Not long after, Shen Xingyue came down, dressed neatly. Seeing Yao Yao, the previous hostility was gone. And Yao Yao, after the baptism of her master's poem at the top of Tie Cha Mountain, became calm and happy for the rest of the day. She didn't give Shen Xingyue a cold shoulder, and even made a proactive gesture, complimenting Shen Xingyue's skin condition, saying it looked more like she was seventeen or eighteen, not twenty-seven or twenty-eight.
"Are you being sarcastic?" Shen Xingyue laughed. She knew she couldn't compare to Yao Yao in terms of youthfulness. Yao Yao's skin was like that of a primary school student, thin, and full of collagen, so delicate it could be broken by a puff of air. After all, she was a cultivator, unlike ordinary people.
"I'm telling the truth! Ask him if you don't believe me," Yao Yao shrugged the responsibility to me.
I quickly nodded in agreement, "Indeed young, very young, rosy and fair, unlike anyone else."
Shen Xingyue smiled shyly, "What do you guys want to eat? My treat."
"How much is your salary?" I suddenly asked, my mind blank. I originally intended to treat them myself, as she was part of the system, unlike me who could dig a hairpin out of a brick wall and sell it for 8 million.
Shen Xingyue was stunned for a moment, "Hmm? Around three to five hundred thousand a year, with bonuses separate. What's wrong?"
Alright, I was being shallow. I didn't expect their Shabiya's income to be so high.
"Oh my, it's a blind date, of course, we have to ask about income," Yao Yao interjected from the side, "to 'help me out.'"
Shen Xingyue looked at Yao Yao suspiciously, "You... don't mind me going on a blind date with him?"
"Why would I mind? That's between you two. Him and I," Yao Yao put her arm around my shoulder, "are mainly in a master-disciple relationship!"
"...Master is right," I said with a wry smile. It was true, the last blind date had been interrupted halfway through, and the two parties had been at odds for days, and it wasn't even finished yet!
"Then what's your income?" Shen Xingyue asked with a smile, "I haven't asked you either, have I?"
"You did," I replied, "Back then, I hadn't resigned yet. My annual salary was one hundred thousand, with basically no bonuses."
"And now?" Shen Xingyue asked again.
"Now... I guess I'm working for my master?" I shrugged the responsibility to Yao Yao again.
"Oh, I see," Yao Yao nodded and thought for a moment, "In any case, it won't be less than Captain Shen's! If it's not enough, Master will make up for it! If Master can't make up for it, don't you still have eight employees? You probably don't even know this, but last night they tried a live stream selling cosmetics, and in just two hours, they made over 400,000!"
This truly shocked me. I really didn't know about this.
Shen Xingyue was also confused and whispered, "You two actually let demons... do live streaming?"
"Having a skill and being self-reliant. If they can earn money themselves, they won't harm humans." I added a crucial sentence at the right time, because I knew what Shen Xingyue cared about. She was afraid that these demons, sealed for four hundred years, would emerge and be incompatible with the modern world. Each of them was incredibly powerful, capable of walking around with impunity and bullying humans.
Shen Xingyue's brow relaxed slightly, "Alright, I'll check out their live stream room when I have time."
"Oh, let's go, I'm starving," Yao Yao said, linking her left arm through mine and her right arm through Shen Xingyue's, and walked outside.
Shen Xingyue froze in place for a moment, but did not refuse such intimate contact.
If outsiders saw us, they would probably think Yao Yao and I were a couple, and Shen Xingyue was Yao Yao's best friend. Generally speaking, a trio appearing in this formation would often lead to the best friend also having an affair with the male lead—onlookers always enjoyed such gossip.
The sky had already darkened outside. The three of us strolled through the streets and alleys of Benxi City. After a long search, we finally found a trendy skewer restaurant and took a private room. We ate skewers and chatted.
Shen Xingyue was on vacation, so both sides temporarily put aside their identities, dropped their guard, and had no secrets—there weren't any secrets to begin with, they knew each other well.
This setting dictated that the conversation was all over the place. At first, I was worried they would clash, and I was ready to intervene at any moment. But as we talked, I realized they were both more eloquent than me, no different from social girls their age. Surprisingly, the seemingly introverted Yao Yao had a more outgoing personality, while Shen Xingyue, with her dignified appearance, had a touch of the shy neighborly girl.
However, when the conversation turned to Qi sensing techniques, Shen Xingyue really opened up...