"Interesting!"
When Jieluno first laughed and said those words, everyone in the room immediately turned their attention toward him.
As one of the most powerful people in the Federation, countless eyes watched him every day, interpreting every word he said, every movement he made, and every look in his eyes.
More often than not, the higher a person's position, the more rigid they appeared at work. That was why.
They could not display overly rich emotions or make too many expressive gestures. Those things would make people overthink, and might even trigger a chain of uncontrollable events.
"A smile can start a war" was a very famous saying in Gefra. It referred to an Earl who had given a married noblewoman a smile that looked suggestive to others.
Someone saw it and told the noblewoman's husband—another noble.
The noblewoman's husband demanded to know whether that noble was having an affair with his wife. Naturally, the other man refused to admit it.
He had merely thought of something amusing and smiled knowingly. He did not know that woman at all, but in the eyes of others, it had been a suggestive smile.
Thus, the noblewoman's husband felt that he had not only been betrayed but humiliated as well. He killed his wife in public and then declared war on that noble.
The war lasted an entire year. More than twenty thousand people were killed or wounded, and in the end, the nobles' collective had to step forward and mediate.
If the smile of an Earl could cause such a misunderstanding, then Jieluno's words and the intrigued expression on his face were even more dangerous.
At that moment, everyone in the room was thinking about three things.
What was he laughing at? Why was he laughing? Who did he find interesting? The