Engaging_Kitten

I don't know why he's so miserable. all the stones are ones he would never open anyway. his entire business is to buy the stones on the cheap and sell them at a steep markup. anything obviously Carlisle was already taken by the original miners or himself. usually, this nets him a tidy bit more profit than if he were to open them himself. the stones, regardless of content, would've been sold to a customer at some point instead of opened by himself. the "fated ones" are just finding them immediately. if anything, the attraction of these fated ones opening good ores drives more customers into his shop to buy all the duds. hence why they had the fairy scam from the start.

5km to the city gates. it must be another 5km to the palace

both and neither

not necessarily, qi deviation just means his practice went wrong, and the qi went out of control. The extent of damage caused by the out of control qi is never certain. It can range from minor inconvenience, to crippling, to death.

tbf that has only been in the last week. She hasn't had time to adjust to his face slapping skills

missed opportunity to have the chef comment on the ingredients at the end of the meal

that's a lot of peas to eat in 1 sitting

so ... the student profession is almost all. manual effort, but the farming is point and click?

pfft, yeah, no