I Want to Be the Ten Lords' Dog! / From Today On, I'll Work Myself to the Bone at the Divination Commission!

The ones who were also questioned included Stelle, Tingyun, and several craftsmen from the Craftsmanship Department connected to Diting.

Ouyang had already gone to bed. But when he heard the person on the other end of the phone say that March 7th and Stelle had been caught stealing someone else's stockings with Diting and needed him to take them home, his first reaction was:

"This day and age, scammers don't even try anymore?"

Then he took a look and realized, sure enough, it was March 7th's phone.

After arriving at the Cloud-Knight guard station and taking them home, Ouyang didn't sleep the entire night, even after March 7th and Stelle had both fallen asleep.

All night, he kept thinking about one question.

"What's going on with March 7th? Why did she start acting strange after arriving on the Xianzhou? This isn't like her at all. Could it be that after Stelle fell in love with trash cans, March 7th is going to start acting strange too?"

Jing Yuan Yuan was another person who stayed awake all night.

"This surprise soldier... isn't she a little too strange? It was a misunderstanding, but..."

"So the Nameless of the Astral Express have such unique tastes?"

Fortunately, Jing Yuan Yuan was considerate of his subordinates. He had already sealed the news before Fu Xuan returned, ensuring that at least tonight, it wouldn't reach Fu Xuan's ears.

Otherwise, the number of sleepless people tonight would have increased by one.

Meanwhile, on the streets at night, a Fox Clan girl stood in a corner. Watching the farce finally come to an end, she revealed an amused smile.

"Hahaha."

She had infiltrated the Craftsmanship Department and secretly taken out part of the latest weapon they had produced...

Just a section of it.

It was a long spear without a spearhead. She then stripped a guard on duty and tied his clothes to it before heading to the restroom.

"These weapons are so boring. I'll show you what a real divine weapon is."

Remembering a weapon that was invincible in the world from a book she had read, she revealed a mischievous smile.

Once the weapon had taken shape, she carried it and charged toward the Cloud-Knight guard station.

And the next day's headline read:

Shocking! In retaliation against the Cloud-Knights, the Craftsmanship Department actually sent someone to use a "weapon" smeared with filthy substances to wreak havoc at the Cloud-Knight guard station, causing immense physical and psychological trauma to countless Cloud-Knight soldiers.

Alchemy Commission: Please, stop giving us more work. We just dealt with the Fox Clan incident, and now you're using human feces as a weapon? Even if you come here for treatment, could you at least wash yourselves clean first?

I Want to Be the Ten Lords' Dog!

Only when the night was deep and quiet did Fu Xuan return home.

She slowed her steps and lowered every sound before taking off her clothes and walking to the bedside.

Looking at Kiana, who had already fallen asleep and still wore a sweet smile, Fu Xuan felt that the exhaustion brought on by her busy day seemed to vanish all at once.

She had just been about to pull back the covers and hold the adorable little one as she slept.

But then she noticed that there seemed to be something by the head of the bed.

Taking advantage of the faint moonlight, Fu Xuan walked over and saw a cup of Star Taro Bobo, with a note pressed beneath it.

Good night.

There were no words of concern, but those simple words alone made Fu Xuan feel warm all over.

She carefully opened a small hole in the Star Taro Bobo and inserted the straw.

She took tiny sips.

"Today's Star Taro Bobo doesn't seem as sweet as before?"

After finishing the Star Taro Bobo, Fu Xuan lifted a corner of the blanket and carefully slipped inside.

Then she gently pulled the adorable little one into her arms and softly said, "Good night." Fu Xuan soon drifted into a dream as well.

She just didn't know whether it was her imagination.

She felt that the adorable little one in her arms seemed slightly bigger than yesterday.

At dawn, the first ray of sunlight entered the room. Kiana climbed sleepily out of the blankets and glanced at the time. It was already past eight.

Fu Xuan was already gone by then.

After changing her clothes and walking to the table, she saw that Fu Xuan had already placed the prepared dishes on it.

After eating, Kiana waited until after nine, when it was time for the Divination Department to start work, before she heard knocking at the door.

She approached and looked through the peephole. It turned out to be Qing Que.

"Hm? Sister Qing Que, aren't you going to work today? Why are you coming to see me now?"

"Yesterday, Supreme Diviner Fu Xuan asked me to look after you, so I came to pick you up right after clocking in."

But Qing Que's words were hardly credible.

Did she want to explain why she was dragging a rocking chair, hugging a salted-fish cushion, and carrying a huge bag of snacks to put on the rocking chair?

When they arrived at the Divination Department, Qing Que went straight back to her own station. She moved away the chair originally at her desk and replaced it with her own rocking chair.

She shoved the things on the desk to one side and placed all the snacks she had brought on top.

Finally, she hugged the salted-fish cushion to her chest and took an eye mask from her pocket.

Seeing Qing Que like this, the diviners around them seemed accustomed to it.

Although Qing Que was especially emboldened today because Fu Xuan was away, she wasn't much different from usual.

After all, because her slacking had become so severe, there was nowhere left to demote her.

Although Qing Que was still technically a diviner under the Divination Department, in reality, she had already become the "sect leader."

Every day, she either looked after the archive or watched the entrance, occasionally helping others bring things over. Only Fu Xuan would assign her tasks from time to time, ensuring that she could meet the minimum requirements for a diviner and wouldn't truly be demoted into becoming the "sect leader."

Kiana had no intention of stopping Qing Que from slacking.

After all, compared with stopping Qing Que from slacking, Kiana felt that getting Aha to stop seeking amusement might be more realistic.

