Zhang Lexuan smiled gently. "Why don't you deal with the Evil Fire first?"
"There's time right now."
Ma Xiaotao said, "Sure."
She turned her head.
"Lu Ran, should we do it like before and hold hands while you channel Soul Power into me?"
Zhang Lexuan's smile remained as she looked at Lu Ran and tilted her head slightly.
Don't say something misleading... Wait, no, I guess it's not misleading...
Lu Ran's heart gave a twitch.
He understood.
He couldn't answer directly right now. If he said yes, he couldn't explain himself to Zhang Lexuan. If he said no, he couldn't explain himself to Ma Xiaotao.
He couldn't give a vague answer either.
Otherwise, it would prove he was feeling guilty...
Wait... What did he have to feel guilty about?
Lu Ran suddenly realized what was wrong. I haven't been fooling around with anyone. Why am I acting like I'm a thief?
Why not just act as usual?
With his mindset adjusted,
he cleared his throat.
"Sister Lexuan, how are the two new shops coming along?"
He had picked the locations and settled on the renovations a week ago, but he'd been busy making Soul Tools these past couple of days and hadn't checked on them.
Zhang Lexuan's expression turned slightly more serious.
"They're nearly ready."
"They should be able to open as early as tomorrow or the day after."
One of the shops was over five hundred square meters, and the other was over nine hundred, almost a thousand.
A Milk Tea Shop with a thousand square meters of space wasn't actually excessive, given the current foot traffic.
As a chain, the shops naturally shared the same simple, minimalist decor. There wasn't much to prepare, and Soul Masters worked fast.
Even a renovation covering nearly a thousand square meters could