"No, no, I was just saying!"
Xiao Wu hurriedly waved her hands, an embarrassed look crossing her face, afraid Lin Yan might develop murderous intent.
"I won't talk nonsense anymore. I absolutely won't."
Lin Yan spoke teasingly:
"The next time you just say something, I'll just take it seriously."
Lin Yan's teasing eased the tense atmosphere a little, and Xiao Wu began pushing her luck as she asked him:
"Boss, is there really no room for negotiation at all?"
"No."
Lin Yan answered crisply, without the slightest hesitation.
Hearing that, Xiao Wu immediately felt utterly dejected. After a moment of silence, she finally summoned the courage to speak again:
"Boss, once I become your employee, I should get paid, right?"
Lin Yan chuckled and gave a heart-piercing reply:
"Of course not.
"You're here to atone. What pay?
"In your dreams!"
"Doesn't that mean working a hundred years for nothing?"
At that moment, Xiao Wu truly despaired. A hundred years without freedom or compensation, trapped inside this little shop.
Such days would be harder to endure than death. Xiao Wu was on the verge of tears.
"Boss, I can live without wages, and I can live without freedom.
"But you've got to give me something to work toward.
"Otherwise, there's no way I'll work seriously for you. There's nothing in it for me."
"You have a very good point."
Lin Yan hadn't expected this girl to have actually wised up. She could even think of that?
Indeed, if Xiao Wu dragged her feet at work, he really couldn't do anything to punish her.
He still needed her to work willingly, which meant he couldn't deny her every shred of hope.
Then he would see what Xiao Wu wanted.
Xiao Wu thought of the unfathomable power Lin Yan had displayed earlier. Those