Now, the Taobao seller’s dashboard was flooded with countless messages, even more than during the previous auction for the golden arowana.
This made Mubai realize that if he hadn’t turned off the Taobao notifications yesterday, his phone would probably be out of battery by now.
“They actually sold out?”
He was shocked as he clicked on the page selling the plants and saw that all the listed plants were sold out, with message after message urging him to ship the orders.
Mubai couldn’t understand how his online shop had become so popular.
Yesterday, the shop had only 30,000 followers, but now it had skyrocketed to over 200,000—an increase of more than sevenfold.
However, the shop’s popularity was a good thing, so he didn’t dwell too much on the reasons behind it.
What Mubai needed to do now was package the sold plants and ship them to the buyers.
He first called Fengshen Express and asked them to bring plant packaging and preservation boxes, explaining that the insured shipping fees alone would be over 20,000 yuan.
Such a large order prompted the manager of the Fengshen Express branch to immediately send someone to pick up the goods.
As soon as Mubai moved the dozens of plants from his magical space, the call from the delivery person came.
“Yes, I’m in Building 1601. Just come up.”
He gave the delivery person his address, and shortly after, two couriers arrived with packaging and preservation boxes.
Since the plants were all valuable premium specimens, the two couriers were very careful while packing them. While they were packing, Mubai also took photos of each plant.
Half an hour later, the packaging was complete. Mubai received dozens of shipment receipts and paid for the shipping and insurance via mobile transfer.
With all the plants successfully shipped, he could now relax and wait for the buyers to receive their goods and complete the payments.
He breathed a small sigh of relief. Now that the plants were sold, he could enjoy his New Year’s holiday peacefully.
“By the way, I haven’t done today’s daily sign-in.”
Remembering the daily sign-in task, Mubai focused his thoughts and entered the magical space.
The more consecutive days he signed in, the better the rewards, so he couldn’t afford to skip it.
“Host page.”
Mubai muttered in his mind, and the host page opened.
**Host**: Mubai
**Magical Space Level**: Level 2, four breeding slots, time flow rate is ten times faster than the outside world.
**Virtual Currency**: 80.
**Storage**: One platinum arowana, four premium plants, six near-premium plants, one drop of magical spring water.
**Planting/Breeding Slots**: No plants or animals currently.
**Daily Online Purchases**: No purchases today.
**Daily Sign-In**: Today’s sign-in will earn 200 virtual copper coins. Since you’ve signed in for seven consecutive days, you will receive a random gift pack.
“A random gift pack?”
Mubai was pleasantly surprised as he looked at the host page.
Without hesitation, he clicked to sign in.
“Ding! Congratulations on a successful sign-in. You’ve earned 200 virtual copper coins and a random gift pack. Would you like to open the gift pack?”
“Confirm,” Mubai said, tapping the glowing text before him.
“Ding! Congratulations, Host, you’ve received a Surprise Spending Gift Pack. For the next 24 hours, any online purchases will earn double the virtual currency, and any real-world purchases will earn the equivalent in virtual currency. The spending limit is 3 million. Upon reaching the spending limit, the system will reward the host with a magical die.”
“A Surprise Spending Gift Pack? Not bad at all.”
Mubai nodded in satisfaction at the rows of glowing text.
To him, virtual currency was far more important than real-world money.
Being able to earn double virtual currency from online purchases and real-world spending was an excellent perk.
As for the magical die, the system hadn’t provided any details, but considering it was a reward for spending 3 million, it was likely a valuable item.
“Today’s sign-in reward is quite generous.”
After pondering for a few seconds, Mubai exited the magical space.
Just then, his phone, which was on the bedside table, beeped twice. He picked it up and saw it was a message from Lanlan on QQ.
Lanlan: “I hope that after wandering half your life, you return as a youth.”
Looking at the message, Mubai knew that this girl didn’t believe what he said yesterday.
Or rather, she was half-believing, half-doubting. Sending this message was her way of continuing to test or probe him.
But Mubai didn’t respond. The best thing to do now was to ignore her for a few days.
After all, the random task related to this scheming girl didn’t have a time limit, so there was no rush to complete it.
What was urgent, however, was the task of flaunting his love with Qian Yiwen.
Seven days had already passed, and they still needed to complete nine more instances of showing affection.
Just as Mubai was thinking about the task with Qian Yiwen, her QQ message popped up.
“Cool Mubai, it’s almost 11 a.m. Shouldn’t we meet up in person? Where are we meeting?”
Seeing Qian Yiwen’s message, Mubai suddenly remembered that they had agreed to meet in real life today.
“I got too caught up,” he thought.
Last night, the unexpected task from the scheming girl and this morning’s tasks—selling plants, shipping packages, and daily sign-ins—had caused him to forget about meeting Qian Yiwen.
Luckily, everything was settled now. Mubai thought for a moment and replied, “You pick the place.”
“It’s almost lunchtime, so let’s meet at Phoenix City Hotel.”
“Alright, I’ll be there in about half an hour.”
“Okay, I’ll send you the table number after I make the reservation.”
“Alright.”
After responding, Mubai logged off QQ, quickly picked out some nice clothes, grabbed his keys, and headed out.
The Phoenix City Hotel was a well-known star-rated hotel in the northern district of Nanjing City.
Because it was close to Nanjing University and the food was reasonably priced, it attracted many diners.
After arriving at Phoenix City, Qian Yiwen reserved a private room on the second floor and sent the room number to Mubai on QQ.
While waiting for him, she scrolled through social media, feeling a bit anxious.
In her mind, she had several versions of what Mubai might be like.
An aloof and indifferent uncle, a cold and arrogant second-generation rich kid—none of them were particularly flattering.
“Is it Room 2635? I’ve arrived.”
Mubai’s QQ message prompted Qian Yiwen to look up toward the open door.
There, standing in the doorway, was a slightly thin, delicate-featured young man.
“Cool Mubai?”
Qian Yiwen was surprised. She never expected that “Cool Mubai” would turn out to be such a slender, even somewhat fragile-looking young man.
“Yes, it’s me.”
Mubai nodded, greeted her, then closed the door and walked into the private room.
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