"Was I really embarrassing just now..."
On the way back, Miss Black Rabbit still hadn't recovered from the "pan-fried bun center" incident and asked as if talking to herself.
"It wasn't that serious."
Though he called her a stupid dog, Xu Shi hadn't really cared that much. "Even sucking up takes skill. If you don't know how to praise someone, just say they're healthy and full of vigor... You had to try something you weren't sure about. It'd be a miracle if you didn't make a fool of yourself."
The same principle applied everywhere—praise women for being beautiful and well-maintained; praise the elderly for being healthy; praise children for being cute and smart; praise men for having successful careers. Unless it was some particularly outrageous exception, you generally wouldn't go too wrong.
Fortunately, it wasn't a major issue. Given Old Master Wen's magnanimity, he wouldn't start blowing his top just because someone misread a character. On the contrary, Gu Yi's blunder seemed to have worked in her favor. Her silly sincerity made him like her even more, and he had even offered to teach her calligraphy.
"Got it."
Miss Black Rabbit sighed, but her tone gradually became sincere. "Your grandfather... is a good person."
After thinking for a moment, she added, "You are too, I guess."
That was truly how she felt. While listening to the grandfather and grandson chat earlier, she hadn't understood everything, but she had grasped the heart of it.
Wen Shengkui genuinely wanted to improve Sin City's environment—something incredibly rare. Hardly anyone had considered such things before. From the very beginning, with "Dragon City" as the source, the place had been twisted. It was governed crudely and brutally through gangs, from top to bottom.
That approach could maintain stability, perhaps even quite easily, but the lives