Chun confirmed again: "Excuse me, is there only one?"
The flower-selling little girl smiled and replied: "Yes, because it's rare, it's precious. This is Miss Vivian's favorite."
"I'll buy it!"
——System prompt: You spent 3000 coins to buy... You have significantly increased Sherry's favorability.
The little girl was delighted: "Thank you for your patronage. May you have unexpected luck during the festival!"
What festival luck? You bought the most expensive flower, and yet didn't trigger the hidden event.
Proceed to the next step.
This time, instead of heading straight to the bar, Chun took the flower and went to the blacksmith's forge to heat it up. This step was crucial.
When it was almost starting to seep moisture, Chun immediately stopped and headed to the harbor nightclub to find the Dancing Girl Vivian, whose traits were unscrupulous, ambitious, treacherous, admiring the powerful—most likely to trigger an event.
The Dancing Girl lazily took the flower and glanced at Chun: "Then let me dance a piece for you personally..."
After the dance, still no event happened.
Even under the festival's last day Blessing of Luck, the most expensive and beloved flower failed to impress these two. This is failure, the pit warned by public test experts.
Then go all in to provoke her, enemies are more "reliable"! But you can't truly fall out, you have to grasp the degree precisely!
Chun said: "Miss Vivian, although I'm not a noble yet, considering how I admire you, I'd like to ask for your help in arranging a liquor license..."
The Dancing Girl impatiently said: "The further your ideal, the further you roll!"
Chun understood her sinister taste, immediately apologized: "If I bark like a dog, will that make you happy?"
The Dancing Girl laughed heartily: "Let me hear you bark like a dog?"
Waiting for her to say this!
Chun mimicked her earlier speech: "The further your ideal, the further you roll!"
The Dancing Girl was stunned!
Chun waited nervously, her intelligence surely capable of turning the corner, realizing it's an insult. Normally, insulting her would have resulted in getting thrown out by the bar's bouncers and beaten up, instantly losing immense favorability. But this is not a normal situation! Which word did I use to insult her?
Sure enough, the Dancing Girl was angry yet amused: "Quite bold, wait for me after work!"
Chun breathed a sigh of relief, successfully triggered! But this hidden event is likely "can't fight now, will fight after work," so another trigger is needed for insurance.
...
Chun returned to the flower shop, first checking the counter, where surprisingly there was a Frost Rose —the key is, it looked a bit withered!
Chun laughed, this flower isn't a new stock, it's the one given to the Dancing Girl, and this was the purpose of intentionally roasting the flower at the blacksmith's forge to mark it.
So now, it can be confirmed: one sells the high-priced flower, one receives the flower, then returns the flower to the flower shop to be sold again—there's such an insider transaction chain between two NPCs, then imagine the entire city must be a huge economic loop. Isn't this a hundred times richer than mining or fighting monsters?
Then it's time to target the little girl! Still the previous strategy, when the enemy is more reliable but without truly falling out.
Chun first complained to the little girl: "I just played a festival joke on Miss Vivian, but she seemed upset, what kind of flower should I buy to calm her anger?"
The little girl laughed: "Of course, buying another Frost Rose for her!"
You really are a little love assistant...
Chun resolutely exposed her: "This isn't a new arrival, it's the one I just bought!"
The little girl panicked: "It's a new arrival indeed!"
Exposing her lowers her favorability, under normal circumstances you'd buy flowers to make up for it, but now these aren't normal circumstances so normal buying won't work.
Chun made a big move: "Still, I'll buy this flower for you, but you have to want it for me to buy, you don't want it, then I won't buy it, and I'll also complain to the boss. Do you want it?"
The Dancing Girl comes with a setting to receive gifts, Sherry as a shop assistant does not have this setting, buying flowers to give directly can't be delivered. However, shop assistants have a setting to boost sales for commission, this loophole is huge! If successful, this would be a breakthrough strategy breaking the rules!
The little girl looked around a bit nervously: "It's not polite like this, you can't tell anyone."
Chun was excited: "I won't say, I'll buy!"
The last 3000 coins are all in! This is the reason Chun prepared 6000 coins.
——System prompt: You spent 3000 coins to purchase from Sherry... Your favorability with Sherry has changed from "Passionate" to "In Sync"!
Holy Shit!
The system prompt changed! Before it was buying from the "flower shop," now it's from her! This flower sitting on the counter hasn't moved, yet she just gained 3000 coins! This effectively means pocketing business funds, and the boss can't reconcile!
Does this mean, in the future, you can keep sending money to her private account by giving flower gifts? Is this considered financial sponsorship or support?
Chun hurriedly confirmed: "Dear Sherry, what is your ideal?"
Sherry, both excited and nervous, said: "Although I look like this, I'm actually an apprentice studying to become a Mage. My ideal is to become a Palace Grand Mage, but the academy's tuition is very expensive! I'm working here to pay for tuition, it's really tough..."
I've long noticed her magical foundation! Player Mages have incomplete skills, they're no match, NPC Mages are true Mages. If you can support an NPC Mage as a strong ally, even acting as a long-term patron at the cost of leading is worth it. More importantly, this Frost Rose is actually a product of the noble celebrity female Mage Fafnir, she must have connections with Fafnir...
Chun continued confirming: "Our Black Iron City specializes in Warriors, it's Gem City that specializes in Mages—"
Sherry hastily said: "But Black Iron City's basic classes are cheaper, once I build a solid foundation I'll study abroad in Gem City."