As Qin Shan left, the surrounding shopkeepers gathered around Chu Ning, expressing their admiration for Chu Ning's good luck in encountering such a sentimental senior like Qin Shan.
Chu Ning's lips showed an irrepressible joy as he chatted with the cultivators for about half an hour before finally returning to his shop and closing the door behind him.
To outsiders, Chu Ning closing his shop might have seemed like he was too overjoyed to attend to his business, but once the door was shut, there wasn't a trace of happiness on his face.
[It seems you've noticed that Qin Shan's actions weren't genuinely about repaying a debt.]
Black Serpent crawled out of Chu Ning's sleeve, watching Chu Ning with schadenfreude as it wrote.
"He's using me to create momentum, to craft his own image of 'a man who repays kindness,'" said Chu Ning indifferently.
This was his judgment of Qin Shan's actions that day.
