Late at night, all was silent and still.
In the room that had once belonged to Qin Liangchen's son, Qin Xiaohu, Luo Chen still had not fallen asleep.
With both hands tucked beneath the back of his head, thoughts surged through his mind.
Everything he thought of was what had happened tonight.
"Perhaps if I hadn't gone to that banquet, none of this would have happened."
Luo Chen felt a trace of regret.
But he quickly dismissed the thought.
Mi Shuhua clearly had not acted on a whim. He had definitely not only thought of this after seeing Luo Chen.
He had investigated him, learned many things about him, and even possessed a mid-grade All Wonders Pill.
The All Wonders Pill had only advanced to mid-grade in the past two months.
Because of this pill's special nature, cultivators generally consumed it quickly after obtaining it.
For Mi Shuhua to deliberately acquire one showed that he had put considerable thought into it.
"Therefore, even without today's banquet, he would certainly have sought me out alone."
"On the contrary, with Qin Liangchen present, he was fairly polite to me. He even took on the posture of an elder and gave me a thorough, earnest lecture."
Once he understood that, Luo Chen stopped dwelling on it with regret.
He began considering where he should go from here.
Run away?
Running away was impossible. Though he had some combat ability, his realm was ultimately too low.
Nor did he know much about the outside world.
In the year and a half since he had transmigrated here, he had spent almost all his time struggling to survive in Great River Market. Moving to an unfamiliar place would simply cost too much.
Besides, who could say whether, in another place, a loose cultivator like him selling