Tang Xiao snorted. "If you've taken a fancy to that little girl, then go marry her yourself. At worst, I'll tell Rendili that if you marry her, my attitude toward them won't change. How about it?"
Cun Te repeatedly waved his hands. "Hey, no, no, no... Who knows what that little girl even looks like? What if she's ugly and covered in pockmarks? Besides, you saw it too. The Rendili system is practically a prison now, tightly controlled by the Galactic Republic. That little girl is a hot potato!"
"The greater the risk, the greater the reward. Don't you understand that?" Tang Xiao patted him on the shoulder. "Compared to all of Rendili, even if that Adele Ulan really is ugly and covered in pockmarks, I'll accept it. Worst case, I'll send her to Umbrella for plastic surgery before making my move. Anyway, marrying that little girl is more about putting Rendili at ease, not about satisfying my lower half. Hehehehe."
Cun Te slapped Tang Xiao's hand away in disgust. "You indiscriminate lolicon, I look down on you!"
Yarno, the wedding coordinator seated on the other side, stared wide-eyed as the Governor casually traded unrestrained jokes with Cun Te, as though she had seen a ghost.
In their usual understanding, Tang Xiao had always been a decisive and bad-tempered man. His irascibility was practically synonymous with his extraordinary ambition, and there was not a Fourth Civilization official who dealt with him regularly and was not afraid of him.
And even setting all that aside, Tang Xiao was still the Supreme Leader of a civilization. He ought to have a leader's dignity and distance. Since when could he casually spout such nonsense?
Yet while Yarno was surprised, Tang Xiao and Cun Te continued discussing the fiancée neither of them had ever