"If I get selected for my Awakening Channel, I want compensation, but I also want to settle down in Sky City. After all, not only can Mother live here without worries, but Grandmother is here too. You and your sisters-in-law have also settled down and made a living here in Sky City. Perhaps that's one way to put it... I'd heard that the ecology in Sky City's orbital ring wasn't very stable, and as your elder brother, I can't help but worry. Not only that, Xiaoxue keeps mentioning the difficulties you're facing here, and Yuxin is also quite grateful to you. That's what prompted me to want to contribute my Awakening Channel. If it really gets used, just give me a residence here and let us live here together. After all, Mother and daughter both miss the atmosphere of the Heavenly Realm. I've looked around, and Sky City isn't much different." Xia Ruize smiled.
"Just one residence? What kind of compensation is that?" I froze for a moment. Had Xia Ruize really changed genders? What did settling down amount to? Was he even sending Mother and daughter over as hostages? Of course, if he harbored no malicious intentions, there was no need to call them hostages. He had done so many wicked things back then, yet I had still treated the two of them with mutual respect and courtesy. Yu Xiaoxue was my childhood sweetheart. Even if she had fallen into hardship because of Xia Ruize's misdeeds, I still had a responsibility to look after her. Besides, the two of them had lived in the Heavenly Realm before.
They both had their own work and lives in the Heavenly Realm, too. If Xia Ruize hadn't taken them away, anyone who tried to make them leave probably wouldn't have succeeded.
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