Listen, if it weren't for the need to survive, I wouldn't care if the lady boss was a sword immortal who'd dominated the Three Realms for fifteen thousand years. And don't tell me the bartender behind the counter is an explosives expert who can take on ten thousand people alone. If I, Yan Lai, took even a single copper from your Qingjiu Pavilion, I'd have to jump from here...
What? Senior Sister is a silly little girl in white stockings?
Ahem. I'm Yan Lai, and here's my resume. I'm good at presenting facts, reasoning things out, and beating people until they give in.
"Can you save the world?"
"...I know a little."
[Sweet and refreshing, not cloying, made for tough guys.]