Rapidly Rising Favorability

After Reid had completely left, the atmosphere briefly fell silent. Gu Yuena rubbed her hands together, looking quite shy. Though she was no longer young and displayed the bearing of a king and commander in every other respect, when it came to matters of the heart, she truly... was not very skilled...

Rota secretly glanced at Gu Yuena, whose face was practically red enough to boil, and sighed softly. "My, my, it would be better to slow things down a little."

Rota walked up to Gu Yuena and extended an invitation. "Nana, how about we have dinner together later? Tongbao Pavilion's food definitely won't disappoint you."

"No problem, I'm getting a little hungry too!" Gu Yuena agreed without even thinking. She harbored the same feelings toward Rota, but she simply had not been ready for them yet.

Now that Rota had taken the initiative to ease the awkward atmosphere, she could not have been happier.

As they walked down the corridor toward the dining hall, Gu Yuena glanced at Rota from time to time. In the end, she could not hold it in any longer and asked, "Rota, there's something I want to ask you... Why do you have such a strong aura of the Asura God on you?"

Gu Yuena's face was full of worry, deeply afraid that Rota was carrying something dangerous.

Rota gently stroked Gu Yuena's long silver hair and reassured her, "It's nothing serious. Maybe I picked up the aura while fighting the Asura God. Or maybe it's because I suffered a minor injury. In any case, the aura should disappear after some time, right?"

The moment she heard the word injury, Gu Yuena's expression immediately turned anxious. She knew full well how powerful the Asura God was. If Rota had been injured and suffered the