After ending the call, Xianyu's expression turned cold despite himself.
He didn't understand.
Xianyu thought he had shown plenty of sincerity.
He rarely explained his reasons to anyone.
This time, he had only said a little more because she was his Heir.
Xianyu had deliberately broken down everything at stake and spelled it out for the brat.
And the result? She had run off the moment his back was turned!
Granted, Yaoqing was the safest place in the universe.
But what if? What if the assassins went after that child instead of him?
While Xianyu was thinking, Guan Liang spoke up to reassure him.
"It's fine now that they've found her. Relax. Nothing will happen."
Guan Liang knew exactly what his superior was thinking.
He was simply worried about his Heir's safety.
Previously, every newborn in the Xianzhou Alliance had to be given a name that avoided characters identical to, or pronounced the same as, his superior's name.
The point was to stop hostile forces who knew only his superior's name, but not his appearance, from tracking down other people by that name.
Why avoid homophones too?
What if an assassin walking down the street heard someone with the same name as his superior and hurt an innocent person by mistake...
Nobody wanted to see that happen.
For that reason, the Earth-Balance Commission, the department with the widest and most extensive remit among the Six Commissions, could only step forward and take the blame.
They handled population statistics, so naturally, they also entered newborns' identity information into the records.
Whenever staff encountered a newborn whose name matched their superior's in spelling or pronunciation, they had no choice but to enter the wrong characters.
The mistakes weren't random, though. They chose characters with good meanings for the newborns.
They could neither