Chapter 409: Yingdao Mai Suddenly Sees the Light! (2/7, please subscribe)

The café.

"So this is your boyfriend?"

Lady Toyohama looked at Zhang Taixuan with an appraising gaze. After only one second, she felt somewhat inferior and looked away.

No matter how discerning the eye, she could not find a single flaw in his bearing or appearance—this was simply a perfect person.

"Yes!" Yingdao Mai did not deny it.

"Why? You're right in the middle of your career's upward climb. The moment you fall in love, your career will be completely ru-ined!"

Lady Toyohama was getting a little frantic.

Yingdao Mai's current achievements were something countless people could not even dream of.

To give up halfway—wouldn't that mean all her previous efforts had been wasted?

"I have my own considerations!" Yingdao Mai took a sip of coffee; the bitter taste calmed her down. "I plan to retire from the entertainment circle and, in the future, film stories from other worlds."

"Uh…" Lady Toyohama was a little stunned. She looked at Yingdao Mai and thought she had gone mad.

Other worlds—weren't they grown-ups here? How could anyone still say such things?

"Mom, you don't believe me?" At a thought from Yingdao Mai, the coffee in her hand floated up, hovering three inches above her palm.

"Magic?" Lady Toyohama asked.

Zhang Taixuan smiled and said, "It's not magic!"

As his words fell, heaven and earth changed drastically. In an instant, the three of them were standing on a vast grassland, green grass all around like a carpet, cattle and sheep galloping in the distance, the scent of fresh grass filling the air.

Only the coffee table, the chairs, and the three of them clashed with this environment.

"This…" Lady Toyohama was stunned. She stood up, looked around, then bent down and plucked a blade of grass, held it to her nose and sniffed. "This is actually real—it's not an illusion!"

"Naturally not an illusion." Zhang Taixuan smiled. "Right now, we're on the great grasslands of Huaguo. We're no longer in Yinghua Country."

"This…" Lady Toyohama looked at Yingdao Mai. "Mai, what's going on?"

Yingdao Mai took a sip of coffee and cast a grateful look at Zhang Taixuan.

If she had to explain it herself, it would have taken a great many words. Now, it was far simpler.

"Earlier, I joined an organization that connects all the myriad worlds." Yingdao Mai organized her thoughts and began to explain. "From now on, I won't be acting anymore. Filming stories of the myriad worlds and cultivating extraordinary power—that will be my path going forward."

Lady Toyohama listened and was instantly at a loss for words.

Extraordinary power, an organization connecting all the myriad worlds—this was indeed more promising than acting.

"But won't there be danger?" Although Lady Toyohama was heavily driven by self-interest, the Yingdao Mai before her was her daughter—how could she possibly not care at all?

"Of course there won't be any problem." Yingdao Mai smiled, walked to Zhang Taixuan's side, and said, "This gentleman is Taixuan-kun of our organization, the strongest being of an entire universe. There are even gods in the chat group. I'm very safe."

"On that score, Lady, you need not worry." Zhang Taixuan said with a confident smile. "Young Lady Mai is so beautiful—no one would stand by and do nothing."

At a thought, the three of them returned to the café. The people around them noticed nothing, as if they had never left at all.

Lady Toyohama was dumbfounded.

"This is simply too miraculous!" Lady Toyohama murmured to herself. "I'm feeling a bit dizzy. Mai, you entertain Taixuan-kun properly on my behalf."

"Mm." Yingdao Mai nodded, watched her mother leave, and suddenly let out a sigh of relief. "Taixuan-kun, I'm in a very good mood right now. How about we go buy a bunny-girl outfit?"

"You won't regret it?" Zhang Taixuan asked.

Yingdao Mai's gaze was gentle: "No regrets!"

That was just her nature—once a decision was made, she would never back down.

It had been the same in the entertainment circle—she could defy the entire industry, defy her mother.

Now, having met someone who made her heart stir, she had once again made her decision without hesitation.

"Although I don't know if the suspension-bridge effect is part of it, Taixuan-kun really fits my standards for a partner!"

"He's a bit of a flirt, though—that's something that can't be helped!"

Having become an extraordinary being, if she were asked to find an ordinary-world man to settle down with, Yingdao Mai only had to imagine it to feel she couldn't bear it.

After all, the gap between the long-lived and the short-lived was simply too vast.

Moreover, not being within the same organization, she always felt there would be far too little common ground.