I will never give in to Miss Death

I know that even if we don't burst the balloons on the road perfectly, Ouyang Xue should be able to handle this video very well by then.

This kind of firework tube, let me see, the switch should be here...

I took down a long-tube firework from the shelf next to the store entrance, confirmed how to use it, and held it up.

"Bang bang bang!"

At the same time, the sound of firework tubes exploding was heard, and a large amount of paper "fireworks" were sprayed into the air, carrying some fluorescent paper, like stars in the dark night, lighting up the morning of the coffee shop.

"Wow--"

"Great!"

"Business is booming, and congratulations on your prosperity!"

The crowd who were watching the "opening ceremony" nearby applauded spontaneously.

"Thank you, everyone. Thank you for coming."

Ouyang Xue walked back from the stall holding a camera, and said respectfully to the people around her: "If you feel tired, please feel free to move to the shop. There is a free rest area and tea inside. If you need, you can also use the store's special massage chair and interact with the cat. The WIFI password is 88. If you have any needs, you can ask the maid sister in the store..."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you..."

Ouyang Xue walked towards the customers, while Yin Xiamo, Elodie and I returned to the middle of the carpet to put on our shoes.

"The peaceful world here is sometimes quite magical."

While putting on her shoes, Yin Xiamo looked a little emotional: "Everyone is working hard to live a happy and stable life... It's a little unreal."

"what happened?"

After putting my shoes back on, I asked curiously, "Missing your hero again?"

"How is that possible? That guy... it would be better if he died. He trusted everyone and helped others when he saw they were in trouble. He was so kind to everyone... but... he was just a big fool."

Yin Xiamo whispered: "It would be best for a hero like this to become a girl and be eaten by me."

"You two are having your chuunibyou attack again?"

Elodie in front of her turned her head away and said: "Noer, generally speaking, to deal with Chuunibyou, I'll tell you a good way, that is, don't care what she says, just kiss her directly."

"what?"

I felt like my brain short-circuited instantly: "What are you two talking about? Why should I care about Chuunibyou?"

"Yes, yes, Elodie is right."

Yin Xiamo instantly got into the role and turned her face away: "Kiss quickly, kiss quickly, otherwise I will continue to be a middle school student."

"Never."

I looked around at the customers around me: "There are so many people watching here..."

"Is it okay for you not to kiss me?"

Before I could react, the girl ran to my side, bent down and slapped me in the face.

Eh?

"Noer's energy has been replenished!"

I didn't expect that I would be taken advantage of in public, and I stood there dumbfounded. On the contrary, Yin Xiamo, who had "forced a kiss" on me in front of me, pushed open the glass door of the coffee shop as if nothing had happened.

"Let the day's battle begin!"

"..."

……

No. 120 students from Xingguang Primary School are on the run

The opening ceremony of the Kamikyo Cat Cafe in Kamihama City ended with the simple sound of "balloon explosion" and fireworks in the sky.

Originally, according to some people at Tongmeng.com, everyone had made so many preparations and worked hard for several months to finally decorate and operate the coffee shop. The opening ceremony had to be grand, but Ouyang Xue refused on the grounds that "no matter how big the fuss is, it will not help attract customers except for increasing extra expenses."

After a brief discussion, we finally decided to just "go through the motions" by stepping on balloons and blowing up fireworks.

What I didn't expect was that Ouyang Xue could actually "find a new way" in the balloon-stepping segment and let me, Yin Xiamo and Elodie complete it, and by the way, record the clip for the next promotional video PV.

"It's better to keep it simple. There are not many people around this piece of land, and there are no densely populated residential areas. Even if we use a loudspeaker to shout for a whole morning, we won't be able to attract people. It's better to focus on online activities, and the offline opening ceremony will be enough."

This is what Ouyang Xue said at that time.

She personally seems to hate this kind of nihilism and face-saving project.

"If you think the opening ceremony must be grand and full of formalities, then we can also adopt the capitalist system in the future. We can hold a meeting every morning to flatter and curry favor, and hold another meeting after get off work in the evening to complain and groan."

