The Empress' Livestream - Chapter 236
Chapter 236: He Was So Angry That He Puked Blood (V)
Xu Ke was a sly person, so it was transparent to him that Qiguan Rang was very fond of his Langjun.
Then why hasn’t he joined the club yet? If he joined them, I can finally be set free from the heavy duty and I can shovel all the painstaking internal affairs to Qiguan Rang. Xu Ke already had dark circles under his eyes from staying up late day after day.
A young man lacking in energy would make people misunderstand his personal lifestyle; they’d think he was some horny guy that kept himself occupied every night.
“It’s not time yet.” Qiguan Rang forced a fake smile but somehow it was his weak point that made his lips arch in a weird and stiff way.
“Time?” Xu Ke pushed. “Not even now?”
Being the icing on the cake was just as good as saving a life.
The camaraderie to be on her side couldn’t compare with what they’d have after she gained a firm foothold.
Qiguan Rang took a glance at Xu Ke and said, “Dongqing Dynasty still exists and the royal family still has some power. It’s just not the time yet. We have to wait.”
Xu Ke went mute for a short moment. He started to comprehend what Qiguan Rang really meant.
As long as Dongqing Dynasty was not doomed, there was no way for Jiang Pengji to be free and use her talent.
The business was small so far, so Xu Ke would be able to manage it himself. It would be pointless for Qiguan Rang to join the gang, except if he could guarantee that Xu Ke would clock out on time and he would no longer be under an unbearable amount of stress from work. If it was so, Qiguan Rang made up his mind to wait a while until Jiang Pengji needed him.
If it was someone else who had shown the intention of submitting it would be different, but he had been stalling for some reason. The person who wanted him would have already blown up on him.
What made Qiguan Rang grateful was that Xu Ke was reserved, which was totally acceptable for Jiang Pengji, and he earned some support from her as well. That was a tacit agreement between him and Jiang Pengji. They were either teachers to each other or friends, which made it relaxing for them to cope with each other.
Because of that, Qiguan Rang showed up every now and then to help Xu Ke with some of his work.
Xu Ke gave him a dirty look and said in a depressed voice, “I only hope that day will come sooner.” Otherwise, he would have exhausted his last bit of energy in his office based on how the development of his Langjun had increased.
His Langjun was playing the perfect role of a hands-off manager. Xu Ke almost choked on the words, “Amateurs should keep their hands out of the professionals’ business.” He kept his own hands clean.
Qiguan Rang took a good look at Xu Ke and teased him, “You are at the right age to have your own family. Why don’t you spend some time and consider it? No matter how unable she is to talk reasonably, he wouldn’t be that indifferent about his subordinates’ marriage life, right?”
It wouldn’t be hard to convince her to give Xu Ke some days off if Xu Ke used the pretext of looking for a girl to marry and have babies with.
Qiguan Rang had to admit that the other reason he hadn’t given Jiang Pengji a positive answer was that he still planned to have some free time and he wasn’t ready to be buried with work yet.
Xu Ke had several changes in his expression after he heard this. Apparently the answer made him feel conflicted. “This suggestion is truly…” He was about to say that there were some aspects of Qiguan Rang that very much resembled his Langjun.
Jiang Pengji would tell him the exact same rhetoric if she had acknowledged how busy Xu Ke had been.
Somehow, all of a sudden, Xu Ke didn’t want Qiguan Rang to work with them anytime soon. He was terrified to imagine what it would be like when Qiguan Rang ganged up with his Langjun. He probably would end up dead just from worrying about wiping their a**es.
Qiguan Rang compressed his lips and said to Xu Ke, “You don’t have to be frustrated. There will be people with talents knocking on your door once everyone knows Liu Langjun’s name.”
Xu Ke didn’t feel any better after that. Until then? He probably would already have sacrificed his life for his work.
Just because Jiang Pengji stuck with hands-off managing didn’t mean she was clueless about her own matters.
