Chapter Two: Selling Moonlight to Strangers

The first thing Gu Ye did after earning a million platform coins was pay tax. The second was pay debt. The third was visit a police station for "releasing an irritant in a public place." Once he proved it was food-grade pepper water, paid cleaning fees, and sent gifts to people with severe allergies, he had sixty-three thousand yuan left. Tang Ke sat outside the station doing the math. "Congratulations. A cosmic miracle elevated you from severe poverty to ordinary poverty." "At least I can pay rent." "The miracle arrived ten minutes before your integrity did." The girl in white had followed them. She stood under a streetlamp with no shadow. Pedestrians instinctively went around her without knowing why.