Glamorous Journey Of The Female Protagonist

"Don't fight it nor question it. It's a present, just accept it with an open heart....." 

These words were playing on repeat in Li Ming's head.

That's exactly why she didn't welcome that person anywhere near her. Their visit was a clear indication that she was about to lose her sleep because of their double meaning words.

Exactly that had happened this time. Li Ming couldn't sleep the previous night because of her dreams that had started haunting her from the day she had visited the Northern Province of the Demon Realm and then the words of her uninvited guest kept disturbing her.

She had busied herself in work so that she could not think about those matters.

She visited the jewelry shop and placed some new crystal balls in place of the previous one.

Within the last four days, her gadgets had shown their magic and in place of the jewelry shop was now an empty area.

She was going to start building the new shop with her creating powers soon. But it would probably take her a few weeks because she wasn't powerful enough yet to build such a big shop in one go. At most she could complete it in four days with her current level of cultivation but she decided to not exhaust herself and take the longer route. She wasn't in any hurry to open the new shop. To open it, she needed to handle some other important business too.

The business of the Black Jade Inn was still growing with every passing day. The cooking staff of the inn was nearly fully trained and the income that she was getting from the inn was twenty times more than what she made in the first month of its opening.

The Dongji village was also blooming in the business area as Old Sir Liu had found more dealers to sell their crops and vegetables.

The children of the orphanage were diligent in their classes and many of them had shown better results than what she expected at the start.

After making sure that all her businesses were flowing perfectly, Li Ming started preparing for her future plans.

She visited Wang Empire a few hours before noon and started Jin Jing's treatment. She also got to know that the auction would take place at the end of the week, which meant she still had five days left before the auction.

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Present.....

"Miss Li, you called the four of us?" A girl in late teens asked as she lightly tapped on the door of her study in the orphanage to alert her of their presence.

Behind her were three more people, another girl who was a few years older than all of them and two boys who both were either twenty or twenty-one years old.

These four were the children of the villagers of Dongji village who had returned at the start of the previous month from the Iron mines.

After discussing with these children back then, Li Ming found that almost none of them wanted to continue their future as a scholar. That's why Li Ming didn't force them to study any major subjects. They were only needed to join the simple classes so that they could at least read and write.

All this time, Li Ming had tasked two people to keep a close eye on these children. She wanted to know what was the area that interested them the most and both Old Mo and Old Madam hadn't disappointed her.

The previous night she received a complete analyzed data from the Old couple about each and every child. 

"Yeah. Come in and take your seats." Li Ming motioned towards the seats around her table.

The four of them looked a little hesitant and nervous but still silently sat down on the seats.

Li Ming was about to pour tea in the cups when the two girls hurriedly stopped her and started serving tea.

She just shook her head with a little smile on her face which was hidden behind her veil and settled back in her seat.

When everyone was once again back on their seats, Li Ming said in a soft tone, "Don't be so nervous. You all are not in any trouble. I called you here today because I want some people who are actually intelligent and can complete my assigned tasks." 

The four of them looked at each other and then at Li Ming. The previous tension had left their shoulders but they were still nervous.

"I received information that the four of you are the most intelligent and smart out of all the other children when it comes to tricky and complicated situations. Based on that I'm going to appoint the four of you as my personal assistants who would take care of all my businesses." Li Ming told them and noticed the sparkle of happiness, curiosity, and amazement that entered in their eyes. 

"What we are going to do, Miss Li?" This time it was one of the boys who asked.

"Right now, I've two businesses going on. One is the Black Jade Inn and the other one is the farming that is going on here in Dongji village. I'm going to open another business in the main market area of the Capital City. That means three of you will be assigned to take care of each of these businesses and the fourth one would be your team leader. His or her duty would be to make sure that the data that I'll receive from you guys is trustworthy and correct." Li Ming said as she pointed at all four of them.

The excitement of these young kids was only increasing as Li Ming explained more about their future job, which sounded actually tiring but also much more fun than their previous work.

"For example, if one of you is assigned to the Black Jade Inn then what is the job that you actually need to do. Let me explain and you all have to pay attention. If you have any questions, save them for the end. We will discuss all of them one by one after I'll be done briefing you all on your future job." Li Ming said in a strict tone.

All the four of her soon to be personal assistants immediately nodded their heads.

Li Ming nodded her head in approval as she launched into explaining exactly what these four were supposed to do.

"Though Black Jade Inn is doing good in its business but that doesn't mean that someone couldn't surpass us in that. To make sure that our business will always keep moving upwards we need to start analyzing the market. Unless we don't know exactly what customers are looking for we couldn't provide them that service. The one who will be assigned to the Black Jade Inn will need to analyze not only the market of other inns in the Black Market but I want that person to analyze all the inns of the Capital City. His or her task will be to find out exactly which inns are the most famous among the customers. What's the main reason behind their success? What are the services that they provide to their customers? What's the charge of each service? Who are the permanent customers of these inns? Their background and family, their reason behind visiting the Capital City or the Black Market. How many times they usually visit? I need all that detail. It will give us an idea about who are the people we should aim at and exactly how we should lure them to us." Li Ming explained in a calm tone.

"And when I said that you need to analyze each and every inn of the Capital City then I mean each and every, even those who are not doing good in this business line or are even about to shut down. You will need to find out the reason behind their downfall. This job is going to take a lot of hard work, patience, smartness, and craftiness. And I'm confident that I can train you guys for this job perfectly."

The four of her soon to be PA's looked deep in thoughts and after a few minutes of silence and self pondering, all of them nodded their head in understanding.

"Good. Now you know what is your job and exactly what you needed to do if you are assigned to the Black Jade Inn. Now the question that arises is exactly how you guys are going to do it. It's not like you can turn up in the Breezing Flowers and demand them to show you all their records or data and they will serve you that on a silver platter. So, tell me, do any of you have ideas about exactly how you all are going to lure these informations out from the only people who could answer your questions?"

Li Ming's question left the four of her PA candidates into a mess. All of them started discussing about the possible ways which could give them their desired results but after hours of discussions and stupid ideas, Li Ming kicked all of them out of her study and gave them twenty-four hours to come up with ideas that would actually work.