I'm a male god in Liyue

Chapter Sixty-Two: Casting a Long Line to Catch a Big Fish

Xia Zhi sat at the table, holding a quill pen, writing.

At one point, he heard Zhu Zi's footsteps coming upstairs outside the door, followed by the sound of the door closing.

Ok?

Miss Zhu didn't lock the door today?

Does this mean I'm already at ease with you?

That's truly heartening.

Xia Zhi smiled and continued writing.

The book he's currently writing is positioned as a long novel, just like the original, and will be divided into many volumes.

The first volume is almost finished.

In two days, he will submit it to Wanwen Collection, and it should be available for sale next month.

I'll put one of my books on every table in the store.

I'll also add a summer shop to the book, with the shopkeeper being a reclusive immortal cultivator, taking marketing to the extreme.

Having finished writing a major plot point, Xia Zhi put down her pen and prepared to rest.

We've run out of calming incense, so we'll just have to make do with regular incense tonight. We can't spoil that female ghost.

The incense burner is lit, and the smoke drifts away.

Xia Zhi went to bed, closed her eyes, and slowly fell asleep.

At one point, Akabane crawled over from next door. She sniffed, but couldn't smell anything delicious in the air, so she couldn't help but purse her lips.

Then she stood by the bed and carefully examined Xia Zhi's face.

Is this person actually blind?

Can't tell at all.

At this moment, Xia Zhi was once again startled awake from his dream by that sudden feeling of palpitation.

Sure enough, I can't do without calming incense.

Xia Zhi closed his eyes and scanned the area with his detector, spotting a familiar white figure beside the bed.

Ok?

wait?

Why is there a golden progress bar on her this time?

[Progress: 0%]

It never existed before.

Xia Zhi looked at the golden progress bar that had suddenly appeared on her body with some surprise, completely unable to understand why it had appeared.

But it doesn't matter if you can't figure it out. The most important thing now is to fill up her progress bar.

Xia Zhi felt somewhat embarrassed.

Because she was trying to avoid being discovered by him, and he had to pretend he didn't know she existed.

The two people couldn't interact at all.

Akabane stood by the bed, looked at Xia Zhi for a while, then turned around and went to the table, picking up the stack of manuscripts.

Although the writing wasn't very beautiful, it was very neat, and it was impossible to imagine that it was written by a blind person.

Could it be that he was extremely competitive and unwilling to admit defeat, and even though he couldn't see, he persisted in practicing, which led to his current ability to write without his eyes?

This is quite possible.

She pondered for a while, then stopped thinking about it and started catching up on the latest chapters.

Today's plot was pretty good, but the style was a bit too normal.

She felt a little uneasy after watching it, so she flipped back to the beginning to revisit those classic scenes.

At that moment, Xia Zhi on the bed suddenly turned over.

Akabane immediately looked up and found that he was not awake. She relaxed and continued to look down and immerse herself in the moment.

This one looks better and is more exciting.

Until she suddenly heard crisp footsteps.

???

Akabane felt a chill and was startled.

She looked up and saw that Xia Zhi had climbed out of bed at some point and was slowly walking towards her.

Have I been discovered?

She held the manuscript in her hand, looking somewhat lost.

Xia Zhi walked up to her, picked up the cup on the table, took a sip of water, put the cup down, and slowly walked back to bed to continue sleeping.

Throughout the entire process, he didn't look at her once, as if she didn't exist at all.

Akabane stared blankly at Xia Zhi, who had fallen asleep on the bed again, recalling the pair of gray, lifeless eyes she had just seen in him.

So he really was blind.

I was terrified; I thought we'd been discovered.

Despite his blindness, he persevered and produced such works, truly demonstrating his indomitable spirit.

Once the book goes on sale, she'll definitely make sure Hu Tao goes to the bookstore to support him!

Xia Zhi lay on the bed, silently "watching" her breathe a sigh of relief, and continued to look at the manuscript in her hands.

Great, the first step is complete.

The seed has been planted. In this way, she will gradually lower her guard against him. Once she gets used to him being blind, she will go from only daring to appear in front of him when he is asleep to daring to appear in front of him at any time.

Then he and she will have more opportunities to interact.

This process cannot be rushed.

Just like with crispy rice crusts, take your time.

Let's continue using calming incense tomorrow night. After all, she has a treasure chest, so we have to indulge her.

Thinking this, Xia Zhi gradually fell asleep.

The next morning, Xia Zhi woke up and stretched.

She has already gone back.

I opened the window, changed my clothes, put away my manuscript, and went downstairs to wash up.

Miss Zhu got up earlier than him and was diligently wiping the tables in the shop.

"Good morning, boss!"

"Zhu Zi, good morning, is your foot alright?"

"never mind!"

"That's good."

"boss……"

"what happened?"

"There were so many people standing outside our store! I didn't dare to open the door."

"Oh?"

"I asked through the door, and they were all customers who had visited our store yesterday."

"So, they're here to steal seats?"

"Yes!"

"It's only eight o'clock now. Didn't you tell them we don't open until nine?"

"I told them! But they won't leave!"

"..."

The store seems to be doing a bit too well.

It's only the second day, and we already have so many repeat customers.

Prince Yan is really good at getting along with people!

Xia Zhi nodded and said, "Never mind them, let's go have breakfast first, and then we'll open for business when it's time."

"Okay, boss!"

"You can take down that half-price poster on the wall."