Madame is Pretending to be an Academic Slacker Again!

Chapter 466: Chapter 466: The Agony of Having Your Face Beaten to a Pulp

Lu Yi was taken aback, a faint foreboding in his heart: ”It’s, it’s the one Miss Qin just couriered over...”

Nalan Ye Jue pondered, clutching the book in his hand: ”I’ll take this one. I’ll triple your salary next month.”

Lu Yi’s heart was bleeding.

Young Master, is this something that can be solved with triple the salary, huh?!

He quickly and cautiously sealed the remaining six books tightly in the box, refusing to let anyone have another glance.

Jun Ruyi noticed that even Nalan Ye Jue liked Xinghe’s works, a subtle gleam appearing in her eyes.

Previously, she made a bet with Lu Yi to get a signed book to get closer, to extract secrets about Qin Xin.

Now that Mr. Emperor also liked Xinghe’s signed book, she might as well send books to the Young Master to win his favor.

If she could gather a complete set of Xinghe’s signed books for the Young Master...

At this thought, Jun Ruyi immediately called: ”The publishing house I asked you to find yesterday, quickly get all of Xinghe’s published books signed for me as a set. What? None? If there aren’t any, make the publisher order the author to sign. What? Impossible? How’s that impossible? Doesn’t the publisher want to stay in business? Not afraid of going bankrupt? Who said no signing?”

Jun Ruyi was absolutely furious.

These people handling things, so oblivious, so ineffective.

Does she have to personally go to the publisher and put pressure?

However, when she heard the answer on the other end of the line, she felt as if she’d been hit over the head with a hammer, her heart instantly turning to ashes—

”I’m sorry, Miss, the publisher can’t help either. Because it’s Xinghe himself who said no sig., not even for a single copy at the President Mansion.”

Jun Ruyi: ”...”

This Xinghe, so arrogant?

Yet, she was utterly helpless.

Lu Yi, smugly carrying the courier box, passed right in front of her, adding insult to injury: ”Miss Jun, didn’t you say yesterday you could get Xinghe’s signed book? Oh dear, with seven books you can’t get even one? Seems like not even a single one, huh?”

Jun Ruyi: ”...I just don’t have the time to go.”

She barely managed to find an excuse, but she knew in her heart that her face had been thoroughly slapped, and in front of these engineers and Lu Yi, she had long lost any face to speak of.

Damn, how did Qin Xin manage to get those signed books?

Just how did she do it!

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At this moment.

Qin Xin was on the train back to the countryside, letting out a big sneeze.

”Who is it, thinking of cursing me during the New Year?” Qin Xin stretched her legs out from the seat, loosening up her joints.

After rejecting Nalan Ye Jue’s invitation to spend New Year together, Qin Xin seriously considered where best to celebrate.

She didn’t want to stay in Imperial City, going abroad was too troublesome, and having just returned from Asia, she didn’t want to move around anymore.

In the afternoon, while packing and sending the signed book to Lu Yi, she found the package Master Tuantuan had sent from the countryside earlier.

Most of the snacks were given to Song Anjing, keeping just a small pack of dried figs for herself, along with the calligraphy and painting Master Tuantuan had sent.

A painting in light ink of mountains and rivers, lofty peaks viewed from below, dense forests stretching far, with two little rabbits frolicking at the forest edge, leaving white, fluffy tails in the distance.

Times are peaceful.

A very warm and tranquil painting.

Looking closely, she found a line of small characters at the edge of the canvas.

In ancient clerical script: ”Qingxin, seeing these words is as if meeting, all is well, don’t worry, hope you eat heartily, and do your best in all things.”

It filled her heart with warmth, a special serenity and calmness.

Qin Xin almost immediately decided—go back to the countryside, to fulfill her duties for the original owner Lan Qingxin, and show filial respect to the gray-haired, kind and warm Master Tuantuan.