[Ahhh, someone please take this loner out and make him do some work!] Lai Jiayi shouted to Yaya.
[Eh, what work, quack? He can't do anything here– ]
[Aren't CEOs in romance novels usually work in any kind of situation, earning the female lead's admiration?] Lai Jiayi recalled a novel she read before.
[Eh, I suppose so, quack.] Yaya hastily agreed, as a fellow novel lover.
[So….what is he doing just watching someone cleaning as if he's watching a movie??]
[Dunno, ah, quack! Why you ask me– ]
[Wait. Could it be he watched me because my look smites him?] The girl began to be delusional.
[What?! Impossible, quack!] Yaya suddenly pecked Lai Jiayi's belly for the second time.
[If he can be smitten so easily, quack, we won't have to use a roundabout strategy to raise his affection, quack!]
[Ugh, I know, I know, I'm just kidding, okay??] Lai Jiayi rolled her eyes in annoyance.
[I know he doesn't even look at my face and just looks at the spot I'm cleaning.] Lai Jiayi had the urge to cry.
'I am worse than dirt!'
Zhao Yang didn't know Lai Jiayi's thoughts and just enjoyed the 'show'.
There's a sense of comfort seeing something dull changed into something bright, shining like a diamond.
'Ahh, as expected, looking at something clean soothes my heart.' The man sighed in bliss.
Thus, a weirdo girl and an even more weirdo man did this for around 10 minutes. The girl was cleaning, and the guy was watching the girl cleaning.
Only until Lai Jiayi finished the elevator wall that Zhao Yang suddenly spoke, startling her, "Will you clean the floor too?"
His voice wasn't as cold as before anymore, and instead, there's a trace of anticipation in his voice.
His eyes also sparkled a bit like that of a child waiting to watch his favorite cartoon.
Lai Jiayi was stunned silly, hearing the man's question. At this moment, he really looked a bit childish, but maybe he himself didn't realize that.
'Ah-ah, Mr. Zhao, your fans will run away if they see you like this!'
Lai Jiayi gripped the cloth tight as she flashed an innocent smile like that of a lamb before answering, "R-right! Thanks for the reminder, b-boss."
ヽ(#ﾟДﾟ)ﾉ┌┛Σ(ノ´Д`)ノ'Reminder your ass!'
Lai Jiayi gritted her teeth and imagined herself kicking Zhao Yang's butt.
She didn't intend to clean the floor too and just wanted to clean the wall to gain his attention, thus somehow raising his affection.
'He likes people who are diligent, right? Then why the hell the barometer hasn't gone up?!'
Lai Jiayi cursed Zhao Yang in her mind, but she still started to clean the floor too.
The girl endured all this humiliation being treated like a real cleaning service when she's just doing this for the barometer.
Just when she was mopping the floor here and there, a notification that she never imagined would arrive– suddenly rang in her mind.
[Player Jia accomplished the 'Getting target's approval for your job' mission. +50 points. Current points: 1070]
Lai Jiayi almost dropped the mop she was holding. Her jaw was opened wide, and the girl blinked her eyes several times, looking like a lost child.
Thankfully her head was lowered, so Zhao Yang didn't see her face being like this.
[What? I just accomplished a D rank mission?]
[Yes, quack! Congrats, you level up as a cleaning service, quack…] Yaya mocked.
[Wait...does he just approve of my skill as a professional cleaning service?? For real??] Lai Jiayi's face turned blue.
[Yepz quack! Be happy about it, quack.] Yaya teased again.
Lai Jiayi's lips twitched. She didn't know whether to be happy or not.
[Oy, oy, why do you sound happy? Won't my image in his mind stay as a cleaning service??] Lai Jiayi almost broke the mop in two.
[Isn't this bad for my barometer progress?!] She shrieked.
Once she thought of this possibility, she wanted to wail and punched the weirdo guy near her.
Still, the girl mopped the floor clean, and only after she finished, she stopped.
Sweat already ran down her forehead, drenching her clothes.
[Gahhh!! It's so hot!!] Lai Jiayi started to protest.
[Well, your jersey is thick, quack. And the elevator is also hot, quack.] Yaya casually commented.
'If today is summer, I will die from heatstroke! Thank God it's spring today, ah!'
Lai Jiayi turned teary-eyed, but seconds later, she sighed in relief as she finished her work.
"Fuh…" Lai Jiayi put back all the cleaning tools together and suddenly asked Yaya,
[Hey, what about the barometer– ]
DING! [Barometer raises!] A notification sounded.
[Jiajia! The barometer went up, quack! Wohoooo! I didn't know what witchcraft you use, but we did it, quaaack!!] Yaya suddenly shouted.
He almost went out of Lai Jiayi's clothes and celebrated with her if not for the girl pinching his body.
'!! The barometer rises??'
[Really?? Like, for fck sake it suddenly rises??] Lai Jiayi was half-doubting Yaya, but since she knew he wouldn't lie, she was shocked silly.
'So the barometer raised right after I cleaned the whole elevator? What's that??' Lai Jiayi almost wrecked the elevator?
[Yes, yes. It rises, quack! Congrats, we did it, quack~] Yaya almost danced on the spot, but he refrained from doing so.
[Ughhh, finally! I thought the barometer would never rise again!!] Lai Jiayi felt like crying.
She glanced at the man looking at his AI fixing things and somehow wanted to thank him for his affection.
'This iceberg is quite nice!'
The girl was smiling widely while praising the man but...
If only Lai Jiayi knew this time the barometer also only raised by 1%, she wouldn't be so kind to praise Zhao Yang in her heart.
Just like that, 30 minutes passed by, and the elevator was fixed.
Right after the elevator worked again, Zhao Yang had returned to his old self, cold and aloof. Lai Jiayi even wondered if what she saw was just a dream.
'The barometer raised twice!'
Lai Jiayi finally went to college in a happy mood, not knowing that...
A certain player had just checked her barometer in exchange for 10 points resulting in this player planning something 'nasty' to disturb the girl.
A storm was waiting for her.
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