Yu Lian glanced at her. "What a pity?"
Feifei nodded. "Just now, while you were meeting everyone on Lumina, Earth sent over another order. I figured you wouldn't want to see it?"
When you had a leader this stubborn, how could you not feel reassured? Yu Lian pressed his fingers to his temples, took one last look at the familiar starfield, then turned to Feifei, whose smile was positively malicious.
To be fair, that lovely smile of hers, so familiar to him, rarely showed such unmistakable malice.
Yu Lian folded his arms and raised his chin, completely unabashed. "Of course I won't look. If I don't look, I haven't received it, so I'm not going rogue."
Feifei patted him on the shoulder. "Good. Though I still don't know what my Yu's shamelessness is all about, shamelessness is a standard skill for those in power. You just have to learn to appreciate it. My Yu is becoming more and more like a sanctimonious politician who cares about his reputation."
The meeting was over now, so there was probably no need to use formal titles anymore.
Yu Lian was about to protest, but she cut him off. "But don't let yourself feel any moral pressure. Heroes like Emperor Gaozu and Emperor Taizong had to show a little of it, too. Sometimes, that's the only thing separating a world-changing hero from some upstart warlord who rises and falls with the times."
Yu Lian felt there was something off about that comparison. "So you're saying hypocrisy is very important to a person's career?"
"No. I'm saying that as long as people still have a sense of awe, they won't turn into arrogant, overbearing upstarts. I told you: as long as you don't let pride blind you, you'll be invincible."
Yu Lian still thought the