Facing the doubts from Tongmeng.com, Ouyang Xue calmly put forward her own "minimalistic" viewpoint: "As the owner of a coffee shop, they can consider flattering me every day. Those who can't speak well will have their wages and bonuses deducted. Those who don't work overtime every day will have to review the next day. From time to time, they can use their rest days to hold activities, and go to restaurants to drink after the activities. The drinking culture cannot be left behind..."

These words discouraged those who proposed to hold a grand "opening ceremony".

Li Chen said that Ouyang Xue was particularly not interested in similar things in today's society. If it was a request from her superiors, she might just pretend to do it, drink when she should drink, and go through the motions. But if she was managing her subordinates, if anyone was good at flattery, liked to give gifts of alcohol and cigarettes, and proposed various parties to "increase the vitality of the company", Ouyang Xue would be the first to target him.

It is said that Ouyang Xue had suffered a lot like this when she was an idol in that deceptive capital company.

During the day, he forces himself to smile and chats about his daily life to the audience, answers their questions and interacts with everyone. At night, especially when there are important company leaders coming or when there are festivals approaching, he will organize all kinds of activities or cocktail parties and put on a mask and dance.

Everyone was exhausted after a day's work and thought the only thing to do was to rest or go home and have fun. The problem was that the leader was not tired. When the leader suggested playing badminton or golf, everyone had to agree and act like they really enjoyed playing with the leader. After a round of exercise, they went out to eat and toasted each other. The next day, they woke up with a terrible headache and felt exhausted all over, and then had to continue to work with a forced smile.

Ouyang Xue didn't like this. As the team leader of Tongmeng.com's logistics management, she never asked her subordinates to do similar things. They just left work on time, went home to have a good rest, played games when they should, and watched anime when they should.

"If one day in the future I am lucky enough to meet someone I can entrust my life to, this person must not like formalities. I don't want a big wedding, or to go to a fancy place to have a meal that costs tens of thousands of yuan, and everyone has to hand over a red envelope of thousands of yuan. It's not necessary."

A few days ago, when I had some free time in the afternoon, Ouyang Xue would occasionally talk to me about her "views on marriage and love".

"I don't like wedding riots, nor do I want to have a luxury wedding car worth hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars known to the whole city. It doesn't matter if there is a betrothal gift or not. If possible, I only want to invite some relatives and friends with whom I have a good relationship. Not too many people, and I won't invite those drinking buddies. People from both sides can get to know each other and have a simple meal together. There's nothing wrong with being simple."

When there are not many people around, Ouyang Xue in the coffee shop is actually quite emotional, totally different from her usual rational and strict self as a macho person.

"People's pace of life is so fast now, maybe in one or two generations the so-called drinking culture will disappear, and then this messy face-saving project will also improve..."

I have always suspected that Ouyang Xue has so many skills... she has been an idol, understands operations, can work, and is good at publicity, but she is still just the team leader of logistics management at Tongmeng.com because she doesn't like to please her superiors.

In this respect, she and I are quite similar.

After graduating from college, I did so many jobs until I was turned into a girl by Yin Xiamo. During all these years, I had no savings, no car, no house, no girlfriend, and I didn't know any important people. Apart from my orphan background, which made it difficult for me to struggle without the help of my parents and without any power or influence, I personally feel that the biggest reason was that I was "unwilling to compromise".

Society is very realistic.

I have worked as a waiter, a delivery man, and of course have worked as an employee in many small companies. During this time, I had many opportunities for "promotion", but I gave them all up.

For example, one weekend, the company boss suggested that we play volleyball, claiming that it was voluntary. I didn't go and went back to the rental house to watch anime. A colleague went and drank with the boss that day and posted on WeChat Moments. As a result, he was promoted within a few days, from a small clerk to the boss's "secretary". He came to the company every day and sat and played with his mobile phone. He left things to me to handle. Not long after, I resigned. A year later, I saw on WeChat Moments that because he was very favored by the boss, his salary increased by almost ten times compared to the time.

Even in the "snail apartment", the situation was similar - when I lived there, I was often invited by the tenants to drink, go dancing, go to the bar, and all kinds of "men's" activities, but I refused them all.

