“Handsome, good afternoon. After you’ve met the boss, remember to come find me, okay!” Ms. Emily threw Jack Carter a flirtatious wink, spoke in a coy tone, then sashayed downstairs, her mature hips swaying as if she could squeeze water from them.

As Ms. Emily brushed past Jack Carter, she left behind a lingering, heart-stirring scent of rose perfume in the air. Jack Carter couldn’t help but turn his head to glance at Ms. Emily; her full, curvy hips swayed with every step, not at all inferior to those of foreign women.

“Isn’t Ms. Emily’s butt really sexy? Looks great, right?” Just as Jack Carter couldn’t resist turning back to stare at Ms. Emily’s voluptuous hips, he suddenly felt two soft mounds bump into his shoulder, and Grace Bennett’s voice sounded in his ear.

After all, he’d rarely interacted with women and had never experienced what it was like to be with one, so Jack Carter was still a bit shy around the opposite sex. Caught red-handed by Grace Bennett, he quickly turned his head, coughed awkwardly twice, and then pretended nothing had happened as he walked upstairs. Watching this, Grace Bennett couldn’t help but pinch him and whispered, “Keep pretending, you little perv. I’m warning you, Ms. Emily is the boss’s woman, so don’t even think about making a move on her.”

Although Jack Carter had never even considered making a move on Ms. Emily, hearing that such a seductive and sexy woman was already taken still left him feeling a bit disappointed.

The boss’s office was at the innermost room upstairs. After knocking, he found only one elegant, beautiful woman inside, probably just over thirty.

She wore a white, high-collared, pleated, fitted blouse on top and a black pencil skirt on the bottom—a typical professional woman’s outfit. When Jack Carter and Grace Bennett entered, she was sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed, talking on the phone. Her two snow-white legs overlapped, making her thighs look full and shapely.

Seeing Grace Bennett and Jack Carter come in, the woman gestured for them to wait a moment, quickly finished her call with a few words, and then hung up.

“Grace, is this the friend you mentioned?” After hanging up, the woman glanced at Grace Bennett and then looked at Jack Carter as she asked.

When Jack Carter saw the woman look at him, he really wanted to secretly ask Grace Bennett if this was the bar’s boss. How come it’s a woman? Then what about Ms. Emily and her…? But obviously, now wasn’t the time to ask such questions, so when the woman—who seemed to be the boss—looked over, Jack Carter gave her a shy smile. Yet, in his mind, he couldn’t help but picture the two women entangled together. It felt strange, but also seemed to stir his youthful, restless heart.

“Yes, boss.” Grace Bennett’s answer confirmed for Jack Carter that the bar’s boss was indeed this beautiful, mature woman, and also let the boss know that the handsome, slightly shy young man before her was the friend Grace Bennett had recommended.

“Handsome, what’s your name? Where are you from? What have you done before?” After confirming that Jack Carter was the friend Grace Bennett had recommended, the female boss looked at Jack Carter and asked.

After graduating, Jack Carter had been job-hunting in Jiangzhou for over a month. This was probably the first formal interview of his life, and it would determine whether he could live a stable life for the foreseeable future. Fortunately, Jack Carter wasn’t an ordinary person. Even though it was his first time facing a boss in an interview, he still calmly gave a general self-introduction.

After listening to Jack Carter’s self-introduction, the female boss nodded and said to Grace Bennett, “Grace, take Jack to Ms. Thompson to register, then take him to get a set of work clothes.”

Jack Carter hadn’t expected the interview to be so simple. He was a bit stunned when he heard this, until Grace Bennett tugged at him and he snapped back to reality, giving the female boss a slight bow and saying, “Thank you, boss.”

“Mm, work hard. If you have any questions, you can ask Grace or Emily.” The female boss nodded.

Jack Carter knew that the Emily the boss mentioned must be the Ms. Emily he’d just met on the stairs, which made him feel a bit odd.

After leaving the boss’s office, Jack Carter finally couldn’t help but ask in a low voice, “Grace, just now you said Ms. Emily is the boss’s woman? But the boss is a woman?”

“You really are OUT. What era do you think this is? People can be with whoever they want—who cares? Once you’ve worked in a bar for a while, you’ll see that guys with guys, girls with girls, it’s nothing unusual.” Grace Bennett rolled her eyes at Jack Carter as she spoke.

Hearing this, Jack Carter couldn’t help but break out in a sweat. He thought, back in school, seeing some classmates get close with girls or even sneak out to get a room already seemed pretty avant-garde. Now, coming here, he realized that these days, gay and lesbian couples weren’t anything rare. Society really was a lot more complicated than school.

Following Grace Bennett to register with Ms. Thompson, then to Mr. Grant, who managed the storeroom, to get his work uniform, Jack Carter was now officially working at BLUENIGHT Bar. During this time, Grace Bennett gave Jack Carter a general introduction to the bar and even got him something to eat.

The bar had two DJs, two sound engineers who also handled lighting, four security guards, a floor manager, two front desk cashiers, two bartenders, a barback, and six servers plus Ms. Emily, the supervisor. There were also greeters, accountants, cold dish chefs, head chefs, food runners, and so on.

After listening to Grace Bennett’s introduction, Jack Carter realized that running a bar was actually quite complex, and that he was just a server under Ms. Emily’s supervision. Ms. Emily’s full name was Emily Brooks.