"Wow, where is this? Where's the big shot? Why did the big shot disappear?"
Little Cabbage looked around in panic.
"Am I not your big shot?" Yu Nv Wu Gua Guo Xiaoyun tilted her head beside her.
"Stop joking, boss!" Little Cabbage looked like she was about to cry. "What can the two of us, with our bean sprouts, even do?"
Guo Xiaoyun glanced at Little Cabbage, who had curled into a ball of flesh. "You're being modest. A bean sprout wouldn't be your kind of species..."
"Waaah, you're still making sarcastic comments at a time like this..."
"I'm only telling the truth..." Guo Xiaoyun looked at the chubby ball of flesh and couldn't resist giving her a pinch. "You've really been raised plump and fair. Speaking of which, weren't you pretty detached from worldly concerns? How did you actually follow me in?"
"Wasn't it you who told me to come in?" Little Cabbage couldn't help saying.
"You come in just because I tell you to?" Guo Xiaoyun rolled her eyes at her. "Then why didn't you exempt my shop from taxes when I told you to?"
"I..." Little Cabbage muttered, "Alice said we couldn't make an exception like that. Otherwise, what would I do if Gou Dan and the others came asking too? Especially Wang Gou Dan—his father's shops look like they're planning to cover the entire New World!"
"So it's because of Alice?" Guo Xiaoyun stared at Little Cabbage.
"W-Well, it's not entirely because of her. Since I'm doing business, I understand that principle too..." Little Cabbage hurriedly explained.
"I mean..." Guo Xiaoyun moved a little closer and stared intently into Little Cabbage's eyes. "You came adventuring with me because of Alice?"
Little Cabbage: "..."
"No!"
After a few seconds of silence, Little Cabbage immediately retorted, "I'd never