"I... Zi Ye, are you planning to take both men and women?" Zi Guang immediately widened his eyes from the side.
"Hm? Why would you say that? I was actually just about to ask you." I furrowed my brows as I looked at him.
Zi Guang was rendered speechless. He stammered, "No wonder you've been so good to me. It turns out I'm one of your targets too?"
Seeing Zi Guang's tall, burly frame and somewhat mysteriously confident air, everyone finally realized that I had only been asking about ordinary interpersonal relations, not some sort of romantic issue.
Zi Xiao felt a little embarrassed. To hide her awkwardness, she simply fell silent, while Lei Ying kept muttering beside us, insisting that I offer some kind of compensation.
Seeing the Purple-Eyed Clan laughing nonstop, Qing Su and Qing Ci of the Azure-Eyed Clan kept glancing over. Who knew what they were thinking?
After reaching the mining zone, the Purple-Eyed Clan assigned tasks to their dependents and had each person lead a group to excavate.
Since this was a crystal mine, the amount that could be excavated was far greater than what was available in the wilderness. Most of the dependents were content with the status quo. After all, they had never been able to lay a finger on this crystal mine before. The current arrangement—paying part in taxes while keeping part for themselves—still gave them more points than they had received in the past.
The only thing that remained to be seen was whether our Purple-Eyed Clan could hold up this entire situation.
Sitting in the command room carved out of the crystal mine, I waited for the Azure-Eyed Clan as they awaited the mining areas I would mark out for them.
"The outermost points of the crystal mine have already