Chapter 2418
"Resolved?" Jenia handed a set of clothes to the sales clerk, then picked up another. "I really like this color, but I'm not so fond of the pattern. What do you think?"
Empress Fei Lin took two steps back, looked closely for a moment, and nodded. "I think it's very nice. It looks youthful."
After handing the clothes back to the sales clerk, Jenia continued browsing. "How was it resolved?"
Empress Fei Lin stood beside her, glanced at Slani, who had already vanished outside the shop, and replied softly, "By having her keep as much distance from me as possible. That's for the best—for her and for me."
Empress Fei Lin was only eighteen years old, but she was no naive federal idiot of eighteen.
She had experienced the disaster of extinction, experienced the national disaster, and struggled from a situation of near-certain death to the present, stabilizing everything.
If she were truly foolish, she probably would have perished long ago.
In truth, wasn't innocence, kindness, and cuteness simply the finest disguise?
Beneath that disguise, she actually understood the score far better than Slani.
Lin Qi did not want Slani to continue hanging around her. If she still stubbornly allowed Slani to visit her at any time, it would, in a way, amount to challenging Lin Qi's authority.
If Lin Qi were merely an ordinary person, then a challenge would be a challenge, but she was the empress of a nation!
The trouble was that Lin Qi was not an ordinary person, and the head of a state was actually not nearly as important to him as one might imagine.
Not to mention that the prime minister of Gefra was now his close friend and even his follower! The relationship between the federal president and him was extraordinary...