“Of course you can!”
Just as Luwei expected, Lilique agreed without hesitation.
“Only… you’ll have to come to my room tonight and let me have a little bite~~”
Then she added this condition.
Luwei could feel Floxi’s gaze from behind growing increasingly prickly.
Yet Lilique was still putting on an innocent act, blinking her big eyes as she looked at her expectantly.
Luwei suddenly realized that Floxi had probably already learned Lilique’s true identity through reading her mind.
So… she should understand, right?
Lilique was just a little hungry, with no ill intentions.
Luwei turned to look at Guan Luoxi, and that strange gaze instantly vanished without a trace.
Her eyes were clear, with no sign of hostility toward Lilique.
But as soon as Luwei turned her head back, the icy glare from behind almost made her shiver.
As for Lilique?
“Hehe~~”
Lilique flashed Luwei a sweet smile.
“Why is this golden-haired girl always hanging around you?”
But when Lilique’s eyes swept over Guan Luoxi beside Luwei, her little face immediately fell.
“Is she a bodyguard? So annoying…”
Unlike Guan Luoxi, who quietly glared at her behind Luwei’s back, Lilique openly displayed her talent for flipping moods.
Seeing this, Luwei could roughly guess what was happening.
This was an Easter Egg event triggered in the game when there were too many employees!
With a thought from Lukui, a yellow prompt box opened in the lower right corner of her vision.
[– Human Resource Management –]
[Alert: Employee Relationship Discord]
[Affected Units: “Guan Luoxi”, “Lilique”]
[Recommendations: Optimize coordination logic, clarify responsibility boundaries, reassign personnel, stagger shifts…]
Lukui had already reached a conclusion.
Her business was still in its early stages, with many rules and tasks not yet assigned.
One was a holy angel, the other a master of dark magic.
Both were employees under her command.
Lilique only filmed advertisements and spent the rest of her time lazing around, yet she raked in advertising revenue shares and had enough spare money to take her out on dates.
As for Floxi?
She had only just returned from the assembly line at the Potion Workshop days ago, and now she had to work full-time as both a “personal maid” and the “head of the Giant Strength Potion launch event”!
So…
This was her own oversight causing an uneven distribution of tasks, with a serious mismatch between her employees’ workload and compensation.
Add to that the inherent tension between angels and vampires, and it led to this standoff between the two girls.
Having figured this out, Luwei felt she had taken another step toward becoming a qualified boss.
Next up: resolve the conflict!
So she turned around, gently patted Floxi on the shoulder, and said, “You’ve been through a lot lately.”
Luwei’s eyes held three parts admiration and seven parts encouragement.
“Put your current work on hold. You don’t need to be my personal maid anymore.”
“I’m giving you a seven-day paid vacation!”
She was offering the highest perk for working people.
Surely that would show her sincerity, right?
But upon hearing this,
Floxi’s eyes showed a hint of confusion.
She didn’t quite understand what Luwei meant, but she clearly caught the phrase “you don’t need to be my personal maid…”
Floxi’s heart was in a bit of a panic.
This was the second time she had been relieved of her maid duties.
“Then… who will take care of you?” she asked tentatively.
“Take care of me?”
Luwei didn’t really need someone to stay by her side.
But alas, her strength was far too lacking.
The only things she could boast about were a few exclusive Magic spells she had obtained through gacha pulls.
So, more than a maid, what she needed was a bodyguard.
Thinking this, Luwei’s gaze drifted over to Lilique.
Because of her role in the advertisement, a full 1% of the Giant Strength Potion sales revenue went to Lilique!
Luwei clearly remembered yesterday, when she had carried a full 500 Gold Coins to Lilique’s room, and the look on the other girl’s face as she nearly dropped her jaw in shock.
She couldn’t just let her take the money and do nothing!
So Luwei pointed at Lilique’s nose.
“I see you’re free every day. For now, you can take Guan Luoxi’s place as my bodyguard!”
Luwei was internally imagining that when Floxi saw Lilique having to work for a change, while she herself got paid leave, she should feel a bit better.
And this spoiled, lazy Vampire Princess, upon hearing that she would have to take care of someone else, would surely pout her little face and complain inwardly, right?
But for some reason…
Luwei felt that the situation was a bit off.
Floxi’s expression grew even more gloomy… while Lilique looked like she’d been given a shot of adrenaline.
“Really? You promise, no take-backs!”
Lilique’s eyes seemed to sparkle, and she even hummed a strange little tune.
Not far away, Floxi looked dejected, as if she wanted to say something but held back.
After a moment of internal struggle, she finally left in a huff.
‘Her Highness must still be a little angry, right?’
Floxi felt a knot in her heart.
Because of her own stubbornness, she not only refused to leave with Sailixiya but also ended up clashing with her.
Her Highness had kindly advised her, but she, in a fit of anger, had even scolded Her Highness along with it.
She had claimed that Her Highness could entrust her safety to her.
And yet now, she couldn’t even handle the trouble caused by Sailixiya.
Watching Lilique, who seemed rather cheerful on the side, only made Floxi’s heart feel worse.
She was also… Her Highness’s “lover.”
Guan Luoxi had probed Her Highness’s inner thoughts.
She also knew that the “lover relationship” Her Highness spoke of was the key to completing some kind of quest and obtaining a reward.
And in Her Highness’s eyes… she even thought it was more like a joke, never expecting anyone to take it seriously.
That’s why, when she genuinely showed her feelings, Her Highness was so at a loss.
She was always talking about love, romance, and like, but when it came time to actually confront those emotions…
She herself had clearly prepared mentally,
Yet she still found it hard to imagine that such a cute, delicate girl could harbor such a cruel secret.
Guan Luoxi respected Luwei’s thoughts.
She had also witnessed the grand visions and ambitions in Luwei’s heart.
That was why she had conceived this thought.
To share the pressure for Her Highness… to be by her side in difficult times…
She hoped… that Her Highness would rely on her.
But she didn’t know what to do.
She didn’t want to just stop at ‘like.’
‘Like’ could be said to a friend, said as a joke, or said at first sight.
She wanted… to receive… love?
These thoughts, like wild overgrown grass, quietly spread through the depths of her heart.