Elder Yin froze.
Her cheeks turned a vivid shade of pink, and she quickly lowered her hand, glancing up at Fang Yuan with wide, bashful eyes.
Fang Yuan raised an eyebrow, gaze sliding to Jingyi.
She merely smiled innocently, one arm still draped around Elder Yin like an older sister teasing a younger one. "She's just eager to help," Jingyi said sweetly, as if that explained everything.
Fang Yuan sighed, muttering under his breath, "This is my clan… these are my people…"
He rubbed his temple, then returned to his seat with the weight pressing down on him.
"Alright then," he said at last. "As we are all too broke to even own a spatial ring."
His fingers brushed against the spatial ring on his hand, as he leaned slightly forward, "We can only do this the long way, the loud way, and the deliberate way."
He glanced to the map displayed on the jade screen beside him.
"Let the Gu family hear the footsteps of every mule. Let their ears ring with the clatter of every wheel."
