“This guest, please enter the shop to make your purchase!” Hearing the young man’s voice, Belle smiled and pointed toward the door of the Firefly Cake Shop.
Without a moment’s pause, the young man entered the shop.
When he saw how warm and cozy the entire shop’s decor was, the bloodshot red in his eyes seemed to slowly fade away as if bathing.
He walked up to the refrigerated display case and saw the kind of cake he had just tasted.
Upon closer look, he realized it was just the most ordinary standard cake, and he opened the case to take three boxes.
Just as he was about to go pay, he saw an even more exquisite cake, which immediately caught his attention.
Limited edition premium cake, priced at three times the standard cake, and even purchase-limited!
The young man could be certain that this kind of cake was definitely extraordinary.
He hadn’t satisfied his palate’s desires in a long time; perhaps this would be a great choice, so he decisively grabbed a box.
The overall feeling the shop gave him was great, except for the checkout Bangboo, which felt slightly out of place.
After bidding farewell to the two girls active outside the shop, the young man returned home and impatiently opened the box of the limited edition cake.
He found that the cake was extremely soft, so he simply used a fork to scoop up a small piece and put it into his mouth.
When his tongue touched the cake and cream, his entire body seemed to be frozen in time.
At that moment, he seemed to recall the past—his failed family, his failed childhood, his failed life.
But he hadn’t given up because of that; he stubbornly lived on amidst this mediocre monotony, without a single complaint.
Sometimes he himself grew somewhat numb.
They say even a pig can fly in a favorable wind, but plenty of people also failed in their startups in New Eridu.
He recalled that experience in his failed life, from which he realized he had not a shred of management talent, with the consequence being a financial deficit lasting several years.
He didn’t know how much hardship he had endured to finally pull himself out of it.
Eating while reminiscing about his past, he suddenly realized that the cake had already been finished.
There were also many water stains on the table.
The young man wiped his face.
Thinking back now to the person he saw when passing by the alley, having the spirit to start a business even now was truly respectable.
Then thinking of how deserted the girl’s shop was, the young man only felt it was a pity.
But the young man didn’t plan to just watch.
If there was anything beautiful in this world, then the girl running her own shop was the most beautiful thing, and guarding this beauty was what he ought to do!
“I was fortunate enough to check out the Firefly Cake Shop for everyone today.
The clerk is great, the shop is great, and the cake is even greater.” “If you go to the shop just to catch a glimpse of the clerk’s beauty, I support you too, but if you miss out on too much just for that—I have to say, if you live your whole life without eating this shop’s cake, I’m afraid your life will have been lived in vain.” Simply editing his social media post, the young man published it without hesitation and then forwarded his post to all the major chat groups he was in.
Seeing the reactions in the groups, the young man finally nodded.
Afterwards, the fatigue of staying up all night weighed down his eyelids.
After simply wiping his mouth, he returned to his room to rest, feeling that he would have a good dream today.
Over at the cake shop, Firefly had just finished serving a customer when she noticed that Sixth Street’s pedestrian street seemed to have become very noisy.
“It seems very lively outside?
I’ll go take a look.” Belle said to Firefly and walked toward the outside of the alley.
Not long after, Belle trotted back.
“What is it, Belle?” Firefly felt puzzled by Belle’s actions.
“Th-that, that!
People!
So many!” Belle became somewhat incoherent and could only start gesturing with her hands.
It wasn’t until Firefly grabbed Belle’s hand that Belle finally calmed down.
“There are so many people outside!
I saw people coming and going all over the pedestrian street!
There’s even a steady stream of people pouring out of the subway station!” “This…” Firefly didn’t know what to say, but there was no need to say anything anyway—she saw a commotion appearing at the alley entrance.
“Found it!
Over here!” A girl spotted the Firefly Cake Shop, then waved to the people behind her and ran over.
Following her were several other girls who came along.
After that, as if someone noticed the commotion, even more people poured into the alley entrance and headed straight toward the cake shop.
Firefly and Belle were surrounded by the crowd, the two of them inevitably drawing close together, watching the surging sea of heads and listening to the noisy sounds of the crowd.
“We… we’re in trouble…” Belle whispered to Firefly.
It might not seem tempting right now but who knows what the future holds?
“And If you’re enjoying it, drop a Power Stone for me!”