Since the Orion Trading Company had colluded with the Abundance Followers, their assets would naturally be seized by the Luofu Starfaring Vessel as spoils of war. As the representative of the Resonant Flame Chamber of Commerce, Tingyun was naturally responsible for this work.
Things were not ready yet. Once everything had been dealt with, Tingyun would have to start working through the night.
Hearing that she was about to get to work, Ji Yuan patiently reminded her, "I see. Then be careful and watch your safety. Lord Genyi told me today that besides colluding with the Buli Ren, the Orion Trading Company and the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus were also connected to people who worshiped Nanook the Aeon of Destruction. If you need to go out for the inventory, make sure to bring more Cloud Knights with you. If necessary, you can call Changchang over too."
A little sister was meant to be used when needed.
"Don't worry, I'll be careful." Tingyun found Ji Yuan's words amusing. She might not have been as cautious as him, but she still knew how to protect herself. It was not easy for danger to arise during an operation.
"Being careful alone isn't enough."
Ji Yuan frowned.
"Alright, alright, I know." Tingyun smiled as she leaned closer to Ji Yuan. "Besides, if I run into danger, won't you come save me?"
"Of course I'll save you, but..."
As Ji Yuan spoke, he could not help remembering that both of them were in the sort of state where they could die at any time.
"What? Are you afraid something dangerous will happen?" Tingyun pouted and said unhappily, "I'm starting to wonder if you have divination abilities like the Master Diviner's. Did you calculate that danger would appear whenever I stayed with you, which is why you keep reminding me to be careful every time?"
Ji Yuan broke out in a cold sweat.
"H-how could that be?"
Tingyun looked at Ji Yuan's expression, and her heart immediately skipped a beat.
Could what she had said actually be true?
But after thinking it over, even the Master Diviner's predictions were not always accurate. Ji Yuan's predictions could not possibly be that reliable.
Looks like I need to find a way to make Ji Yuan's prediction collapse on its own.
She thought to herself.
Raising her head, Tingyun said to Ji Yuan, "If I'm wrong, then come prove it to me."
"How?"
"Why, of course..."
As she spoke, Tingyun directly pushed Ji Yuan down onto the sofa, then rested her little fox head on his thigh.
"If I sleep on your lap for a while, we'll know that we're perfectly safe together."
Even a Lord of Destruction Couldn't Resist Teasing You!
Ji Yuan kept staring tensely at Tingyun, afraid that some accident might occur around them.
Lying on his lap, Tingyun could clearly feel his tension. After a while, she helplessly shook her head to herself, then sat up.
"Alright, I won't tease you anymore."
She shifted positions and lay down on the other side of the sofa.
Ji Yuan pointed toward the inner room.
"Why don't you sleep on the bed inside?"
"Are you inviting me?" Tingyun smiled at Ji Yuan. Before he could say anything else, she got down from the sofa and headed inside.
When she reached the bedroom door, she gave Ji Yuan a sly smile.
"Do you want to come too?"
Ji Yuan rolled his eyes at Tingyun.
"If you keep joking around, I'm going to make it real!"
Tingyun gave Ji Yuan another provocative look.
Ji Yuan stopped paying attention to Tingyun. He knew she was joking and did not mean it.
Besides, even if she did mean it, Ji Yuan did not dare imagine what the system would settle for him if he actually went over and slept in the same bed as Tingyun.
His moral standards would probably plummet tremendously in the system's eyes.
Standing in the room, he still worriedly inspected the surroundings once more. Only after confirming there was no problem did he sit on the sofa to stand guard.
Tingyun did not wake until evening.
The moment she stepped outside, she saw that Ji Yuan was still guarding the place tensely. Looking around, she found more than a dozen new holes poked into the apartment.
She felt both touched and amused.
She was touched because he had truly guarded her like this while she slept, and amused because Ji Yuan was simply too nervous. He was still worried about danger appearing even inside the headquarters.
"Alright, I'm going to handle official business. You can sleep peacefully now."
Tingyun walked behind Ji Yuan and poked his cheek.
Ji Yuan's defense system could detect malicious intent. Tingyun's action carried no malice, so it naturally triggered none of the defensive measures.
Ji Yuan waved his hand with a disgusted expression. "You're finally leaving. Go on, hurry up and work. Don't come here again next time."
"That's impossible! After I finish work tomorrow morning, I'm coming back here to catch up on sleep!" Tingyun waved at Ji Yuan, looking utterly certain that she had him wrapped around her finger.
She then left.
Watching her leave, Ji Yuan washed up and returned to the room to rest.
Lying on the bed, he could clearly smell the lingering fragrance Tingyun had left behind.
All sorts of messy thoughts involuntarily rose in his mind. Ji Yuan tossed and turned in bed for a long time before gradually falling asleep.
The next morning, Ji Yuan was awakened by a pair of icy little hands pressed against his neck.
Opening his eyes, he saw his little sister standing there with her hands on her hips, staring at him.
