At 3 a.m., the landmines in front of the station

Su Che immediately unleashed his 30-move move: the Triple Praise –

"Satisfied, so very satisfied! Whether it's the goddess's miracle or this tireless dedication day and night, I... don't know how to repay you!"

To be honest, I felt quite apprehensive accepting such meticulous attention to detail without any compensation...

After all, all three images are absolutely perfect designs. I can already imagine what they would look like as finished products, which could be described as works of art... If I had to choose, I really couldn't..."

"Really? Wait, teacher, you're so cunning! Do you want me to give you three free tickets?"

"No, no, that's not what I meant..."

"Well. If you like, I'm willing to put in a little more effort. As for the reward you mentioned..."

Su Che: "!"

Ta-da!

A sense of danger washed over me.

A number involuntarily popped into Su Che's mind—

30 million.

He knew perfectly well that if the goddess had truly drawn those three pictures...

That means I would essentially owe the goddess 30 yuan.

The problem is, let alone 30, even 3 is something I might not be able to pull out without batting an eye.

When that time comes, it will be inevitable that I will be forced to borrow money from Sister Ningning.

And the situation where one is forced to withdraw money from a black market warehouse after borrowing money from Sister Ningning becomes even more unavoidable.

In other words, because he owed the goddess a favor, he had to be thoroughly eaten by Sister Ningning in order to repay this debt.

It seems like we're the ones who are losing money, no matter what.

"Don't worry, what I mean is, maybe we can come over for a cup of tea sometime? Because I think Teacher Deng's address is also in Tianhai."

"?! Eh—?"

Su Che was taken aback upon seeing this.

I wondered how she knew I was in Tianhai.

As the account owner, my account information is kept confidential...

The platform cannot reveal the IP address to the artist, just as the artist cannot see the IP address of the artist. This is a basic setting to prevent being hacked, and no one can break it.

Su Che immediately checked his social media feed, trying to see if he had ever revealed his address in his posts.

After watching for two or three minutes, I felt there was nothing wrong.

Just as he was about to ask, a coffee shop logo caught his eye in the background image behind his profile picture—

"regeneration".

"!"

Su Che opened his mouth, and a guess popped into his mind.

"Rebirth" is a local chain coffee shop in Tianhai City.

Other cities are not included at the moment.

And since the goddess Ari is so convinced that she is in the heavens and the sea, could it be that... she has been spying on her information and deduced her activity range from such a trivial clue?

Rounding up, could she really care about me that much?

Is that correct?

“Goddess Ari, I… I’m perfectly fine with drinking tea! But…”

"But what?"

"But... I'm afraid that after you see me, you'll feel that I... am from a different world than you..."

Su Che said somewhat awkwardly.

"Huh? Why do you say that?"

Ari sent him a curious angel emoji, seemingly puzzled by his statement.

He said with a sense of inferiority, "Because you've always been the center of attention, while as for me... if you hadn't been willing to give me your time for free, I probably wouldn't have been able to get a date with you for three or five years... even in the future, I..."

"So, didn't I take the initiative to invite you?"

"!"

Before he could finish speaking, Goddess Ari sent another emoji of an angel winged embrace, saying, "I know you're under a lot of pressure, so this time it's entirely my own initiative to do it for free. Don't overthink it. As for drinking tea, no one says that only people from the same world are qualified to sit across the tea table and enjoy an afternoon together, right?"

"what…"

"I live near the riverside street in Tianhai city. I'll send you my location after we finish this project together."

"Goddess Ari..."

"Okay, I'm going to rest now. You should also cheer up and welcome the new day."

Having said that, without giving him any room for maneuver, the goddess's online status turned gray, and she went offline.

"........."

Su Che sat blankly on the sofa, his mind still unsettled by her teasing.

It wasn't until 15 minutes later that it suddenly dawned on me.

I forgot to ask her why the third picture was drawn with a layout so similar to her own home.

There's probably only one answer I can think of—

That is, the neighborhood where the goddess Ari once visited or lived when she was young.

"That explains it clearly..."

"My mom's mansion in the upscale neighborhood... if she were a goddess, she could probably afford to live there too..."

he murmured.

-

……

The new team on one side is getting on the right track.

The former team on the other side made a miraculous comeback.

It was 9:30 a.m., time for the "Regeneration" flagship store to open.

A text message arrived on Ling Yao's phone right on time—

"Our store has decided to hire you and your bassist, along with the lead singer of 'Silver Traveling Ship,' for a regular residency tour. The tour will run weekly, and you will only need to accompany the lead singer on 6 songs each time. The compensation is 3 yuan per month, which you can negotiate and distribute among yourselves."

"!!!!!!"

When Ling Yao saw this message, her little brain immediately short-circuited.

In the school rehearsal room, Yui immediately came over and asked, "What's up? Is it good news?"

"Yui, thirty thousand, divided by 3, equals 'take less'?"

Yui: "? Isn't this an elementary school math problem? Of course it's Yiwan!"

"One month... if it's split among three people... ten thousand yuan per person... ah...!"

Ling Yao looked down at her zither.

My own instrument cost exactly 12,000.

In other words,

Playing piano at the "Regeneration" residency.

You can buy this piano in just one month! It took me two semesters of saving up my living expenses without eating or drinking to afford it!

"Why, why is that boss so rich! This...this is already...N times the price of 'Tianlai'!!"

Her voice trembled, and she could hardly contain her excitement.

"Uh... First of all, Tianlai isn't paying us... We're actually losing money on the performance..."

Although Yui has only been here a short time, she already knows all the major live music venues in the vicinity very well.

Mr. Zhang's payment method is that your band pays for their own performance, half of the ticket sales go to him as venue fees, half goes to the band, and then the band can distribute the money as they see fit.

Generally, divide by the number of people.

The more people there are, the less money an individual receives.

Now, on the regeneration side, since it's not a fully equipped team but only a 3-person team, everyone will receive a lot of gold coins!

For Ling Yao, whose family wasn't particularly wealthy, this was nothing short of a stroke of good fortune!

"No, we need to calculate it more carefully, so we don't get ripped off on the working hours."

Ling Yao, being someone who was about to go to university, was naturally very vigilant.

She decided to divide her income by four again, which gave her four weeks' worth of daily wages.

Divide the daily wage by the number of hours worked to get the hourly wage.

The final result was a daily wage of 2500.

Hourly wage...

Six songs only take 30 minutes, and with breaks, it takes less than an hour at most.

Therefore, 2500 divided by 1 equals 2500.

"..."

The girl took a deep breath.

Yui figured it out by counting on her fingers, and couldn't help but sigh:

"So this is how rich Japan is! The hourly wage for part-time work is many, many times higher than working at a 7-Eleven in Japan!"

"...This is an isolated case, not the norm."