Liu Erlong Moves into Gathering Fragrance Pavilion—Please Bookmark, Please Keep Reading

Half an hour passed.

"Woof, woof, I can't do it anymore. I'm not in good shape today and can't hold my liquor. Let's... let's fight again another day!"

Thud!

Sure enough, Ning Fengzhi was the first to go down. After just six jars of wine, he had become a complete lightweight.

Meanwhile, Liu Erlong had learned from Fu Ye and the others' earlier conversation that the man barking like a dog here was actually Ning Fengzhi—the greatest genius of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect!

Her job was actually quite simple: pour tea and urge the kitchen along. But Fu Ye and the others were drinking straight from the jars, and all the dishes had already been served, so she was basically just standing there watching the show.

"Look, this Young Sect Master Ning is such a lightweight."

Fu Ye looked at the unconscious Ning Fengzhi slumped over the table and mocked him right to his face.

"Oh? So you're saying you're really tough?"

"I'm insanely tough, okay? Toss this guy aside, and let's go again!"

In the end, Gu Rong thoughtfully carried him over to the sofa, then came back for another three hundred rounds.

Another half hour passed.

Thud!

Gu Rong finally collapsed drunk as well. Chen Xin immediately began to mock him.

"You old bones can't handle it either. Hahahaha! What a lightweight."

But the very next second, he felt the scene before his eyes gradually darken, and finally—

Thud!

In the end, Fu Ye utterly crushed all three of them with absolute strength. At this moment, he was the only one who was still relatively sober.

"Three little lightweights. You don't even know how to drink properly."

Seeing that quite a few dishes remained, Fu Ye took a clean plate and served himself some food. Then he glanced back at Liu Erlong, who was still standing in the corner, trying to hide her laughter.

"Little girl, have something to eat. It'd be a waste otherwise."

Fu Ye placed the small plate of food on the tea table behind him.

In the past, he refused to waste anything. Now, he merely tried his best not to waste too much.

He had thought Ning Fengzhi and the other two could eat a lot. But after all that, they had only been drinking, leaving nearly half the dishes untouched.

"Huh? Is that for me?"

Liu Erlong had long been tempted by the rich aroma. But the rules here stated that she could not touch anything left over by guests. Even untouched food had to be thrown into the trash.

It was not that Fu Ye was stingy for not serving Liu Erlong some food first. Their statuses were what they were. She was merely a newly hired waitress, and it would hardly be proper for her to start eating before the guests had even finished.

Besides, everything Fu Ye had served Liu Erlong was food they had not touched at all, so there was no question of whether it was clean or not.

"Eat a little. You've been secretly laughing for so long—you must be tired by now."

Fu Ye slowly rose to his feet and walked toward the three drunkards: Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Chen Xin.

"No, I wasn't secretly laughing."

Liu Erlong covered her cheeks, which had turned slightly red from laughing, and immediately denied it.

But Fu Ye merely nodded and said, "Our Gathering Fragrance Pavilion stays open until nearly ten at night. Your home is in the Outer City District, and it isn't safe for a girl to travel alone late at night. There's an empty room on the top floor. If you're willing, you can stay there tonight."

Ahem, ahem. These were truly Fu Ye's heartfelt words. It wasn't that he was some pervert who would even make a move on an underage girl. The main thing was that a girl traveling back and forth between the Outer City District and the imperial city for work would inevitably face some danger and inconvenience.

"I'll take these three drunks to the guest rooms on the sixth floor first. Once you've made up your mind, just go straight to the top floor."

With Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong dragged along in his left hand and Chen Xin pulled along in his right, Fu Ye trudged upstairs step by step, leaving Liu Erlong standing alone in the room in a daze.

By the time they finished drinking, it was already nearly dusk. Fu Ye had drunk quite a bit as well. After taking a sobering bath, he returned to his room, lay down on the bed, and began to doze off.

It had been far too long since he had last drunk, and his tolerance had declined somewhat.

