Still Remember

"Your service has satisfied me, so there’s something I need to discuss with you."

"Would you be willing to work for me?"

"The job requirements aren’t demanding. Help manage my estate and handle some trivial matters while I’m away."

Harvey saw Sonia’s body stiffen slightly and began making plans. He voiced an idea he had held for some time.

Over the past few months, Sonia had never deliberately or casually tried to pry into what he did or what plans he had, even after he had taken the initiative to tell her what he was doing.

She was pleasant enough to look at, capable, observant, and sparing with words. She met Harvey’s standards for someone to serve him.

"It is an honor to receive an invitation from Mr. Kassadin."

"However, may I ask where Mr. Kassadin’s estate will be located?"

Sonia’s beautiful eyes flickered when she heard this. After responding politely, she asked her question.

She was a Xandarian and had grown up here. While traveling to other planets was not difficult,

if possible, she would prefer her workplace to be closer to Xandar. Ideally, she would still be working on Xandar.

"As planned, I intend to build an estate on Xandar, so you needn’t worry about leaving your homeland."

"The work may be somewhat troublesome, but I won’t have you living a life where you constantly need to watch other people’s expressions and suffer grievances."

"I wonder if you would be willing to work for me?"

Harvey understood what Sonia meant and explained the situation.

He knew that if he asked Sonia to believe in the Void, she would definitely be willing to work for him.

However, he did not offer Sonia the chance to join the Void right away. He was also testing her, to see whether the honor she spoke of was sincere or merely polite courtesy.

"If that is the case, I would be delighted."

"Mr. Kassadin, please guide me in the future."

After hearing those conditions, Sonia considered them for a moment, gave a slight bow, and replied with a smile.

Harvey had originally intended to say a few more probing things to test her. After all, this was the first time he had planned to select someone akin to a housekeeper to help him handle matters.

Since she would be the first, Harvey naturally could not be careless. Yet Sonia had agreed so readily.

"You agreed without even asking about the compensation?"

Even Harvey was somewhat surprised by this.

"Mr. Kassadin, since you are inviting me to work for you now, you must have considered it carefully."

"And I believe Mr. Kassadin is certainly not a stingy person."

Sonia shook her head slightly and said with a smile.

She often saw Mr. Kassadin lost in thought. She knew that before someone like him did anything, he would weigh the pros and cons and consider every factor before acting.

Now that Mr. Kassadin was preparing to leave the Celebrity Hotel, he must have long since planned to invite her.

Although she did not know exactly what Mr. Kassadin did, she knew he was no ordinary person.

"Now that you’ve said that, it seems it won’t be so easy for me to treat you poorly."

Harvey was rendered somewhat speechless by Sonia’s casually spoken flattery.

"My salary requirements are not high. My current monthly salary is thirty thousand, and including the year-end bonus, my annual average is four hundred and thirty-six thousand."

"As long as Mr. Kassadin offers me a salary no lower than that, I will work for you."

Sonia had no intention of driving a hard bargain. Smiling, she stated her current salary standard.

By Harvey’s standards, if he could find a housekeeper who satisfied him, let alone five hundred thousand, even one or two million would not be a problem.

"Fine. If you work for me, I can pay you five hundred thousand a year."

"Are you satisfied with that salary?"

However, Harvey still named a relatively low figure.

This amount was only slightly higher than Sonia’s current salary, while Sonia would have to obey his every command from then on.

"I’m very satisfied."

"When can I officially begin working for you?"

Sonia did not think the offer was low. Instead, she asked proactively.

"In one month. I’ll be staying here for another month."

"Once my estate is completed, you can officially begin working for me."

Hearing that Sonia had still agreed, Harvey did not probe any further and spoke again.

When Sonia heard that Mr. Kassadin would remain here for another month before leaving, she immediately understood that everything he had said earlier had been a test.

"Alright."

However, Sonia did not say much more. She merely nodded slightly in acknowledgment.

At that moment, a communication came through on Sonia’s communicator.

"Mr. Kassadin, someone downstairs asked the staff to pass along a message. He wants to know whether you remember someone named Dam."

"Dam?"

"I remember him. Let him come up and see me."

Harvey searched his memories for the impression associated with that name and recalled that he was a gate guard on Xandar.

Since he had given his word, he naturally would not forget someone’s name.

Moreover, if he wanted the Void Cult to spread across Xandar, the best targets were guards who likewise served the Xandarian people yet held relatively low status.

"Alright, I’ll go bring him up."

Sonia nodded and left.

Mr. Kassadin had been staying here for several months, and this was the first time she had seen someone come looking for him, so she was somewhat curious about this visitor as well.

Meanwhile, in the first-floor lobby of the Celebrity Hotel,

Dam sat upright on one of the lobby’s reception sofas, looking at the magnificent and luxurious decorations all around him with immense nervousness.

Based on the people he knew and what he had learned, only some high-ranking officers of the Nova Corps could afford to stay in a place like the Celebrity Hotel.

For someone like him, unless something extraordinary happened, he would have no connection whatsoever to a place like the Celebrity Hotel for his entire life.

Even if the Celebrity Hotel had to be investigated, it would not be something a city guard unit like theirs could handle.

Fortunately, after asking at the front desk, he learned that there really was a guest named Kassadin staying at the Celebrity Hotel.

However, without the guest’s permission, he could not go upstairs directly.

The front desk could only pass along a message and ask for the guest’s wishes. Only after receiving the guest’s permission would he be qualified to go up and meet him.

To be honest, Dam was extremely uneasy. Even if Kassadin was staying here, it was hard to say whether such an important figure still remembered someone like him, whom he had met only once.

But at that moment, there came a "ding!"

The floating elevator doors opened, and a young blonde woman with a pure, lovely face and a graceful figure stepped out.

The woman exchanged a few words with the front desk, then walked in his direction.

"…"

Dam would have been lying if he said he was not nervous upon seeing such a beautiful woman.

"Mr. Dam, Mr. Kassadin says he remembers you, and he is waiting for you upstairs. Please come with me."

"I’ll take you to see Mr. Kassadin."

Sonia was somewhat surprised when she saw how Dam was dressed, but she still approached him and spoke with impeccable politeness.

"He remembers me?"

When Dam saw the beautiful woman approach him and heard those words, he was overjoyed and stunned at the same time.

He had never expected that a minor figure like himself would truly be remembered by someone so important.

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