Chapter 1 Since Leaving the Orphanage

Since leaving the orphanage, Li Ang hadn't been back much.

In any case, his personality wasn't particularly likeable, he had few friends, and his relationships with everyone in the orphanage were neither good nor bad.

Even with the headmaster, he only maintained a level of sending a blessing text message found online during festivals.

"Forget it, I'll think about it tomorrow."

Sitting at his computer desk in the bedroom, Li Ang scratched his head, stopped thinking about the problem, turned around and said, "Right, Chichai, let's wait until the new equipment is ready before we go out to find the energy for the Soul-Guiding Banner."

"Mmm."

Miss Chai, lying horizontally in the hammock, continued playing with her phone, just humming lazily, rubbing one foot against the other, extremely lazy and good-for-nothing, looking no different from a salted fish.

Since Miss Chai didn't need to sleep and didn't have to worry about straining her eyes, she could play with her phone and tablet day and night.

A mere safe couldn't stop her at all. Li Ang's discipline was ineffective, and he could only let her continue to be a salted fish.

As a chimei (mountain demon), Miss Chai couldn't increase her strength through exercise or other means anyway.

Luckily, or unluckily, Li Ang hadn't encountered or come into contact with any chimei cultivation methods, which allowed Miss Chai to justifiably maintain her salted fish state.

Yesterday, during the downtime after returning, Miss Chai even used the excuse that "Although I don't have a physical form, a stable and warm nest is more conducive to my spiritual cultivation."

She pestered Li Ang, asking him to use his origami skills to fold her a paper hammock with a blanket, according to a Taobao seller's display picture.

Li Ang burned the exquisitely crafted paper hammock for Miss Chai, and then Chichai blatantly squeezed into Li Ang's bedroom.

The reason was "Just to make it easier for this lady to protect you."

Tsk, believed it.

The location Miss Chai chose for the hammock just happened to be above Li Ang's head. Last night, as soon as he opened his eyes, he could see Miss Chai with her hair disheveled, her head sticking out of the hammock, looking down at him.

Half of her face was covered by the phone screen, while the other half was illuminated by the cold light of the screen, her mouth stretched into a silent, eerie grin.

In the dark environment, this scene was enough to scare someone half to death.

It wasn't that Miss Chai was deliberately trying to scare Li Ang, but because every time she read a novel on her phone and got excited,

She liked to blush and tilt the phone, only using half an eye to look.

It was as if she could only see healthy and uplifting content that way.

So cute and silly, it was hard to imagine that she was once a notorious chimei around the Guhan Temple.

"That's right!"

Miss Chai, who was lying in her paper hammock in a salted fish pose, suddenly thought of something, bounced up and turned over, propping her chin up with her hand, staring intently at Li Ang's back as he looked at the computer screen,

Raising her voice slightly, she shouted, "Mid-Autumn Festival gift!"

"Huh?"

Li Ang, who was browsing the forum's best posts, was stunned. He took off the headphones that were playing music and turned around in his chair. "What gift?"

"Mid-Autumn Festival gift, of course!"

Miss Chai was still in the salted fish pose of rubbing her feet together, but her eyes instantly became melancholy and resentful.

"I've been following you for so long, and most of the time I'm trapped inside the Soul-Guiding Banner, empty and desolate, empty, and boring.

Even when I'm released, all I do is fight monsters. My spiritual life is very lacking.

It's like being trapped in a Poké Ball, pitiful, tragic, and in need of care.

Humans even demand no 996 work schedule, and you haven't even paid me a salary."

The more Miss Chai spoke, the more confident she became. She dangled a pale arm from the hammock, flapping it around like a salted fish, with the heroic and fearless spirit of "I'll die if you don't agree!"

"So, gift, gift, gift!!"

"You've already turned into a salted fish, what gifts do you need?"

Li Ang, with headphones around his neck, couldn't help but feel a headache. He rubbed his brow. "Speak, what do you want?"

"Eh?!"

Miss Chai, who hadn't expected Li Ang to agree so readily, was first stunned,

Then her face lit up with joy, and she began to count her treasures one by one, like a bear pawing at corn.

"I want a desktop computer, PS4Pro, x, comics, art collections, headphones, figures, clothes"

As Li Ang's face became more and more rigid, Miss Chai's voice when listing the gifts became smaller and smaller.

In the end, she simply waved her hand, blushing, "Hey, just buy whatever you want, you have plenty of money anyway."

After saying that, she hurriedly added: "Um, the game console is a must, I see them playing games and it looks very exciting, mobile games can't provide that kind of爽爽 (shuangshuang - refreshing/satisfying) feeling of impact.

The figures aren't urgent, but the clothes can be folded into paper and burned for me."

Miss Chai was, after all, a refined young lady, and knew the principle of "As long as I take a step back, it will be difficult for you to refuse me," and tried to get Li Ang to pay the bill.

Listening to Miss Chai's stuttering narration, Li Ang couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"Wow, Miss, you don't know the price of rice when you're not running the household. You can't spend money like that."

In the past, not to mention a PS4 game console, even buying a comic collection would make Li Ang's heart ache for a long time, and he would have to eat soy sauce noodles to recover.

However, now that he had become a player, with over a million in cash at his disposal, he didn't have to worry about money. That's the good thing about being a player, selling some game coins or equipment and items could make you a millionaire.

"I'll buy it, I'll place the order early, hopefully it'll arrive tomorrow."

Li Ang looked at Miss Chai's shocked and confused eyes, and smiled casually. "I feel like I've been neglecting you a bit lately, I'll make up for it now."

"UhI, uh"

The words that Miss Chai had prepared in her heart for a long time were interrupted, and she seemed a little at a loss. She suddenly turned over in the hammock, turned her back to Li Ang, and waved an arm,

"That's okay, hmph, you're the one who tricked me here anyway. As the boss, you have to pay the bill for me."

In Miss Chai's mind, it wasn't that she absolutely needed these gifts, but that she had been hiding in Li Ang's body during the day and watching his daily interactions with Wang Congshan, and she always felt strange, as if she had suffered some kind of loss.

It felt like she had become some kind of翠绿翠绿 (cuilucuilu - verdant green, meaning a green/jealous background character) background board.

"Hehe."

Li Ang smiled, didn't refute, turned around, put on his headphones to continue listening to music, and used different phone numbers, IP addresses, Taobao accounts, and personal information to buy various gifts.

Money, if you don't spend it, it has no value, even if you spend it to buy happiness, it's worth it.

"Happy Mid-Autumn Festival."

Li Ang listened to the faint murmur coming from behind him, and the smile on his lips became even brighter.