CH 80.2

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As if the weather was trying to match his schedule, the next day was still sunny.

The warm sunlight from outside flooded into the room as soon as the curtains were drawn, and the double-glazed glass did a good job of insulating the cold air from outside, surprisingly warming the room with only the warmth of the sun shining through.

Considering what he promised to the audience yesterday, Ji Mingjiang thought for a moment and then suddenly started the live broadcast.

From eight o’clock in the morning until the end of his activities today, no one will say that his live broadcast time is short again!

The notification, which had never sounded at this hour before, caught everyone off guard, and a number of people clicked in one after another for half an hour.

[Cub Jiang, you startled me with the broadcast time today… Who knows! One second I just turned off the alarm clock, ready to stay in bed for a while. The next second, the broadcast notification, which I had set to a loud sound, went off. It almost gives me a jolt of fear.]

[Laughing to death, I’m a little better than you because I just got ready and had breakfast. I arrived at the company when Cub Jiang started airing, and I was in an elevator with my boss. Then our light brains started ringing at the same time, hahahahahahaha. ]

[I’m different. We don’t have the habit of setting an alarm clock in our dormitory. We rely on our biological clock to rush to class in the last five minutes. Now I have just finished the morning exercise in which I was beaten up by my roommate. Live with a smile.jpg]

[You guys are hilarious. But Cub Jiang, although the decoration in this corner can be seen to be very exquisite, that’s no reason for you to start the broadcast early in the morning and then punish me for standing in the corner!]

[What punishment? Cub Jiang wants to punish me? Eyes shining.jpg]

​[? Where did you come from? Get out of here!]

“I was washing up just now.” After wiping his face and putting the towel back on the shelf, Ji Mingjiang turned the camera ball that he had adjusted to face the corner. As he spoke, he turned over the passing barrage.

It’s probably a bit early at this time. Except for those who were sleeping, eating, and rushing to tidy up their workstations, there were also many people who were too sleepy to interact because they had just gotten up. There wasn’t much content that he needed to read.

After reading it briefly, Ji Mingjiang picked up a few questions and answered, “Why did the live broadcast start so early today? Didn’t you say that my live broadcast time was too short recently? How considerate of me.”

​[? ? ? ]

[You might as well just say you’re here to make up for the streaming! The scheming Jiang Jiang seems to have taken a bad example from His Majesty Clarice! ]

“Just kidding.” After picking up his coat, Ji Mingjiang walked downstairs. “Although I do have this idea… but mainly, I want to show you something interesting! Did you find anything different? ”

Right now, he had arrived in the living room on the first floor, leaning back on the fabric sofa, and said with a smile in his eyes after activating the co-perception permission.

[Yes, yes, Cub Jiang, what specific differences are you talking about? ]

The screen was blank for a moment, and the barrage was deeply confused.

After Ji Mingjiang turned on the co-perception permission, a system prompt popped up almost simultaneously, asking them if they wanted to turn on the perception.

This doesn’t seem to be a bluff.

Not to mention, Cub Jiang clearly needs them to perceive it to fully understand what he said. Even if he doesn’t say it, they still want to experience Jiang Jiang’s current environment from a distance, okay?

And just after clicking the button to confirm, the original noisy conversations in the ears, such as footsteps, disappeared instantly and were replaced by the intermittent sound of sparks crackling as the flame burned in the fireplace, the sound of the curtains being blown and drummed by the wind, and the sound of unknown birds shaking the snow off and chirping merrily as they hopped around outside…..

[It’s so quiet. It feels like a vacation. It’s completely different from working. Is Cub Jiang reminding me to take a vacation after I finish my busy work? That’s so thoughtful of you! ]

“?”

“No, although if you have time, you really need to go out and relax when you are tired from work.” Being a little dumbfounded by the sudden touching barrage, Ji Mingjiang reminded them, “Smell! Did you smell something?”

[smell? There are many differences! The refreshing scent of the snow on a sunny day, the faint scent of plum blossoms that should be wafting in from the window, and the smell of wood burning in the fireplace ……eh?]

After listing a bunch of smells that could be smelled here, the vigorous barrage that was chatting back and forth with Ji Mingjiang suddenly paused for a moment before reappearing full of surprise.

