The Dejected Prodigies

Rose City:

Heavenly Staff and the others were in quite a bad mood.

Because:

Early that morning, when they left the city, they had still been full of enthusiasm, discussing whether they could find a way to get some resources from Daughter of Stonemason Xu's wedding procession and improve themselves.

After all, escorting this trip had delayed them.

Yet:

They had not gone far when they saw a figure blazing like a ball of fire come whistling toward them.

From a great distance, they could see that it was a woman in magnificent wedding robes.

Only... her hair was disheveled, and her face was filled with panic.

One woman laughed. "She must be running away from a marriage!"

Heavenly Staff's expression changed slightly. "No!"

"Outside the city are all mud-legged peasants. They have no right to obtain such fine wedding robes!"

"Only great households, even aristocratic lineages, have the right and ability to obtain wedding robes this beautiful!"

The moment those words came out, everyone's expressions shifted slightly.

Outside the city?

Magnificent wedding robes?

Could this be... Daughter of Stonemason Xu...?

A woman stopped the approaching figure. "Who are you?"

When the woman in wedding robes saw Heavenly Staff and the others, a flicker of joy appeared on her face. "I am Daughter of Stonemason Xu."

Heavenly Staff and the others... were dumbfounded!

One minute later:

Daughter of Stonemason Xu steadied herself. After learning Heavenly Staff and the others' circumstances, she began recounting what had just happened.

She concealed the possibility that Chu Qing possessed a treasure capable of extending one's lifespan.

Mm... although she did not know whether that treasure was real or fake, she still concealed it.

She would tell the Xu Family and the Gongyang Family later.

Let them investigate it themselves.

She merely mentioned that Chu