Pretending To Be A Boss

Chapter 100

In the evening, before dusk, it began to rain heavily.

Tang Xian, Tang Xiaojiu, and Li Xiaoyu had no choice but to have dinner in the cabin.

Li Xiaoyu said,

"Do you really like it here?"

"Of course. No clamor to disturb the ear, no official documents to toil the body. The only thing in life to ponder every day is how to consume other creatures. This is the life I want," Tang Xian said.

Tang Xiaojiu widened her eyes and said,

"Yu doesn't like it here? But you do like it, don't you? You like it, don't you? I'll give you some of the lamb."

Li Xiaoyu felt somewhat out of place. She'd never experienced anything like this before.

Tang Xian said,

"A child's reason for liking someone is very simple and pure. Next time you come, bring some snacks and toys, maybe she will become your adoring follower."

"But I'm a little duckling," Tang Xiaojiu was confused.

She couldn't understand how she had turned from a fox to a duckling to a puppy within one day.

Li Xiaoyu looked at Tang Xiaojiu uncertainly and asked,

"Do you know who I am?"

"I know! You are Tang Xian's good friend," Tang Xiaojiu replied. Read latest chapters on empire

Li Xiaoyu glanced at Tang Xian again.

Tang Xian said,

"You're too guarded."

"Not at all," Li Xiaoyu lowered her head and started eating the lamb.

Tang Xian could understand.

From her childhood, everyone was either fearful of her or respected her.

But both emotions were inseparable from her identity as the Li family's darling.

Li Xiaoyu hadn't lied; probably besides Li Zheng, nobody could be called a friend.

Even in her sixth school year, as a twelve-year-old girl among a group about to turn eighteen, the others only flattered or avoided her.

Most of the time, Li Xiaoyu didn't care about these things.

Interacting with foolish people was only a waste of her time.

But life is a constant compromise with the world, even for the members of the Li family.

If one truly has a close friend, or is genuinely liked by someone,

Whether one is intelligent or foolish, it doesn't matter much.

Li Xiaoyu wanted to pat Tang Xiaojiu's head, but after hesitating for a few seconds, she withdrew her hand, maintaining her icy demeanor.

Tang Xian saw this but didn't intervene and said,

"After dinner, you should go back."

"You're getting rid of me."

"You can come again tomorrow. But you can't stay here overnight. We don't have enough beds unless you're willing to sleep on the floor."

"Why not enough? We can squeeze together."

Tang Xian didn't respond to that, just looked at Li Xiaoyu and said,

"Go back."

His attitude wasn't very firm, but Li Xiaoyu knew she couldn't win against him in the end.

She said,

"Why don't you go back."

"I like it here."

"I can have someone build a building here for you."

"Then your people will all die here. The forest sea is dangerous, and that goes for everyone including myself."

Thinking about how those foxes were so friendly towards Tang Xian, Li Xiaoyu didn't quite believe his words.

She didn't insist much either because Tang Xian probably truly disliked that idea.

"Fine, I'll go back later. Then tell me, when will you go back to Pyramid?"

"Not sure, it depends on the mood."

A sudden thought struck Li Xiaoyu.

"Is it that you can't stay in Pyramid for more than seven days at a time?"

Tang Xian looked puzzled.

"How did you come to that conclusion?"

"I've studied your habits over these six years. Generally, after six in the evening, you'd stay in your room for at most one hour, probably to eat."

"Then, there's a thirty percent chance you will go chat with Luo, a forty-four percent chance you'll visit Liu Lang's smithy, and a twenty-one percent chance you'll stroll around Decay Street."

"The remaining five percent are always different and can be categorized as miscellaneous events."

"But after you became a full-time worker, even though you spent longer times at the mine with each visit, your routine upon returning to the mining district didn't deviate from your previous patterns. However, my... no, the people assigned to protect you told me that you often stay in your room for several days at a time without coming out."

"I can't imagine you staying in a room about ten meters squared for days. I can only think that you were actually at the mining area all along."

"From what I know about you, you are definitely the type who would test the seven-day survival limit on your own initiative."

After saying all this, Li Xiaoyu stared at Tang Xian.

In a rare display, Tang Xian showed a look of approval.

He smiled and said,

"Laplace was an 18th-century physicist and probabilist who proposed the famous Laplace's Demon theory."

"If a being could know the forces of nature's motions at a given instant and all the entities constituting the universe, and if that being were capable of analyzing these data, then the movement of the largest bodies and the smallest particles would all be encapsulated in a single formula."

Li Xiaoyu had no interest in listening to Tang Xian talk about mathematics.

Tang Xian went on to say,

"Actually, this theory is a variation of statistics. Today, you've used a big data approach to prove that certain things are actually not miracles. If we have enough information, we can make a detailed summary and forecast of a person, then that person's future in a certain time frame is nearly fixed."

"But for precise predictions, you have to consider surrounding variables, such as my plan to visit Liu Lang's forge. But if someone contacts me out of the blue and tells me about a top-notch club newly opened on Decay Street, I might change my mind."