The servants of the Xia Lan Chamber of Commerce noticed something unusual: their mistress, Xia Lan Veloss, had, these past few days, begun staying indoors as well, aside from her usual morning routine of handling treasures and signing various documents.
It left them faintly worried. Could their young mistress be ill?
But Xia Lan Veloss was not ill. How could a dragon who could swallow gold, stone, and magma whole and use them to rinse her mouth fall sick so easily?
If dragons did fall ill, it was usually Mental Illness.
Xia Lan Veloss had merely been suffering from insomnia these past few days.
It was not because, like the idiotic female leads in romance novels, she had fallen head over heels for Li Mou Long at first sight in some ridiculously melodramatic fashion.
Li Wei had indeed made a good first impression on her, but Xia Lan Veloss was nowhere near as sentimental or lovestruck as she had imagined herself to be.
If the two dragons were given time to spend more time together, perhaps a few sparks really might have bloomed.
But Li Wei had not shown the slightest hint of such intentions, and with Xia Lan Veloss's pride, was she supposed to pursue him instead?
Not a chance!
The reason she could not sleep was that she could not stop reflecting.
Reflecting on whether all her struggles over the years had been a little too much of a failure.
Yes. She had worked herself to the bone in Water-Drawing City like a squirrel, spending over a hundred years slowly accumulating the modest fortune she had today.
Then she looked at that beast Li Wei!
Was that something a dragon could even do?
It was simply too much!
The million-member system and purchase limits Li Wei had introduced