"I'm glad my looks helped with the roll of the dice."

"I'd also probably try to sleep in their bed, I'm currently staying on some guy's couch and there are cockroaches. But the point is. You're hot."

"I-i can promise my bed contains no cockroaches and does contain me."

"A big improvement. So what do you do other than not look at Tiktok, not jerk off to porn, and not buy nice clothes?"

"I-- work in HR?"

"I mean for fun."

"I, uh-- I am working on fixing the problem where I basically did not do anything for fun."

"SSRIs help with that. Incidentally."

"I hear therapy does too."

"I've never really lived in one place long enough to get a therapist but I bet it helps."

"Pill would be a lot easier to pick up and carry around than a therapist."

"Also you can buy them from sketchy Indian pharmacies."

"That would help too." Acquiring therapists from sketchy Indian pharmacies would probably be kidnapping.

A few hours later, Wen Ning is in bed with Nie Huaisang, learning that enthusiasm doesn't totally replace experience when it comes to kissing. 

It's...not ideal, but unfortunately there's not a good way to skip the kind of incompetent phase. (Unless he levels and dumped the points into... ART, probably?)

But he can follow instruction, and that's worth something.

"So, what are you into?"

"--You know the thing where I only started doing fun things very recently?"

"So what you're saying is that you have no idea which end of the rope you'd like to be on."

"...how, uh, literal is this rope?"

He has made a Grave Error somewhere, but he's not sure where. "I, um... kissing is... good?" he says, trying to re-rail this conversation.

"You got sucked off in a dressing room and you don't know what bondage is?!"

"...y-yes?"

"Okay, so, some people like being tied up-- because they like the sensation or aesthetics of rope, or they like feeling out of control, or it's relaxing to know that you don't have to do anything because you can't even move--"

"--right. I, uh, definitely don't know which end of the rope I like."