Minotaur and Pure Love Doujin

Life was like a box of chocolates—you never knew what the next one would taste like. —The True Story of A-Qing.

Well, actually, it was Forrest Gump.

Whenever one sighed over peace and monotony, some accident always seemed to happen, adding a ripple to the placid surface.

"Boss! Someone wants to meet you."

Ratman knocked and entered the private office, calling out to Ye Qing, who was slacking off at his computer and browsing forums.

"Oh? Someone wants to see me? Who is it?" Ye Qing asked curiously.

His social circle was not large.

Aside from his family and one friend, the only people he had any connection with were his Abyss Return colleagues, whom he saw every day.

Ye Qing was just an ordinary working stiff. For someone to come looking for him on their own was quite a rarity.

"It's an organization that wants to work with us. They're currently demonstrating that they have value as a partner," Ratman explained, rubbing his hands together.

"They want to work with us, or with Abyss Return?" Ye Qing asked for clarification.

"They want to work with you, Boss," Ratman replied.

Huh? Ye Qing wore the same expression as some NBA player's Black guy question-mark meme for a moment.

"Didn't you tell me to clean up trash before, Boss?" Seeing this, Ratman hurriedly explained:

"They came to us on their own seeking cooperation, willing to help us solve our problems.

It's just that they haven't been careful enough lately and got themselves into some trouble. It's rather urgent, so they hope you can help them."

Oh~

Now he got it. Now he really got it.

Ye Qing suddenly understood. What had all that gibberish been about? It was a cleaning company.

Unable to land any jobs, they had approached Ratman for cooperation.

Now they were facing bankruptcy and hoped for a few more business orders to help them out.

Since only the Hypnosis Department liked cleaning up trash every now and then, they did not understand Abyss Return's overall situation.

Compared to the pipe dream of partnering with a huge company like Abyss Return as a whole, it was better to first secure one client and deal with their immediate crisis.

"Fine. Let him come see me, then." Ye Qing nodded in agreement.

"Well... Boss..." Ratman hemmed and hawed, wanting to speak but hesitating.

"He wants you to go see him."

"Huh?" Ye Qing was stunned.

You were asking me for business.

And you wanted me to personally go see you?

What kind of business elite was this? Did he have someone backing him up to dare do business like this?

Without making an appointment in advance, he demanded a meeting at the last minute—and expected Ye Qing to go to him.

He had never heard of such nonsense.

Even if you were asking someone for a favor, you ought to show some proper attitude.

"So, does he want to meet at some restaurant?" Ye Qing continued asking.

If he really was tied up with some urgent trouble, it was understandable. Yuanhui Base was quite concealed, after all, and outsiders could not easily find it.

After all, not everyone was as godlike as a delivery guy, capable of dropping food off directly on the shelves at Yuanhui Base.

"No. The meeting place is his hideout," Ratman said honestly.

"..." Ye Qing was speechless and could not help but complain:

"Is this guy even human?"

"Yes, Boss. How did you know he wasn't human?" Ratman asked in surprise.

"..."

Speechless. Completely speechless.

Even a joke got answered as though it were ordinary conversation.

Ye Qing was so frustrated he wanted to scratch his head.

I'm so anxious I could cry!

"So, Boss, are you going to meet him?" Ratman asked nervously, taking the initiative to reveal the truth.

"The main thing is, I needed his help at first to complete the task you assigned me, Boss. We sort of hit it off right away..."

"Your conscience bothering you?" Ye Qing suspected that the partner might also be a Ratman.

"Yes, Boss."

"Fine, then. I'll meet him."

Ye Qing was still quite friendly toward his capable subordinate.

After thinking it over carefully, Karina and Zhao Xueshan were both busy with their own trivial matters, while he was the only one with nothing to do.

In the future, he would have to exploit—no, trouble Rat General more. Empty promises were no match for the real thing.

Since he was idle anyway, he might as well meet this prospective partner.

"Understood, Boss! I'll notify him right away!" Ratman was overjoyed.

Holding up his phone, he left the private office in great delight and hurried to send the other party a message.

Ratman seemed especially concerned about his reputation.

But how could Ye Qing possibly leave just because he said he would?

He stretched in his chair, his smile utterly sinister, then got up to inspect the Hypnosis Department's work.

He would go, but not right now.

Under the pretense of having business to inspect, he would leave the other party hanging for a while first.

If people thought he was really that easygoing, they would take a mile when given an inch. That sort of behavior could easily put Ye Qing in a bad mood.

As for whether other people were in a good mood? What the hell did that have to do with him?

Inspection, patrol, or whatever else one called it—

In the end, it was merely a way for the idle Ye Qing to kill time and entertain himself.

Even if he discovered his subordinates slacking off, he would not punish or criticize them.

He slacked off every day himself. The pot had no right to call the kettle black, and he could not muster even a shred of envy or jealousy.

Besides, he slacked off longer, more boldly, and more brazenly than any of his subordinates!

Once the atmosphere started showing signs of getting worse, he could simply drag someone out and make an example of them.

Since the upper beam was crooked, there was nothing to be done about the lower beam going crooked too.

And there he was—a Minotaur immediately caught slacking off and looking at his phone.

"Well, well, reading doujin, are we? Looking at this kind of H stuff during work hours?" Ye Qing silently appeared behind him, clicking his tongue in amazement.

"Have you not been to a Succubus brothel lately? Or is it mating season?"

All beastmen had mating seasons.

It was similar to human women's periods. Only by fulfilling certain conditions could the alarm be lifted.

For the latter, it was pregnancy; the former lacked that knowledge.

The only difference was that one occurred once a year, while the other occurred once a month.

If they did not go to a brothel to vent, it would cause serious problems in their daily lives.

"B-Boss!" The Minotaur hurriedly put away his phone.

Being caught openly looking at H was already an incredibly embarrassing thing.

"Though I don't usually manage you much, aren't you being a little too brazen?" Ye Qing draped an arm over his shoulder like a smiling tiger.

"What kind are you reading?"

"A pure love Magical Girl doujin," the Minotaur answered.

"You read pure love doujin?" Ye Qing rubbed his chin suspiciously.

A Minotaur reading pure love doujin—was that the Minotaur getting cuckolded?

"Those stealing-love plots are too awful. I only read pure love," the Minotaur said indignantly.

"I'll allow it. You're forgiven for looking at it in moderation." Ye Qing patted him.

"Just remember to say you're learning about Magical Girls and researching countermeasures, got it?"

Pure love plots were like proper comics. They only gave people a sweet feeling and made them want to fall in love, but it was hard to get off on them.

Since they could not stir up desire, there was nothing wrong with appreciating a little "literature" while slacking off.

Still, if practicality was the consideration, did other genres work better after all?