To be honest, Yu Sheng hadn't been surprised that Luo agreed. What caught him off guard was how readily she had agreed—he had originally thought he would have to argue with this elven big sister for at least an hour, going over everything from benefits to rules to the inn's "corporate culture." After all, what he was essentially doing was dragging her over to work for free after stealing her space station. Even Eileen had nagged him at home, saying that what he'd done was seriously lacking in decency...
As it turned out, Luo didn't even let him finish his prepared spiel.
"...You're awfully agreeable," Yu Sheng couldn't help grumbling, since things had gone far too smoothly. "Aren't you worried this is a trap?"
"At least I'd be jumping from a deep pit into a shallow one," Luo said, taking it in stride. "Wouldn't that still be better than being imprisoned long-term? Besides, with my situation, who knows when imprisonment might be upgraded to execution. If I can really get a position here, at least it means I won't have to worry about being secretly executed someday."
Yu Sheng immediately understood her logic.
For a "prisoner of war" who was trapped, helpless, and facing a bleak future, being assigned a job—even a grueling one—was far better than having nothing arranged for her. Even if she really was being made to jump into a pit, at least she would have some value in filling it.
Having no value was the most dangerous state a person could be in. Luo understood that all too well. Moreover, she had come from the Black Dot Group, where competition was brutal and order was cold. That place had taught her this rule long ago.
Of course, Yu Sheng remained skeptical of Luo's claim that she