"Zhou Li, are you going to be a high-ranking official in the future?" Huai Xu was still walking backward, his eyes unblinkingly fixed on Zhou Li.
"Why do you ask?"
"I overheard your conversation just now." Huai Xu, as if he had eyes in the back of his head, deftly avoided a stone bollard on the road. "I remember that Heavenly Masters rarely became high officials in the past," he said. "If they did, it was done very quietly. Master Ming never became one."
"What does 'done very quietly' mean?"
"The kind where others don't know about it, and even if you announce your official title, others still wouldn't understand it."
"That could possibly happen in this era too, right?"
"So, will you do it?"
"No."
"Then you're planning to be a civil servant, right?" Huai Xu blinked. "No wonder you skip classes with Li Daimao."
"Not really. It's just a nominal position, probably an external staff member."
"What's an external staff member?"
"...Maybe something like a temp worker?"
