Chapter 23: I Won’t Allow This to Be a Dream!

However, at this moment, Lin Shen Xue was not wearing a JK uniform but casual home attire.

She stopped in front of Xu Lin, looked up at him, and scanned him from head to toe.

At first, her gaze was full of intoxication and happiness, but soon she frowned.

She reached out and touched Xu Lin’s arm.

Xu Lin subconsciously wanted to react, but not a single muscle in his body could move.

He could only watch wide-eyed as the other’s hand touched his arm inch by inch, unable even to speak.

Touching Xu Lin’s arm, Lin Shen Xue murmured to herself.

“As expected, this model still lacks details…”

“Today I finally got close to observe Xu Lin classmate and even held his arm…”

Her originally furrowed brows slowly relaxed, and a smile of intoxication and happiness reappeared on her face.

“It seems I need to custom-make a new batch of models with the new data.”

A batch?

Are there many more like me?

“The model’s face isn’t realistic enough either. Today I saw many details on Xu Lin classmate’s face up close, and his expressions. He seems to have been a bit heaty lately. There are small pimples on his face. Should the new model’s face include those too?”

There’s no need to replicate that, right?

Xu Lin couldn’t help but complain inwardly.

But soon he complained about himself—what situation was this that he still had the mood to complain about that?

But if not complaining, what else could he do?

He couldn’t move at all, could only watch everything, so he could only complain to relieve his mood.

Now he had confirmed that this was definitely a dream.

Though it felt very real, seeing his mannequin appearance in the mirror had already let him know.

And Lin Shen Xue’s appearance further confirmed it for him.

Because she didn’t have that tag on her.

It was just that Xu Lin couldn’t understand why he was having this dream.

When would this dream wake him up?

“The hair too; Xu Lin classmate has two cowlicks on the top of his head.”

“As expected, this current model lacks too many details. Looking at it, I can’t even properly make clothes for Xu Lin classmate. Before the new model head is made, let’s take this one off for now.”

Saying that, she looked up at Xu Lin’s head while extending both hands.

“Huh?”

She let out a surprised sound, and her extended hands stopped.

But soon, her hands moved again, slowly reaching toward Xu Lin’s head.

Is she really going to take my head off?

Xu Lin panicked in his heart.

Though it was in a dream, anyone having their head removed in a dream wouldn’t feel good.

However, as expected, he still only had his eyes that could move.

The problem was that Lin Shen Xue seemed not to notice his eye movements at this moment; her hands continued forward.

Xu Lin felt a slightly cool hand touch his cheek.

Xu Lin was horrified in his heart.

…

However, Lin Shen Xue’s hands didn’t take the next step; they just held his cheeks like that.

The touch of her hands on Xu Lin’s face gradually warmed.

Lin Shen Xue looked at Xu Lin and smiled sweetly.

This smile was more beautiful than all the smiles Xu Lin had seen from her during the day.

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

“Is it my illusion?”

Her voice sounded, and time began moving again.

“This face is exactly the same as the one I saw up close to Xu Lin classmate today.”

“Great, no need to remake this head; it’s perfect enough!”

Lin Shen Xue looked into Xu Lin’s eyes, and gradually her eyes became a bit dazed, her cheeks slightly flushed.

Xu Lin sensed the atmosphere was off; he heard a clear heartbeat, as if echoing throughout the entire room.

Her face slowly approached Xu Lin’s face.

This is.

Xu Lin widened his eyes, watching helplessly, involuntarily holding his breath.

No, from the start, it seemed he hadn’t been breathing.

Her hot breath brushed over Xu Lin’s nose tip, her lips inches away.

However, the next moment, she pulled back, her whole body appearing in front of Xu Lin again.

She covered her face with both hands, but couldn’t hide the blush spreading over her skin.

“No, no, my first kiss should be saved for Xu Lin classmate!”

She turned to look at Xu Lin again. Xu Lin also saw her exposed skin entirely flushed, like a cooked shrimp.

Then she turned and walked toward the rack with clothes not far away.

Her steps seemed so light.

Lin Shen Xue came back with several sets of clothes in hand.

She hung the clothes on the rack beside Xu Lin, then took out one set to put on him.

