Great Xia.
Lin Qiye pushed open the office door and strode inside.
Shen Qingzhu was leaning against the window, smoking. When he saw Lin Qiye arrive, he lightly flicked the cigarette butt, shattering it into powder that drifted out the window.
"Is everything ready?"
"Yeah, it's already been printed on." Lin Qiye sat down beside the office chair and smiled. "But those Olympus gods probably won't understand what it means for another couple of days..."
"True. They don't understand Chinese."
"How's the battle on your end?"
"I killed one. The other got away."
"Just bad luck... The northern border, where we stationed the most people, only got one god, while two showed up at the southern border all at once. It's already impressive that you managed to keep one." Lin Qiye nodded approvingly.
Shen Qingzhu clearly did not see it that way. His brows remained tightly furrowed; letting an Outer God escape left him deeply annoyed.
"Oh, right. Xia Simeng came by earlier."
"Her? What did she want?"
"At first, she sneakily cracked the door open and tried to come in. When she found me inside, she awkwardly laughed for ages, then left a document on your desk and went away."
Hearing this, Lin Qiye's mouth twitched. He did not even need to look at the document on the desk to know what it was.
"That woman has requested leave four times in half a year. Once, she said she had tuberculosis. Once, she said she had hemorrhoids. Once, she said she was going home for a blind date. Then she said her mother had given her a younger brother... If I remember right, her mother is nearly sixty already, isn't she?"
Complaints aside, after a moment, Lin Qiye still sighed and reached out to read it.
"Let's see what