Peach-Orange! – Chapter 263 – New Directions for Yandere Tao-Tao’s Cultivation

Despite her unwillingness, Su Tao didn’t dare directly stimulate Chi Xiaocheng’s memories.

The result was that she began packing her belongings from the room.

Pillows, clothes, grooming tools….

Her presence in the room was gradually disappearing.

And the one erasing these traces was none other than herself.

Holding a set of her pajamas, Su Tao cast one last hopeful glance at Chi Xiaocheng.

The petite girl with chestnut-brown hair sat on the bed with her back turned, already changed into comfortable shorts. Her fair, delicate legs were slightly distracting as she swung her sock-clad feet cheerfully while typing on her phone.

Su Tao didn’t dare approach to see who she was chatting with.

Lowering her head dejectedly, she walked out of the room.

Naturally, she didn’t notice that the moment she turned away, Chi Xiaocheng also glanced at her retreating figure.

Quietly putting on her Status Glasses, Chi Xiaocheng curled her lips into a meaningful smile.

[Su Tao]

[Height: 166cm]

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[Weight: 96→97]

[Size: C]

[Current Status: Self-blame, Lack of Confidence, Impatience, Overindecisiveness, Self-avoidance, Mild Mental Distraction, Mild Self-loathing, Mild Stress, Mild Delusion]

[Ordinary Favorability Toward Host: 99 (She has completely regarded you as the most important person in her life)]

[Romantic Favorability Toward Host: 71→75 (During your memory disorder period, she has fully acknowledged her feelings for you and clearly understands she feels jealous when you interact with others. Fang Ning, Dongfang Yang, and Si Chen have all been subconsciously marked as potential rivals due to her insecurity. Even with lingering gender-related hesitations, she deeply wishes you would love her as before. However, this hastily developed affection remains unstable, and self-forced progress will slow down increasingly.)]

[Possessive Favorability Toward Host: 65→69 (Your memory disorder has made her anxious and conflicted. She feels impulses to claim you but fears hurting you by triggering memories. Subconsciously, she believes your relationship is steadily improving and that given time, things will return to how they were. Your deliberate closeness with Fang Ning and others has triggered her defensive instincts, subconsciously raising her possessiveness. But for further growth, she may need to confront the possibility of losing you.)]

The stats had improved, but Chi Xiaocheng still wasn’t satisfied with the margin.

According to the system’s explanation, without a new breakthrough, the latter two favorability metrics were approaching their current limits.

To push possessiveness past 70, she needed stronger medicine.

As for pure romantic favorability stalling at 75, that was within Chi Xiaocheng’s expectations.

Affection born from self-imposed pressure could never become true love. She’d predicted it would plateau around 80.

Without experiencing deeper emotional connections, further growth would be difficult.

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For now, cultivating possessiveness seemed easier.

With her now ample Emotional Points reserve, Chi Xiaocheng began browsing the Status Glasses’ upgrade options.

Earlier, when preparing to confront Lin Fangya, her spending had drained her Emotional Points below 3,000. She couldn’t even afford a Poisoned Apple anymore.

But to her surprise, during her “friendly exchange” with Lin Fangya, this cannon-fodder side character had generated an enormous amount of Emotional Points in that short timespan!

Not only did it cover that night’s expenses, she even ended up with more than before!

Her current Emotional Points had soared to 5,500!

Lin Fangya’s suffering had explosively contributed nearly 3,000 Points.

This “charging treasure” outperformed even Chu Lingfeng.

Minor characters like her, with low narrative weight, typically provided negligible Emotional Points.

Take Chen Qian for example. Though named in the original work, even during intense emotional fluctuations, she only offered meager single-digit Point gains.

Chi Xiaocheng had assumed Lin Fangya would be the same. Unexpectedly, as the character’s narrative significance grew, so did her Point value.

According to the system, if left unchecked, Lin Fangya, now favored by the World Will, might have evolved into another major antagonist on par with Ye Liang.

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In Jiuzhou City, truly pivotal characters were scarce. With Dongfang Yang, Si Chen, and others aligning closer to Su Tao and Chi Xiaocheng, Chu Lingfeng’s connections dwindled, reducing his presence and plot relevance.

Even as a protagonist, his current arc remained dormant.

As for the wealthy female antagonist who practically embodied the World Will, her time hadn’t come yet.

With Ye Liang, the original central antagonist, dead, the World Will had no choice but to elevate Lin Fangya instead.

This unexpectedly skyrocketed her importance within the novel’s world.

Chi Xiaocheng’s extreme measures last night had, unintentionally, eliminated a future high-threat villain.

Now with ample Emotional Points, she could finally explore the Status Glasses’ upgrade paths:

[Status Glasses Upgrade Path 1: Physical Attributes (1,000 Points) – Allows viewing the target’s specific attachments to your physical traits. Example (Su Tao): Lips (Mild Addiction), Hair (Fondness), Feet (Mild Yearning)…]

[Status Glasses Upgrade Path 2: External Configurations (2,000 Points) – Reveals the target’s favorability metrics toward people around you. Example (Su Tao): Displays Su Tao’s favorability data toward Dongfang Yang, Fang Ning, etc.]

[Status Glasses Upgrade Path 3: Custom Metrics (3,000 Points) – Enables customizing visible metrics for individuals, including loaning the glasses. Example: Letting Su Tao wear them to see your true favorability toward her, or fabricated values you set.)]

Beyond these, there were more advanced (and expensive) upgrade options.

But with her current Points, those were just tantalizing out of reach.

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The first option was irrelevant, but the second and third intrigued her, especially Custom Metrics.

Imagine Su Tao accidentally wearing the Status Glasses and discovering their function….

What if she saw Chi Xiaocheng’s favorability toward her displayed as zero, or even negative?

The possibilities made Chi Xiaocheng hesitate to dwell on them.

As described, this upgrade enabled loaning the glasses out, opening new avenues for “cultivating” Tao-Tao.

The mere thought of Su Tao realizing “her Xiaocheng” no longer belonged to her, desperately spiraling toward darkness, made Chi Xiaocheng hum with quiet delight.

But for now, things hadn’t reached that stage.

Swaying her head lightly, she opened her phone and tapped into Dr. Cheng’s chat. Within ten seconds—

Ding—! A message arrived from the ID “Peach” (a.k.a. the adorable Tao-Tao).

The little loli’s lips curled into a mischievous smirk.

‘Oh Xiaocheng, playing with Tao-Tao like this… how cunning of you~’