Yaqi rounded a corner and saw Luna waiting for him.
"Did Luther come to ask you to join him at the Domino Merchant Guild again?" Luna frowned slightly, glanced in the direction Luther had gone, and shook her head. "You didn't agree, did you?"
"Of course not," Yaqi replied with a smile. "If I really agreed, Dad would break my legs."
Luna smiled gently.
A while ago, when Afalia's Father had heard that Luther was trying to persuade Yaqi to leave the Xinfei Merchant Guild, he had flown into a rage. He had warned Yaqi never to agree, or he would break his legs and throw him out of the house.
Afalia's Father had always believed that the Xinfei Merchant Guild's arrival had changed his family's life, so he was deeply devoted to it. He would not even allow anyone to say a bad word about the Xinfei Merchant Guild or President Xu in his presence, and had declared many times that he would stay with the Xinfei Merchant Guild for the rest of his life and never go anywhere else.
Afalia's Father had been furious about the workers' recent mass strike, calling them all ungrateful bastards.
If Yaqi really dared accept Luther's invitation and join the Domino Merchant Guild, Afalia's Father might actually throw him out of the house.
Of course, even setting aside Afalia's Father's devotion to the Xinfei Merchant Guild, Luna did not think leaving was a good choice from her own perspective either.
Although other merchant guilds were offering extremely high wages to seize this opportunity to poach the Xinfei Merchant Guild's skilled workers, some even offering double, Luna did not think this was a good thing.
Even if they could earn higher wages at another merchant guild, so what?
Compared with wages, Luna valued the