Chapter 7: Chapter 7: A Minor Hit

However, even though most people didn’t believe Jiang Qin’s singing could soothe spiritual power, they were still impressed by the songs themselves.

So, quite a few people edited clips from An Zeyu’s livestream that night and posted them on the Star Network.

The titles were all about Jiang Qin.

[Who Is This Singer? The Whole Network Wants to Know!]

[Struggling Bar Gets 2,000 Customers in One Night, and It’s All Because of Her!]

[Can Her Singing Really Soothe Spiritual Power? A Rare Gift or Just a Gimmick?]

Many viewers who were lured in by the clickbait titles ended up being captivated by the two songs.

They flooded the comments, asking if they were new songs and when they would be uploaded.

Others asked if Jiang Qin was a Beastman female with Mermaid Genes, wondering why her voice was so beautiful and full of emotion.

The current Interstellar era was hyper-competitive; everyone was more focused on spiritual power and combat strength.

As a result, the entertainment industry was incredibly lacking.

Take music, for example. The Federation produced fewer than ten new songs a year, so most people listened to music from the Empire.

After all, most Beastmen with Mermaid Genes lived in the Empire. It was rare to find one living elsewhere, and even those who did usually had mixed Genes and hadn’t inherited the beautiful Mermaid voice.

So, upon hearing this completely new style of music, everyone’s first reaction was to assume Jiang Qin was a female with Mermaid Genes.

In reality, however, Jiang Qin had inherited Jiang Yulian’s rabbit Genes.

But regardless of her Genes, the fact remained that she was a great singer. Viewers everywhere were trying to dig up her information, hoping to find her account and push her to upload the songs.

Unfortunately, no one could find a thing.

After all, Jiang Qin didn’t even have an account. Before this, she had been completely off the grid.

She had only just registered for citizenship after getting her job.

As a result, her past was a complete blank slate.

***

After her shift, Jiang Qin wasn’t feeling well either.

She had thought singing just two songs wouldn’t be tiring, but after stepping off the stage, she was hit with waves of dizziness and nausea.

She knew these were the symptoms of spiritual power exhaustion.

“Miss Jiang, the boss asked me to bring you this Spiritual Recovery Potion.”

A male in a waiter’s uniform knocked on the door, respectfully holding a tray.

Jiang Qin was a little surprised, but she accepted the potion. “Thank you.”

Even though it was just a low-level Spiritual Recovery Potion, a single bottle sold for 18,888 Star Coins on the market.

The cover charge for the bar was 888 Star Coins per person, meaning it would take the entry fees of more than twenty people just to cover the cost of this potion.

And for a long time now, Moonlight Bar hadn’t seen more than a hundred customers a day.

’I never expected the boss would be willing to send over a Spiritual Recovery Potion.’

’After all, it was so rare these days to find a boss who didn’t work their employees to the bone.’

But then she remembered the sudden influx of customers during the second half of the night and understood. ’This must be my bonus.’

After putting the potion in her bag, she left the bar and headed for the apartment her boss had assigned to her.

Tai Street was exceptionally bustling at this hour.

There were muscular males with beast ears and tails, and even Half-beastmen whose arms were covered in scales.

They were all incredibly burly, almost none of them shorter than one-point-nine meters.

Jiang Qin, at only one-point-seven meters tall, looked especially petite walking among them.

Noticing she was a female, many of the males cast furtive glances her way.

If the Interstellar’s laws protecting females weren’t so strict, someone probably would have been unable to resist approaching her.

But intercepting or cornering a female in public was illegal. Making unwanted advances was also a crime—if a female was displeased and reported it to the security patrol, the male could be sentenced.

So these males only dared to stare at Jiang Qin with burning intensity, or take off their shirts in a direct attempt to attract her. They didn’t dare approach to ask for her Light Brain Number.

“Hey, little female, you looking for a mate? I’m a B-level male. My Light Brain Number is ***.”

“Little female, I’m a B-level male too! I can cook, do laundry, and fight Alien Beasts. You should consider me! My Light Brain Number is ***.”

As they say, opportunity favors the prepared.

These males couldn’t approach her to ask for her Light Brain Number, but they could shout their own numbers from a distance.

Who knows, the little female might just take an interest.

After all, it was incredibly rare to see a female walking alone on the street these days!

Faced with such enthusiasm, Jiang Qin chose to ignore it. She didn’t even dare to stop and offer a polite smile, afraid it would be misinterpreted.

She just kept her head down and walked.

Soon, she reached the apartment complex on the street and entered via facial scan.

The apartment You Wei had arranged for her was a two-bedroom. It wasn’t large, but it was fully equipped and even came with a housekeeping robot to handle the chores.

After leaving the Jiang Family, she didn’t have a single Star Coin to her name and couldn’t afford to buy anything. Thankfully, the bar provided meals.

So, the apartment’s cooler was stocked with a month’s supply of nutrient liquid in all sorts of flavors.

The nutrient liquid didn’t taste good. It was a viscous fluid, and while one tube could fill your stomach, it never felt like you’d actually eaten anything.

But for Jiang Qin, who had struggled for eighteen years on a Barren Star, just having a fresh supply was more than good enough.

Back then, she never could have afforded fresh ones.

The nutrient liquid she scavenged from the junkyards was always expired. She had to make a single tube last for three days, leaving her in a constant state of hunger.

To save up for a Spaceship Ticket, she saved every Star Coin she earned from selling the things she scavenged, never willing to spend a single one.

She had actually saved up enough by the time she was fifteen.

But right then, the Half-beastman uncle who always looked out for her was gravely injured and desperately needed a mid-level Healing Potion to save his life.

So, she gave him all her savings.

’After all, she could save up for another Spaceship Ticket in a few years, or even ten. But once a life was gone, it was gone for good.’

Unfortunately, the uncle still died the year she turned sixteen, killed during an Alien Beast tide.

Because she had always disguised herself as a pure-human male, the uncle had treated her like a son. If he hadn’t protected her during those years, she would have died on many occasions, killed by robbers.

Gazing at the empty room, Jiang Qin pushed the memories of her wretched past from her mind.

’If the uncle knew she had finally left the Barren Star and even obtained citizenship on a Second-class planet, he would be happy for her.’

’She had a home now.’

If she worked at the bar for five years, she would gain ownership of this apartment.

’So this would be her home. A home all to herself.’

***

The Jiang Family.

It was already ten o’clock at night.

But no one in the Jiang Family had gone to bed; they were all sitting on the sofas in the living room.

Jiang Yulian’s expression was terrifyingly grim. After tapping her Light Computer a few times, she angrily threw it to the floor.

Fortunately, the Light Computer was well-made. It just rolled a few times without shattering.

“She turned off her Light Computer!”

’She didn’t consider that Jiang Qin might have destroyed the Light Computer entirely. After all, without a Light Computer, Jiang Qin could forget about ever getting an allowance from her again.’

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