Sanzhisongshu Lingshi: “The host has been streaming a lot of shopping recently, which is kind of boring.”
Mainvhaide Xiaohuochai: “#Chin Resting Emoji. Our host is not Konan in the Japanese animation. The incidents don’t just happen wherever she goes. The documentary of suppressing the bandits the host streamed for us was thrilling at the beginning. But once you have watched enough, the stimulation fades away, as well. We just reckon it as if we are watching a cooking show while she is shopping and looking for delicacies.”
Almost a month and a half had passed, but the maximum limitation in the streaming room was still ten thousand people.
She opened the stream every day and with the turnover of the people in the streaming, plus the many rewards she received, Jiang Pengji had accumulated 986,000 points. She wasn’t far from breaking the record of one million. The System was coveting the points she had.
It tried to persuade Jiang Pengji multiple times to rank up the level of her streaming room, but each time it got a cold no from her. It was so pissed, off but there was nothing it could do to force her.
Toudu Feiqiu: “In my opinion, it is not bad for a change of taste. Anyway, no matter what our host streams about, it’s fun. Beside, think about the piles and piles of work on Xu Ke’s desk. Wouldn’t it be more boring than this if our host put all her attention into handling that?”
After he sent this bullet screen, there was a second of silence and then a series of laughter all over the screen to show sympathy to Xu Ke.
Xilide Buxing: “Xu Ke must be doomed to have an exploitative boss like our host.”
Koujiao Chifan: “If she was my boss, I would strongly request all the benefits and a raise!”
Jiang Pengji was sitting in a noodle place on the street, slurping some tasteless noodles while she multitasked by peaking at the bullet screens. In the meantime, she eavesdropped on the customer’s conversations in the noodle place. She came up with a thought and put up a host bullet screen.
Host V: “Didn’t I ask Taxue to pick up some new clothes for Xu Ke and his aunt earlier when I passed the clothing store?”
When she gave a gift to a person, she generally tried to gift them whatever they needed most. Jiang Pengji thought about all the possibilities and it appeared that Xu Ke was living in decent conditions and there were no necessities that he required. She went for the shortcut and asked her people to prepare some clothes, food, and money, wrap them up as one package, and deliver it to Xu Ke’s aunt’s place.
It should be considered a raise, shouldn’t it?
Yin Yuejia Zhuge Qinmo: “It sounds reasonable and I’m sure Xu Ke is not going to argue about it. But you forgot the most important one: a holiday.”
It was not a bad deal to give him a raise, but it wouldn’t make sense if he wouldn’t have time to spend the money he earned because he was utterly occupied. He still deserved their sympathy.
Jiang Pengji felt a bit embarrassed.
Host V: “The capable ones are always busy. Considering our current situation of a shortage of human resource, I will keep the record of his holidays and promise him a long one in the future.”
She made it sound sweet, but Xu Ke and the viewers in the streaming room didn’t buy her bullsh*t.
Xu Ke’s boss’s daily activities were either wandering around for fun or suppressing bandits. How could Xu Ke not feel unbalanced as her subordinate?
Jiang Pengji felt like she was wrong.
It was absolutely true that she was fussing around suppressing the bandits, but she wouldn’t admit that she had been wandering around for fun. She had a proper reason for hanging around on the streets every day.
She paid three pennies for her noodles after she finished her meal and the other customers all left after her.
She went back to her place and looked for the inventory that Xu Ke had made in the study room. All sorts of items were categorized with care, which made it simple and easy to check.
She put the inventory down and picked up piece of bamboo made paper that was at one of the corners of the table. It had all sorts of data listed on it.
Toudu Feiqiu: “It has been several days since I last checked on the Host. What is our host looking at now?”
Yin Yuejia Zhuge Qinmo: “Perhaps the grain price in the recent days. It seems that the price has risen up to twice the price it was three days ago. The price is really scary.”
