Respect Others' Fate

"What's wrong, my long-legged beauty? Why the sudden melancholy?"

As old colleagues, Chip Girl Su Enxi and Jiu De Mayi always bantered back and forth with silly jokes. As for the emotionless one... she occasionally engaged in sarcastic banter, but her tone was like a cold ice blade from the Arctic... So relatively speaking, Su Enxi talked with Jiu De Mayi more often.

"Melancholy my foot! I'm not some Mary Sue homebody who constantly enters 'fantasy time'."

Replying with a light but firm retort, Jiu De Mayi put away the serum, grabbed a pillow from nearby, and threw it at Su Enxi, who was lying on a Stowe leather sofa eating chips.

"I advise you to eat fewer chips! I know you're doing it to suppress your alcohol cravings, but if you keep exceeding your calorie intake, your weight is going to become increasingly unattractive."

"I don't care! Hey, I've been working so hard for so many days, I'm exhausted. What's wrong with enjoying myself now?"

Su Enxi, in a semi-reclining position, deftly dodged the flying pillow, while chewing chips and gesturing grandly:

"In my opinion, this current Chen Family head has scored full marks in plotting, scheming, and forming cliques, but to maintain a conspiracy's effect, you often need countless interlocking conspiracies to fill the gaps. Look – with just a little bit of meddling from us, we've got him jumping up and down like a dog."

"And our Young Hero Emiya, he doesn't need to resort to any crooked thinking at all. He just casually comes up with an earth-shattering idea, and it can stir up a whole new trend and reform movement among the Shenzhou aristocratic families. Isn't that way more impressive than some shady clone experiments?"

Su Enxi was lying on the sofa chewing chips, yet it was as if she was sitting on a small stool cracking melon seeds, watching a magnificent play. "Now the Chen Family is even thinking of dragging the Gattuso Family into this. Oh my, this astonishing move is almost killing me with laughter! The actors entering the stage in this grand play are simply increasing!"

"That's true... but aren't you and I also actors in this play?"

Jiu De Mayi also leaned back and sat on the sofa. Her high bun was tied with a bright red string, and two feet of black sideburns hung down on either side of her face. This hairstyle, combined with a high ponytail and a sporty look, plus her stunning curves and long legs that made countless women green with envy, was very eye-catching and outstanding.

In her mind, she imagined the Chen Family girl who had lost her sense of belonging due to her clone identity and had resolutely embarked on a path of no return. It was clear to anyone that regardless of whether her revenge succeeded or not, the end would only be a vast emptiness. Miss Chen couldn't find a place she could truly call home and feel at ease.

A sudden thought surged into her mind, and she softly recited, "Perhaps it's because she doesn't know dreams, the wanderer chases phantoms."

"What's wrong, what's wrong, my long legs? Still looking so melancholic?" Su Enxi playfully touched her head, trying to mess up her hair, but was slapped away by the latter. "Could it be that Miss Nono, the one you've been in contact with, has made you overly empathetic?"

Jiu De Mayi shook her head.

"Do you know? At first, I thought the boss was guiding Nono this way because the girl had somehow displeased him. But today, the boss asked me to send this tube to her... If today wasn't the last time we were supposed to contact her, I would have thought Nono had a chance to join us!"

Su Enxi's playful expression suddenly turned serious.

"You know that's not possible! The boss needs useful tools like us, but not trouble like Chen Motong, who attracts attention and is easily exposed! Giving her the Ancient Dragon Serum is just to let her play her final value under our guidance. Don't do anything unnecessary on your own—"

"I understand, I understand! But Chip Girl, do you know, after communicating with Nono for so many days, she gives me the feeling of being extremely insecure, the type who can't help but climb onto any rope that looks like hope."

"She's not that kind of strong girl at all. She just tightly wraps her inner anxiety and suffocation with a hedgehog-like shell. She told me today that she doesn't want to be a foolish monkey waiting in the Water Curtain Cave to be taken away by the Gattuso Family, but deep down, she holds onto the hope that someone will come and take her."

"And this time, it was us who gave her hope, so this foolish monkey hopes we will take her away. For this, she knows she's being used but will still listen to my every word. But what we did was just throw her away again, throwing her onto a dead end where no one will lead her."

Jiu De Mayi tried to describe all this in a calm tone, but Su Enxi's next words were like sharp blades that accurately struck the core of her heart:

"You're not being overly empathetic, you're seeing yourself in her!"

Su Enxi understood Jiu De Mayi's mindset. Jiu De Mayi saw herself as the boss's "sword," a tool. Ever since she made a contract with the boss, she had made the boss's tasks the meaning of her survival.

In a way, Jiu De Mayi didn't want to be discarded by the boss, and Nono didn't want to be discarded by the person who took her away.

"I can understand your mindset, but how should I put it, let go of the urge to help others, respect their fate... Oh no, obey the fate arranged by the boss. Maybe the boss has other considerations and will let this Nono be taken away by a kind person?"

Su Enxi shook her head. Her mindset was different from Jiu De Mayi's.

She, the accounting maid, seemed like a worker, but in reality, she was the boss's partner. If the boss asked her to make money, she would make money for him. If the boss wanted to be crazy, she would go along with it. But if the boss wanted to terminate the contract with her one day, she wouldn't necessarily hang herself or jump off a cliff to end her life.

Tang City, Zhou Family.

Zhou Yuxuan directed a team of workers to clean up the traces left by Emiya and Old Tang's exhibition match and repave the smooth road surface.

The entire Tang City covered an area of several million square meters. The damage caused by Emiya and Old Tang was not even a drop in the bucket. Even though the land here was terrifyingly expensive due to the Zhou Family, that slight loss was negligible compared to the subsequent gains.

"Yuxuan, long time no see, why have you gotten so much thinner again!"

A burly man in a mandarin jacket and long robe walked towards him. His upper body had strong arms and pectoral muscles that seemed large enough for a horse to run on. Zhou Yuxuan, looking lean, standing next to him looked like a bean sprout.

Zhou Yuxuan had met this person before. The burly man was Wu Jianhong, the head of the Wu Family. But in terms of relationship, he had only seen him from a distance behind the Wa Lord during the mutual visits between families during holidays. The two had never exchanged half a sentence, and Zhou Yuxuan was not qualified to interact with other family heads alone. But the current situation was vastly different.

Ever since the Wa Lord sent the video of Emiya and Old Tang's exhibition match to several aristocratic families, the families' attitudes had turned 180 degrees, and they all sent people to visit the Wa Lord.

The Wa Lord, bothered by the constant disturbances, waved her hand and said she was too busy to see them. So, they unanimously turned their attention to flattering him, the close attendant.

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