"I want you to take responsibility for me!"
"Responsibility?"
Hearing Dao Mei's outrageous demand, Ye Weiming immediately refused sternly. "I can only guarantee that you won't get shortchanged on the mission rewards. As for a lifetime of happiness, you'll have to figure that out yourself."
Dao Mei's eyes immediately lit up. Ignoring Ye Weiming's dirty joke, she pressed, "Are you sure I can still obtain mission rewards no worse than yours through other means?"
"Of course." Ye Weiming shrugged. "I've said more than once that the rules in Eternal Chivalry are clear. We completed our mission beautifully, so the system naturally won't allow any non-player character to withhold our rewards."
"Youyou and I have already received our mission rewards from Xue Qianxun. Yours must be distributed through some other method, and they definitely won't be worse than what we got."
"Plus, you deliberately raised Xue Qianxun's favorability during the mission. Maybe you'll even receive better rewards than us."
After a brief pause, he added, "And if you flew into a Thunderous Fury earlier because you hadn't received your rewards, not only would that change nothing, it might even make Xue Qianxun dislike you and cost you an opportunity that was originally quite good."
"An opportunity?" Dao Mei quickly asked. "Like what?"
Ye Weiming smiled faintly. "For example, if your contribution to the mission falls somewhere in the middle, the non-player character responsible for handing out rewards has the authority to either give you two lower-tier items to make up the numbers, or issue an additional mission so you can accumulate more contribution before receiving a bigger surprise all at once."
"So, although players have the system rules protecting their interests, the favorability of certain important NPCs is still extremely important. They may not be able to alter the system's established