In a flash, several days passed.
Morning.
The weather was clear and bright, the breeze gentle and soothing.
Fang Qiu opened the window and cast her gaze into the distance. Golden sunlight poured over Liyue Harbor, plating the entire harbor and the azure sea surface with a layer of resplendent gold. The seabirds, having finished their search for french fries, flapped their wings and took flight under the golden sun and soft sea breeze, occasionally letting out light cries.
"Mm..."
Bathing in the warm sunshine, Fang Qiu raised her hands above her head and stretched vigorously. As her waist extended, the woman's alluring physique was bathed in the sunlight, revealed in its entirety. Her chest stood out particularly prominently because her hands were raised.
However, her position faced the ocean, so no one could see her. Thus, she didn't care. She simply did whatever was most comfortable.
Feeling the comfort of her body stretching out, Fang Qiu couldn't help but hum softly.
"The weather today is really nice."
Looking at the beautiful seascape outside the window, Fang Qiu felt very much at ease.
Indeed, sleep is an author's greatest enemy.
Being an author is a profession that consumes energy; the better one sleeps, the faster one writes. An author in high spirits and an author in low spirits simply cannot be generalized as the same. Take her previous life as an example. When she was in high spirits in her past life, she could write twenty-five or twenty-six hundred words an hour. But when her spirits were low, she could only squeeze out five hundred words an hour, and perhaps after squeezing out a thousand words in two hours, she would have to delete them all and rewrite.
But ever since that person named Thoma sent her a pile of ghost stories, she hadn't slept well for a single day.
Especially the second night after receiving the horror novels. That night, she didn't use the sleeping balm—no, the sleep-aid balm—that Sister Ying'er gave her. She was scared awake a full three or four times throughout the night, and the ghosts she dreamed of each time weren't even the same one...
It was simply torture.
It wasn't until the east gradually brightened and the sky was just turning a misty dawn that she completely lost the ability to sleep.
Consequently, she contacted Hu Tao and asked for her help to move this box of novels out and throw them away. As it turned out, when Hu Tao saw that the box contained horror novels, she asked Fang Qiu on the spot to give the books to her.
Since Hu Tao wanted them, she naturally wouldn't refuse. Not to mention, they were books she had planned to throw away regardless.
And so, those horror novels came into Hu Tao's possession.
Thinking about it this way, Fang Qiu hadn't let down the good intentions of the reader who liked her books. And after Hu Tao took that pile of books away, the quality of her sleep gradually warmed up again.
However, although her condition had warmed up, as a chronic procrastinator, she still hadn't touched a single word of her new book.
"Speaking of which, today seems to be the day the first day's sales figures come out... The day Hu Tao mentioned for meeting with that Miss Yun Jin seems to be today as well..."
Fang Qiu slightly pursed her rosy lips and murmured softly.
Several things had happened in the past few days.
The first matter was naturally the one she just mentioned: the head of the Yun-Han Opera Troupe, through Hu Tao, had invited her and Hu Tao to go listen to an opera at Heyu Tea House today. Regarding this, Fang Qiu naturally did not refuse.
The second matter was that the tunnel project, for which the Yuheng, Keqing, was responsible, had been perfectly completed.
On the day of completion, Keqing had specially come to invite her to attend the completion ceremony together. After all, people were going to pass through the tunnel, so safety naturally had to be placed first. If the tunnel collapsed, even immortals would find it hard to save them.
Therefore, at the completion ceremony, Keqing specially invited two agile possessors of a Vision to have a fight inside the tunnel. The test results were very satisfactory. The tunnel was very stable, and the quality was rock-hard.
During the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Keqing asked her to name the tunnel. At that moment, several scholars one after another said it should be named after her. To be called the "Fang Qiu Tunnel."
She decisively rejected it.
That sounded too strange.
Seeing her persistence, the scholars had no choice but to give up. Ignoring what Hu Tao whispered in her ear about naming it "Wangsheng Funeral Parlor Tunnel" or "Wangsheng Tunnel," she casually picked a name.
It was called the "Auspicious Tunnel."
At the same time the tunnel was completed, Keqing also announced the news that they would carve through the mountain range separating the Liyue and Mondstadt trade routes.
Besides these things, yesterday, when she went out, she also ran into the crew members from The Alcor.
These crew members cried and complained to her. They said that because they discussed the plot on the ship before Sister Beidou had really started reading Sword and Fairy, they ended up spoiling it for Sister Beidou and Xinyan.
Therefore, the work that was originally meant for the entire crew of The Alcor was handed over entirely to the few of them. It was said to be for honing their wills and exercising their bodies. In all these days, they had slept less than eight hours in total.
They were tired as dogs.
They asked her to plead with Captain Beidou to let them off the hook. Regarding this, Fang Qiu expressed strong sympathy and indicated that it had nothing to do with her; she was powerless to help.
After watching the scenery by the window for a while, Fang Qiu washed up, finished breakfast, and changed her clothes. After completing these preparations, Fang Qiu lay down on the Jumpy Dumpty, quietly waiting for Bai Qing to arrive.
During the wait, Fang Qiu slightly raised her hand, and a long sword radiating a biting chill condensed out of thin air.
"I wonder if I can handle a large Hilichurl alone now. How about I ask Hu Tao to go to the wilderness and test it out in a couple of days?"
Fang Qiu muttered to herself, then said, "Better not, it's too dangerous."
She nestled inside the Jumpy Dumpty, constantly condensing ice swords and then dissipating them.
Just at this moment, a knock sounded at the door.
"Is Fang Qiu in?"
It was Bai Qing's voice. Hearing this voice, Fang Qiu immediately got up to open the door, but as soon as she stepped out of the Jumpy Dumpty, she shivered from the cold.
So cold.
Hugging her chest and rubbing her arms, Fang Qiu walked to the room door and opened it.
Bai Qing, holding a thick stack of documents in one hand, was standing behind the door looking slightly exhausted.
"Good morning, Sister Bai."
Fang Qiu smiled gently and spoke.
"Good morning."
Bai Qing also smiled and said.
"Come in and sit."
Fang Qiu smiled and said.
"Mn."
Bai Qing nodded and followed Fang Qiu into the room. Fang Qiu was just about to take out the pastries she bought yesterday to treat Bai Qing, when Bai Qing took out an exquisite paper box that could be carried by hand from behind her back and placed it on the desk.
"Here, this is a little dessert I brought for you on the way."
Bai Qing said with a smile.
"A little dessert?"
Fang Qiu paused slightly, opened the paper box to look, and inside lay a cake from that dessert shop opened by Mondstadters.
She hadn't expected that the Mondstadt dessert shop would launch a takeout service so quickly. Without plastic bags, they used paper boxes. Although the cost was slightly higher.
However, young people nowadays are very busy during work hours; by the time they get off work, eat, and go home, it's already dark. Compared to spending time eating in the shop, takeout service is obviously more popular with office workers. Moreover, the most important thing is that you don't have to queue.
"How is it? You still like it, right?"
Bai Qing smiled and said, "Knowing you like desserts, after hearing about this shop, I specially took a detour to buy it for you. This is the new flavor launched by that shop today. Have a taste; we'll talk business after you finish tasting."
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