"Huh?"
When Emilia woke from her sleep, Fang Li's figure was clearly reflected in her bleary eyes.
"You're awake?"
Fang Li smiled faintly at Emilia.
But Emilia showed no obvious reaction. She simply stared blankly at Fang Li, only murmuring after a long while.
"Another hallucination?"
Muttering to herself, Emilia pushed herself up, patted her cheeks, and only looked back toward Fang Li after pulling herself together.
Yet Fang Li, whom Emilia had taken for a hallucination, stood before her with a speechless expression, showing no sign of disappearing.
Emilia was immediately startled.
"Um..."
After hesitating for a moment, Emilia timidly asked.
"Is it really Fang Li?"
At that, Fang Li rolled his eyes at Emilia.
"If it's not me, who else could it be?" Fang Li said somewhat irritably. "Or did you not want to see me? Then I'll leave."
With that, Fang Li made as if to walk away.
"W-Wait! No...! It's not like that...!"
Emilia immediately panicked. She hurriedly stood up and grabbed Fang Li's clothes.
Her flustered, frantic appearance made Fang Li laugh.
Smack!
Fang Li flicked Emilia on the forehead.
"That hurts...!"
Emilia instantly covered her forehead and cried out in pain.
"Look at you. You wouldn't rest properly and kept pushing yourself, and now you're acting all jumpy." Fang Li shook his head. "If this keeps up, your body will give out first, you know?"
"But I can't neglect managing the territory." Rubbing her forehead, Emilia spoke with a troubled expression. "And some things have happened in the Royal Capital lately, so I'm worried too."
"The Royal Capital?" Fang Li raised a brow. "Did something happen there?"
Fang Li's question made Emilia hesitate, as though she did not know whether she should tell him.
Seeing that, Fang Li raised a hand as though about