[Playing Cards With My Life]
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"(Xianzhou curse) Damn Qingque!"
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[Divination Commission]
The moment Qingque heard Levi call out her name, her heart skipped a beat.
"I'm screwed!"
Seeing the ID "Playing Cards With My Life," Qingque's face flushed red, her heartbeat sped up, and her whole body trembled uncontrollably.
"I forgot to change my username!"
The downside of using the same username across every platform was this.
Anyone who knew you could recognize you anywhere.
A moment later, after seeing Levi lower his eyes and fiddle with something, Qingque gradually calmed down.
No longer bothering to hide that she was slacking off, she picked up her jade abacus.
[Playing Cards With My Life: Are you describing yourself?]
[Playing Cards With My Life: I won't allow you to insult yourself like that.]
Since the ending was already set in stone, she might as well trash talk a bit more.
After finishing his actual work, Levi looked up and saw Qingque's message. Copying the expression she had sent.
He smiled and said, "I'll screw you to death."
Just as Qingque was about to mock him back, the person she least wanted to see right now walked in.
Seeing the person appear before her, Qingque tremblingly put away her jade abacus.
"Um, Lady Fu Xuan, what wind blew you over here?"
"Do you need some documents? I'll go get them right away."
Fu Xuan did not speak. Her arms crossed over her chest as she coldly stared at Qingque.
"Someone reported to me that Divination Commission diviner Qingque was watching pretty female streamers during work hours. Is that true?"
"What?" Qingque looked confused. "Lady Fu Xuan, I've been seriously working the whole time."
"Hand over your jade abacus so I can inspect it."
"That's not very good, right? This counts as invading personal privacy. It might hurt your reputation a bit."
Meeting Fu Xuan's increasingly colder gaze, Qingque knew she couldn't hide it, nor could she find a suitable excuse to slip away and come back after Fu Xuan calmed down.
She could only lower her head and admit what she had just done.
But it probably wasn't that serious, right?
Everyone slacked off during work sometimes. She hadn't even left her workstation.
At most she would just get a verbal lecture...
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[Some Time Later.]
At the entrance of the Divination Commission, Qingque stood beside the gate looking dead inside.
A chain was cuffed around her ankle, with the other end attached to the gate, obviously to stop her from running away.
And the chain was thicker than Qingque's head.
Someone who didn't know better would think she violated heavenly law, and was being punished here.
A diviner returning from retrieving documents looked curiously at Qingque chained beside the gate, but did not stop there.
As he walked through the gate, Qingque suddenly spoke, "Hello, this is the Divination Commission. I am: Slacking Off And Caught 392 Times, Last Year's Report Still Not Submitted This Year… Diviner Qingque. Welcome to your arrival."
Seeing the other party get startled by her sudden voice, Qingque still wore that dead-inside expression.
Only the corner of her mouth lifted slightly.
Watching Qingque's back, Fu Xuan shook her head and turned toward the archives.
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[On The Other Side]
Looking at Qingque, who stopped speaking, and Fu Xuan, who replied to him.
The corner of Levi's mouth lifted. "Trying to fight me?"
'This is the result!:
Taking back her jade abacus, Guinaifen looked at the increasingly lively livestream chat and happily grinned.
This level of excitement was no less than her own comedy bits, maybe even more.
She raised her head to look at Levi in front of her, "Levi, you really became the Divination Commission's diplomat?"
"Mhm~ The records are there. If you don't believe it, go check at the Divination Commission yourself.", he turned toward the camera and spoke.
Then his eyes started sizing up Guinaifen. A few days ago she had still been performing on the streets.
Now she had switched to livestreaming online?
"Hehehe, street performances kept getting shut down, so I changed careers and became a streamer.", As she spoke, she shook the equipment in her hands.
Noticing that many people in the livestream doubted that Levi was responsible for the daily life of the two Genius Society members.
Guinaifen explained, "Didn't I say it already? I was just guessing. Just treat it as entertainment and don't take it seriously."
She heard this news from Sushang, and Sushang heard it from another coworker.
That coworker heard it from someone else.
Anyway, Guinaifen only knew that the news came from a certain unnamed diviner.
After spreading through so many people, the truthfulness of the information was already questionable.
That was why she stacked so many defensive disclaimers before saying it. It was to stop herself from getting dealt with if something went wrong.
Besides...
Guinaifen glanced at Levi twice. Seeing how relaxed he was, he definitely wasn't the person in the rumors responsible for taking care of the geniuses.
Even though she didn't know exactly who the two geniuses were, anyone sensible who got the chance to face geniuses directly and interact with them up close would treasure it.
As long as they managed to connect with even one of the two, their future life would basically become smooth sailing.
Anyone chosen for that position would probably stay nearby on standby at all times, not leisurely wandering around like Levi, even having free time to feed birds, sitting in the chair.
If Levi knew what Guinaifen was thinking, he would definitely roll his eyes.
For other people, this position might be an opportunity, but not for him, especially when both of those people were watching him, wanting revenge.
If possible, he wanted to buy a ticket to Penacony right now and experience what a sweet dream was like.
Anyway, with the secondary gold card, he didn't need to worry about lacking credits.
Seeing Levi enjoying the sunlight, Guinaifen said goodbye to him and prepared to go somewhere else to make content.
"Hm, so you're here."
A gentle voice sounded out. When Guinaifen turned around, all she could see was a head of beautiful hair.
Her nose twitched as a faint floral scent drifted into it.
Mixed together with the rich smell of pastries.
Smelling that scent, Guinaifen unconsciously stopped in place, while one corner of the jade abacus camera pointed toward the two people behind her.
The girl's voice sounded again, "You left too quickly. You forgot to take your share."
"Huh? I get a share too?"
A faint smile rested on Ruan Mei's face. After all, he had helped her make pastries... Even though he ran off halfway through.
What should be prepared still had to be prepared, especially since Ruan Mei planned to build a good relationship with Levi, there was no way she wouldn't prepare a share for him.
"Since I wasn't sure what flavor of pastries you liked, I could only make them based on feeling. If you don't like them, I'll prepare different flavors next time."
"Mmm, tastes pretty good, but it's missing a bit of fragrance."
"What fragrance?"
After eating the bitten pastry, he smacked his lips twice to show praise, "Sticky rice fragrance."
'Sticky rice fragrance? The fragrance of glutinous rice?'
Ruan Mei nodded and silently remembered the name.
At this moment, Levi noticed Guinaifen still hadn't left, so he waved at her, "Come over and try some too. They taste really good."
Seeing Levi talking to Guinaifen, Ruan Mei gave her a gentle smile.
Faced with Levi's invitation, Guinaifen became hesitant. She glanced at the rapidly scrolling livestream chat, then looked toward the girl sitting beside Levi.
She didn't quite dare walk over.
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[Livestream Chat]
"Holy shit! Ruan Mei!"
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