Graceful and striking, the exceptionally beautiful Qian Shanxue raised an eyebrow and said, "Very well, I like your intelligence, but at the same time, I am curious, if you do this, will those demons still trust you?"

Shen Qiang replied indifferently, "That is my concern, and I can handle it."

Qian Shanxue smiled, then added, "Has she really retired for you? Otherwise, I would have thought she would no longer be here by now."

"Yes," Shen Qiang smiled and raised an eyebrow, "She went to Shanghai yesterday to take care of some formalities."

After a moment of silence, Qian Shanxue turned around, her gaze falling on Xiu Ju and Jin Chan, who entered the kitchen with aprons tied around them, high in spirits, and couldn't help but sigh, "For people like us, her current state is probably the best possible outcome."

Shen Qiang laughed: "This isn't her ending, but a starting point for happiness."

Qian Shanxue turned around, her gaze drifting towards the autumn windswept city, her upright stature, and those long leather boots accentuated her beauty, making her appear even more solemn and proud.

She fell silent.

A long while passed.

She spoke softly, "May I stay for breakfast?"

Shen Qiang, who was also admiring the view, smiled and said, "Of course you may."

...

In a blink of an eye, three whole days passed. During these days, Shen Qiang and the Dragon Group reached a consensus on the pursuit of demon criminals guilty of heinous crimes. At the same time, Shen Qiang had also secured the right to supervise demons with minor offenses, meaning that demons with only minor misdeeds, under Shen Qiang's employment, would no longer face pursuit by the Dragon Group.

This was a much more perfect outcome than Shen Qiang had anticipated.

After all, no one is perfect.

Everyone has made mistakes, and the same goes for demons.

And after the events of the past four days.

As of now, the Long Yan Group and Shen's Holding had completed their merger and were officially renamed Heshenghe.

The President, Shen Bian, held 2% of the shares, while the Chairman, Shen Qiang, held 98%.

Besides the complete removal of cultivators from the Long Yan Sword Sect.

The employees of the former Long Yan Group remained largely unchanged.

To stabilize morale, all management positions were promoted by one level.

In this way, even though the renaming of the group coincided with some personnel changes, it did not cause any adverse effects, and the company operations remained stable.

Besides that, over the past few days, Shen Qiang made a special call to his parents back home, wanting them to move to Provincial City. However, his father said he was busy drinking, chatting, playing chess, and fishing with old friends – so busy he didn't have the time.

His mother said she was recently working and had even paid for yoga classes, leaving her no time as well. She mentioned revisiting the idea at the end of the year.

This left Shen Qiang somewhat disappointed.

But upon reflection, he understood.

They made excuses with their words, but their true intention was simply not to trouble Shen Qiang.

Beyond that, it's worth mentioning the funeral at Zhong Family's medical clinic.

Not only did Shen Qiang and the core staff of Shen's attend the funeral at Zhong Family's medical clinic.

Shen Qiang also bit the bullet and insisted on inviting Xu Nan, Bai Jiao, and Ji Liangchuan.

Logically speaking, the three of them had no ties to the Zhong Family medical clinic.

But from Shen Qiang's perspective, although the people of the Zhong Family medical clinic might have been foolish, they had undoubtedly died because of him; not doing something for them just wouldn't be right.

As a medical clinic of the Zhong Family, which could barely be counted in the Cultivation World and is considered to be a bit below the first rate and a bit above the second rate among the medical families in the province, receiving wreaths and elegiac couplets from Wanxin Hesheng, Cheng Xinyi, and Long Chang, along with the personal attendance of three absolutely elite figures from the Cultivation World, was akin to being bestowed the highest honor.

It was as if they had been granted the highest honor.

Not only that.

Shen Qiang publicly declared that he didn't care who was in charge of the Zhong Family's medical clinic for now, but that the future heir must be Zhong Yongxi. Not stopping at that, Shen Qiang also stated on the spot that he would personally teach Zhong Yongxi the Little Plum Blossom Acupuncture Technique.

And he would teach only Zhong Yongxi.

As for whom Zhong Yongxi would pass it on to later, that would be his problem; Shen Qiang wouldn't involve himself.

Under such circumstances.

The Zhong Family's medical clinic was deeply grateful to Shen Qiang.

After all, they were all aware that without Shen Qiang, Xu Nan, Bai Jiao, and Ji Liangchuan would never have come; without Shen Qiang, the Zhong Family would never have fully learned the Little Plum Blossom Acupuncture Technique.

Moreover, Shen Qiang was already one of the most influential cultivators in the Provincial City.

Now that Shen Qiang had made it clear he would protect the Zhong Family's medical clinic, how could they not be delighted?

Besides that, the past few days in Provincial City had been relatively quiet.

Cultivators from some minor sects both within and outside the province had come one after another to show goodwill.

But Shen Qiang didn't meet with any of them because it was too troublesome, and also meaningless.

So Shen Qiang simply had them leave their contact information, saying that he would invite them after the Mountain Villa reopened.

In this way, it was nine o'clock in the morning on the fourth day.

Shen Qiang, along with Xiu Ju, Beautiful Demon Fox Chu Qing, and the stunningly beautiful little golden cicada, arrived punctually at the office of the Dinghao Hotel.

After the passage of time, there were a total of eleven demons waiting for an interview, and all had arrived on time. As for other demons wishing to join Heshenghe, Shen Qiang informed them that they would have to wait until the next month. Furthermore, he established that Heshenghe would conduct interviews monthly.

After briefly scanning the demons' profiles.

Shen Qiang handed a small medical carrying case to Beautiful Demon Fox Chu Qing and said, "Notify the demons waiting in the small conference room for the interview that Heshenghe does not hire gravely evil demons. Each demon that wants to join Heshenghe will have its DNA extracted and compared with the Dragon Group's database."

"If they have committed particularly serious evil acts in the past, such as eating people or slaughtering innocent civilians, then please ask them to leave because once we get their DNA, the Dragon Group will know who they are. If they are sure they haven't committed such evil acts, their DNA will be extracted in ten minutes, which is their ticket to the interview."

The nodding Beautiful Demon Fox Chu Qing then left.

After about ten minutes.

Beautiful Demon Fox Chu Qing pushed open the door of the office and said to Shen Qiang with a smile, "Congratulations, out of the eleven demons, only four left. The remaining seven cooperated with the DNA extraction, so I think they should be the employees you're looking for."

Shen Qiang smiled, "That makes me very happy. To be honest, I was worried that upon hearing your announcement, they would all leave without a trace."

Beautiful Demon Fox Chu Qing smiled and asked, "Do you want to interview them together or separately?"

Shen Qiang replied with a smile, "Of course, individually. That will allow me to observe them closely."

"Okay," Chu Qing said with a smile. "He'll be right over."

Shen Qiang nodded.

A moment later, Beautiful Demon Fox Chu Qing opened the door, and Shen Qiang, upon glancing at the demon who entered, was surprised and frozen in place.

It was a girl with big eyes who appeared very pretty.

But as soon as Shen Qiang activated his Observation Skill, he instantly saw her true form, a similarly beautiful, completely white cat with big eyes.

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