“Your world has already established order. There's no need to rush towards higher goals. The most important thing now is to maintain and consolidate the existing order.”
“If you run too fast, you might fall.”
Lady Houtu smiled. Her smile was very infectious, making people believe her words without question. A man eating candied hawthorns walked into the teahouse and saw the cheerfully chatting Lady Houtu.
“Your Ladyship, it's been a few years. Why are you still in the Nine Provinces?”
Jiang Li remembered that nine years ago, he had asked Lady Houtu to go to the Nine Provinces and tell everyone that he was going to a parallel world, so they shouldn't worry. But now, nine years have passed, and Lady Houtu was still in the Nine Provinces. Who was managing the Underworld now?
“Well, I told them you would be back after nine years. What if you didn't return on time? Shouldn't I be responsible for my own words?”
Lady Houtu said with a serious expression. Jiang Li looked at Lady Houtu suspiciously, suspecting that she simply didn't want to go back to the Underworld.