Another night of peaceful sleep.

In the early morning, Chi Liu stood barefoot on the floor, raising an eyebrow and curiously looking toward the door. A “bang, bang, bang” sound had been echoing outside the bedroom for a long time, and he wondered what his neighbor was doing out there.

Chi Liu smiled, stretching lazily and casually as he walked toward the bathroom, since he had invited a friend to stay, his friend could do whatever he wanted.

He quickly finished showering and changed into comfortable loungewear, surprised to discover that the finger-shaped bruise on his ankle had vanished entirely, and he couldn’t feel the slightest pain.

Chi Liu: ?

Was his physique this good now?

Then, he opened the bedroom door and saw… a bear-headed man in a suit awkwardly mopping the floor in the hallway.

The neighbor had obviously never done housework before. The floor was soaking wet, with crooked water streaks everywhere. The chairs from the study and dining room were haphazardly placed in the living room, clearly moved there while the man was mopping those floors.

A tall man in a suit and leather shoes wore a bear head while mopping the floor, his expensive suit splattered with water droplets everywhere. It was a comical sight from any angle you looked at it.

Despite his home being “cleaned” into a mess, Chi Liu couldn’t help but chuckle and laugh out loud.

He stood at the door, raising an eyebrow and asking, “Hmm… an alternative way to pay rent?”

Chu Qi paused upon hearing this. He straightened up and looked at the young man enveloped in the morning light. The bear head nodded quickly for a moment.

The ineffective subordinate, Secretary Wen, stated that NPCs preferred diligent partners and disliked neighbors who freeload.

Chi Liu shrugged: “Alright.”

As if recalling something, he crossed his arms and leaned against the doorframe, a rare moment of lazy daze. The colorful streaks of water on the floor naturally caught his attention, and Chi Liu’s eyebrows and eyes were filled with a helpless, gentle smile:

If the rent for staying could be offset by doing housework, then how should he repay the life-saving grace?

He stretched and stepped onto the slippery floor, heading towards the kitchen – in any case, he should make breakfast first!

…

After breakfast, Chi Liu and his neighbor went to work together.

They walked quickly to the business district, where the road was filled with office workers hurrying to work. As they passed by with large cups of coffee, they couldn’t help but stare at the bizarre bear-headed man and the gentle, beautiful, and ordinary young man beside him.

Occasionally, a few passersby would secretly take a photo, using it as a diversion from their boring working lives.

Chi Liu didn’t mind the harmless gazes. He smiled slightly, in a good mood.

Whether it was in the original world or this other world, he had never had a work buddy before. The experience was quite novel.

Soon, they arrived at the entrance of the Yunzhong Building. Chi Liu looked at his watch, raised an eyebrow, and looked at the man: “You’re taking the ferry?”

He remembered that his neighbor also worked at Yingwang across the river. At this time of day, the ferry was the fastest way to get to work.

The bear head nodded.

Chi Liu smiled and patted the other’s shoulder: “Then, see you tonight.”

With that, he turned around and walked into the building with ease.

Under the headgear, a paranoid and excited gaze constantly followed the young man until he entered the elevator.

A strange and joyful smile appeared on Chu Qi’s handsome face.

…

Yingwang Building.

Secretary Wen, with deep dark circles under his eyes, swiped his employee card with a lifeless expression and was immediately called over by the receptionist.

“Secretary Wen!” The receptionist’s face was filled with a desperate and tragic expression. She lowered her voice and said, “Tell me the truth, is our company going bankrupt?!”

Secretary Wen: “!!!” Could it be that the boss had gotten into some inexplicable trouble again without him knowing?

He forced a smile: “Why do you say that?”

Receptionist: “The boss took the ferry today!”

As she spoke, she took out her phone and showed him today’s trending entertainment news:

It was a picture. In the rolling waves of the river, a man in an expensive custom-made suit stood on the deck of a ferry. He was tall and handsome, with a noble temperament and an astonishing aura. At first glance, he resembled a domineering CEO from a powerful family who could turn the world upside down with a flick of his finger!

However, the domineering CEO was wearing a comical and cute bear head.

The surrounding tourists were all excitedly taking pictures, thinking it was some exceptional performance in Qiuhai City!

