In the blink of an eye, another week had passed.
On this day, Su Yu and Furina happened to have no classes, so they simply lazed about at home.
Over the past week, the company had been operating steadily.
The agreed time was just past the halfway mark, and profits had already reached over eight hundred thousand Mora.
Could they pop the champagne early?
Recently, two extremely hardworking employees had been added, which made Ningguang’s operations even more effortless, shortening the profit cycle considerably.
And Lumine had also reported to him that one of them gave her a sense of familiarity, telling him to keep an eye out.
Since that was the case, he might as well find some time to visit the company.
Come to think of it, since the founding of his Sufu Company, he as the boss seemed to have never once visited.
Ahem, this time he’d go do an inspection.
It wasn’t as though he’d been a salted fish all week either.
He’d been diligently doing his daily commissions, except that ever since Zhongli’s limited-time quest last time, none had triggered again.
Among the system rewards, the slightly useful ones were the Bad Luck Card and a card named “A Different Romance.”
Joking aside, who did Su Yu think he was?
How could he possibly use something like a Peach Blossom Card that sounded so improper from the very name?
“Paimon, use the Different Romance Card.”
“Okay, Traveler.
Also, Paimon wants a McSpicy Chicken Burger today.”
“Alright, alright, whatever you say.
Oh right, for the next system reward, I want something related to boosting physical constitution.”
“Okay…
ahem, Paimon is sleepy, zzz…”
In the bedroom, watching little Paimon burrow into the covers, closing her eyes and deliberately snoring the moment she did, Su Yu smiled smugly.
He knew that although Paimon wasn’t the kind of divine dragon that grants any wish once you gather seven Dragon Balls, she was at least a System Elf.
Making wishes was more or less useful.
Specific abilities or items wouldn’t work, but the general range could still be wished for.
Heh heh, he’d already figured out the trick to using Paimon!
Uh, why did that sound kind of weird…
So then, why hadn’t the Peach Blossom Card taken effect yet?
Don’t misunderstand.
He was just looking forward to it with the mindset of testing a system item.
Oh no, waiting for it.
“Su Yu, help me grab a towel, I forgot to bring one!
It’s on the sofa in the living room!”
Just as Su Yu’s mind was still wandering through outer space, Furina’s voice came through from two rooms away, sounding especially muffled thanks to the enclosed space of the bathroom.
Could it be…
this was the so-called romance?
But wasn’t this just my everyday life?
This card’s a bit useless.
Su Yu hadn’t responded right away, so Furina assumed that with so many rooms between them, he hadn’t heard her.
“Su Yu!
Help me grab a towel!
Oh, right, and Qiqi’s change of clothes, I forgot to bring those too.”
“You…
what else can even fit in that head of yours?”
Su Yu couldn’t help but mutter a complaint at the scatterbrained Furina, though he was still very gratified that Furina and Qiqi could get along so well.
At first, when Furina saw Su Yu bringing a little girl into the house, saying she’d be living here, she’d had some objections.
But ever since hearing about Qiqi’s past, her maternal instincts had surged, and she thought up ways every day to give Qiqi different little sweets.
Of course, without exception, every one of these desserts was made personally by Su Yu.
Su Yu rose, went to the sofa, picked up the towel, and walked toward that little blue head.
Perhaps because of the steam, Furina’s fair, collagen-filled face was now flushed bright red.
Getting a bit closer, Su Yu could even catch wisps of a faint, fresh fragrance.
It was probably the smell of shampoo or body wash.
Surely it couldn’t be a girl’s body scent, ahem.
But this fragrance really didn’t seem like the scent of the shampoo and body wash they kept at home.
After all, he was the one who purchased all the household daily necessities.
He remembered what he’d bought seemed to be a floral scent, yet what his nose picked up right now was a sweet, fresh aroma?
Could it be that she’d eaten so many desserts she’d been marinated and soaked in the flavor?
To verify the guess in his heart, Su Yu closed his eyes and took a deep breath, carefully discerning whether Furina really had been marinated by desserts, or whether the smell wasn’t actually coming from in front of him.
