After Lin Fan repeatedly stressed that Zhou Yan was the financier who had lent them money, and that he had specifically invited him over to help her find a job, Long Yue finally gave up on the idea of killing him and burying the body. She sat down peacefully on the living room sofa.
The moment she sat down, Zhou Yan cheerfully called out again:
"Sister-in-law~ You and that kid Lin Fan are such a perfect match!"
Long Yue: "...!"
Long Yue's cheek twitched slightly, and the killing intent she had finally managed to suppress flared up again.
Seeing this, Lin Fan quickly pressed down on her hand and changed the subject with Zhou Yan.
"By the way, Yanzi, do you have any jobs you could recommend?"
"Oh! You've finally come around and decided not to write novels anymore?" Zhou Yan asked delightedly.
Lin Fan shook his head.
"You misunderstood. I'm not asking you to recommend one for me. I want you to help her find a suitable job."
As he spoke, Lin Fan turned to look at Long Yue beside him.
Following his gaze to Long Yue, Zhou Yan wore an expression of sudden realization and immediately patted his chest in assurance.
"So it's a job for sister-in-law. Don't worry, I've got plenty of good jobs I can recommend."
Zhou Yan called her sister-in-law with every other word. Long Yue clenched her delicate fist in anger, but still forced herself to endure it, repeatedly telling herself inwardly:
This guy is here specifically to help me find a job. I can't kill him... At least, not yet...
"Um... Sister-in-law, can you use office software? Things like making spreadsheets and compiling data?" Zhou Yan asked.
"Of... office...?"
Long Yue looked utterly bewildered as she blankly turned to Lin Fan.
She had thought she already understood quite a bit about this world, yet Zhou Yan had stumped her with his very first question.
She had never even heard such an advanced term before...
"Yanzi, she's never used a computer before, so she doesn't understand any of that," Lin Fan explained on Long Yue's behalf.
Even among today's college students, not many could skillfully use office software, let alone her.
At present, she had only figured out how to order takeout and shop online with her phone. She only vaguely understood its other apps as well. Asking her to work on a computer was truly making things difficult for her.
"I see..."
When Zhou Yan heard that Long Yue did not understand computers, he was not particularly surprised.
There really were quite a few girls these days who rarely used computers and were complete beginners. Some had not even touched a computer until they went to college, so he was used to it.
After thinking some more, Zhou Yan seemed to recall something. His eyes lit up, and he introduced another option.
"My uncle's company needs a records manager. Sister-in-law, you'd only need to print documents, hand out materials before meetings, turn on the projector in advance, and make the preparations before the meeting. How about it?"
"Printing documents... projector...?"
Long Yue's brows furrowed slightly as she once again looked at Lin Fan in confusion.
Lin Fan sighed helplessly and had no choice but to explain to Zhou Yan again.
"Yanzi, it's not just computers. She doesn't understand any electronic devices at all. She only recently learned how to watch TV and use a phone..."
"Do you have anything simpler?"
"Huh...?"
Zhou Yan's expression changed in shock as he stared at Long Yue in utter disbelief.
It was already the twenty-first century. Even children these days knew how to play with phones, yet there were still people who had only just learned to watch TV and use a phone?
Just how primitive had sister-in-law's life been before this?
She looked like a classic Eastern beauty, and she spoke Chinese too. It was not as though she had been smuggled in from some remote corner of Africa...
Not understanding electronics meant she could say goodbye to many relatively easy office jobs. But since he was finding work for his own sister-in-law, he certainly could not give her some exhausting dead-end job.
Zhou Yan frowned and pondered for a moment. Then, seeming to think of something, he asked:
"Then, sister-in-law, is your handwriting pretty?"
"My mother sometimes gets too busy to handle everything alone, and she needs someone to help write documents for her. The requirements aren't high. As long as your handwriting looks nice, that's enough."
"I can do that!"
Long Yue's eyes lit up. Excited, she searched through the living room and found a fountain pen and a sheet of white paper, then skillfully began writing on it.
After waiting so long, they had finally asked about something she was good at!
Zhou Yan craned his neck forward, his face full of anticipation.
However, as Long Yue formed each stroke on the paper, the anticipation on his face immediately turned to astonishment.
It was not that her handwriting looked bad. On the contrary, it was graceful and lively, flowing as freely as dragons soaring and phoenixes dancing. But the problem was... it did not look like Chinese characters!
As a college student, he could not understand a single character!
"How is it~?"
Long Yue held up the writing on the paper for everyone to see, looking utterly confident.
She could not boast about anything else, but she had complete confidence in her handwriting.
As the Empress of the Extreme Saint Heavenly Palace, she often had to review official documents. Writing was no problem for her whatsoever.
Everyone in the Immortal Realm who had seen her handwriting had praised it without exception!
Zhou Yan leaned closer and examined it carefully again and again, then awkwardly pointed to the words on the paper.
"Uh... Sister-in-law, your handwriting is really beautiful, but why can't I understand what you wrote?"
"It looks like there are traces of Chinese characters in it, but it doesn't quite look like them either. What script is this?"
"Immortal Script~!"
Long Yue held her head high and puffed out her chest, looking proud.
Immortal Script had initially borrowed from ancient human Chinese. Over time, it had gradually absorbed and evolved through modifications unique to the Immortal Race, becoming the writing system of the Immortal Realm. Thus, it was called Immortal Script.
Immortal Script resembled ancient Chinese characters, but was far more intricate and complicated. Ordinary mortals generally could not write it, deliberately emphasizing the noble status of the Immortal Race.
"Immortal Script...?"
Zhou Yan looked stunned, unsure what to say for a moment.
Growing up, he had encountered regular script, Song-style script, clerical script, and other styles. This was the first time he had ever heard of Immortal Script...
Lin Fan let out a soft sigh, wearing an expression that said he had expected this.
He had long heard that the Immortal Realm had its own unique Immortal Script system. Long Yue had been born in the Immortal Realm and naturally learned only Immortal Script.
She had only been on Blue Star for a month. Calling her understanding of this world infant-like would not be an exaggeration.
Even the pinyin she had been learning recently came from the Xinhua Dictionary he had bought for her. At present, she had to slowly type out pinyin one letter at a time for ages just to enter a few words. How could she possibly write official documents...
"Yanzi, actually, your sister-in-law has never been to school. She isn't very good at writing, and she's still in the beginner stage..."
Lin Fan leaned close to Zhou Yan's ear and explained in a helpless whisper.
"Huh??"
Zhou Yan was shocked once again. When he looked at Long Yue again, it was as though he were looking at some rare species.
Not only did sister-in-law know nothing about electronic devices, she had never even gone to school!?
He had thought the phrase "a fish that slipped through the net of nine years of compulsory education" was merely a joke made by goofy internet users. He had not expected such a person to truly exist...
And that person was his sister-in-law...
She had never gone to school and knew absolutely nothing about electronic devices. What kind of job could she even do...?
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