Xia Ye smiled at Victoria: "It's really too much for you to say that to a beautiful and fragile girl."
"It's just telling the truth." Victoria said, "But it doesn't matter what you are like on the inside. For me, it's enough for a clothes hanger to have a nice-looking skin."
The smile on Xia Ye's face quickly disappeared: "I won't be your clothes hanger again."
"Oh, really?"
"I'm serious." Today's experience has left a psychological shadow on her.
"So, where was this skirt made? Which factory produced its fabric? Don't you want to know?"
Victoria pointed at the skirt in Xia Ye's hand, imitating the way she had just acted, showing a smile that didn't deserve a beating.
"Gu..."
The weak white-haired girl hesitated for a long time. In order to get back her most important thing (her head), she had no choice but to succumb to the coercion of her unscrupulous boss.
"Then... once a month?"
"Once a month? Are you kidding me?! I have so much stock here, how can once a month be enough?" Victoria said, pointing to the piles of clothes in the store.
"That, that..."
"Hehehe, if you want me to tell you, just come to my store every day." Victoria let out a hateful laugh while looking at Xia Ye's green body with snake-like eyes.
"How is that possible?!" The girl opened her eyes wide in surprise, her beautiful ruby-like pupils trembling like an earthquake.
"Don't worry, even though you have to come every day, it won't take a long time. It will only be done in an hour or two."
"That, that's not possible..." Xia Ye shook her head desperately, her soft white hair shaking with her movements, "So often, my body... won't be able to bear it."
"Haha, don't worry. Although it will be a little hard at first, you will get used to it soon..."
"No! Absolutely not!"
…
After some extreme push and pull, the two finally reached an agreement that Xia Ye would come to try on clothes once a week, for no more than two hours at a time.
"This is the factory where the fabric is produced."
Victoria wrote a few words on the note and handed it to Xia Ye.
Xia Ye took it and looked at it. On the note, it was written in common Chinese: Ming Shang Textile
It seems that this is the name of the textile factory. As someone who just traveled through time yesterday, Xia Ye certainly knew nothing about this factory, but it didn't matter, she already had a plan in her mind on how to investigate.
"Thank you," she said to Victoria, "Then the shop that made this dress is...?"
"Come here next week at two o'clock in the afternoon to try on clothes. See how I feel after you try them on. I might tell you."
"Hmph~~Okay."
She had already guessed that Victoria would have a hand to blackmail her, but she had no choice but to nod in agreement.
"Goodbye then." Victoria began to see off the guests.
But Xia Ye still has another question: "Wait..."
"What's up?"
"I have another question: When Grady first broke in, you said, 'It seems that you are not well adapted to the witch contract of 'Asmodeus' Pillar.' What did that mean?"
From that time on, Xia Ye kept this detail in mind. It wasn't just that Victoria was too calm in the face of the mugger, it was that word that mattered.
'Adaptability', this word is not stored in Xia Ye's cup, nor is it in the common sense Lillian told her. But Xia Ye could guess that this must be important knowledge about witches.
Unexpectedly, Victoria showed a surprised expression: "You really don't know?"
So she thinks I should have known?
Xia Ye's thoughts moved very quickly, why? It's definitely not because I'm pretty, but because... By the way, she rated me as a 'dangerous element'. In other words, she thought that my strength was pretty good. She must have included Xiuji's strength in me. Yeah... So, any witch with some strength should know the concept of 'adaptability'?
Xia Ye thought of her words in an instant.
"As you may have guessed, I have some problems here." She nodded her forehead, "So sometimes, I forget the knowledge that should be common sense."
"Oh." Victoria nodded, seemingly accepting Xia Ye's explanation: "I can tell you, if..."
"if?"
"If you can satisfy me next week." The other party went around in a circle and returned to the matter of letting Xia Ye be a clothes hanger.
"Hmph, I guess so." Xia Ye said helplessly, "Then we agreed, definitely next week."
She waved to Victoria as a farewell. Leaving the store with Lillian.
"Sister Xia Ye, where else do you want to go now?" Lilian asked as she walked.
"I don't have the energy to go shopping today, let's go home." Xia Ye said.
"Okay. When I get home, sister Xia Ye will take a shower first, and I will make dinner while you are taking a shower."
…
"call……"
In the foggy bathroom, Xia Ye let out a sigh of relief.
She was lying in the bathtub. The bathtub was not big, but it was enough for her petite stature. The basin was filled with water of just the right temperature, and there were many white bubbles floating on the water.
The girl's body was looming in the bubbles, and for a moment it was hard to tell who was fairer.
"Wow--"
With the sound of water, a black tentacle emerged from the water and lay lazily on the girl's body.
Xia Ye glanced at the other person and frowned in disgust: "Go away, don't touch my body, it's so greasy and disgusting."
This is Shuji, who has released his mimicry and revealed his original form.
"Obviously, I love hugging my cat so much~" it complained dissatisfiedly, while twisting its body, making Xia Ye feel itchy.
"That's because you are usually a cat, but now you are just a tentacle." Xia Ye said ruthlessly: "If you definitely want to stay on my body... it's not impossible, come and give me a bath."
After saying that, the girl lifted her legs from the water, placed them on the edge of the bathtub, and gently shook her white and tender feet.
"Start with your feet first."
"You know how to order me to work." Although Xiuji complained, he still crawled over obediently, "Do you get paid for giving you a bath?"
"You think beautifully."
"I knew it..." Xiuji lamented again, and his scrubbing was listless.
"Hey, use some force. I don't feel anything. Are you really moving?" Xia Ye said dissatisfied.
But Xiuji was still wrapped around the girl's calf, and although his body was stretching, he didn't move forward an inch for a long time.
Xia Ye: "..."
"I suddenly remembered, didn't you suck 100 moles of magic power from Grady before? Speaking of which, you also calculated the power. Do you want a little commission?" Xia Ye said suddenly.
"Oh?!" After hearing the magic power, Xiu Ji suddenly became interested.
