"Yo, friend."
".Yo, Boss."
Fate always loved arranging all kinds of awkward chance encounters, especially when an employee who had skipped work and run off ended up on the same vehicle as their boss heading home after work. It was too realistic, making the scene rather awkward for a while.
".We weren't skipping work. Didn't things blow up back then? The whole city was going boom boom boom, even Rule-level big shots were personally going all out. People at our level couldn't help, so we withdrew to the outskirts. Then we received an emergency evacuation notice outside, and that's how we ended up here..."
"Go on. I'm listening."
Lu PingAn smiled, placing enormous pressure on the Male Dancer Trio before him.
"You're a magnanimous man, please spare us!"
At last, Liu Xing dropped to his knees and slid forward.
"Thank you for helping us. Without you, we'd still be suffering in the Sea of Bitterness."
This one was even more thorough, directly hugging his thigh.
The way he started crying at the drop of a hat, with such heartfelt, freely flowing tears, had probably been honed during his time at the dance hall.
But hearing him say that made Lu PingAn feel oddly conflicted.
Before I pulled you out, you were a male dancer in a border city. After I pulled you out of "hell," you went back to being a male dancer. Is there even a difference? Uh, maybe the money you earned back then was yours, so it went from hell to heaven?
"Why are you dragging me? I'm still hatching my egg..."
Only the youngest, Lu FeiFei, still seemed a little off even after leaving the nursery.
"Heh, you guys..."
At that point, Lu PingAn finally could not help shaking his head and laughing.
"I was just