"Why did you come looking for me so early?"
This time, it was Ji Yuan who looked at Sushang with sleepy eyes.
When he paid a little attention to the system, it had actually settled a minor achievement for him.
You were gently awakened in the morning by a beautiful widow wife. The system rewarded you with a lavish breakfast.
Gentle? Beautiful?
Ji Yuan silently complained as he looked at the little girl who had just returned from sword practice and put her icy hands on his neck.
And what was with calling her a widow?
You even dared to date early!?
You actually dared to date early!?
"It's not early. It'll be noon soon. If you don't eat breakfast, are you planning not to eat lunch either?"
Hearing that, Ji Yuan hurriedly rolled out of bed, patted Sushang's head, then rushed to the washroom to freshen up.
While brushing his teeth, he asked Sushang, "By the way, are the others up?"
Sushang nodded. "Huohuo is still practicing her arts. Sister Tingyun worked all night yesterday, and she went out this morning to inventory the spoils."
"She went out to inventory the spoils?"
The moment Ji Yuan heard that, he instantly felt panicked.
"Yeah. If someone doesn't personally inspect them, the spoils and the accounts won't match." At this point, Sushang looked at Ji Yuan suspiciously. "Brother, don't tell me you like Sister Tingyun? When you said you didn't last time, were you lying to me?"
"No. I said I won't date for the next hundred years, so I won't date."
Ji Yuan hurriedly waved his hands.
Sushang looked at Ji Yuan with great suspicion. "Fine, I'll believe you for now. Don't worry. An entire squad of Cloud Knights went with Sister Tingyun this time. Nothing will happen."
"Mm."
Hearing that a whole squad of Cloud Knights had gone with her, Ji Yuan relaxed a little.
Nothing should happen.
But even so, he could not truly set his mind at ease all morning.
After beating up several dozen trading company captives to confirm they were not Buli Ren, Ji Yuan became absent-minded.
Genyi thought he had worn himself out yesterday and immediately told him to rest for another half day.
Ji Yuan planned to return to his room and rest. It was then that he finally saw Tingyun sitting on the sofa in his room.
Only upon seeing Tingyun did Ji Yuan finally breathe a sigh of relief.
"You're finally back."
"What? Were you worried about me?" Tingyun tilted her head and chuckled, seeming delighted by Ji Yuan's words. "These are snacks I bought from a shop I saw on the way back. Come try some."
"Mm."
Looking at Tingyun, Ji Yuan felt that something was off. But no matter how he looked, he could not find anything wrong. He figured he was simply being too nervous.
He walked to the coffee table and took out a test strip for poison.
"Don't be in such a hurry to eat things from places like that next time. What if the Abundance Followers poisoned it?"
As he tested for poison, Ji Yuan spoke to Tingyun.
Tingyun wore a speechless expression.
"Could a random shop I found on the road just happen to have poisoned its food?"
"What if it did? You only have one life. You can't gamble on something like that."
Only after the test revealed no poison did Ji Yuan begin eating the snacks with peace of mind.
They actually tasted quite good.
"I've been working since last night until now. I'm really tired~"
Tingyun slipped her slender, beautiful feet out of her high heels and casually placed them on Ji Yuan's thighs. The toes of her right foot curled slightly as they poked at his lower abdomen.
With her hands behind her head, she smiled at Ji Yuan while he ate. "Ji Yuan, I heard food tastes different when you eat it off someone's feet. Want to try it? I washed them just now."
Her tone turned suggestive at the end, and her eyes seemed to challenge him.
Ji Yuan rolled his eyes at her speechlessly.
I like feet, but I'm not into that.
At that moment, the system notification sounded in his mind again.
Your charm is unmatched. Even Destruction Lord Phantylia could not resist teasing you...
Still Have to Keep Teasing Phantylia!
Destruction Lord Phantylia...
In an instant, Ji Yuan felt as though all the blood in his body had turned cold.
His scalp went completely numb.
He did not even carefully check the reward he had received this time.
What was going on?
Wasn't this Tingyun?
How had she become Destruction Lord Phantylia?
The Lords of Destruction were Emanators chosen by Nanook the Aeon of Destruction and commanders of the many forces of the Anti-Matter Legion. Across the entire sea of stars, they were among the strongest beings beneath the Aeons. They had withered and destroyed countless worlds, wiping out innumerable civilizations and species.
Destruction Lord Phantylia, in particular, delighted in the destruction of the spirit. By provoking conflicts of faith within planets, she dismantled their spiritual pillars, drove civilizations' internal trust into collapse, and made people completely abandon hope, thereby achieving her goal of destruction.
Ji Yuan had known quite a bit about her before, since she too belonged to the Suiyang race. The Suiyang records he had obtained previously also contained information about her. As an Emanator of Destruction, her power surpassed even that of the Suiyang Firebringer.
And yet such a Lord of Destruction was currently placing her feet on his thighs and teasing him.
Ji Yuan instantly became incomparably tense.
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