530: Chapter 530 The boss makes grand promises, and the baby's mouth waters!

Early the next morning.

Just as the morning light broke through the clouds, Su Chen got up.

It was a rare occasion for him to rise so early.

Dressed in neat white robes with his long hair pulled back sharply by a jade hairpin, his entire being looked so refreshed it was as if he had swapped heads.

Coupled with that face of his, he truly possessed an air of someone who transcended the mortal realm.

"Boss, have you... been possessed?"

Qian Duoduo, with his messy hair and rubbing his bleary eyes, stared at Su Chen by the door. His mouth was hanging open wide enough to fit an egg.

"Shut up. Assemble."

Su Chen swept a glance over him, and that ethereal Immortal Qi instantly collapsed, reverting him back to the familiar salted fish boss.

Qian Duoduo shrunk his neck and hurriedly scrambled to wash up and get dressed, stuffing his rolls of fat into a reasonably decent Merchant Guild uniform.

Outside in the corridor, Jian Buping was already there.

Black clothes, clutching his sword, leaning against the wall.

He was like a silent shadow blending into the dim morning light, with only the long sword at his waist occasionally reflecting a flash of cold light.

The last to appear was Wang Baobao.

Or rather, she was pulled out from a pile of Ore in the corner by Qian Duoduo with a loud "heave-ho," like pulling up a radish.

When the little girl was fished out, her cheeks were still bulging.

Her mouth made "crunch, crunch" sounds, as crisp as the most fragrant scorched rice in the mortal world.

A few glittering fragments of immortal gold Ore still hung from the corner of her mouth.

She had slept quite wildly; one of her two sky-pointing pigtails had been flattened and hung limp like an antenna with a bad signal.

Su Chen's gaze fixed on her.

His lazy posture instantly straightened, and the look in his eyes changed with it.

He stepped forward and grabbed Wang Baobao's crooked pigtail.

"Ow—"

Wang Baobao forgot to swallow the Ore in her mouth. Her large, dark eyes instantly filled with a layer of mist as she looked up piteously.

"Boss, what are you doing! It hurts! Baobao's pigtail is going to break!"

Su Chen didn't let go, instead applying a slight pressure to force her to tilt her small face up.

He bent down to look levelly into those watery eyes, his tone as solemn as if he were issuing military orders.

"Wang Baobao."

"Present!"

The little girl was intimidated by this aura. Her body instinctively stood ramrod straight, and she swallowed the contents of her mouth with a "gulp."

"We are going to browse the market."

"Mm-hmm!" Wang Baobao's eyes lit up instantly. Shopping! Delicious food!

"In the market, there are many stalls."

"Mm-hmm-hmm!" Her eyes grew even brighter. So much delicious food!

"On the stalls, there are many things."

"Mm-hmm-hmm-hmm!" Stars began to appear in the little girl's eyes, and drool was threatening to escape the corner of her mouth.

Su Chen's voice suddenly deepened, carrying an authority that brooked no resistance.

"Those things."

"No matter what they look like."

"No matter how good they smell."

"No matter how tasty they look."

He extended a finger and tapped firmly on Wang Baobao's cute, upturned nose.

"Even if it's just a piece of scorched rice."

"You. Are. Not. Allowed. To. Gnaw. On. It!"

The last few words carried the weight of a thousand catties.

*Click.*

The light on Wang Baobao's face went out.

She withered from a vibrant sunflower into a neglected cabbage in an instant.

"But Boss... what if... what if it really is scorched rice?" she argued in a small, persistent voice.

"Not allowed."

"Then what if it's really delicious scorched rice?" She held up two fingers, gesturing a gap as thin as a strand of hair.

"Not allowed."

"Then what if it's super-duper delicious, the kind Baobao only meets once in a lifetime, and if I miss it I'll never eat it again, the limited edition scorched rice that's even more fragrant than immortal crystals?!"

She stomped her feet in anxiety, her voice carrying a hint of a sob.

Su Chen's eyelid twitched.

"Even then, not allowed."

Wang Baobao completely wilted, like an eggplant hit by frost.

Her two sky-pointing pigtails also drooped powerlessly, like two overcooked noodles.

Su Chen looked at her pathetic state and said nothing.

He just slowly pulled a palm-sized high-grade Immortal Stone from his Storage Ring.

In the morning light, the Immortal Stone reflected an alluring rainbow glow like a piece of candy.

He deliberately waved it in front of Wang Baobao's eyes.

"Be good. Control your mouth, and I'll give you an extra meal when we get back."

Wang Baobao's eyes instantly came back to life!

She stared fixedly at that "crystal candy," and a clear "gulp" sounded from her throat.

"Really?!"

"When your boss speaks, his word is his bond."

"Baobao will definitely be good! I absolutely won't gnaw! Whoever gnaws is a puppy!"

The little girl patted her chest on the spot to swear her oath, terrified the boss might change his mind.

Su Chen put the Immortal Stone away with satisfaction and nodded.

To handle a foodie, one really had to rely on drawing big pies.

Qian Duoduo, witnessing the whole process from the side, felt the fat on his face tremble three times involuntarily.

The way he looked at Su Chen was filled with awe.

Intimidation followed by enticement.

The boss was far too skilled at this combination.

His way of disciplining Wang Baobao was more professional than when his father used to train the Spirit Beast guarding their courtyard.

Give a bone, and she'll listen.

Don't give a bone? Just draw a big pie of a bone, and she'll still wag her tail.

He didn't dare say a single word.

He just instinctively touched the wall behind him. That cold, hard sensation instantly brought back the terrifying memory from a few days ago, when he had merely chimed in to advise "Baobao, eat a bit less," only to be expressionlessly slapped into the wall by her.

Sigh.

Qian Duoduo wiped away a bitter tear in his heart.

Following this kind of boss and having this kind of colleague, his immortal life was truly full of the unknown and frights.