"Sister Xiangling, this is for you."
"Hmm? What's this?" Xiangling took it curiously, realizing what it was after unwrapping the package.
They were two books, "A Bite of Liyue, Part One" and "a bite of liyue, part two," by the author Housewife Cook.
"Are these... cookbooks?" Xiangling flipped through them briefly, his eyes brightening as he read. "These look like very sophisticated new dishes! I haven't even heard of many of them! So these are the cookbooks that the new dish series at Liuli Pavilion and Xinyue Kiosk were based on. I'd heard about them before but never had the chance to buy them!"
"And the second part... these... oh my gosh!"
When Xiangling saw recipes like "Cold-Dressed Spring" and "Breath of the Wind" that were clearly based on Slimes, he covered his mouth in surprise.
"Lovia, who... who wrote this? It's amazing! So many ideas are similar to mine, but more systematic and even bolder!" Xiangling asked excitedly.
Lovia's face under her Hood grew slightly warm from the other's straightforward praise. She said vaguely, "I don't know either. It must have been written by someone who loves food very much. I saw this book when I went to the Bookshop yesterday and thought you might like it, Sister Xiangling, so... so I bought it for him."
"I love it! I love it so much!" Xiangling held the two books tightly in his arms like precious treasures, a brilliant smile on his face as if he had received the best gift. "Thank you, Lovia. This gift is wonderful! I'll definitely study it well!"
Seeing Xiangling's happy expression, Lovia couldn't help but curl her lips into a smile.
How nice, the gift has been given.
Just as planned!
"Mhm! You must let me taste them when the time comes!"
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That afternoon, Shopkeeper Sun Sanyu of the Sanyu Bookstore received a letter from Mr. Lovia.
Unlike the last letter, the envelope was much thicker this time, feeling heavy in his hand.
Shopkeeper Sun's heart sank for a moment, then leaped with joy.
Thick often meant a new work, or at least a big plan!
He carefully sliced open the seal with a paper knife. What slid out was not just letter paper, but also a neatly bound new manuscript. The title on the cover was "the various affairs of the raiden shogun and the guuji."
It looked like a slice-of-life novel.
He opened the letter and read it carefully.
In the letter, Mr. Lovia first expressed his sincere apologies, explaining that due to certain reasons he couldn't disclose, he was unable to handle a certain matter personally and had to trouble Shopkeeper Sun once again.
Then, he made a request that almost made Shopkeeper Sun pull his beard out.
Mr. Lovia asked him to discuss with Captain Beidou to prepare a copy of all his previous books and entrust the Alcor to take them to Inazuma's Yae Publishing House to try and publish them in a foreign land.
"Will... will this work?" Shopkeeper Sun muttered to himself. It wasn't unprecedented for Liyue's books to be sold in Inazuma, but Mr. Lovia's books... some of them were truly shocking in content.
He had written about Liyue's Lord of Geo like that, and now he actually wanted to sell books in Inazuma? And... the Raiden Shogun is that person, right? It must be her!
Thinking his eyes were failing him, he hastily took off his glasses, wiped them carefully, and looked at the cover of the new manuscript again.
Unfortunately, what met his eyes were still those large characters: "the various affairs of the raiden shogun and the guuji."
Shopkeeper Sun couldn't help but wipe the non-existent cold sweat from his forehead. Just looking at the title and combining it with the style of the previous books, Shopkeeper Sun could guarantee, with his years of experience running a Bookshop, that the content was definitely not "proper"!
This Mr. Lovia really wasn't afraid of being beaten up! He even specifically noted that he hoped it would be an "Inazuma Exclusive"?
Holding the letter and the thin new manuscript, Shopkeeper Sun began pacing back and forth in the Bookshop without even looking closely at the main text.
Reason told him the risk was enormous. Those two—one was a god! The other was an official figure of Inazuma. If they were offended, not only might the Alcor be implicated, but even Liyue might... wait, in Inazuma, there were already novels with the "Raiden Shogun" as the protagonist, like that book "Reincarnated as the Raiden Shogun, Then Became Invincible," so another one should be fine?
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