Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 1278 - 51: A Typical Job at Pacific Bank

If he hadn’t experienced it himself, Wang Yunxiao wouldn’t have believed that the power of Sect Hierarch Shen has expanded to such an exaggerated extent.

Her entourage for mere show had over a hundred lackeys.

Walking out of her company headquarters, a whole line of luxury cars was parked at the entrance.

The total number of motor vehicles in all of Tianmen City might have just passed three figures, yet there were eight parked at her doorstep alone. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

One person certainly can’t grow eight butts, so aside from the most luxurious car, the rest were transportation for her entourage.

Saying it’s just a dinner date, Shen Qingxi made a call and immediately booked the entire hotel. In the entire restaurant, only Shen Qingxi and Wang Yunxiao were left sitting in the best spot, while the rest of the staff stood ten meters away, with the head chef personally attending to them.

"Is it necessary to be this over-the-top?"

After casually ordering a steak, Wang Yunxiao quietly asked Shen Qingxi.

He even saw a few reporters peeking around with cameras just now.

Chances are by this time tomorrow, all of Tianmen City will know that Miss Shen Qingxi is off the market.

"It’s necessary."

Shen Qingxi shrugged and said, "I, myself, don’t really like such extravagance..."

Bullshit, why can’t I see where you don’t like it?

Of course, Wang Yunxiao could also understand Shen Qingxi’s point.

Such a spectacle is deliberately put on for others to see.

The locals have always valued the Doctrine of the Mean; the more impressive someone is, the more low-key they usually act.

Especially in Tianmen, only those lowest-level loafers run amok in the streets.

Any loafer with some status usually pretends to be a civilized person, afraid of being recognized.

But the Foreigners can’t understand this Doctrine of the Mean; in their ideology, being low-key means being weak, humility means being a loser. Those who originally didn’t want to bully you would be compelled to do so seeing you look so pathetic and weak.

The influence of the Huaidao Sect in Tianmen City was cleared out as early as last year. The remaining ones are either harmless or under the control of the Special Service Bureau.

This is known as the strategy of "surround three, spare one" in military tactics.

If something exists, there is a reason for its existence. If you ban it outright, it will only corner it into a desperate situation, or hide it deeper. It’s better to leave some leeway, so even if something goes wrong, it’s within the expected range and can be handled quickly.

The New Church of Eternal Life created by Li Mumu and Shen Qingxi at the start was a product of this ideology.

Foreigners always need to believe in something, or they would feel mentally suffocated. Instead of letting them believe in a bunch of random things, it’s better to leave them a path where the immigrants who don’t want to get involved in shady practices but just want to confess and pray can have a safe place to go.

And Shen Qingxi’s emergence, on one hand, provided the Special Service Bureau with an excellent candidate who could control the situation and was well-known and reliable. On the other hand, just like the so-called four external branches set up by the Four Seas Commerce Guild, she acts as the scapegoat on the surface.

The authorities need to maintain the overall situation and make compromises, but at the same time, it’s not easy to manage this work at the lower levels.

So, someone like Shen Qingxi must step forward to do what others find hard to do and say what others find hard to say.

Her currently flaunting appearance is, to a significant extent, a means to attract attention.

"Can’t keep this up forever, right?"

"As long as the Four Seas Commerce Guild has money, when they eventually move out their foundations, this farce will come to an end."

This involves a deeper level of political game.

One side thinks they’ll let you settle in slowly while the other side believes you can’t even handle one leg, let alone two.

Both parties are pushing and pulling at their limits.

But such a level of game isn’t Wang Yunxiao or Shen Qingxi’s concern.

"It’s a date, let’s not talk about business."

In private, Shen Qingxi can be as crazy as she wants, but outside she pretends to act like a decent person.

This is the most unbearable thing for Wang Yunxiao.

Once she steps out, she assumes a fully dignified sect hierarch manner, walking slowly, expressionless, and looking straight ahead.

Standing beside her, Wang Yunxiao felt like a kept man.

"Is there any personal matter we could discuss?"

"Last Christmas Eve, we were still playing together..."

"You’ve remembered wrong; it was me playing with my wife, and you forced your way in."

"Don’t dwell on the details."

Shen Qingxi took a small sip of her cream of mushroom soup and picked up a napkin to wipe the grease from the corner of her mouth.

"Go on, say something cheeky to tease me."

"I’ve never heard such a request before!"

"Well, now you have."

Wang Yunxiao coughed and glanced around.

Everyone was standing ten meters away; they couldn’t hear anything from there.

Of course, if there was someone with profound inner strength, they could hear clearly from dozens of meters away.

This is where it tests who is more shameless.

"Miss Shen, seeing how grand you make things now, dealing with business must be pretty exhausting, right?"

"You’re right."

Shen Qingxi sighed and said, "As a leader, how can it not be tiring? Every day when you open your eyes, hundreds of mouths are waiting for you to feed them."

"Do you get backaches, dizziness?"

"Yes, how did you know?"

"These are symptoms of kidney deficiency."

"You’re the one with kidney deficiency!"

Shen Qingxi glared at Wang Yunxiao fiercely, "Can you speak properly?"