Chapter 254
While Xu Ming and Wu Yanhan were discussing matters in the courtyard, a woman’s voice suddenly drifted in.
Turning their heads, they saw a veiled woman entering the courtyard, her hands gracefully folded in front of her. Today, her attire was notably different from usual.
She wore a white floor-length gown adorned with pink floral patterns embroidered on the wide hem. Draped over her arms was a long, trailing shawl of smoky purple gauze. Her slender waist was cinched with a purple silk belt inlaid with jade.
Her jet-black hair was tied back with a light purple ribbon, a few loose strands falling over her shoulders, setting off her snow-white skin, so fair it seemed almost translucent.
What remained unchanged, however, was the light veil covering her face.
Xu Ming had heard that Wang Xuan hailed from a tribe located on the border between the Northern Wastelands and the Central Plains. In that tribe, there was a unique tradition: when a girl turned sixteen and came of age, she was required to cover her face with a veil.
The veil could only be removed on her wedding day.
Otherwise, if her face was seen by another man, the tribe dictated two choices: either kill the man or marry him.
Xu Ming didn’t know if anyone had ever seen Wang Xuan’s face, but he did know this: every man who had seen Wang Xuan’s appearance after she turned eighteen—aside from women—was dead.