At that time, there was a young man living next door to me in Room 302 who had a similar background to me, with a poor family and no money. However, he chose to go drinking and clubbing with the people in the apartment. Soon he got to know a lot of people, quit his previous job, and went to help out in the company of a "drinking buddy", earning tens of thousands of dollars a month. He got to know a lot of "rich and powerful" people.

In other words, if I had a very smooth personality, and had been smooth in dealing with people and making friends widely from the time I graduated from college to the age of 30, I would not have ended up with no money to pay the rent and waiting to die alone in a rented house.

The reason why I chose to write books as a part-time job is because this profession belongs to "producer", and the income is proportional to your labor. You only need to serve the readers, you don't need to flatter the leaders, and you don't need to consider those complicated and hypocritical interpersonal relationships.

Similarly, I chose to work in the coffee shop, in addition to the high salary, I also valued Ouyang Xue's "frankness".

It feels like... I don't need to think about too many things when I'm with her.

The feeling that “as a maid, I only need to serve the customers well” is the same as “as a novelist, I only need to write a good book.”

At least so far I have no regrets, whether it is embarking on the path of writing books, meeting Yin Xiamo, or my current job as a maid, I have no regrets.

"No. 18, please enjoy the fried chicken and hamburger you ordered."

"Wait a moment, all the ingredients in our store are freshly made, so it will take a little longer. I suggest you go check out the cats over there, or go outside and take a walk to enjoy the sea view."

"The second floor is a coffee, milk tea and dessert area. To ensure the aroma of the coffee, you are not allowed to bring fast food up there. Sorry."

I have to say that the promotional PV that Ouyang Xue posted on Tongmeng.com was very effective. The coffee shop, which originally had no customers at eight or nine in the morning, had customer flow reaching the standard of the usual lunch rush hour at around nine o'clock. Yin Xiamo, Elodie, and Ouyang Xue and I went all out, each holding a pair of cat headphones to monitor the dynamics of the customers in the store. The phone screens also displayed the coffee shop's ordering system throughout the process. We would rush to the scene as soon as any customer had any needs.

Apart from ordinary customers, I don’t know if it’s because the promotional video was a bit too strong, but the few customers in the store gave me the feeling of “troublemakers”, and their various strange questions left me confused.

"Ah... We don't sell this robot vacuum cleaner. I suggest you go to our online store and have a look. We can tell you the model of this robot vacuum cleaner if you need it."

"Please don't treat the sign at the door like that, customer."

"I'm sorry, but I can't provide a service like 'step on you'. The one dollar photo session doesn't include this item... There is no such item in the store."

"Scold...scold you? sir, although I have not received professional maid training, I also know that it is wrong to insult customers...even if you pay me!"

At the same time, because I had to look at the phone screen the whole time, I could also see chat messages from my book club popping up on the top of the phone screen from time to time -

[Bing Ling: Brother Kirito, have you really arrived? So soon? Are you two living in Kamihama City? ]

[A Dream in the World: Wow, you guys really want to go, you guys are all hidden rich people, I’m the only one working overtime]

[Smart Roadblock: I’m at work too]

[Physics Duck: I got 50% off tickets for the entire venue on Tongmeng.com. Wouldn’t it be a loss if I don’t go? ]

[A Dream in the World: The ticket to my place is 200 yuan...Aren't you curious about when Kirito-san and Maple got together? ]

[Kill all Kirito: Huh? Didn’t I tell you guys a long time ago? Maple is my wife. Do you know why I want to kill all Kirito in 300? Because Kirito’s ultimate plus ignite can kill Maple instantly.]

In addition to my own book club, I also received an invitation to join the group from the new editor "Catmint" this morning——

The corporate QQ "Melon Bag Editor Catnip" invites you to join the group "Stray Rabbit Shelter".

In real life, I have to help customers clean the table, greet customers when they come in, and clean up cat hair for those customers who put their cats on the table and leave after having enough fun. Online, I have to monitor various situations of the coffee shop APP on my phone, cooperate with the sweeping robot to clean, and also take time to read various notifications from new editors and new author groups. It is simply a "multi-threaded" operation.