[What a nice smell of rice! This is different from my house; after all, I don’t know how to cook …… Did Jiang Jiang find some local chefs? Gwkk breakfast!”]

[I smell it too! Show me, I ate a piece of bread from a convenience store in the morning, and now I’m so hungry, so hungry, so hungry! ]

Seeing that they finally found the key point, Ji Mingjiang straightened up and said in a mysterious tone, “It’s not a local chef; it’s someone you know.”

[Someone I know? Who? It feels like there’s no chef in the empire who is so famous that everyone knows him. ]

[…I don’t know why, but seeing Cub Jiang’s expression, I suddenly had a bold idea. You may want to think about who among Cub Jiang’s acquaintances that we all know…]

[Don’t mess with me. If His Majesty is really cooking in the kitchen, I’m inviting everyone in the department to dinner today out of my own pocket, okay!]

[+1, Oh, I’m not inviting anyone to dinner. I just want to express my disbelief. ]

Seeing a lot of refutations on the correct answer, Ji Mingjiang said nothing and walked towards the kitchen with a mysterious smile still on his lips.

Anyway, if someone guesses and says it, it’s a reminder, right? They can’t blame him for freaking out when it happens.

Looking at Ji Mingjiang’s expression, which looked more and more like he was just watching the fun and not taking it too seriously, the barrage, which was still promising at first, gradually began to doubt themselves, and their tone became less and less confident.

[It shouldn’t really be His Majesty who is cooking, right…]

[I don’t believe it anyway; Cub Jiang must be bluffing us… right? ]

[In any case, I must remind you that His Majesty personally led the troops to the front line before. At that time, there were no army chefs following him to cook for him, so, um. ]

[Ah, ah, ah, don’t make trouble; I don’t believe it! This is too OOC! ]

“Why did the live broadcast start so early today?” The person who didn’t want to believe that “Clarice” could cook was originally trying hard to find some examples to refute, but then it was clearly recorded by the camera ball. The sound made their minds buzz immediately, and then they went blank.

Following Ji Mingjiang’s movements, Clarice appeared in front of the camera wearing a black apron around his waist and holding two plates in his hands.

Although Clarice was dressed in black yesterday and was also wearing a black shirt and black trousers indoors today, the black apron seems to be in the midst of it without any sense of conflict… That’s strange!

[I wonder why I saw the ceiling and the ground at the same time. It turned out that I was split in half. ]

On the rare and clean live broadcast screen, a lone barrage flashed across, stating the current situation of the host and also expressing the feelings of hundreds of thousands of viewers at this time.

“They felt that the duration of my live broadcast was too short. This was not to increase my presence, but to show them another side of His Majesty.”

Ji Mingjiang entered the kitchen with the camera ball and helped bring out the remaining two plates. After sitting down at the dinner table, he stretched out his hand and waved it in front of the camera.

“Come back to your senses; haven’t you recovered yet? It’s not that big of a deal; it’s just that Clarice can cook. Is it that surprising?”

When he said this, Ji Mingjiang selectively ignored the shock he felt when he saw Clarice take out the dishes from the refrigerator the night before.

[Shouldn’t this be surprising? The words “His Majesty” and “Kitchen” don’t go together at all! Could anything be more surprising than this? ]

Perhaps the fact that mermaids can transform may be comparable to this, but that was a few days ago, and they have long since recovered!

“Hmm… yeah, maybe.” Ji Mingjiang turned over the fish congee in his bowl with a spoon, and the crystal-clear fish and full shrimp were scooped up in the rice that looked very soft and glutinous. After drinking it, Ji Mingjiang nodded and said, “So does it taste pretty good?”

[…]

[I remembered the four pictures Cub Jiang sent on the first night, so… His Majesty must have made that too! ]

“Of course.” Seeing this barrage during the meal, Ji Mingjiang nodded naturally. “After all, I don’t know how to cook.”

[Damn it, I don’t know who to envy for a moment! ]

[Is it okay to say this? After all, I never dared to think that someone like His Majesty could one day wear an apron to cook…]

Silently following this CP. I will create a forum right now.]

“Okay, I’ll take you to the ski resort with me in a while.” Paired with a few pan-fried shrimp dumplings and salted duck eggs, perhaps coupled with the audience’s skeptical barrage, Ji Mingjiang’s meal was exceptionally satisfying, and it was only after he finished eating that his words changed to say what he was really live-streaming today.

