Knowing that Qiu Wuji was merely being petulant and that nothing had actually gone wrong, Chu Ge stopped worrying.
He leisurely put up the chapter, shot the breeze in the group chat for a while, and told everyone he might update a little less today—he needed to straighten out the outline for the coming arc.
And then, amid everyone's wholehearted support and understanding... the damn author went off to the Black House.
It had been some days since he'd gone... He used to think Zhong Yi was a Black House regular, and later learned otherwise; Zhong Yi was here one moment and gone the next. The true regulars were Head Chef Jin and his wife, who ran a restaurant nearby, and Panda, who ran a gold-farming studio out of the Black House.
After Rong Fu had put the Jin couple through the wringer, they'd lost some of their appetite for fleecing fellow restaurant owners and gained a great deal more appetite for training. The two of them were out jogging the moment he arrived, and they really did look like they were putting in the work. Seeing Chu Ge show up in his Third Brother mask, the couple waved; Chu Ge waved back and left them to their exercise.