Just like yesterday, with Fu Xuan's seat empty, Kiana sat there.

The others didn't say much. Instead, some of them kept glancing toward Kiana, and a few even took snacks from their desk drawers and fed her.

Looking at the mountain of documents and the piles of snacks and drinks, Kiana felt that she ought to do something.

If I keep getting fed and pampered like this, won't I become useless?

But then...

The moment she opened the documents on Fu Xuan's desk, Kiana felt her head grow heavy, as if she would fall asleep at any moment.

There were all sorts of strange symbols and data, along with some text. She recognized every individual character, but once they were put together, she couldn't understand any of it.

After giving up on helping Fu Xuan lessen her workload, Kiana took out her phone and wanted to see whether anything interesting had happened recently.

Instead, she saw a report about last night's vicious incident on an official Xianzhou account.

When she opened it, she initially thought it was about what March 7th had done the previous night, but it wasn't...

Shocking! In retaliation against the Cloud-Knights, the Craftsmanship Department actually sent someone to use a "weapon" smeared with filthy substances to wreak havoc at the Cloud-Knight guard station, causing immense physical and psychological trauma to countless Cloud-Knight soldiers.

Several official accounts left comments below.

Alchemy Commission: Please, stop giving us more work. We just dealt with the Fox Clan incident, and now you're using human feces as a weapon? Even if you come here for treatment, could you at least wash yourselves clean first?

Craftsmanship Department: This is slander. The Craftsmanship Department's warehouse was infiltrated yesterday. Someone destroyed the latest weapon and stole a guard's clothes. This matter has nothing to do with the Craftsmanship Department.

Cloud-Knights: Release...

Everything after the Cloud-Knight account's message was just censored asterisks. Not long after the post appeared, it disappeared completely. Upon refreshing, a statement from Jing Yuan Yuan appeared instead.

General: I am aware of this matter. All departments are requested not to allow it to cause conflict. Beware of malicious individuals using this opportunity to create chaos.

The other departments also spoke one after another, issuing their responses.

Only the Ten Lords Bureau, independent from the Six Departments, posted a meme below.

Ten Lords Bureau: Confused.jpg

Seeing the Ten Lords Bureau's adorable meme and its completely out-of-place response compared with the other six departments, people flooded the comments in a frenzy.

"So cute. I want to screw her."

"I'm XXX's dog."

They seemed to have forgotten that the judges of the Ten Lords Bureau were said to be people whom one would rather lose gold and jade than enter the underworld to meet, and would rather suffer disaster than face.

But for some reason, when Kiana looked at the wanted poster and the blurry figure in the photograph,

a familiar silhouette kept surfacing in her mind.

This kind of joyous incident couldn't possibly mean Aha had come over, right?

Kiana raised her head and noticed that, aside from a few people secretly stealing glances at her, everyone immediately looked away whenever she looked up and continued focusing on the work at hand.

Qing Que had already put on her eye mask and fallen asleep while hugging the salted-fish cushion.

No one else was paying attention to her.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Kiana sneaked out, found an empty corner, and softly called out:

"Aha is super impressive."

At that moment, a Fox Clan girl fleeing from pursuit seemed to sense something. With a flash, she slipped into the shadows of a building and closed her eyes.

Kiana closed her eyes as well. When she opened them again, a familiar scene and familiar voice came drifting over.

Starting Today, I'll Outwork the Divination Department to Death!

No one knew what had happened during that brief moment.

No one knew what Kiana and Aha had talked about.

But it wasn't long before the incident of the Craftsmanship Department launching a night raid on the Cloud-Knights with a weapon of mass destruction was quickly suppressed.

At the same time, after returning from her meeting with Aha, Kiana was completely different, as if she had become another person.

Several diviners who secretly slacked off while sneaking glances at Kiana felt an aura around her that was similar to the one they sensed from their Supreme Diviner.

It was the sort of aura that could work the other laborers to death.

When they saw Kiana take out a pen and a stack of documents from Fu Xuan's desk, they were just about to stop her.

But in the next moment, they saw Kiana take out a fresh stack of white paper and begin writing something on it. Only then did they relax.

Someone came behind Kiana while bringing her snacks.

They initially thought Kiana was practicing calligraphy or copying something.

But unexpectedly, the contents on the white paper really were Kiana's attempts to process Fu Xuan's official documents. What was more, many of her approaches were extremely concise and clear.

Even the diviners who had been working for who knew how long felt ashamed of their own inferiority.

After the first person left, she told the colleagues around her about it.

Then the news spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. Every diviner in the Divination Department soon knew about it.

Many people didn't believe it at first. But when they took snacks to feed Kiana and casually glanced at the white paper in her hand,

they fell silent...

From that point onward, aside from the lunch break, every diviner in the Divination Department worked with exceptional efficiency.

Even the Cloud-Knights responsible for guarding the place stood two inches straighter.

When Qing Que woke up from her nap, she looked at the surrounding diviners, each of them bent over their work.

She began to wonder whether she was dreaming.

Why did everyone suddenly start working so hard after I only slept for a while?

Supreme Diviner Fu Xuan isn't even here, is she?

Usually, all of you barely scrape by on the diviners' performance assessment, and you never stop slacking. Why are you working so hard today, when Supreme Diviner Fu Xuan isn't here?

But when she asked a colleague who shared her values and had the same taste for slacking, the colleague who normally discussed their slacking techniques with her said nothing.

She merely pointed at Kiana, then lowered her head and returned to working hard.