Faced with the goddess's "bashful fury" of a question, Li Wei could only turn sideways and shift his gaze away in speechless exasperation, proving his innocence.
It had to be said that a "person's" temperament truly had a tremendous effect on how others perceived them.
If the one saying that right now had been Xia Lan Veloss herself, it would probably have been quite a feast for the eyes. But paired with this "possessed goddess's" expression and comical movements...
Mm, how should he put it? It was not exactly eye-searing, but it really was impossible to stir even the slightest thought in that direction.
In his view, if Xia Lan Veloss was a beautiful real-estate Boss who had lost her "father" in childhood and, relying on a modest inheritance, had built herself up from nothing amid the mercantile tides of Water-Drawing City for years—
Then Waukeen was more like an innocent young heiress who obviously had family money behind her, started a business far from home with immense capital, and had sailed smoothly all the way without encountering any real setbacks.
Though her divine portfolio was trade and wealth, in Li Wei's eyes, she truly was not a qualified or shrewd merchant.
With her tendency for her brain to "crash" whenever faced with an emergency, combined with Combat Power so weak it was practically chicken-tier, the only reason she had not capsized yet was that, after the succession of the divine system, the war, and the Dawn Cataclysm, nearly every god was lying low, digesting the dividends from the last divine war in order to secure the exclusivity of their portfolios. The current climate was simply relatively peaceful.
Mortals generally found it difficult to pose any substantive threat to a deity. And under the existing rules, unless a god left