Receptionist: “The boss even took the two-yuan ordinary ferry!” He didn’t even upgrade to the premium ferry!

She patted Secretary Wen on the shoulder, her face full of sympathy: “Please tell the boss that even if we go bankrupt, we will always remember Yingwang! And we will support him! Please don’t do anything rash!”

Heaven knows how shocked they were when that bear-headed man walked into the Yingwang lobby and swiped his boss’s exclusive elevator card!

He didn’t have to go this far just because they were bankrupt!

Secretary Wen: “…”

Heh, the fact that the bizarre bear-headed man was the company’s president couldn’t be hidden after all.

Secretary Wen appeared to witness the company’s stock price falling drastically.

He staggered towards the elevator, swiped the top floor, and his mind was frantically flashing:

Destroy it, this world!

With a “ding,” the elevator arrived.

Secretary Wen walked into the office with panda eyes and saw the boss, who was in an unusually cheerful mood.

Chu Qi sat behind his desk, his elbows propped on the surface, his chin resting on his folded fingers, his smile perfect: “Your suggestion this time was very effective.”

After doing housework, Little Chi was indeed gentler with him during breakfast.

Secretary Wen gritted his teeth: Ahhh, which boss from a good family would break into his employee’s dreams in the middle of the night like a bully, forcing them to continue working!

And working for the boss’s personal affairs!

He hardly slept all night!

Secretary Wen’s brain was frantically flashing – this damned evil capitalist…

Chu Qi was still smiling, and his left index finger lazily lifted, causing a thin document on the desk to float into Secretary Wen’s hands.

Secretary Wen: “?” What is this now!

Chu Qi said casually, “I borrowed a dungeon engineer from the base who can also serve as a dungeon designer.”

Secretary Wen stared dumbfounded at the young NPC woman with glasses and a refined temperament on the document: “!”

The base was a concealed department created explicitly by the Vacation World official to connect with “that world.” Its central hub was situated in “that world,” and Lao Zheng’s department in the Vacation World essentially served as an extension of it.

Are they borrowing a dungeon engineer for Vacation World? What did the boss want to do?

An ominous premonition grew stronger and stronger…

Sure enough, Chu Qi’s strange smile became even more radiant: “I want to set up a dungeon here and lure those rats who have infiltrated this place into it—” A cruel, calm, coldness filled his dark pupils: “And wipe them out in one fell swoop.”

Secretary Wen: “…”

Should he say that such madness and crudeness were worthy of the boss…

He looked at the girl in the document with a sense of helplessness—her ability to work independently on dungeon design and field architecture truly made her a genius. It was remarkable that the base was willing to lend her out to a problematic, evil god like the boss!

…

Chi Liu arrived at the store as usual, his steps pausing.

Xiang Xiang continued to work diligently in the store. Qi Teng was nowhere to be seen for some reason.

A girl was standing at the door, looking at the posted job advertisement.

She was around twenty-three or twenty-four years old, with gentle, long hair, a quiet and refined temperament, wearing a neat, minimalist trench coat, and a pair of silver-rimmed glasses on her nose.

Hearing the movement, she looked towards Chi Liu. After staring blankly for a moment, her eyes inexplicably turned a little red, but she smiled.

She greeted him like a stranger she was meeting for the first time: “Hello, my name is Wen Xi. Lao Zheng told me that there’s a bar here that’s hiring a resident singer. I want to try it out as a part-time job to earn some extra money.”

Chi Liu looked at the girl for a moment, his eyes curving into a smile: “What are you good at?”

He had been hiring a resident singer for a long time, but with no success. If he could hire one, a part-time job wouldn’t be a problem.

Wen Xi shrugged: “Rock.”

Chi Liu smiled as he walked into the store, saying, “Come in first. You can have an interview now.”

Wen Xi looked at the young man’s back with sadness and disbelief for a long time, then smiled freely and followed him in.

…

When he went home from work, Chi Liu was so happy that he almost started humming a song.

Today, his bar was officially renovated! He also hired a resident singer!

While thinking about the opening plans, he quickly returned home. His neighbor hadn’t come home from work yet.