This made the audience, who had been shocked and confused this morning, instantly startled, as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

[Very good! I almost thought that today’s live broadcast was all about exposing the unknown side of His Majesty to shock us.]

[Okay, starting to look forward to it!]

[@Boss, as for the one who said to invite all department employees to dinner, I know you are our boss, and I saw you just posted a barrage! Our department doesn’t want to have dinner together and wants to go skiing. Can the boss directly provide subsidies? qvq]

​[? It made me laugh so hard; what a sinful relationship hahahahahahaha.]

[I see it, I see it, I do what I say, and let your manager come to me to discuss specific arrangements!]

[Damn it, look at other people’s bosses. I’m so jealous.]

When he tidied up the dishes and went out, Ji Mingjiang specially held the camera ball in his hand. Looking at the dark screen of the live broadcast room and the barrage of question marks, he reassured them: “Wait until we get out of this section of the road, then we will put you guys out, or else it’s easy to expose the door number and the specific location. Wait a moment, ah.”

After walking for a certain distance, Ji Mingjiang let go of his hand, and before the wobbly camera ball could float upward much higher, there was another violent shaking, making people dizzy. Clarice drove a hover car that came from nowhere, stopped in front of Ji Mingjiang, opened the door, and urged him to come in.

***

“Boss——” “Bang!”

“Boss——” “Bang!”

“Boss–”

The elongated tone was accompanied by the sound of closing the door from far to near. Xue Chen held a steaming tea cup and silently stuffed himself into the soft chair, slowly taking a sip of tea.

On the screen in front of them, Ji Mingjiang and Clarice were on their way to an unknown ski resort.

Hey, how good would it be if they came to him?

Thinking of his miserable life this month, Xue Chen’s eyes were blank, and he prayed silently.

If he had known, he would have gone to that temple yesterday to burn incense sticks.

“Boss–”

While he was silently knocking on the wooden fish1 to accumulate merit in his heart, the door of the room he was in was also suddenly pushed open, and Wang Fu’s loud, grinning voice rang in his ears, so noisy that his ears were buzzing for a moment.

“Boss, you are really here!” He found Xue Chen after opening three or four doors. This moved Wang Fu to tears in his eyes, and then he strode forward and pulled his boss from the chair. “Boss, go to work and go to the front desk. The cashier girl resigned yesterday. Don’t tell me that you forgot.”

“Ah—” At the thought that he still had to work without profit being turned over, Xue Chen was overcome by sorrow. He held onto Wang Fu, the only employee who had been working from the beginning, met his frightened gaze, and said with deep emotion, “Fugui, ah, I think I won’t be able to pay your salary anymore. There is really no money in this place. Why don’t we sell this ski resort and go to the Capital Star to wash dishes?”

“…”

Wang Fu pulled his own hand from his clutch, very coldly and ruthlessly, without any trace of the excitement and joy just now, and said, “First of all, boss, let me emphasize one last time: my name is Wang Fu, not Wang Fugui, and my bestialization direction is not a do. Secondly, there is no restaurant that needs to use manpower to wash dishes now! Please wake up!”

Seeing Xue Chen looking like he was about to return to his lazy chair in a hopeless state of paralysis, Wang Fu’s veins jumped straight to his forehead, and he pulled his arm up. “A day’s work is a day’s work, and a penny is a penny. If you say such depressing words again, I’m not going to do it anymore. Besides, I thought you were used to the fact that the profit has not been good in the winter.”

The soft chair was pushed back as Xue Chen stood up. After pulling him up completely, Wang Fu quickly pushed him forward, then raised his foot and kicked the chair farther away.

When he saw that the chair that looked like a good nest had reached the corner, he let out a sigh of relief and lifted up the hand holding Xue Chen.

Craning his neck to look at the drooping eyelids and pale Xue Chen, Wang Fu huffed. He was really frightened, no matter how many times he saw the boss standing up. This must be the influence of the bestialization direction.

He even suspected that many customers might have been scared away by his boss, who had the characteristics of an arctic hare. After all, the height of the boss was really scary. He was much taller than some lion and tiger beastmen.

