After seeing enough bizarre high-tech fortresses and strange visitors from other worlds in Shadow City, witnessing Armored Scorpions whose rusty smell drifted thirty miles downwind march in formation to buy helium-3, and watching Pandora's personally directed and edited blood-pumping recruitment commercial, Sakina and Sona finally entered the Teleportation Gate and came to my house. Then they saw the residence of the leader of such a powerful Empire and immediately... nearly passed out... At least, Sakina looked like she was about to.
Sakina looked at me with an especially subtle expression, question marks seemingly floating all over her head. Meanwhile, before the Teleportation Gate behind them had even fully dissipated, Sona had already swept her gaze across the living room. At last, both of them looked at me, and Sona tactfully said, "Um... the Empire doesn't seem short on living space, does it?"
Sakina was more straightforward. "His Majesty the Emperor lives here? How is your living room smaller than the Crow God Temple?"
"Uh... as long as there's enough room, that's fine. At least, that's what I think," I said, knowing Sakina and Sona would both have this question. I awkwardly scratched my head. "As the saying goes, even if you own ten thousand mansions, you only need two feet of space to sleep. If I wake up in the morning and see the ceiling more than two meters away, I feel like the whole world has exiled me..."
The moment I finished speaking, Miss Lin's lazy, rising voice came from beside me. "Look at how little ambition you have. If I see the ceiling within three meters when I sleep, then I feel like the world has exiled me."
As usual, Lin Xue had shown up at my house precisely in time for dinner. She was currently sprawled carelessly