Chi Liu first cleaned up the mess left by the other party’s “cleaning” operation in the morning, then gagged once before sitting on the sofa, eating strawberries, and doing the accounting.

Opening a store felt like spending money freely. One million had dwindled to just two million, which could ensure the bar’s cash flow after opening and cover his current basic living expenses.

He really wanted to open the store the next day and make money!

Chi Liu sighed and set the ledger aside, continuing to eat strawberries—he had recently discovered, much to his pleasant surprise, that strawberries could effectively relieve his discomfort after gagging.

He looked at the fresh, dripping red fruit in the fruit plate and gently stroked his abdomen – it was almost Friday.

For some reason, he felt a strange premonition: the results of this physical examination would surely exceed his expectations…

After finishing the strawberries, Chi Liu suddenly felt a little itchy to do something, so he put on an apron and stood behind the home bar.

Gin, rum, vodka, tequila…

The cocktail shaker rattled, and various spirits were blending inside. Chi Liu poured the golden mixed liquor into a glass filled with ice, then added cola and a decorative lemon slice.

A perfect Long Island Iced Tea was placed in front of him, but Chi Liu smiled helplessly – for some reason, he still believed that he couldn’t drink alcohol.

Especially not such strong liquor.

He wondered if his neighbor would drink it. Otherwise, it would be too wasteful.

As soon as the thought fell, there was a sound at the door. The man wearing the bear head came home.

Chi Liu looked at him and blinked: “Do you drink Long Island Iced Tea?”

The man hung up his coat and sat on the sofa, nodding.

Then he held up a writing board: [I’ll cook]

He knew that NPCs liked hardworking and considerate partners!

Chi Liu chuckled: “Alright.” Then the drink could be drunk after dinner.

After seeing his neighbor do housework, he strongly suspected that his neighbor’s cooking skills were lacking.

But he couldn’t blow up the kitchen, right?

Muttering and complaining in his heart, Chi Liu went to the bathroom to wash his hands.

When he came out again, the Long Island Iced Tea was empty.

His neighbor was sitting upright on the sofa, motionless, with an empty glass in front of him.

Chi Liu: “…”

Um, drinking that kind of strong mixed liquor in one gulp…

Not to mention cooking, was he even conscious now?

Chi Liu twitched the corner of his mouth and sat down next to the man: “Hey, are you… um, alright?”

No matter how high your alcohol tolerance was, you couldn’t drink like that! This wasn’t real tea!

Just as he was about to pat the other’s shoulder, the man’s body fell straight into his arms!

Chi Liu’s eyes widened, and his whole body froze completely: “!!!”

…

Chu Qi lay on the sofa, his head resting on the young man’s lap. The young man’s warm and clean aura washed over him, and the main body under his skin was restless like crazy…

Under the headgear, his handsome face was flushed red, and the monster’s mind was filled with hot chaos. The shadows in the corners of the room were swirling wildly, like a high-speed rotating vortex in the deep sea…

As if bewitched, Chu Qi hugged the young man’s slender waist, wanting to rub his nose against the young man’s abdomen through the fabric, but was blocked by this damned headgear…

Chu Qi really wanted to… tear away all obstacles, the headgear, the young man’s clothes…

He really wanted to… touch… touch more…

Chi Liu stiffened his body, looking at the man on his lap with a flushed face and bright eyes: “Hey…”

Would it be a bit too much to ask him to get up at this time, after all, he had made the drink himself…

His waist was held even tighter… A large, slightly cool hand caressed his back…

Itchy…

Chi Liu got goosebumps all over his body, and his face became even hotter. He took a deep breath and was about to push the other party away when a muffled, magnetic, distorted voice sounded: “Little one, be quiet for me.”

Chi Liu was stunned: “?”

Chu Qi had already placed a hand on the young man’s soft abdomen, murmuring, “…Only the size of a fingernail now, yet so arrogant… Who do you take after…”

Little Friend: “Daddy, bad! Want Mommy! Don’t want you! Go away! QAQ”

Chi Liu’s eyes widened in shock, his face red: Putting aside the chaotic situation, the neighbor’s overstepping actions, and the inexplicable words –

Did the neighbor’s voice sound a little familiar…