“Hm? Why are this model’s joints so smooth?”

While dressing Xu Lin, Lin Shen Xue made a surprised sound.

“That’s good too. Decided, keep this model.”

And Xu Lin, being dressed, only felt a wave of weirdness; he felt he couldn’t move and could only be manipulated at will.

“When will this dream wake me up? It’s a bit too long…”

He could only pray like this in his heart.

Lin Shen Xue finished dressing him.

She stepped back, looked at Xu Lin, her face full of intoxication.

“Right.”

Seeming to remember something, she stepped forward again, posing Xu Lin’s body in various positions.

For each pose, she would admire it for a while.

One set of clothes was admired in many poses by her; finally satisfied, she then changed Xu Lin into another set.

Who knows how long passed; Lin Shen Xue finally tried all the selected sets on Xu Lin.

And Xu Lin gradually accepted the fate of being posed.

After stripping Xu Lin bare again and putting away the clothes, Lin Shen Xue walked to the workbench nearby.

She fetched tools and returned to Xu Lin.

She draped a white cloth over Xu Lin, then wrote and drew on it with a pen.

After recording every part of Xu Lin’s upper body, she took the white cloth back to the workbench and began further drawing with a ruler.

“So this is how she looks when making clothes?”

Watching for so long, Xu Lin actually saw a rare side of her.

However, afterward, the more Xu Lin watched, the weirder he felt.

Lin Shen Xue used various tools and fabrics, working on him.

Sometimes frowning tightly, sometimes smiling brightly, sometimes silent, sometimes murmuring to herself.

If it were at another time, Xu Lin might think she was really seriously designing and making clothes.

But all this was happening in a dimly lit, quiet environment; he only felt inexplicably creepy.

At this moment, Xu Lin was wearing another set of clothes again; this was the new one Lin Shen Xue had just made.

“Such high efficiency?”

The sky outside hadn’t changed; it was always watery moonlight.

Logically, a piece of clothing couldn’t be made from nothing in one night, right?

“No, this is a dream!”

He suddenly remembered this fact.

He didn’t know if he was too immersed in Lin Shen Xue making clothes that he actually forgot this.

He couldn’t even determine how much time had passed since entering this dream.

Lin Shen Xue stood in front of Xu Lin, gazing at him in the newly made clothes, a satisfied smile gradually appearing on her face.

She walked up to Xu Lin and reached out toward him.

Xu Lin thought she had seen enough and was going to take off the clothes on him.

He was used to it by now and prepared to accept her manipulation.

However, the next moment, he widened his eyes.

Lin Shen Xue’s extended arms wrapped around him, pulling him into a hug.

She tiptoed, head on his shoulder, lips close to his ear.

“I know, you are actually Xu Lin classmate.”

The words from her mouth stunned Xu Lin.

The moonlight at the window disappeared, and the entire room went completely dark.

Xu Lin could hear his own thump-thump heartbeat.

Lin Shen Xue’s face appeared before him again, inches away.

“It must be just like that myth. My prayer turned you into the real Xu Lin classmate and brought you to me.”

“We can finally be together forever!”

“Forever, forever.”

Though the surroundings were pitch black, he could clearly see the happy smile on her face.

Is this really my dream?

Looking at the scene before him, Xu Lin couldn’t help but doubt in his heart.

“Dream?”

Lin Shen Xue in front of him tilted her head, showing a puzzled expression.

Wait, did I say that out loud?

“How could this be a dream?”

Her expression changed, but it was clear her heart was in intense struggle.

“This is not a dream!”

Finally, she lifted her head again, looking at Xu Lin with a face full of determination.

“I won’t allow this to be a dream!”

Xu Lin felt the force in Lin Shen Xue’s hands increase.

A powerful gravity emanated from her, capturing Xu Lin’s body.

This…

Xu Lin widened his eyes, looking at the current scene.

Beside Lin Shen Xue, a mass of black coils writhed.

In the center surrounded by the coils, the outline of two characters appeared.

But those two characters were as if in chaos, their content unclear.

Soon, they emerged from the chaos, revealing their true form.

It was a tag!

And this power felt exactly the same as in the real world.

Could it be that this really isn’t a dream?

