Yanming

(Version 1)

▶ "What are you doing, kid?!"

(Version 2)

▶ "If there's something you don't understand, just come to me."

(First interaction, upon investigating table behind Yanming)

Yanming: Little one, what are you doing here? Is this something you're allowed to touch?

Sorry...

Yanming: You'd better put that down now if you know it's wrong. *sigh* Kids these days... unruly.

Yanming: Remember the first rule of the Sky-Faring Commission: don't touch Madam Yukong's things without permission.

Who are you again?

Yanming: How dare you ask who I am? That doesn't matter — you're not allowed to touch Madam Yukong's things!

Yanming: Good thing no one saw. Hurry up and put it down.

I didn't take anything, though...

Yanming: Talking back? Even if you didn't take anything, touching isn't allowed. Moreover, these are Madam Yukong's things.

Yanming: Good thing no one saw. Hurry up and put it down. *sigh* Kids these days... unruly.

Yanming: I am Yanming, a Celestial Guild envoy attached to the Sky-Faring Commission. You can consider me half a Maritime Trade Officer.

Yanming: Previously, I followed the merchant guild and was dispatched to other star systems for about 150 years. If there's something you want to know, feel free to ask me, and don't touch stuff without permission.

What is a "merchant guild"?

Yanming: I don't know how many merchant guilds you've heard of. Does the Whistling Flames guild ring any bells?

The intergalactic merchant guild that Tingyun is in?

Yanming: That's right. The Sky-Faring Commission bears the salient duty of exchanging mutual necessities with other races, and the merchant guilds are a key part of this process.

Yanming: After that girl took up the mantle of trade envoy, she linked up the trade delegations of sixteen worlds in succession. She even turned the Grand Fair into an intergalactic festival; the Whistling Flames guild played an integral part in all this.

I've never heard of this.

Yanming: I was hoping for too much then. But since you're an Outworlder, if you wish to engage in mutual trade with Xianzhou, you should at least understand the workings of Xianzhou's intergalactic merchant guilds.

Yanming: The Whistling Flames guild that Tingyun works for got in bed with the trade delegations from sixteen worlds and turned the Grand Fair into an intergalactic festival.

Are you trying to lord your seniority over me?

Yanming: I've met people like you during my time in the guilds beyond the sky — straight to the point, and can't read the room.

Yanming: But I don't mind people like you in business. Your kind is still better than the two-faced backstabbers.

Yanming: If you never heard of the Celestial Guild, you've at least heard of the Whistling Flames, right?

Yanming: The Whistling Flames guild that Tingyun works for got in bed with the trade delegations from sixteen worlds and turned the Grand Fair into an intergalactic festival.

Yanming: ...I dare say that girl is the next in line to succeed Madam Yukong.

Yanming: I'm boring you with all this rambling. However long-lived your species, when you get older, you tend to lecture on like a teacher.

Yanming: My attitude was a little rough, so I want to make it up by giving you this.

Yanming: But let me emphasize that if there's anything you want to know, just ask me instead of touching things.

(Obtained Enhancement Paste: Imaginary ×1)

(Subsequent interactions)

Yanming: Best regards...

Yanming: The Outworlders are getting shrewder when trading with Xianzhou.

Yanming: It's you. Is there anything you'd like to ask me?

I'd liked to ask you some questions.

Yanming: Go ahead. I'll mull it over and tell you what I can.

How old are you?

Yanming: Uh, I'll tell you I'm old enough. The specific age isn't important.

Yanming: Whether it's in the hundreds or thousands, it will still sound ancient to you.

Yanming: Let me give you some advice: Never ask a girl on Xianzhou that question... Or in any world, for that matter.

What do you do here?

Yanming: Simply put, I'm in charge of relaying orders from the Sky-Faring Commission to the guilds, and passing guild requests back.

Yanming: The Celestial Guild is not one big body but a consortium of many smaller guilds, so I help both sides communicate with each other.

Yanming: However, several centuries back, I was a captain of a trade ship. Centuries before that, I was a business professor in a lyceum... Never mind, they're just jobs.

Yanming: The more experienced you are, the more you'll realize that how serious you treat a job is how serious it treats you.

About the guild...

Yanming: Ever since the calamities ended and the Luofu settled down, guilds have been Xianzhou's lifeblood. Some of them are government-backed, and some are purely civilian.

Yanming: Tingyun is the Head Representative of the intergalactic merchant guild, Whistling Flames. She's witty and a great communicator. She was born to do business.

Yanming: Have you heard of the Grand Fair in Xianzhou? Tingyun turned that into a intergalactic festival.

Yanming: "Sea of fiery lights illuminate the countless suburbs, while feasts and songs unveil nights of innumerable glows"... Nicely done.

Yanming: Pardon me for getting off-tangent, but you probably realize how vital the guilds are now...

About Madam Yukong...

Yanming: You could say Madam Yukong is my boss. Her competence is undeniable, but her flexible adaptability to different situations is even more impressive.

Yanming: Although she claimed to be lacking in trade acumen, I beg to differ, as she could often shut schemers and opportunists down without a word, and few can manage to play with words before her.

Yanming: To me, the end is the same even when the approach is not. The negotiations go a lot smoother with Madam Yukong present.that.

Yanming: Even though I don't believe it, I won't have Madam Yukong getting too deeply involved in the matter alone.

That's all. I'll take my leave now.

Yanming: Sure, have a nice day.

(After completing Trailblaze Mission Obsequies Performed, A Long Road Ahead)

About Tingyun...

Yanming: Many of my colleagues believe she is still alive and pledge to find her. As for me... I'm more realistic.

Yanming: Having said that, I'm still looking for her alongside everyone else, simply because Madam Yukong thinks she is alive and wants to find her. I'll follow Madam Yukong to find her — it's as simple as

That's all. I'll take my leave now.

Yanming: Sure, have a nice day.

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