"No, no! Fairy Li, please, take the seat of honor." Prefect Zhao was so frightened his heart and liver were flying every which way. He hurriedly bowed with cupped hands, gesturing again and again for the beautiful woman to sit.
Seeing this, Li Changqing's smile faded slightly. Her gaze swept over the crowd as she said offhandedly, "This Palace was only making a joke. Prefect Zhao... are you very hot?"
As she spoke, she shifted her lotus steps lightly and walked toward the couch at the very head of the main hall. Prefect Zhao had no time to wipe his sweat. He hastily followed behind her, attentive and fawning like a lackey.
Hm?
After taking only a few steps, the beautiful woman, Li Changqing, suddenly stopped. Her phoenix eyes stared straight at Zhang Xusheng, who sat in the middle of the second seat.
In the next instant, Li Changqing's eyes abruptly burst with astonishing brilliance, as if she had seen some unique treasure unmatched in all the world.
The instant she looked over, Zhang Xusheng felt as though he had been struck by lightning. A piercing agony shot through his heart, followed at once by an extreme emptiness that surfaced without warning.
In that instant, he dazedly felt as though a "black hole" had suddenly formed at his chest. It was so ravenous, so empty, yearning desperately for something to fill it.
And that thing was right there, at the center of everyone's attention!
In a flash, Zhang Xusheng abruptly lowered his head to conceal his ferocious expression.
On the other side, towering waves and roaring billows had already surged through Li Changqing's heart.
She had never expected that in such a remote place, she would see a young scholar so blessed by heaven, so peerlessly handsome.
In the blink