Tianming looked stunned for quite a while before he finally realized that there was nothing bad about this. He couldn't bother with overthinking it and said, "I thank you on their behalf, Astralqueen."

"There's no need to. It's what's expected of me. When you grow in power, you’ll bring great benefits to the imperium. You’re our future," Ziyan said, enviously looking at him. It sounded like things were absolutely perfect.

Don't tell me that I blamed her for no reason? Did I jump the gun? Does the Violetcloud Archclan really have people who can see the bigger picture? Tianming wondered. He looked at Gong Xiong, who rolled his eyes, signaling that he hadn't expected...