Relief and the Meeting

"It was her, not him!"

Lin Qi corrected Penny's mistake in the sentence.

In the Common Language, "she" and "he" were not the same word. There was also a collective pronoun covering he/she/it, leaning more toward the neutral, but it was only used under certain special circumstances.

When the object's gender was obviously known, it was better to specify the correct form of address clearly, to avoid trouble.

The maid's face instantly flushed bright red. Penny knelt on the sofa, clutching the maid's skirt, her eyes glittering with some... very strange light.

Lin Qi glanced at the carpet. "This carpet cost me more than forty thousand..."

The maid's body began to tremble slightly. More than forty thousand—that was not a price she could afford.

In fact, nothing in this room was something she could afford—not at least with what she could afford now.

Take those inconspicuous cups, for example. They were custom-made by some high-end brand. In truth, they were no different from those forty-nine-cent cups, and their designs were barely any different either.

But with the addition of a brand logo and a designer's signature, a glass that might even have come from a glass furnace could go from selling for forty-nine cents on the street to nearly a hundred in a high-end shopping mall cabinet.

"We have to punish her severely!" Penny stressed, her rear end seemingly sprouting a devil's tail that wagged furiously.

Last time, she had been beaten as well because of her mistake. This time, she would not be stupid enough to get beaten again. She would be the one doing the beating.

Lin Qi nodded slightly. "But I saw you deliberately knock the cup over. You'll have to bear some responsibility too..."

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