After an unknown amount of time, someone knocked on his door.

Knock, knock, knock.

Knock, knock, knock.

Hearing the knock, Fu Ye subconsciously opened his eyes.

Looking at the moon's position, he roughly judged that it was around nine-thirty at night. Gathering Fragrance Pavilion should be closing soon as well.

Who would come disturb his beauty sleep at this hour?

"I'm coming, I'm coming."

Fu Ye got up with some difficulty. Since he had already bathed, he was currently wearing only his black pajamas. But he was a man—showing some chest wasn't illegal, so he did not care much.

Creak.

Fu Ye opened the door, and standing outside was the red-haired girl, Liu Erlong.

"Hm? What are you knocking on my door for in the middle of the night, little girl?"

Fu Ye felt a little helpless. If she wanted to stay, then stay—the key to that room was even left in the door outside.

"Boss Fu Ye, I want to... gulp"

Fu Ye's perfectly sculpted upper body was laid bare before Liu Erlong. It was the first time she had ever seen a man with abs like that!

"Alright, rein in that gaze. I'll take you over there."

This little girl Liu Erlong was being more than a little disrespectful. Had she never seen such a perfect body before? She was staring straight at him and swallowing. Couldn't girls be a little more reserved?

And so, beneath Liu Erlong's stunned gaze, Fu Ye grabbed the back of her collar and lifted her like a chick. Then, amid her utterly disbelieving stare, he opened the door and tossed her—key included—onto the bed in that room.

Click.

The door shut. Fu Ye yawned and went back to catch up on sleep.

Then his system suddenly issued a notification.

Liu Erlong's Favorability: 55%

Hmm? Did Favorability rise that quickly?

But on second thought, it seemed normal. After all, in the original story, this little girl Liu Erlong was a complete love-struck fool. Even knowing Yu Xiaogang was her cousin, she had still waited for him for more than ten years.

"Ah~~ I'm tired to death. Back to sleep."

Elsewhere, in Spirit Hall's Pope's Hall, inside the Interrogation Room.

Yu Xiaogang lay bound to an iron bed by six burly men, his face full of despair. Half a year had passed, yet he still had not yielded to them. Though he lived in torment every day, he firmly believed that where there was a will, there was a way!

He believed that Father would come save him!

"You lot, hurry up and clean this place. Put some clothes on this Spirit Hall traitor too. The Saintess will be coming to inspect the place shortly!"

Upon hearing the guard's words, the six men immediately stopped hesitating. They moved quickly, and in less than fifteen minutes, they had cleaned the entire Interrogation Room until it was spotless.

After confirming there was not the slightest odor and that the room was impeccably clean, the guard went back to report.

Not long after, Bibi Dong arrived.

Looking at Yu Xiaogang, who was still tied to the iron frame, she was surprised to find that this beast had actually put on a little weight.

"Yu Xiaogang, Yu Xiaogang. I never expected you to still be alive. Why don't you tell me how you've felt about your experiences over the past half year?"

Though Bibi Dong wore a smile, her eyes stared at Yu Xiaogang like those of a venomous snake.

"Devil! You're a devil! Bibi Dong, you'll pay for everything you've done!"

Half a year later, Yu Xiaogang's venomous tongue remained as sharp as ever.

"You say I'm a devil? Heh, perhaps I am. But what you did was far worse than anything I have done. You tormented the person I cherished for so long, and in the end, you even killed him. For that, I will absolutely make you understand what it means to wish you were dead."

As she spoke, an Image Crystal suddenly appeared in Bibi Dong's hand.

"Yu Xiaogang, Yu Xiaogang. You wouldn't want your experiences over the past half year to be spread across the entire continent by our Spirit Hall, would you?"

At that moment, Bibi Dong's smile looked as vicious as a snake or scorpion in Yu Xiaogang's eyes.

"No, you can't do this! You can't!"

Yet as his words fell, a mountain-like pile of Image Crystals appeared behind Bibi Dong.