Chapter 73 (2/2)
“Have a good cry. You can lean on my shoulder if you don’t mind.”
This girl hesitated for a while, but still she leaned on his shoulder and began to cry very hard.
“… You mean Master Trian had been in poor condition for a very long time?”
“Yes.”
“He meant to have a final attempt at getting into the legendary world, but he failed and died later?”
“Yes.”
“He created you in his lab; in fact, you did not have any intelligence in the first place, but you somehow became intelligent. Master Trian made you his assistant and officially admitted you are his disciple when he died. He also named you Wendy and left his intelligence, as well as this magical tower, to you, and you have been living here ever since, am I right?”
“Yes.”
“You have already acquired the spagirism, the technique of instilling the magic into a certain weapon and the medical knowledge, but because you are a Slime, you can only do all these with the help of the magical pagoda?”
“Yes.”
“All these years, you have been maintaining the magical pagoda in good condition and making money by helping others to refine the gold and make magical weapons?”
“Yes.”
“Did Master Trian ever tell you that ‘the humans will kill any monster they see’; ‘the humans would boil up an intelligent slime and make it some sort of medicine’; ‘everyone outside this house is a liar, only I would never hurt you’?”
“Yes.”
Sui Xiong sighed and said, “It is really a bizarre thing that a simple-minded creature like you are still alive. It seems like the God of Fortune indeed prefers silly people!”
“You mean that Teacher Trian lied?” Wendy said rather unhappily.
Sui Xiong could feel that she respected and admired the late Master Trian very much, but she had gone to the extreme in this regard. Since she even believed that ‘the humans would boil up a slime with intelligence and make it some sort of medicine’, which was just bullsh*t— seriously.
You were also an expert on making potions and refining the gold. You had no idea what medicines could be made from a slime?
Sui Xiong had tried to change Wendy’s mind, but she was too stubborn. Soon, Sui Xiong had no choice but to give up on trying.
Luckily, apart from her extreme stubbornness in this regard, she was easy to be persuaded in other regards— or she was actually quite feeble. Sui Xiong easily made her agree to cooperate with him. Sui Xiong left his doppelgänger there to help Wendy manage the magic tower. Wendy had decided to stop all business in the coming months and agreed to focus on analyzing the body of the snake to find out how it could live for so long, so she could make some potion that could prolong one’s lifespan.
As a kind and merciful person, Sui Xiong would never to get rid of Wendy as soon as she had finished her work, so when he was making the contract, he made three plans on how to distribute the profits:
Plan A: Wendy could determine how much this formula would cost, and Sui Xiong would pay it off.
Plan B: In the future, Wendy would get ten percent of each potion whenever a potion was sold.
Plan C: Sui Xiong would give her one-fourth of the net profit in each period of half a year since she was the one who managed the potion business.
In a word, Sui Xiong was the one who owned the formula, and all the profit that was made via this formula should be his. He was the one to decide how to manage the potion business. Moreover, any other new formulas Wendy made in the future, as long as they had something to do with this formula, Sui Xiong should be the first one to buy it. Even if he did not want those new formulas, she would have to keep them secret for at least fifty years and could never sell it to anyone. If she did not want to do business with Sui Xiong anymore and decide to end the contract, the formula of the first potion she made belonged to Sui Xiong.
There were other rules, such as “one could never make any bad comments about the other”; “both sides should work together to advertise and sell it” and so on.
“What right do I have then?” Wendy said unhappily.
“The publishing right. You can decide if you want to publicize your formula; the right of paternity, you are the one to decide the name of this potion; the right to revise, you have every right to change your formula; and finally the right of owning this formula, I can never change your formula,” Sui Xiong said smoothly. “See, you are the boss in this business.”
“… Why do I feel like I have been tricked by you.”
“Never,” Sui Xiong smiled. “In the past, I used to draw pictures for a certain company, all the contents I mentioned earlier were in that contract too.”
“You once drew pictures for a company?” Wendy was curious about this episode.
“I did, but that was a long time ago…” Sui Xiong smiled and stopped talking.
He stared at the moon in a melancholy way and sighed deeply.
My hometown… Could I come back to your cradle in this life?