The light brain screen hanging in mid-air also shook with Xue Chen’s movement. Xue Chen was usually too lazy to set the privacy mode, so Wang Fu also saw Ji Mingjiang and Clarice on it.

“Boss, you are also watching Cub Jiang’s live broadcast.” Dragging the half-dead Xue Chen towards the door, Wang Fu reassured him, “I took a look before coming to you. They seemed to be going to the ski resort. Although it’s impossible for us this year, if you work hard, boss, maybe we can meet them in person next year!”

“Don’t do this; you don’t know whether I will still be here next year.” Xue Chen sober up and rolled his eyes at his old employee. Striding forward, he knocked aside the light screen used for entertainment as not to block the way.

“People still need to be a little self-aware. Your boss, I, clearly know that there are no less than ten ski resorts near us. Among them, there are also a few that were managed properly and turned themselves into internet celebrities. Jiang Jiang and His Majesty must be blown stupid by the wind here to come to our shabby place…”

Xue Chen kept chattering all the way and didn’t stop until he walked out of the corridor and came to the hall. Then he realized belatedly that Wang Fu, who always liked to refute his depressing words by giving him empty promises, was surprisingly silent today, and the air was unusually quiet.

Oh no, Xue Chen’s heart skipped a beat.

Could it be that his output of too many negative emotions today annoyed this kid?

It shouldn’t be. Isn’t this just the beginning? In the past, even if he talked about it all day long, Wang Fu could still talk back to him with high spirits.

“Fugui ah…”

The more he thought about it, the more wrong he felt. He hurriedly turned around and raised his hand in preparation to swear to Wang Fu that he would never say those words again. Then, when he lowered his head, what he saw was his employee staring blankly at the door.

After hearing his words, Wang Fu retorted like a conditioned reflex: “This is really the last time; I’m not called Fugui!” Then he came back to his senses and pinched the back of his exposed hand.

“Hiss—”

Damn, it hurts. It’s not a dream; it’s real.

“What are you doing?!” Startled by his actions, Xue Chen’s half-lidded eyelids suddenly opened. He widened his gray-blue eyes and hurriedly bent down to take a closer look at his employee’s mental state, but was slapped on the back instead. “A guest is here!”

Wang Fu, a polar bear beastman, was quite strong. Xue Chen felt a little pain, even with the buff of his down jacket.

“How can our little place really have guests?” After finding out that the other party was fine, Xue Chen’s eyelids drooped again. He muttered and turned around slowly.

“Welcome to Xue Ping Mountain Ski Resort. May I ask who… ah?”

When he turned around, the bell hanging at the door, which had not moved for a long time and was almost gathering dust, made a crisp sound when the door frame was opened.

Ji Mingjiang and Clarice, who had just appeared in the live broadcast room and whom both Xue Chen and Wang Fu were convinced would not appear here this year at the very least, walked in.

Shaking off the snowflakes on his body, the mermaid with delicate features who had been stealing the show recently smiled lightly at the two stunned people. “Two of you, you don’t have a price list, but how much does it cost for skiing?”

“!” Xue Chen’s brain hadn’t even reacted yet, and his mouth, which had been blathering just a moment ago, said somewhat dryly, “300 per person, one ticket for four hours.”

“Ah! No!” When Clarice stepped forward to pay, Xue Chen suddenly woke up from the shock and reached out to cover the payment machine. “The fact that you two can come to our Xueping Mountain Ski Resort is already a blessing. How can I charge money? Of course, it has to be free! Oh no, I mean, if Cub Jiang is still live broadcasting, it’s equivalent to advertising for me. I can’t find a live broadcast room with such a good publicity effect in this small place; of course, I’m going to give you three hundred!”

The growing smile in Ji Mingjiang’s eyes and the almost imaginable barrage made Xue Chen’s face, which was originally very white, covered with a thin layer of red. His gray-blue eyes were full of annoyance, feeling that he was strange no matter what he said. He hung his head in despair and said in a muffled voice, “Good day Your Majesty, good day Your Highness,I will list the items first.”

