The Cooldown Failed, and the Love Triangle Exploded

I got bound to a System that kept desperately telling me not to date. Jiang Che, a second-year computer science student at Linjiang University, is a total straight-laced guy with zero romantic experience. On the second day of the semester, he was chosen by the “Romance Risk-Hedging System.” Every girl has an affection meter over her head. If it crosses the danger threshold, the System forces him to cool things off: make the campus belle roll her eyes, get his senior to say he's so annoying, and make his childhood friend give him the cold shoulder. The System's logic is flawless: romance makes you lose money, fall behind in your studies, lose your wits, and lose face. Jiang Che did as he was told. He did it seriously, and he did it with all his might. And then... the icy campus belle cracked around him, the energetic underclassman publicly declared him hers, the tsundere senior cursed him out while protecting him with her actions, the girl next door showed up at his door with soup, and a mysterious lead singer wrote his name into her lyrics. All five affection meters shot through the roof. The whole campus was watching the drama unfold, and the System crashed. The more he tried to cool things off, the more obsessed they became. The day the System gave up, it handed him a weekly schedule: Monday: deliver soup. Tuesday: study together. Wednesday: milk tea. Thursday: check in. Friday: rehearsal. Jiang Che: “How do you know more about this than I do?” System: 【You forced me into it. In three hundred years on the job, I've never seen anyone turn lowering affection into a confession accelerator.】 This is the story of a proper System that was driven by a straight-laced guy into becoming a master of managing a romantic battlefield.