- the druid who setup his shop license

- the Silver Wolf woman + her minion (killed)

- the black magician Wilde

- Wilde's disciple + his minion (both killed)

- the elf

- the primordial witch (via a dream... in his shop)

- an entire party of bad faction black magicians (11+ ppl all killed?)

- the knight

- the knight's daughter

- some other faction investigator

- the knight's faction's investigator

- neighbor who runs tv shop or something

Since this customer was being trampled on in the company to the point he considered himself a disposable tool, it meant that the psychological damage he suffered was severe. Therefore, taking on a different path and getting out was a better choice.

However, a career switch for a middle-aged person was something rather difficult and couldn't just be achieved with purely determination but money and means as well.

Most importantly, this customer needed to have no worries for the future.

However, from how quickly he had made his decision and said he knew that it was "very risky", that meant that the customer probably had some confidence.

To ensure that this new customer didn't leave as quickly as he came, Lin Jie felt that it was best to have some insurance.

Fortunately, young Miss Ji should be able to help a bit. At the very least, it could ensure that this customer before Lin Jie wouldn't be unemployed.

Ji Zhixiu's father controlled Rolle Resource Development, an enormous corporation that basically monopolized all resources and minerals in the lower city district, as well as being involved in nearly all aspects of Norzin.

The corporation's influence in Norzin was unbelievable.

This was a corporation that was omnipresent in every industry. Whether it was clothing, food, housing, transport, or any other trade, there would be the influence of this corporation as long as one was willing to do a little digging. At the very least, there hadn't been anything like this back on Earth.

Even though Lin Jie was an outsider who had only been in this world for three years, he had deeply experienced the influence of Rolle Resource Development.

Lin Jie would see the Rolle Resource Development's logo of a flight of descending stairs on at least half the stores whenever he went out to get food or groceries.

Even the CD and CD players sold in the audio store next door were manufactured by a company under the Rolle flag.

Perhaps, even the contents of these CDs were produced by artists in entertainment companies that Rolle Resource Development held a controlling stake in.

Lin Jie had once looked up Rolle Resource Development's history out of curiosity and discovered that the company had been established a very long time ago and that it had actually been an army that administered the Lower District prior to its establishment.

Some of its history was complicated and many records were already unreliable at this time. The head of Rolle Resource Development had already gone through many generations of change and even those in their internal department might not have a full understanding.

All in all, how Rolle Resource Development became a monopoly was basically due to the structure of the entire Norzin.

Norzin's Upper District was an artificial city constructed out of metal and was completely separated from the ground.

When viewing from above, the Upper District was just like a humongous sphere.

Norzin's land area was about the size of a province in Ancient China. Streets close to the Central District had their own names while the remaining roads and streets would be labeled with alphabets or numbers.

The 23rd Avenue where Lin Jie's bookstore was located was a numbered street that was still considered close to the Central District.

Then, there was the Lower District which referred to "below ground" and "ground transition zone".

From such a structure, it was obvious that the Upper District was basically artificial constructs where no natural resources existed.

The actual natural resources were entirely situated in the Lower District.

The Lower District was also where some inhabitants came into contact with the boundary of Azir—The Wall of Fog, and suffered from a strange plaque and affected their descendants.

For thousands of years, isolation was enforced for these people, resulting in an entirely different ecology in the Lower District and above ground.

Incidentally, the Church of Pestilence originated from the Lower District and was still the principal faith there.

This led to a complete separation between the Lower District and the upper ones.

Thus, certain specialized organizations emerged within the districts to help the Upper District mine for resources.

Over time, competition and annexation occurred between these organizations which finally resulted in the formation of a huge corporation, Rolle Resource Development.

Now, only this company held the sole right to act independently and operate in the Lower District.

Other resource companies needed to obtain approval from the Central District before being able to head to the Lower District to extract resources.

Of course, inhabitants of the Upper District could also apply to visit the Lower District, just that it requires many levels of approval as well as valid grounds for doing so.

Most of the time, those that went down were reporters or scholars and they needed to sign extremely complicated agreements before they started.

In any case, Rolle Resource Development was such a massive corporation and since Ji Zhixiu was the only daughter of the boss of this corporation and a lady of the upper class, it should be truly effortless for her to arrange a job.

"She should probably be able to help you out."

Congratulations on scrolling 860 words, just to know that MC was just THINKING about hooking up a bookstore customer with a female customer for a job.

There's repetitive info from earlier about the female customer's family owning a rich corporation. The only new info is 1 line describing Upper District being made out of metal and looking like a sphere. That's it.

Like, the real reason I dropped is because Li Zhixiu wants to set up a business partnership with Lin where her company can distribute and market his books... like wtf??? Isnt the whole point why Lin Jie is considered special and godly is that he CHOOSES the books specifically for his patrons??? And Lin Jie, the one who is usually the oblivious one is the only person to see the flaw in this business because some books are only relevant in his world and some also arent for sale, but the author does something bogus and has Blackie literally devour the negotiations so that Lin Jie is forced to accept. And my question is, IF YOU WERE ACQUAINTED WITH SOMEONE WHO YOU CONSIDER A GOD, FOR WHAT REASON DO YOU FIND IT NECESSARY TO COVET HIS ITEMS??? Like, would you really ask to handle and distribute items that could shake your reality that was benevolently handed to you by a god? NO! So why did author-ge make this a thing? They literally provided reasons why this woyld be bad!!!!! Well, I dropped after this so I'll never know if this was an absolutely amazing, 100 IQ chess move that I was too s*upid to understand, but it's moments like these that break the immersion in the book.

What makes this story different is that the MC does not know why he is running the book shop and there isn't a system to guide him to reach a goal. There is an entity that gives him slight guidance and that is why he got himself a shop and the entity provides the books to sell/loan. What is different is that the entity barely communicates and is probably also the one who put a spell on the MC so that the MC sees different things from his customers and therefore experiences the world very different compared to everyone else. The MC and his customers always have conversations where the MC is talking about very different things than the customer thinks he is talking about. And the titles and content of the books in his shop are different for the MC than it is for his customers. The MC doesn't realize it nor do the customers and this adds a bit of mystery to the story. And because the author does not let the entity have an active role and hides the reasons why the MC is a bookstore owner the mystery increases, so much so that some of the mistakes you often see in Chinese fantasy novels (e.g. The ones I mentioned earlier) are barely noticeable. As a reader you can still extrapolate that the goal is probably to improve that worlds magic level and make everyone stronger. This goal makes you think of novels like the strongest shop owner and internet cafe in a cultivation world.