Chu Jiaojiao, Sheng Qingyan, Yue Qiguang, and Yue Qiyuan, all turned their heads together, staring intently at Shen Changqing, making his whole face turn red, Shen Changqing opened his mouth...
Yue Qiguang was the first to speak: "Shen Changqing, I underestimated you in the past! Turns out among all of us, you are the least honest one!"
Yue Qiyuan cursed: "If he was really honest, even Star Beasts would understand human speech!"
Sheng Qingyan pouted and scolded: "Aqing oh, I’m really disappointed in you."
Chu Jiaojiao just snorted at Shen Changqing with her nostrils.
Shen Changqing: "..."
Shen Changqing felt even more awkward.
He...
What he said and did, truly came from his heart.
*Cough cough*
He really didn’t have any other hidden motives.
As for Ji You wanting to give him special treatment, that was entirely Ji You’s decision, he... he isn’t a worm in Ji You’s stomach, unable to influence her decisions.
Wronged!
After a bout of jesting and joking, the topic was dropped.
Ji You glanced sideways at the rich heirs in front of her, grumbling in her heart: each one of them, such penny pinchers.
*Cough cough!*
Then, Ji You said: "I know you’re all curious about how I got the job at the Green Glaze Master Shop, we’re all familiar now, I can’t just deliberately keep it from you."
Everyone was genuinely curious, urging Ji You not to dawdle and to hurry up and explain.
Ji You pursed her lips, smiled with a hint of mystery, and said: "Do you know what I relied on? I relied on this—"
Saying so, she raised her hand, pointing to her face.
Everyone: "???"
Yue Qiguang: "What?"
Yue Qiyuan: "Thick skin?"
Chu Jiaojiao: "Pretty face?"
Sheng Qingyan: "Thick skin, huh?"
Shen Changqing pursed his lips, although agreeing with what the others said, he hesitated for a few seconds, then said: "Is it the brain?"
Ji You glanced at them dismissively and scolded: "Don’t think just because you’re not being subtle, I don’t know you’re mocking my thick face. What’s wrong with having thick skin? Did I eat your rice or something?"
Everyone: "..."
"*Cough cough*...," Ji You straightened up, her tone becoming serious: "What I relied on is neither thick skin nor the brain, but my perseverance!"
Everyone: "..."
Bullshit!
Clearly, nobody believed it.
Ji You, poker-faced, said: "Do you know how many recommendation letters I sent to the Master? Up to now, I send 10 every day, each filled with sincere, heartfelt, and emotional words... Expressing my admiration for the Master, and my desire to work in his shop... until I had sent 99 letters, on the account of my active attitude, I finally touched the Master."
Everyone: "..."
Yue Qiyuan, frowning, "Are you sure this isn’t harassment?"
Ji You: "*Cough*... Nonsense, what are you talking about?"
Sheng Qingyan, rubbing his eyes, said: "Poor deadbeat, show me what you sent."
Ji You didn’t hide anything and spread out the letters for everyone to see.
Upon seeing this, everyone was speechless. Ji You really sent out 99 self-recommendation letters, each one different, and the sycophantic words in each letter were just eye-watering.
Chu Jiaojiao, Yue Qiyuan, Yue Qiguang, and Shen Changqing all had the same doubt in their minds: [Could it be that the Green Glaze Master likes to hear flattery?]
Sheng Qingyan also had a doubt in her mind: [Strange, I have also flattered the Master a lot, why did the Master block me then?]
Ji You gathered the letters, closed the Light Computer, and said with a stern face, "The main reason I could become a sales clerk is due to my perseverance. Secondly, it is because the Master has good discernment, able to pick me out from the vast crowd. Thirdly, my own luck..."
Cough cough...
When Ji You put away the self-recommendation letters and said these words, she actually felt very awkward and somewhat ashamed. To make her deception believable and convince everyone that there was no trickery in her becoming a sales clerk, she had to do many shameful things...
Just the fact of blowing her own trumpet, she felt her face couldn’t quite take it.
Fortunately, it was finally over.
It seemed like these friends wouldn’t have any suspicions now.
Thinking of this, Ji You sighed heavily in her heart: How easy is it for her to plan benefits for these pseudo-friends?
Easy?
Not easy at all.
She has been truly deeply involved with these plastic friends, alright?
Such profound emotions, such painstaking intentions, truly moving heaven and earth.
Unfortunately~
The friends don’t know.
Listening to Ji You praising herself again, Yue Qiyuan, Yue Qiguang, Sheng Qingyan, and others all twitched their mouths, showing a look of unbearable annoyance.
Looking at these unknowing plastic friends before her, Ji You couldn’t help but cover her face and sigh heavily, "Fools~ you won’t understand my painstaking efforts. Ah! In fact—thinking about everything I’ve silently done for you, if you aren’t moved, I am moved enough to cry, okay?"
Saying that, she even pretended to cry a few times.
Everyone: "..."
[What have you done?
Apart from deceiving and freeloading, what else have you done?]
Forget it.
Everyone is nice here, no need to take her seriously.
...
At this moment, Ji You had her reasons for landing herself a position as a sales clerk.
As the final exams were approaching, and it was certain that they would involve Lanyue Star, how difficult this would be was unknown. Whether it would be dangerous was also unknown...
Of course, Ji You believed the risks would not be significant, as it was after all just a end-term exam for first-year students. The school would definitely ensure the students’ safety and not let their lives be endangered.
However, Shen Changqing, Yue Qiyuan, and others had already guessed that the Mechas used in this exam would not be performance-limited versions, but combat ones. This could potentially involve encounters with the Star Beasts, and perhaps even lead to the frontline...
This brought certain risks.
Additionally, with the Beast Tide approaching, these students nestled in the ivory tower were not yet ready to face the bloody battles, but Ji You, who had grown up on a garbage planet, knew all too well what it was like to face day-to-day dangers.
Ji You knew better than anyone that she needed to quickly improve her abilities to ensure enough self-protection.
Besides herself, if possible, Ji You would certainly not be stingy with her friends and family; she would provide help to those around her as much as her capabilities allowed.
After the online contest, the Soul Devices made by Ji You herself, after being used by Shen Changqing, Chu Jiaojiao, and Sheng Qingyan, proved to be very effective. Now, crafting low-level Soul Devices wasn’t difficult for her. She just needed to control her spiritual power well and not overconsume it to consistently produce a batch of Soul Devices, which Ji You wanted to provide to her classmates and friends, but she lacked a solid excuse.
The position of a sales clerk at the Green Glaze Master Shop provided a perfect excuse.
Through this convenience, her classmates and friends could all benefit without exposing Ji You.