Social Engagements and a Request for Help

"Brother Da Qian, what do you think of my troupe of singers and dancers?"

Within the resplendent grand hall, eighty-eight breathtakingly beautiful women clad in sheer gauze danced gracefully to the accompaniment of strings and pipes.

The gauze draped over them was thinner than paper. Not only did it fail to conceal their most intimate parts, it instead lent them a hazy beauty, half-veiled and half-revealed.

Most importantly, every one of these women had been meticulously selected as a peerless beauty. Their figures and features were all of the highest grade, without the slightest flaw from head to toe.

For an ordinary household, having even one such woman would have been a rare blessing, much less gathering a full eighty-eight of them in the bloom of youth.

Today, Lian Feihong, the Young Master of the Lian Family, a noble house of the Left Prefecture, had hosted a banquet for Zhou Daqian, the adopted son of a Grandmaster.

The Lian Family was an ally of the Zhou Clan Western Sect, both belonging to the same camp. Lian Feihong's grandfather, Grandmaster Lian Kaiming, was on good terms with Zhou Nanwang.

The association between Lian Feihong and Zhou Daqian had been tacitly approved of and welcomed by the elders of both sides.

Both men were male descendants destined to inherit their respective family businesses. Establishing good relations early on would benefit both the Lian Family and the Zhou Family without doing either harm.

Lian Feihong was the "Young Master," which meant he had long since been selected as the heir of his noble house, standing above all the legitimate sons.

Well, Zhou You held the same status in the Zhou Clan Western Sect. Outsiders also called him Young Master Zhou.

He was warm and generous by nature. After inviting Zhou You to his