level is, he has no authority to alter the system settings of the instance.

And according to the settings, these Strategy Characters weren't supposed to intersect with Wen Nan at all; forcibly deploying them now naturally seems very awkward.

This awkwardness is something Boss Mi clearly doesn't care about; he knows Wen Nan would surely find the inconsistencies, so from the start, he disdained hiding them.

Moreover, the work demands he let the three women bring to Wen Nan were also a kind of hint—Wen Nan needs to satisfy the three women, which is tantamount to Boss Mi making a statement: since you like overachieving in Strategy Characters, I've sent the characters to you, let's see if you can conquer them all.

That's why Boss Mi can confidently leave the three women with Wen Nan without worrying that he would drop everything and walk away halfway—Boss Mi sent the Strategy Characters from the instance, which to Wen Nan is like getting a pillow when sleepy, such goodwill is something Wen Nan has no reason to refuse.

As for why he sent the Strategy Characters to Wen Nan?

One possibility is to use this way to keep Wen Nan occupied so that he wouldn't interfere with his own plans.

Another possibility is that because these Strategy Characters' initial matches were members of Boss Mi's guild, he needed to use Wen Nan's hand to free these guild members from the constraints of the instance's main quest, making it easier for them to follow Boss Mi's commands.

Or possibly, for some other reason that Wen Nan temporarily couldn't guess.

No matter what the reason, Wen Nan had originally planned to dig out all the Strategy Characters, and now that the other side "kindly" saved him the trouble, Wen Nan gladly accepted.

However, Wen Nan needed to confirm in advance if his guess was correct—otherwise, if he gauged it wrong and Boss Mi hadn't thought that far, and had genuinely just placed the characters he mastered beside Wen Nan, then Wen Nan acting out to strategize them would be a lose-lose situation.

So boldly hypothesizing while cautiously verifying, Wen Nan still decided to wait for the Mind Reading Technique.

However, he didn't expect Xiao Fei to be so impatient and actually approached in advance.

Wen Nan had no choice but to turn to bold verification—

Assume his guess was correct, knowing A. the option of the ice-cold beauty is Zhuang Yichen, C. the option of the newlywed beauty is Xu Zhenzhen, and G. the option of the hidden character is Yu Shujun, then these three women can only correspond to three of the remaining four options.

Among these three, Xiao Fei is the youngest, just in her early twenties, which rules out E. the option of the Mother of Chests, and her job as a newly hired customer service rep also makes it unlikely for her to be B. the option of the Landlord, leaving D. the option of the Brother Complex Younger Sister, and F. the option of the Childlike Older Sister.

As Wen Nan was trying to determine which of these two identities Xiao Fei actually held, he suddenly heard her call him "Brother," so naturally as if she often called someone that at home.

With that, her identity became clear.

Following her lead in the conversation, Wen Nan lightly engaged her, and soon, a system prompt was triggered.

Pressing [Confirm], Wen Nan teased, "You have a brother at home and yet call someone else brother outside?"

Xiao Fei earnestly looked into Wen Nan's eyes, "Before I met you, I thought my brother was the man who attracted me most in this world, but after meeting you, I realized I was wrong; your allure is far stronger than his."

Speaking, Xiao Fei reached out, took Wen Nan's hand, and pressed his palm against her chest, "I've never met a man as perfect as you; as long as you're willing, you can be my one and only brother from now on."

Wen Nan quietly looked at her, saying nothing.

His gaze unfocused, he saw in his mind, as expected, an introduction to this morbid sister's background.

Deep in thought, Wen Nan felt a sharp pain on his finger, bringing him back to reality, and saw that at some point, Xiao Fei had put his finger in her mouth, nibbling like a small rodent.

Surprise flickered in Wen Nan's eyes, thinking that in addition to her obsessive and dependent personality disorders, she seemed to have cannibalistic tendencies, which was quite troubling.

Lost in thought, he didn't notice the astonishment on Xiao Fei's face as she let go, staring blankly at Wen Nan, and asked, "Why aren't you afraid or say it hurts when I bite you?"

Wen Nan was taken aback by her question, then chuckled lightly, "I'm not afraid of pain."