You are all bad women! Don't come over!

Shen Mochen turned around, opened his bag, and then took out a roll of brand-new, dry towel to hand to Liu Chaoyan.

"What is this?" Liu Chaoyan asked curiously.

Shen Mochen unfolded the towel, revealing a pair of white silk socks, "These are your socks, I've washed them."

Liu Chaoyan froze for a moment, then accepted them with a smile, "You've gone to a lot of trouble, you didn't have to wrap them in a towel..."

Shen Mochen also smiled, "I heard from Sister Cai that you're a bit of a clean freak, so I thought it wouldn't be good to just put them anywhere..."

Liu Chaoyan's face showed a wry smile, "It's not that serious, but thank you for the thought, you should get some rest early. I'm just across the hall from you if you need anything."

"Alright, you should rest early too, Captain."

Shen Mochen bid Liu Chaoyan farewell and then closed the door.

"Sigh..."

Although Liu Chaoyan had left, the natural fragrance lingered in the air. Shen Mochen lay in bed, thinking to himself that he had just gotten a girlfriend, and now he felt tempted by her best friend. He felt like a bit of a cad, nearly one-fifth as bad as Su Mo!

But indeed, his relationship with Xia Qingrou had been somewhat hasty, and Shen Mochen didn't know much about her... yet, it was same when he dated Catherine; he wasn't very familiar with her either.

If possible, Shen Mochen wanted to avoid getting physically intimate with Xia Qingrou, but seeing how bold and enthusiastic Qingrou was, the excuse of "no sex before marriage" might not be enough to stop her.

Shen Mochen wasn't averse to getting intimate with a great beauty like Xia Qingrou, but once they took that step, the ensuing interpersonal relationships would be quite complicated, and breaking up would require careful consideration.

What a headache... He had just started dating Xia Qingrou and was already thinking of reasons to break up with her.

However, for the time being, Xia Qingrou served as a perfect shield since he was a married man, which could avoid quite a bit of awkwardness within the team. Liu Chaoyan also knew this, which is why she didn't comment further.

Shen Mochen lay in bed, stretching out his hand, and a Light Bow, just like Xia Qingrou's, quietly appeared before him. Shen Mochen silently watched it, one second, two seconds, three seconds... the Light Bow dissipated.

With his current abilities, he could only use other people's superpowers for three seconds. Still, his superpower was weak now and far from its peak; over time, he would be able to maintain it for longer.

Come to think of it, he had touched Liu Chaoyan's socks earlier but had forgotten to copy her superpower... but there will be plenty of opportunities in the future. Shen Mochen's copying superpower also required physical contact; there will always be a chance.

Ordinary physical contact only gave him about thirty percent of the original power, which wasn't very significant. A few seconds was barely enough to deal with monsters—he could only utilize a hundred percent of the power when copying superpowers through kissing... But kissing Liu Chaoyan was out of the question, and it was unlikely with anyone else. The only one he could kiss was Xia Qingrou.

Her superpower wasn't bad either; Shen Mochen remembered her "Barrage of Arrows" and had a rough understanding of Qingrou's superpower.

"Barrage of Arrows" was meant for repelling or harassing and could be unleashed in a short period. However, its lethality against monsters was minimal. To inflict substantial damage, one needed to charge up for a long time, but with Shen Mochen's current strength, he couldn't hold on that long.

If he really faced danger, the only thing Shen Mochen could rely on was Yin Caiyu's superpower. However, Yin Caiyu was far away at the city hospital, unable to copy at will.

Shen Mochen couldn't help but think about the superpower within Tianji Star, which had not yet been activated, but he knew it had a similar effect to "Amplifier," capable of magnifying a person's superpower several times over in a short period, and it could be stacked with the copying superpower from Tianxuan Star, directly replicating and storing the amplified superpower.

If Tianji Star were ignited, amplifying Xia Qingrou's superpower and copying it would definitely become a card up his sleeve. But as soon as he amplified Xia Qingrou's superpower, the other party would surely notice immediately, and Shen Mochen's superpower could then no longer be concealed.

Perhaps while they were as close as glue, she might keep a secret for him, but once they broke up, there was no guarantee she wouldn't spill the beans to someone else. Girls are like that, loving you enough to want your survival, hating you enough to wish your death. Over the years, there had been no shortage of girls who harbored resentment toward him born of love.

Shen Mochen pondered carefully and couldn't help but feel a headache coming on. He acted very cautiously, always thinking things through. His formidable superpower didn't seem to bring much convenience to him at the moment.

The only superpower user he really trusted now was Cai Yuncui.

If he wanted to use his superpower without restraint, he would have to foster good relationships with everyone on the team and build deep friendships with them, at least ensuring they would keep tight-lipped about his superpower.

But how could there be deep friendships between men and women, seriously? Who would really believe that?

Friendship taken too far turns into love, especially among a group of women who could do anything once jealousy took hold.

Although Shen Mochen thought the girls of Squad 0819 were each one in ten thousand, he was accustomed to seeing the overt and covert struggles between them around him at school. One moment, they would be as close as sisters with different mothers, and the next, they would compete with one another to speak ill of the other to Shen Mochen as soon as they parted ways.

It wasn't that Shen Mochen lacked confidence in the members of Squad 0819, but rather he was all too confident in his own ability to bring disaster upon himself through female affection.

But these were all things he could put aside for now. The most important thing at the moment was how to fully awaken his superpower.

With the previous two experiences, Shen Mochen almost confirmed that the lighting of the Big Dipper stars was related to kissing... But he had also kissed You Feicheng, and the experiment proved that kissing the opposite sex was not the only condition.

What other conditions needed to be met? Shen Mochen pondered the similarities and differences between Yin Caiyu, Cai Yuncui, and You Feicheng.

Birthday? Blood type? Height? Weight? Or was it that the former two were superpower users, while You Feicheng was not?

If the presence of a superpower in the female partner was the determining factor, then the third star, Tianji Star, would be quite easy to ignite. After all, he now had a girlfriend in Xia Qingrou, who would definitely come asking for kisses in no time.

Shen Mochen's first kiss with Cai Yuncui did not activate Tianxuan Star; it wasn't until the second time that it activated. He speculated that it might be a pattern, to activate the first superpower with a kiss from Yin Caiyu, and the second with two kisses from Cai Yuncui. Therefore, to activate Tianji Star, all he needed was three kisses with Xia Qingrou.

If this guess was correct, Shen Mochen just needed to be not too reserved, and he'd soon complete the task.

"Knock, knock, knock..."

There was a knock at the door, accompanied by the sweet voice of Xia Qingrou.

"Honey, are you asleep～" Your adventure continues at My Virtual Library Empire

He was just thinking of her, and there she was. Shen Mochen got up to open the door, thinking to himself that if she asked for a kiss later, he might just not refuse.