“Don’t be so nervous. I forgot to contact you in advance to ask whether you allow live broadcasts here. It’s my fault.” Ji Mingjiang, who was actually just trying to hold in his laughter because of the overly distinctive name of this ski resort, apologized. When he saw Xue Chen’s expression, he thought that the other party was embarrassed because of the live broadcast, so he yanked the camera ball down and stuffed it into his pocket.

“That’s not true. I believe that being able to appear in your live broadcast room is what every shop dreams of.” Even if we don’t talk about publicity and popularity, which represented a constant stream of revenue, just being able to personally meet Ji Mingjiang and His Majesty, who rarely appeared in front of people, could already make a lot of people so excited that they couldn’t find their way out of the room.

Xue Chen gradually calmed down, and his eyelids slowly dropped back after getting excited. If Wang Fu hadn’t secretly pinched his waist, he might not have really turned back to that dead fish look in front of Ji Mingjiang and Clarice.

“This is our item list. It’s true what I said about waiving the bill. There have been no customers in this place for a long time. It’s already a big surprise that you two would choose this place, not to mention the fact that His Highness Ji Mingjiang comes with his own publicity.”

Xue Chen said it with great embarrassment after showing the project list in front of them.

It is said to be a project list. In fact, due to poor management recently, a large number of employees have resigned. What can be provided normally is limited to one-on-one teaching for two people, ordinary cable cars, snowboarding, and snow circle projects. Ji Mingjiang glanced at it and said, “As long as the snowboard is good, we will bring the other equipment ourselves.”

“Oh okay~”

“Hey, wait!” After answering, Xue Chen looked at Ji Mingjiang doubtfully, hesitated for a moment, and then asked, “Do you really not need one-on-one teaching services?”

You seem to have only been walking on two legs for a few days!

Ji Mingjiang shook his head confidently at him.

Xue Chen registered the project with worry and doubt in his eyes. If His Majesty is here, there shouldn’t be any problems…right?

It was ten minutes later that the audience in the live broadcast room was released again, and the scene moved from the somewhat cramped room to the empty snow track.

Turning the camera to himself, Ji Mingjiang, who had already put on his ski clothes, pushed up his goggles. His long and curled eyelashes were brushed upward by the frame of the goggles.

Putting the camera ball into the air and letting it wobble around on its own, Ji Mingjiang looked at Clarice, who was wearing ski clothes that made his shoulders wider and legs longer. It suddenly occurred to him that although he had watched many skiing competitions in his previous life and even invited a coach to tell him some skiing skills because of his interest, he really had never personally skied!

He’s wearing such thick clothes now; his physical fitness is different from the past, and there will definitely be no problem if he falls, but… he looked up hesitantly at the little black dots flying freely.

It’s a bit awkward.

“What’s wrong?” Leiden, who noticed his strange silence, turned to look at him. The two looked at each other. After a moment of silence, he also pushed up his goggles and said in disbelief, “You’re not going to tell me now that you can’t ski, are you?!”

“Tsk, isn’t it possible?”

Ji Mingjiang said confidently, “I just learned how to walk only two days ago!”

“Do you believe what you just said?” Leiden had a ‘don’t take me for a fool’ look on his face. “It doesn’t matter if others don’t know. You were able to drag Zhang Cheng to come to me before. I believe you said you grew two legs and could walk from birth.”

“… Geniuses are not all-rounders. It’s normal for me to have one that I don’t know.” Seeing Xue Chen and Wang Fu walking towards them, Ji Mingjiang came closer and whispered, “And I’m already familiar with theoretical knowledge; it’s just that I lack practice.”

“So?” Leiden raised his eyebrows and looked at Ji Mingjiang, who rarely showed weakness.

The other party blinked his eyelashes, and a snowflake that had just landed on his eyelashes was shaken off.

“So, is it okay if I set the camera ball’s follow object to you?”

…It was easy to hear Ji Mingjiang’s unfinished words, and Leiden twitched the corner of his mouth.

It turns out he was just worrying about his image collapsing rather than wanting him to help watch and guide from the sidelines!

Ji Mingjiang also saw the meaning of Clarice’s eyes and laughed.

Of course, it’s impossible to guide him from the sidelines.  The camera ball is not following anyone. When the time comes, it will still be necessary to record his various tragic falls.

Hua: Schedule will change to sporadic instead. I’m kinda burnout from this novel tbh but I don’t want to drop it.