Leaned on a Big Leg?

The next day.

Bai Heng walked into the courtyard and found Jing Yuan still in the pavilion, eyes closed in contemplation.

Noticing Bai Heng emerging from the house, Jing Yuan feigned concern, asking:

"Little Bai, how did you rest last night?"

"Heh... heh heh..." Bai Heng couldn't help but sneer, then pointed to the corner of his mouth, where the skin had been bitten:

"What do you think?"

Last night, Jingliu had first bitten his lip hard, then used him as a body pillow all night.

He woke up this morning shivering from the cold, his arm so numb he couldn't lift it, and he had only just managed to escape with great difficulty.

"It seems Master is still as heavy-handed as ever," Jing Yuan said with a smile, holding a scroll in one hand. "Oh, by the way, I've already sent the relevant files you requested to your personal interstellar mailbox."

"Oh? You don't seem like someone with such high efficiency," Bai Heng teased.

"Appearances can be deceiving," Jing Yuan replied with a smile.

"Alright, alright, I know your subordinates are efficient," Bai Heng said, exposing Jing Yuan's secret while taking out his phone to contact his subordinate at the Interastral Astronomical Society.

In a moment, a soft voice came from the other end of the line:

"Hello... is this Bai Heng? This is Shilna. I'll be handling your work today. How can I help you?"

"The Xianzhou project files have been sent to my personal mailbox. Please organize them and submit them to Professor Edmond. My itinerary remains unchanged; I'll return in seven days."

Shilna, who was specifically responsible for liaising with Bai Heng, responded blankly:

"Yes, yes... okay, Bai Heng. I hope you have a pleasant week on the Xianzhou."

The call ended.

Interastral Astronomical Society, communications control room of the observatory.

Shilna murmured to herself:

"Logically speaking, Bai Heng should have only arrived on the Xianzhou yesterday... This efficiency... it seems Bai Heng must be the Corporation's model employee again this year..."

Next to her, a pretty girl, young and almost childlike, stirred rock candy into her coffee, saying in a soft, glutinous voice:

"So Senior Bai Heng is a workaholic."

Shilna shook her head and said:

"No, Betty, Senior Bai Heng actually slacks off quite often, but his slacking usually manifests in shortening the workflow. But strangely, even with the shortened workflow, Senior Bai Heng always manages to complete every task perfectly."

Upon hearing this, the girl named Betty put the coffee-soaked rock candy in her mouth, then stretched out her hands and slumped lifelessly on her work chair, her tone languid:

"Ah~ I'm so jealous that you have such a leader, so efficient, you can take a vacation too."

"Yeah," Shilna smiled slightly and nodded.

Betty, with the coffee-flavored rock candy in her mouth, glanced at Shilna's delicate face and said indistinctly:

"Speaking of which, Senior Bai Heng is always so cold when he talks to you. You're the flower of our connection team, after all. Other members of our team are often harassed by those leaders when they talk to the people they're connecting with, but I feel like Senior Bai Heng has always been polite to you."

"Maybe it's because Senior Bai Heng is a good person," Shilna said with a smile. "He's very professional and serious at work, but when he's with us in private, he's not at all pretentious and is very easy to talk to."

Betty blinked and said:

"I feel like you admire Senior Bai Heng a lot... but that's not surprising. I would also admire such a young, handsome, easy-going, and capable leader."

When this topic came up, Shilna lowered her head and gently caressed her small hands, saying softly:

"Actually, my admiration for Senior Bai Heng isn't just for these reasons..."

"Oh? What is it then?" Betty asked.

Shilna raised her head slightly and hugged the coffee cup in front of her, saying:

"Actually, I come from a remote asteroid in a distant star system, where the living environment is extremely harsh. There, many families can't even afford to eat, and very few people like me, who were born into relatively wealthy families, can afford to not worry about the next meal and even have the opportunity to study."

"Three years ago, the Interastral Peace Corporation sent people there to try to repair the environment of my hometown, but after only a month, they determined that the value of repairing the environment there was not even worth the fuel for the round trip and abandoned the project."

"But after the Corporation people gave up, a regular staff member of the Astronomical Society at that time fought for a year to carry out environmental exploration work on that planet, and finally used the Corporation's high-tech technology to find a metal called 'Titanium Core' at the planet's pole. It was this discovery that allowed my home planet to regain its vitality with the help of the Corporation, and I was able to come to the Interastral Astronomical Society."

"And that staff member of the Astronomical Society is Senior Bai Heng."

After Bai Heng completed the work handover, the time on his phone had just jumped to six o'clock Xianzhou time.

It was exactly on time.

The door of the room where Bai Heng had rested last night was pushed open, or rather... uh, kicked open.

"Ahaha, Master, good morning."

After the embarrassing events of last night, Bai Heng looked at Jingliu, who had already straightened her clothes and tied her long silver hair with a cyan hair ribbon, and greeted her awkwardly.

Jingliu first looked at the corner of Bai Heng's bitten mouth, then looked away and said:

"About last night... I will take responsibility."

Hearing this.

Bai Heng suddenly had the mistaken impression that he was being kept by a sugar mama?

Wait, that's not right. Jingliu doesn't seem to have a single Credit on her.

"Oh... okay." Bai Heng didn't even know how Jingliu intended to take responsibility, but he could only casually agree.

After saying this, Jingliu walked a few steps forward along the corridor.

But after taking just two steps, Jingliu suddenly stopped, turned to look at Bai Heng, and asked:

"I'm going to take a bath later, want to join me?"

Hearing this, Bai Heng was first stunned, then said solemnly:

"I'll just have some soup."

Jingliu: "?"

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