The next day, Junze woke up.
To be precise, he woke up from being smothered.
Ganyu was lying on her side, tightly hugging Junze and pressing him against her chest.
Junze had awakened from this enviable yet suffocating sleeping position.
The moment he opened his eyes, he was a little dumbfounded.
In an instant, the lingering drowsiness in Junze vanished completely.
He was confused.
'What's going on?!'
'Who am I?'
'Where is this? How did I get here?!'
'Why is Master sleeping while hugging me?!'
'Did I even fall asleep?!'
'Wasn't I in the study at Yuehai Pavilion?'
'So hungry! Is there anything to eat?'
…
A flood of questions surged into Junze's mind all at once.
Mm… a few other strange questions had mixed in there.
As expected, a Taotie is a foodie who thinks about eating at any time.
But very quickly, as he took a breath, Junze's brain completely crashed, and all questions disappeared.
At that moment, the only thing in his mind was the childhood taste of milk cotton candy.
Fortunately, because of Junze's movement, Ganyu soon loosened her hold on him, allowing Junze to breathe again and avoid suffocating to death.
It truly made one marvel at the power of the black slime.
However, although she let go of Junze, Ganyu's hand still rested on him, protecting him as if worried he might fall off.
Ganyu muttered, "Being a master… being a mas…ter is so hard. I… I can't."
Junze froze.
He turned his head and looked at Ganyu, who was still asleep and talking in her dreams, and smiled faintly.
His Ganyu-master seemed to be worrying about her own issues.
A worried master was also very cute.
For a moment, Junze's mind seemed to clear a bit.
He carefully leaned close to Ganyu's ear and whispered softly, "Ze thinks Ganyu-master is the best master."
Although Ganyu had only become his master for less than a day, in Junze's eyes, the fact that she saved him and was willing to defy Cloud Retainer's words to adopt him already made her the best master.
Besides!
Even without all that, couldn't she, Wang Xiaomei, still be a good master?
Ganyu seemed to hear Junze's words. Her brows relaxed slightly, and her breathing also became smoother.
Seeing this, Junze shrank back again.
He didn't get up, instead nestling beside Ganyu to laze in bed a little longer.
In such a wonderful environment, no one could resist the temptation to stay in bed.
Lying there, Junze breathed in the delightful air while feeling the soft bed and warm heat source.
But because of what had just happened, he was already fully awake.
So he simply closed his eyes and checked the system.
Yet the moment he did, he froze.
Within his consciousness.
Junze stared at the newly appeared Story Quest in front of him and was stunned for two or three seconds. "What on earth happened after I fell asleep last night?!"
Out of nowhere, a quest that guaranteed one pull per day had refreshed, and his account even had 200 Primogems.
"You can get this treatment just by sleeping?"
For a moment, Junze even suspected the system had suddenly grown a conscience.
But upon seeing the name, he immediately dismissed that thought.
"As expected, only my adorable master would give me Primogems. A system would only think about draining mine."
Right now, Junze very much wanted to hug Ganyu and plant a kiss on her cheek.
"Master really is my lucky star!"
After briefly reading through the quest, Junze also roughly understood the content of [Disciple of the Qilin].
Junze opened the [Disciple of the Qilin] tab.
"Let me see… defeat Abyss Mages and Hilichurls in the outskirts; make Ganyu happy; train skills; read Ganyu's collection."
Junze nodded and said, "Excluding the first, the other three are all very routine tasks."
The latter three tasks were basically easy to complete and didn't require much effort.
"But to defeat Abyss Mages and Hilichurls, wouldn't I have to leave Liyue Harbor?"
A troubled expression appeared on Junze's face.
As a child, going to the outskirts alone wasn't very realistic.
Especially with Ganyu here.
Although she was usually very busy with work, a round trip like that would definitely take quite some time in reality.
She would certainly notice he wasn't here.
At that time, he wouldn't be able to explain it.
Junze frowned, then looked toward the map. He wanted to see how far the quest location actually was.
If it was too far, he would have no choice but to temporarily give up this quest.
But after opening the map, Junze smiled.
His worries were completely unnecessary.
That purple quest marker on the map, once clicked, allowed direct teleportation.
And it even set Yujing Terrace as the return teleport point.
"This setting is way too convenient."
For a moment, Junze felt his system was far more conscientious than expected.
After all, in the game there were always some bizarre quest locations far from waypoints.
This system, on the other hand, allowed direct teleportation and even a return trip.
It was basically a full service package.
Junze gave it a thumbs-up.
After understanding the quest, Junze glanced at the 200 Primogems and temporarily suppressed the urge to do a pull.
"Better save up for a ten-pull. What if I get double gold?"
Junze fantasized like this.
Although his fantasies had basically never succeeded.
After finishing with the daily quest, Junze exited the system and opened his eyes.
But the moment he opened them, he was startled by Ganyu.
Ganyu was already awake and staring straight at him, the corners of her lips curved into a beautiful smile.
As if noticing Junze's surprise, Ganyu also froze, then immediately shifted her gaze and said, "Ze, if you're awake, then get up."
With that, Ganyu quickly got out of bed and hurried away.
Junze sat up on the bed and looked at Ganyu's back in confusion. "Master… is she shy?"
But what was there to be shy about?
He didn't understand.