Xianyu began following the line of thought Hua had suggested.
[No Replies Outside Work Hours: Your approach seems to work well on her. Unlike me, she has the sense of morality any normal person has.]
He recalled how Jingliu had tried every possible way to transfer money to him and taken him to eat at the cafeteria, then added another message.
[No Replies Outside Work Hours: More accurately, her sense of morality is stronger than most people's?]
[Hua: So you want to throw money at her? So that when you come clean about everything, she'll feel too awkward to break up with you?]
Xianyu slowly typed a question mark.
[No Replies Outside Work Hours: Aren't I following your line of thought here? Besides, why would I come clean about everything?]
Xianyu didn't understand.
According to the current outlook of Xianzhou natives, wasn't dating just about having fun?
Wasn't throwing money at someone enough to make them happy?
As for his own affairs, there was no need to mention them, was there?
Xianyu was accustomed to planning ahead, learning in advance, and doing things as well as possible.
Even if something was hundreds or thousands of years away, he would think it through beforehand.
They were only flirting, with actual dating still some way off... but his thoughts had already wandered hundreds of years into the future.
Xianyu opened the forum Hua had shared earlier.
Previously, he hadn't been able to swallow his pride and ask a junior, so he'd posted on the forum, only for the users to get his gender wrong...
They'd talked on and on without offering a satisfactory solution, forcing Xianyu to turn to Hua.
This time, he planned to draw his own conclusions from the experiences people shared.
He had once been a top-tier corporate slave