To ensure the accuracy of the experiment, Su Yu obediently kept his eyes closed a while longer.
Little did he know, the Furina before him had taken in every single move Su Yu made.
She was already shy to begin with (this little girl was thin-skinned), and here was Su Yu, in her current state, closing his eyes and sniffing as if savoring it.
“P-pervert!”
A young girl’s cry rang out.
The instant Su Yu opened his eyes, a bath loofah still covered in thick foam came flying straight at his face.
Seeing this, Su Yu instinctively twisted his body to the side.
“Meow!”
The bath loofah landed perfectly on the head of the black cat curled up asleep on the stool.
The cat’s cry drew Su Yu’s attention.
By the time he came back to his senses and meant to explain to Furina, the door had already been shut.
Inside, Furina, blushing, quickly strode to the bathtub and dove right in, burying most of her face in the water, mumbling something, but to Qiqi’s eyes, it was just bubbles constantly rising from the water.
“Furina sis, is your face red?”
Qiqi tilted her head, her whole body covered in foam she hadn’t yet rinsed off, her eyes flickering with a clear, bright color, no longer as hollow as before.
As for this, Su Yu actually knew the reason for Qiqi’s change, but Furina always believed it was because of the careful care from Su Yu and herself that little Qiqi’s condition was so much better than when she first arrived.
Though she was already unbearably embarrassed, Furina, still holding to the principle of answering whenever asked, turned her head toward Qiqi:
“No, how is my face red, it’s the heat!”
“Oh, heat makes your face red.
Qiqi should write that down.”
“Hey!
Even if you’re going to write it down, do it after the bath!
Don’t go out right now!” Find the original chapter at g.com.
Listening to the ruckus in the bathroom, Su Yu laughed happily.
The Universal Potion truly lived up to its name.
After Qiqi drank it, the effect was immediate.
Her body became much more nimble, and even her memory improved a lot.
At least she wasn’t like at the very beginning, where every little while he’d have to re-introduce his identity to the little one.
But to avoid appearing too shocking, Su Yu had coordinated with Paimon to temporarily change the potion’s instant cure into a gradual, traceable improvement over time.
He didn’t want the critically ill Qiqi to recover in a single day.
That would invite investigations from all sides and cause a lot of trouble.
Still, the period wouldn’t be too long.
At least compared to her body worsening day by day, getting better day by day was much more acceptable.
Thinking of this, Su Yu even started humming a little tune.
Rustle, rustle.
Suddenly.
A rubbing sound came from the cuff of his pants.
When Su Yu looked down, the source of that sound was none other than the little black cat with a head full of foam.
The little black cat was so angry its face had gone black too, glaring with dead-fish eyes, watching Su Yu while vengefully rubbing the foam on its head against his pants.
Noticing all this, Su Yu lowered his head, grabbed it by the scruff of its fateful neck, lifted it up, and said with an apologetic look:
“Don’t be angry, little kitty.
To show my apology, let me give you a bath.
You seem to not have bathed since you came here, right?”
“That won’t do.
If you turn into a little dirty cat, no one will like you anymore.”
As soon as he said that, Su Yu immediately felt the cat in his hand stiffen considerably, and even its struggling grew much more pronounced.
Furina’s home was quite large.
For a big house, having more than one bathroom was practically standard, and soon Su Yu brought the little cat to another still-empty bathroom.
Though the little cat kept meowing, struggling to break free with astonishing strength, how could Su Yu possibly let go?
Although the cat’s struggling strength was somewhat beyond Su Yu’s expectations, he didn’t pay it much mind.
Cats, after all, wasn’t it normal to be afraid of water?
He’d scrolled past plenty of cases where owners gave cats baths and sent the cats into stress.
The current situation was probably also this kind of case.
Probably, maybe, possibly.
Surely the little cat wasn’t actually a catgirl?
How could that be?
“Come on, little meow-meow, the hot water is already ready~”
“Meow meow meow!
Meow meow meow!” (I don’t want to, stop it, you jerk!)
“Don’t worry, you know my technique.
Just set your mind at ease.”
“Meoooow—”
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