"The cost of grilled meat?" Jiang Wang asked casually. "Are you opening a grilled meat shop again?"
Ye Qingyu's gaze never left the account book. She pressed her lips into a smile, understanding his absent-mindedness at the moment. Noncommittally, she said, "It's not impossible."
"You're managing Cloudtop Trading Company, you're managing Some Inn, and now you want to open a grilled meat shop." Jiang Wang looked at her. "Can you keep up with it all?"
"I'm not the only one working. Yue Rou, Yue Yi, Mo Liang, Rui Xuan, and the others are all helping me." Ye Qingyu slowly finished the grilled meat in her hand and smiled. "I only need to keep hold of the overall direction, and then check the accounts—account books can reveal many problems. See the small to know the great, see errors and correct them, see what is beneficial and reward good conduct."
"That's how my White Jade Capital Restaurant is managed too, and it's flourishing." Jiang Wang sighed with feeling. "You're getting more and more adept at this. You're becoming more and more like a great proprietor."
Ye Qingyu did not quite know what White Jade Capital Restaurant and Some Inn had in common in terms of management. A hands-off shopkeeper and a major merchant were not the same thing at all. But she only blinked. "Not used to it?"
"It's just that, after coming all this way, everything has been changing. All that came before feels like a dream." Jiang Wang said gently, "When I first met you, I thought you were the kind of fairy who did not partake of mortal smoke and fire. Beautiful, but very distant. Only later, when I came to Cloud Kingdom too, did I truly see your brows and eyes—one moment I saw you in the water,