However, at this moment, Xu Lin had no time to probe the truth.

The black mist on the tag writhed, like tentacles reaching toward Xu Lin, wrapping around him.

“No, I’m going to die!”

Xu Lin’s heart rang with alarm.

Suddenly, he felt a dull pain in his brain, and the scene before him began to blur.

But at this moment, he couldn’t even move, unable to escape.

And in this situation, where could he really escape to?

System, where’s the system?

Since the tag had appeared, where was the system now?

Xu Lin called in his heart.

Flicker.

Before his eyes, like a broken light tube, light flickered.

Some malformed semi-transparent text floated before him.

It was the system!

But he still recognized the familiar system interface.

As if responding to his surprise, the system interface finally slowly fully appeared before him.

And at this moment, he also felt he regained control of his body.

“Great!”

However, soon it was as if a basin of cold water was poured over him; his joy completely dissipated.

He did regain body control, but still couldn’t move a muscle.

Because Lin Shen Xue’s arms hugging him and the surrounding gravity capturing him left him no way to exert force.

This reappearing system couldn’t bring a breakthrough either.

He had nothing on hand to synthesize; just having tags was useless.

Could it be that since it’s a dream, I can summon items by imagining?

Good idea!

Thinking this, he quickly silently chanted mineral water and Florida Water in his mind.

He decided to go all out.

By the third chant, he indeed felt the sensation of holding something in his hands.

He looked left and right at his hands; sure enough, one held mineral water, the other Florida Water.

It really works!

As expected of a dream!

He quickly made the tags and synthesized with the two items.

Synthesis successful.

Just holding these two things made his mind feel much better.

Use them quickly!

Thinking this, Xu Lin’s hands moved.

?

However, the hands had just moved a bit and could go no further.

He looked over and saw his hands bound by the black mist from Lin Shen Xue.

So it’s this!

Xu Lin clenched his teeth, fighting against the black mist’s power.

However, even using all his strength, he couldn’t resist that binding force.

“Xu Lin classmate, is it because you don’t want to be with me that you say this is a dream?”

Lin Shen Xue’s voice came.

Her voice was low and hoarse, completely different from her usual soft tone.

Xu Lin’s mind seemed to ring with an alarm.

Before his eyes, the system interface automatically switched to the tag status page.

At this moment, the progress bar beside Lin Shen Xue’s Unstable · Moderate was rapidly increasing.

This speed—if only his file copy progress bar could be this fast.

But now he wished this progress bar was as slow as his usual file copying!

At this rate, in a few minutes, it would directly cross Unstable · Moderate, become severe, critical, and finally that bloody.

This was just a dream; how could it be so dangerous?

And at this moment, he only felt his head heavy and feet light; the more he thought, the more his brain hurt.

Yet he could only watch the two items in his hands, unable to use them.

“Wait, since the items appeared, having them open themselves isn’t hard, right?”

Xu Lin quickly focused his mind, silently chanting open open while imagining them opening in his mind.

However, the pain in his brain made it hard to concentrate.

His mind gradually became dazed.

“Xu Lin classmate, we’re almost able to be together forever.”

Lin Shen Xue’s voice came from far away, like hands tearing at his remaining will.

A tearing sting came from his brain.

But it was precisely this sting that kept his nearly sinking consciousness clear for a moment.

He tightly grasped that moment of clarity, using all his strength to imagine the mineral water and Florida Water opening.

!

Bang.

Two explosion sounds.

Xu Lin felt the things in his hands burst.

Warm and cool sensations came to his two hands respectively.

Instantly his mind cleared.

A feeling of smoothness and peace intertwined in his body.

He felt as if he were floating in the air.

Bang.

The sound of a heavy object falling came.

Intense pain came from Xu Lin’s back.

He opened his eyes and found himself lying on his back.

Woke up?

Xu Lin was delighted, quickly sat up, and looked around.

However, the expected dorm scene didn’t appear; he was still in that sewing studio.

In the dimness, Lin Shen Xue’s figure appeared even darker in the room.

The power steamed on her.

At this moment, Xu Lin had escaped Lin Shen Xue’s binding.

No, why am I still in this dream?!

Things seemed not over yet.