Chapter 53: A Murder Case!
The young girl’s heart was stirred by love. The Chen family’s third young lady was naturally quite smitten by a handsome young hero like Li Yanchu.
And in no time at all, several other noble ladies who spotted Li Yanchu by the roadside came over with cheerful smiles to greet him.
Each of them was beautiful in her own way. Some were graceful,others elegant, flirtatious, or shy. It was as if, the moment Li Yanchu so much as nodded, they’d gleefully hop into a boat with him, drinking and laughing as they floated across the lake.
When it came to Bai Hongtu, these young noblewomen were all polite and proper, but that only made Bai Hongtu, who fancied himself a charming gentleman, feel even more disheartened. He gave Li Yanchu a resentful side-eye, regretting his decision deeply.
Why does this guy attract women like bees to honey? It almost felt like every noble lady in Wei City already knew him.
Li Yanchu, for his part, had little reaction to any of it; he certainly wasn’t enjoying himself. In fact, being surrounded by a group of chattering women felt... noisy.
If Bai Hongtu had known what Li Yanchu was thinking, he’d probably have activated a talisman on the spot and challenged him to a duel. How shameless!
Before long, the two slipped away from the temple under the reluctant gazes of the noble ladies.
Despite his appearance as a refined nobleman, Bai Hongtu was actually quite down-to-earth. He joined Li Yanchu in sampling food from several roadside stalls without any complaints or snobbishness, and in fact, he looked cheerful and full of energy. The blow to his ego from earlier seemed to have passed, and he was back to eating and chatting like his usual self.
“Yanchu,” Bai Hongtu said, gnawing on a pear like Li Yanchu often did, “what if that Elixir of Immortality is buried right under the Lady Qingyi Temple? Maybe that’s why those bastards wanted to blow the temple up?”
Li Yanchu glanced at him in surprise. “What made you think of that?”