Inside Overlord Court, Gaishi sat with Angel Sacred Emperor standing beside him like a maid.
"Xiaoyue, come sit here." Gaishi grinned and patted his thigh.
"That's quite an idea you've got there," Angel Sacred Emperor said with a narrowed-eyed smile. Her smile was dangerous.
"Of course it is. There's nobody else here," Gaishi said, waggling his eyebrows without the slightest attempt to hide his intentions.
"You don't know that the ancestors are everywhere?" Angel Sacred Emperor shot Gaishi a look and said crossly.
That single glance nearly hooked Gaishi's soul right out of him.
Out in public, Angel Sacred Emperor was noble and sacred, beyond all profanation. But in front of Gaishi, she was her true self, and only Gaishi got to see her like this.
For a moment, Gaishi could barely hold himself back.
"If you need us to, we can step away. We aren't the sort who enjoy peeping, after all," a voice said from the shadows, carrying the faintest hint of amusement.
"See?" Angel Sacred Emperor glared at Gaishi. Just as she'd expected, the ancestors had eyes everywhere. Nothing could be hidden from them.
Gaishi chuckled awkwardly, then looked toward the shadows. "Ancestors, give us some space. Brother Gai has some family business to attend to."
"Sure," one of the ancestors replied readily from the shadows.
"The ancestors are gone. We can pick up where we left off." Gaishi chuckled and swept Angel Sacred Emperor into his arms.
Angel Sacred Emperor cried out and lightly thumped Gaishi's chest. "Don't be silly. The one who spoke just now was surely an ancestor from Tianji Peak. You believe anything they say? They might still be holding a Recording Stone and getting ready to film us."
Hearing this, one of the bigwigs in the shadows silently put the Recording Stone