I didn't stand on ceremony with my master. It was really hard to buy train tickets during the New Year, and the trains were packed and slow.
"Thanks, Master!"
I said happily.
Master smiled.
"Thanks my ass. Get going! Let me know you arrived safely when you get there."
I nodded repeatedly.
"Alright, Master, I'm heading back. See you!"
Master said nothing, only smiling and nodding as he watched me leave Big Fish Fishing Gear Store.
I first drove over to pick up Cheng Xiaohong from the same street. She had already been waiting for me outside the hotel.
Her outfit today was relatively plain and much more conservative.
She wasn't dressed as revealingly as she had been during that livestream.
Still, she really was quite pretty—the kind who made practically every passerby take a second look...
After Cheng Xiaohong got in, she thanked me over and over, saying she was troubling me and so on.
I waved my hand and spoke while driving.
"Miss Cheng, how have things been these past few days? Everything alright?"
Now that I knew her surname, I had changed how I addressed her from "Miss Hong" to "Miss Cheng."
Cheng Xiaohong sat in the passenger seat and nodded.
"Everything's been good. I haven't dreamed of my mom either, and my mental state has improved a lot.
But last night, at midnight, I heard someone knocking on the door.
It only lasted for a little while before it stopped."
"Oh! Maybe they knocked on the wrong room!"
I casually replied.
Before she got in the car, I had carefully looked her over several times. The yang fire on her body had grown much stronger.
But then Cheng Xiaohong took out a torn yellow talisman from her bag and held it out to me.
"But when