[This is the editorial group of Honeydew Bag Catmint, which is dedicated to taking in sad bunnies. Because QQ has a limit on the number of people that can be added to the group every day, I will add the authors from the previous group of Bunny little by little in the next few days, and I will finish it within this month.]

[Novel publishing, recommendation, and listing follow the rules of the Rabbit Group. You are all contracted authors, and your strength has been recognized by the website. If you are starting a new book, please report to the editor. The editor will provide modification suggestions based on the plot of the book and go through the internal signing process.]

[It is strictly forbidden to stop updating during the recommendation period. If there are no special circumstances, the book will permanently lose its recommendation qualification if it stops updating during the recommendation period.]

[You don't need to report when writing a transformation novel, and I won't provide any revision suggestions. Just write it yourself. I will evaluate it based on clicks, favorites, likes, monthly tickets, comments, complaints and other data. After you write five times the data of male-lead novels, I will recommend and put it on the shelves according to the process of male-lead novels.]

Then there was a chat with some "old faces" in this "stray rabbit shelter" -

[Sure enough, we were abandoned by the rabbit mother. Woo woo woo, rabbit, my rabbit, my rabbit mother… woo woo woo…]

[I heard that Rabbit is going to work as a maid in a maid cafe in Kamihama. Is this true? ]

[What's that maid cafe in Shangjing called? Didn't it just open today? I don't think I saw any rabbits. What does our editor-in-chief look like? ]

[I don’t know about Rabbit, but the signature maid of that coffee shop should be called Yin Nuoer. She is really cute. The promotional video is invincible. She is beautiful and has a cute voice. If I lived nearby, I would also like to go...]

[Is it really okay for you to talk about this in the catnip group? 】

[Are you new here? Come and code together. We will start the car in ten minutes. Today, the first car Daxu invites you to join the spelling room. The goal is 40000 words. The room number is: Never Stop]

Looking at the increasing number of authors in the new editor group, I had to take some time to check the group announcements and information about the new editors despite being busy in the coffee shop.

The new editor is Catmint, and his avatar is a neutral little yellow-haired guy.

Like Elodie said, no matter how I look at it, I can't tell the editor's gender.

As far as I know, all editors of Miguabao have their own exclusive avatars. For every new editor, the editorial department will ask the internal artist to help draw an avatar that is similar to the editor's own image, and add some unique elements.

This avatar is unique and not a picture from the internet.

For example, the image of the Rabbit Editor is a big sister with rabbit ears. In reality, Lan Jiajia's appearance and figure are similar to her editor's avatar, except that she lacks the rabbit ears.

In addition, I have also seen the editors "Ten Days Fox" and "Brandy" on the online promotional page of Miguabao. The avatar of Ten Days Fox is a white-haired fox girl, and Brandy is a handsome guy holding a wine bottle and saluting at the camera, giving a feeling of "Comrade, come and defend Moscow with me". The attributes of the editor "Catmint" are - blond hair, short hair, a bunch of catnip on his head, flat chest, and he feels a bit like a transvestite.

Anyway, I can't tell the gender of this editor.

But it doesn’t matter. We authors don’t have romantic relationships with editors, whether male or female.

[Uncle loves Lolita, I am your new editor-in-chief Catmint]

After being pulled into the new author group by the new editor, I had just delivered an order on the first floor and before I had time to catch my breath, I received a message from Catnip.

[I am following your new book. The current pace is good and the reading is not bad. I suggest that you increase the update volume in a few days. Now you update 2000 words a day. When the book reaches 4000 or words and there are more readers, start updating words a day in two times.]

[Of course, if you are too busy, you can update once a day. Elodie told me about your situation. You are a part-time writer, right? ]

After reading these messages, I took the time to reply: [Yes]

[Okay, you can arrange it based on your situation, but I still suggest that you update twice a week if possible]

[Also, Rabbit came to talk to me about you yesterday. She asked me to keep an eye on you. Be prepared. If I stop updating... hm? ]

I quickly replied: [It won’t stop, editor-in-chief, I swear! ]

[That's good, you can get busy]