“Mm, thank you, Brother Leng. I’ll be going now.”
“Alright. Take care, I won’t see you out.”
After a moment of silence, Rong Qingwen didn’t linger. He picked up the keys and turned to leave.
At the door, he collected the obedient little girl.
The master and servant duo once again left Nanjing. But after stepping out of the villa, Rong Qingwen paused, turning his head to glance back.
Truly—he hadn’t expected that his trip to Nanjing would result in accomplishing nothing. He had failed to win over any forces, and instead, owed a favor—a favor to someone who, by all logic, should’ve been his enemy.
“Heh… life… who can really understand it?”
After standing in silence for a few seconds, Rong Qingwen shook his head with a bitter smile, then headed to the parking lot of Xuanwu Zhongshan Villas and drove off in the luxurious Bugatti Veyron, speeding away like the wind.
Due to the awe-inspiring reputation of the car’s owner from yesterday’s events, not a single informant or power in Nanjing dared to stop or question the vehicle. All checkpoints gave way in deference.
8:00 AM, bright and sunny.
In the living room of one villa in Xuanwu Zhongshan, Li Xiaoqing, carrying a freshly brewed pot of tea from the kitchen, looked around at the now-empty room, puzzled.
“Uh… I just finished brewing the tea, and that person’s already gone? That was fast—just a few minutes.”
“Yeah, just came to borrow something.” Mu Bai stood up from the sofa and called to her toward the kitchen: “Xiao Qing, let’s have breakfast first.”
“Mm-hmm, okay!” Li Xiaoqing nodded repeatedly. As for what was borrowed, she was obedient enough not to ask.
After breakfast, which took about half an hour, Mu Bai returned to the second floor.
Tonight, he had arranged to deliver goods to the black market contact, so he needed to take all the ginseng out from his mysterious space and package it properly.
He had already stored plenty of boxes in the storeroom next to his bedroom, so he grabbed a few and brought them into the room.
He then entered his mystical space, extracted the ginseng in one go, and began packaging.
This time, he didn’t ask Li Xiaoqing for help, because after some thought, he realized their time together was still short. He had tested their intimacy level yesterday—currently just 75.
According to the system’s evaluation, that barely met the threshold for dependable family trust.
But Mu Bai never believed in testing people’s loyalty—because he knew the human heart cannot withstand tests.
In real life, how many families had turned against each other over hundreds of thousands or millions of yuan?
So, he decided he would only allow Li Xiaoqing to access these sensitive matters when her intimacy level reached 95+.
Packaging over 300 ginseng roots wasn’t much of a workload for someone with Mu Bai’s physical capabilities. In about 30–40 minutes, he had it all wrapped up neatly.
He casually placed the boxes in the corner of his room and waited for the black market rep to come pick them up that night.
Then Mu Bai returned to the bed and picked up the laptop on his nightstand—it had been sitting there unused for quite a while.
This was a standard-issue household laptop that came with the Xuanwu Zhongshan villa, and it appeared to be a foreign brand.
After powering it on and testing it, he found its performance and speed were both excellent.
“Ding! Friendly reminder: today is the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month. Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve. Have you reunited with your family?”
As Mu Bai logged into QQ, a string of “didi” notification sounds rang out. Before he could even check them, a pop-up appeared in the lower left corner with that message.
Reading it, Mu Bai couldn’t help but sigh—time had flown by, and the end of the year had crept up silently.
After a few seconds of reflection, he closed the pop-up and turned his attention to the string of QQ messages.
They were all daily greetings from Qian Yiwen and Mi Xuan.
Clearly, these two girls he’d met online still cared about him.
So he replied to both of them one by one.
Qian Yiwen was probably busy writing—although online, her status was set to Do Not Disturb, so after replying to her, he didn’t send any more messages.
As for Mi Xuan, that girl responded quickly:
Mi Xuan: “Ying ying ying~ Mu Hao Mu Hao, you’re back! Mwah~ Your little honey missed you so much~ It’s been forever since we last talked! 😢 (adorable sad face)”
Mu Bai looked at her playful message and chuckled as he casually typed back:
“Been a bit busy lately, didn’t have time for QQ. By the way, is everything okay with work?”
Mi Xuan: “No problems at all! The shop hasn’t had many sales recently, mostly some after-sales questions—nothing big. As for the livestream side, I asked Haiqing, and she said our ‘Worldly Glamour’ team is doing super well! We might even become the fifth top team on Douyu TV soon! Oh oh—come join the QQ group chat! The other streamers are probably all dying to see you~”
“This girl…” Mu Bai shook his head with a smile at Mi Xuan’s teasing message. Still, he figured he really should check in on Zhang Yuyan, Haiqing, Jingbao, Long Yaonie, and the others in the team to see how they were progressing.
Although his current wealth no longer depended on the streaming industry, the “One Man Dominates” side quest was nearing completion—and the rewards would be massive.
So Mu Bai thought it wasn’t just time to visit the group chat—it was also time to fully complete that quest.
With that in mind, Mu Bai switched to the group chat interface and entered the “Worldly Glamour” QQ group..
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