This was the first time Jiang Han had ever gotten back money she had lent someone... She was a little surprised. Generally speaking, girls who were living under someone else's roof and started repaying their debts less than a month in were rare, weren't they?
Or rather, you could still occasionally see them in 1994, but by 2004, this type of girl would probably be completely extinct, right?
"Where are you working?" she asked out of concern.
Miss Liang Cuoyu, her eyelids drooping, yawned. Her smile was weary as she pulled her blanket tighter around herself and said:
"At a bookstore run by a witch. I had work experience from when I was on the mainland, and the manager was generous enough to let me try for two days. In the end, she signed me on as a temporary worker, paid weekly."
A bookstore... It seemed that so many of the shops on Sky Island were bookstores. There were almost as many as snack shops in her previous life.
Apparently, books were to witches what snacks were to humans. Sometimes, they would take a stroll outside and somehow end up buying two books... Jiang Han looked at the listless Liang Cuoyu with some concern and asked:
"Is the work exhausting?"
"Eight hours on school days, sixteen hours on non-school days, with one day off a week. I can save them up, four days a month." Liang Cuoyu braced herself against the wall and stood up, her smile bright. "The work isn't hard, either. It's just sorting books—um, lots and lots of books—and putting them on the shelves... Then recording things like publication dates and filling them into forms."
...That sounded exhausting enough. Jiang Han scratched her cheek, turned her head, and said:
"You really don't need to be in such