"Really, that's way too cheap."
Yan Huan said earnestly:
"You should've given him another twenty thousand. After all, he was looking out for your health."
"Do I look stupid?" Yun Li raised her chin and gave a soft hum:
"Aren't you just trying to say these three sticks of candied haws aren't worth fifty thousand?"
"Knowing that, you still bought them?"
"I didn't have a choice."
"No, you have a choice."
Yan Huan patted Yun Li's shoulder and said with a straight face:
"Did you go to the south side? There's—"
"I went, so what?" Yun Li tilted her head.
"It seems to be for eating, drinking, and being merry, nothing much to it."
"No, it's very interesting."
Yan Huan said seriously:
"I'll help you unlock the permissions for the facilities in the southern area right now. You won't need points for anything you do."
"I'll arrange a candied haw food truck there, specifically to make candied haws for you to eat."
"...?"
"Why are you being so good to me?"
"Of course it's because you're a guest of Zhu Ming."
"But you're a guest too."
"...?"
Seeing that Yun Li had actually used her brain, Yan Huan thought for a moment and squeezed out a more fitting reason.
"To tell you the truth, you look a lot like a distant cousin of mine."
"Oh, and then?"
"Then she died."
"...?"
"So the moment I see you, I feel a special sense of closeness. Do you understand?"
"...Roughly understand."
"I hoped she could live a good life under the sun, but unfortunately... she never got that chance again."
Yan Huan wiped away a nonexistent tear from the corner of his eye, looking very sorrowful, and choked out:
"So, as long as you come to my place, you'll definitely have food