There were a couple of things that happened yesterday that rendered Ying Yue He speechless and nearly in a daze. The foremost was Luo Ju Di and her child, when Ying Yue He's heart was soaring—it ended up dropping and sinking when the two had arrived. She was even the one who had to make on-the-spot arrangents for them, and while she was trying to make peace with the idea...
Her boss brought the tea.
It should have been simple enough—make the man so tea. It was what any secretary would do for their boss, and yet she was also curious. The canister that the CEO handed to her looked traditional and sothing that might have been available in the past.
Heating water and mixing in so powdered tea was simple enough, and yet she had seen nothing like this. "He wouldn't buy that expensive tea now, would he?" she asked herself with a dubious look. "Or he wouldn't buy anything strange either.."
Throughout the years that she worked with him, she could tell that he was mostly practical save for the occasional splurges. His suits were topnotch quality—she had confird it with her own hands. Ying Yue He's cheeks turned red but only grew stronger. Why did she think that she would have a chance?
Was it his fault for asking her out to a date?
"Or is it mine for getting the wrong idea?"
Ying Yue He placed the teapot on a tray and picked up a teacup. The man didn't give her the scroll, but only insisted that she prepare it on her own. He had only glanced at the scroll once and told her to make a teapot with six teaspoons at a heat of around 100°C before heading back to his office.
The secretary poured a small amount of the fragrant tea into another spare cup, a dark red hue filled the teacup and she would take a sip. A powerful scent would overco her senses—
The scroll that ca along with the tea had instructions on preparations, not as specific as the instructions that Li Yang gave his secretary, as there was no form of asurent of temperature before. Instead, it only contained how many tis one should drink it to take advantage of the benefits of it, so the heat probably didn't matter as much as simply in taking it.
Root Blossoming Tea
Dosage for Mortals
- drink two-three cups every eight hours
- drink with an empty stomach
Dosage for Cultivators
- Cultivators in the lower realms, stages of Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishnt can take this at a similar rate as mortals '
- Cultivators in higher realms, stages of Core Formation and higher must intake at least twenty pots to benefit to a similar extent as that of mortals
Li Yang considered himself a mortal—well, he was in Qi Condensation at the initial phase, and so there wasn't much trouble. He would drink and benefit, strengthen his roots. He had brought the canister as well for an afternoon drink and he would simply do that.
"ditation and cultivation at night." he said to himself. Or possibly to the observer floating beside him. The man would stop once he moved away from the parking lot and headed to his office, his suitcase, laptop bag and tea with him.
"Good morning, Mister Li," Ying Yue He greeted him with a smile. The woman had stood up from her seat and bowed slightly, and when she looked up, there was a certain glow to her features.
Compared to the ss of yesterday, things were more or less settled now in the office. It made sense that his secretary would be at more ease today that he thought of it; he had little chance to thank her properly. "Ah, good morning, Miss He. Thank you for your help yesterday,"
She blinked at him, "I only did what you have asked of . You have nothing to thank for, sir."
Ying Yue He didn't ntion anything, and even the look on her face was one that showed so surprise and confusion. It was truly as if things were normal and nothing of note had happened… He didn't think that she would act this way—but the woman could still surprise him.
The Panda reappeared over his shoulder and pushed his face, "She's giving you the cold shoulder if you ask ."
He didn't know her that much outside of their interactions, and yet he would disagree with the creature's assessnt. His secretary wouldn't be soone who'd suddenly turn like that. Li Yang cleared his throat, "Very well, please keep up your hard work, Miss He. Is there anything urgent that I need to know right now? Has sothing co up while I was gone?"
The board eting was coming up, the reason his brother was here in the first place.
"Nothing of note, sir, and as for your current schedule—I've already emailed the other day regarding it. Would you like to resend it?"
He shook his head and instead presented her with the tea canister. "No need. I'd like you to brew another pot of tea around 2pm? I leave this in your care."
"Will do, Mister Li."
And so that would be most of their interaction in the morning. There was no influx of charm points but no deductions either—and so Li Yang dismissed the ideas of the Panda as sothing that they've concluded incorrectly. Even if the creature would make jabs at him in his office, it was easy enough to tune it out or ask for it to kindly shut up.
"—ah, this is so boring!" the Panda groaned. Its furry head was at the end of the sofa's armrest, and it nearly tipped and leaned back enough that it might have fallen off if it weren't able to balance correctly.
Li Yang looked up from his docunts and raised a brow. "Do you not have other people to watch over to?"
"What?"
"Instead of allocating simply one creature like you to soone with a System like —wouldn't it be better to rotate around many people with similar situations to capture more interesting things?" Li Yang shrugged. "I doubt that discussing KPIs would be of much interest to you or that of the spectators."
"What the heck is a KPI?"
"Key Performance Indicators—I'm rechecking the slides and docunts that will be distributed to the board during the eting." he said. A montary smile flicked on his face, "There's been a certain increase in revenue again, which is a relief despite so certain lapses in the economy's growth as of late.."
"...and this is the face that the Heavens want to watch." the Panda pressed a paw to its face, "You sound like so kind of nerd? Geek? You're all so happy that I want to puke."
Li Yang shook his head. "You're free to go if you wish and co back around later?"
"I bet when I go away that's the ti where exciting things happen." the Panda grumbled. "I was gone for a day and then you got involved with cultivators from this city! Heck, what else did you do during that day?"
"That was also the ti I ate dinner with Miss He? The cook was a cultivator who saw my condition and confird that it was qi deviation." Li Yang shrugged.
He could rember so interest of the 'Observers' on one of the hires in Shen Society and idly wondered if he could use it for his own benefit. He could at least surmise that most of the Observers were probably close to females more than anything else.
And yet that wasn't in his plans, and neither was talking with the creature right now.
But its complaints were enough to disturb him when it got especially whiny. "Hmm…" he rubbed his chin for a mont. "What if I give you a mission?"
"What the heck did you just say?" the Panda stood up on its feet and jabbed a paw at him. "The System provides you missions, and I'm here as an observer—you can't just order around!"
"If you're bored and there's nothing to see here," Li Yang shrugged. "Perhaps you could do so recon for ?"
"What do you even want to check on?"
"I can't be everywhere at once, but it's vital to learn of other events happening in the background—for example, I do not know the whereabouts of my brother, what the shopkeeper at the black market has done to the objects I traded him with and even what the Shen Society are doing?"
"Like I said—I'm not so slave for you to boss around!"
He stared back at the creature. "You'd be a spy crossing through enemy territory?"
"You're making it sound cooler than it's supposed to be."
"It would be much more helpful to than you disturbing from work." Li Yang's gaze returned to his docunts, "I think that would benefit more than you doing social comntary of every little interaction that were to happen between and of other people—speaking of which, I appreciated you pretending to excuse yourself to give and Miss Lifen ti together."
"I wasn't lying at all! I had to rid myself of all that kid's weird psychic energy and then when I ca back—you were already in a make-out session with that chick. Heck, I thought you weren't interested, but it seems like I was wrong. Sa goes for that woman."
Li Yang raised a brow, "Did you say psychic?"
"You just had to ignore everything else I said, didn't you?"
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