Pretending To Be A Boss

When Tang Xian stepped into the house, he thought to himself that he indeed came to the right place.

Dong Ran and Qiao Shanshan had taken quite a few components from the Pyramid.

For instance, power lamps and power boilers.

These devices all operated on Soul Crystals; they could be used directly and temporarily resolved an urgent need.

The room with the lights was naturally much brighter than candlelight.

Qing JiuYu looked at the various tools of humanity with great curiosity.

During the day, a few girls had tidied up the house, including all the habitable rooms on the ninth floor.

Tang Suoye's abilities were much weakened in the real world, but her blue pupils allowed her to achieve a synchronization rate of over forty-five percent. Controling the small particles around her with telekinesis was a very easy task for her.

With Tang Suoye's help, an efficient Akasi naturally wouldn't be idle.

A large amount of the floor needed cleaning, and Akasi took on the role of a cleaner.

The kind of highly efficient janitor who could scrub the corridors back and forth several times in a second.

Li Xiaoyu was still in charge of design.

But nobody dissented; arranging furniture is a profound art. Even in ancient times, excluding geomancy, people would consult with interior artists on how to place furniture.

Li Xiaoyu had a great talent in this area.

She had actually tried to do some of the physical work, but Dong Ran stopped her.

In any case, including Tang Xiaojiu, within a day or two, this residential building, abandoned for hundreds of years, finally became tidy.

Although only one floor was habitable.

The bedsheets and covers were all articles that Qiao Shanshan and Dong Ran had brought with them.

The various kitchen utensils were the same.

Tang Xian was very satisfied with such preparations.

After Tang Feiji ripped apart the Shiling Beast and divided the meat into many portions, Tang Xian took one of them and was cutting meat in the kitchen.

Li Xiaoyu was in the kitchen, helping Tang Xian while asking questions:

"Didn't you go to the battlefield? Did you win?"

"I won, but humanity lost. Humanity retreated from the Yuepela Plains. They should be grateful for having a leader like Song Que." Continue reading stories on My Virtual Library Empire

"Oh, I'm starting to find Song Que rather agreeable too."

"Regretting now? If you are, it's actually not too late. I could still send you back." Tang Xian said with a smile.

Li Xiaoyu glared at Tang Xian.

"I won't regret it. Song Que is very outstanding, but he doesn't compare to you."

Tang Xian paused while cutting the meat:

"Without certain things, I might not be better than him. If you had met him back then, you would still have lost that game of chess."

"But there is no 'if.' Even if there was, I wouldn't like Song Que."

"Why not? Because he's an honest man?" Tang Xian teased with a laugh.

The sound of chopping meat resumed.

Li Xiaoyu spoke seriously:

"Song Que is a person who lives in his ideals; he's too straightforward and can't accept the dark side of this world. Such a person, even if smart, is just simple-minded. I like someone who is unpredictable. I don't understand him nearly as well as you do, but I trust my intuition."

Tang Xian was slightly surprised and didn't refute.

But inwardly, he still defended Song Que, thinking that it was precisely because everyone thought he was simple that he could become the Masked Freak, with the most complex split personality.

However, these matters were Song Que's secrets, and Tang Xian did not mention them.

The kitchen fell into silence for a moment.

All one could hear was Tang Xian chopping meat.

"I'm going to look around the outskirts tomorrow." Li Xiaoyu tried to find a new topic.

"I've been there. The outskirts are mostly overgrown plants and some slightly mutated animals." Tang Xian stopped chopping as the sound of sizzling oil came from the pot.

Li Xiaoyu instinctively moved a bit further away and said:

"I think differently from you. I've actually been there today, and I want to look inside those vehicles; maybe there will be something."

Tang Xian did not object and nodded, saying, "Take Akasi or Xiaojiu with you. Or Qing JiuYu would be fine too."

"Why would I take her?" Li Xiaoyu suddenly became spirited again; there were no others around now, and she didn't want to pretend to be gentle.

"They can protect you."

"Would you fall for Qing JiuYu?"

"No."

"Really?"

"Actually, I like Akasi."

Tang Xian said seriously, with a hint of fear in his eyes, as if a forbidden black box was finally being opened in front of someone other than himself.

"I love his silver hair, his muscular chest."

Li Xiaoyu's face instantly shifted through several expressions.

This typically stoic person was making an extremely exaggerated, worldview-shattering face.

Tang Xian, watching Li Xiaoyu's weird expression, couldn't help but start laughing, holding his stomach.

"Hahahaha... Just kidding, you didn't believe that, did you?"

It was hard to imagine that such lame teasing could stun Li Xiaoyu.

"You jerk! I'll bite you to death!" Li Xiaoyu stomped her feet in anger.

Tang Xian waved his hand to stop laughing, the meat was already in the pot, and he was stirring with a spatula.

"So who do you like?" Li Xiaoyu reopened the topic.

"Why are all the questions you're asking today so strange?"

"It's not strange; since I like you, I want to know who you like."

Tang Xian paused, stunned by the unexpected confession.

Some issues, even for an apocalyptic-level creature, are just too tangled to deal with.

That's why he had never thought about how to handle it. When he saved Li Xiaoyu in the lower levels, he could pretend not to have heard certain things.