Gray Wind pursed her lips, doing her best to hide her smile.
It suddenly occurred to her that if Eric, who had founded the Empire and regarded his subjects as pets, learned that she had fallen in love with someone here...
He would surely be bewildered, utterly lost.
In his eyes, they were not even the same species!
It was like how humans would never develop romantic feelings for cats and dogs.
Upon hearing about it, Eric would only find it inconceivable.
It would be like a vampire learning that one of its own had fallen in love with a human-as outrageous as a human falling in love with a piece of fried chicken, insisting on turning themselves into a chunk of meat, then coating themselves in egg and breadcrumbs and jumping into a deep fryer.
This romance crossed the boundaries between species.
He would send her straight to a psychiatric ward!
Gray Wind was too busy suppressing her laughter to care about Eric's slightly disdainful look.
She cleared her throat.
"You often say..."
Gray Wind pushed up the rimless glasses on her nose, recalling Eric's customary expression.
In the eyes of all those geniuses, Eric was far too young. Combined with his approachable looks, that made it even harder for him to command respect.
To address that, he had put considerable effort into his expressions.
Right, no emotional fluctuations.
Keep changes in expression subtle.
Don't let anyone see through your thoughts.
After adjusting her expression, Gray Wind looked up at Xianyu with affected gravity and said in a low voice:
"Don't rush."
"Everything I want will be mine."
As Xianyu gazed at Gray Wind, a suspicion suddenly formed in his mind.
Aeons had no humanity.
They could not be understood through common sense.
Even if Xianyu came into contact