Come to think of it, tonight was the first time Ronan had mentioned the term "Bamboo Dragonfly" to He Yueyin.
It was nothing unusual. Everyone had long understood without saying it aloud.
But even if they understood without saying it, some things still needed to be brought into the open.
"Wide Coverage is both an advantage and a difficulty. After all, there are so many people involved. I can't start over from scratch; I can only work on the foundation of the existing governance framework. But a considerable part of that framework was shaped under Li Wei's influence. We need to rely on it while also transforming it. To handle that contradiction, we need partners with similarly conflicted mindsets... I think Bamboo Dragonfly is that kind of partner. Though I don't know whether my assessment is correct."
He Yueyin tilted her head to look at him. "Conflicted mindsets?"
"Don't focus too much on the wording. Understand the intent." Ronan smiled and kept walking forward. "From what I've observed so far, although Bamboo Dragonfly's ideals are lofty, there's a disconnect between its current foundation and those ideals. It seems to know something, yet it's difficult for it to reach that something itself. At the very least, it hasn't been reflected in you... or Tian Bang."
"Oh?"
"Both of the only two key figures who broke through the Burners' Extraordinary Species bottleneck are like this. No matter how you look at it, that doesn't make sense."
As he spoke, Ronan subconsciously reached out, nearly touching He Yueyin's shoulder before withdrawing his hand and merely drawing a circle in the air. "The Extraordinary Species level is very important. More precisely, the stage of Furnace Law Deployment that forms the Golden Cell is extremely important. Compared with the paths I know, what you did,