"So, you're not going to marry, and you'll maintain the public image of a lonely lifelong bachelor, right?" Beta asked, then nodded. "A wise choice. You can't go wrong listening to me. If you don't marry, you can build a harem with a clear conscience."
"Could you stop bringing up the harem thing?" Xi Yan couldn't help saying.
Veronica was still right here!
Xi Yan hadn't even figured out how to tell her about Gray Tempest yet.
Veronica, a few hundred years from now, I'll fall in love with a swarm of Nanites, so make sure you get along with her-who could possibly say that?!
"Oh? Don't you want a harem? You've been single since birth, you gloomy shut-in with an overactive inner monologue. Haven't you fantasized about this before? Aren't those harem doujinshi with multiple girls your favorites?" Beta said incisively.
"Wow," Veronica said, blushing.
"Uh, um, I..." That one remark left Xi Yan speechless.
Why was Beta's emotional intelligence so low all of a sudden? Or was this deliberate?
"Let me add one more thing." This time, Beta went for the kill. "Psionic users live longer than ordinary people, and their looks and energy can remain at their peak for a long time. As the leader of the Empire, you've been infused with people's psionic power. Even after dispersing most of it, the psionic power you have now is still of higher quality than that of someone who awakened naturally. You might live past two hundred, or even three hundred, and you'll stay as you are now for over a century."
"But Veronica is just an ordinary person. She can't stay with you until you die. What will you do when she can no longer be by your side?"
Xi Yan immediately gritted his teeth.
A harem? Great.