Xia Nan could guess what kind of place the "Coral Courtyard" before him was.
On the second-floor balcony, several seductive women seemed to be lounging casually, though the traces of performance were obvious, pretending to play and flirt. Semi-transparent pink gauze curtains hung from the arched gallery at the entrance, and from deep within the building came the soft, lilting notes of a lute—
It was probably a brothel.
To be honest, he might indeed be a little narcissistic.
It had been more than a year since he transmigrated here. With the extremely intense training regimen he maintained, and the absurd self-discipline he did not even know how he had managed to keep up, the body he now had had undergone a world-shaking transformation from the slender, frail frame he had possessed when he first arrived in this world.
Add to that the natural reshaping of his muscles and bones after his attributes increased.
His physical body was evolving in the direction of a "perfect creature."
Harmonious bodily proportions, clear and smooth muscle contours, and even healthy, resilient skin—
Paired with this sharply lined face, which only seemed slightly cold and stern because of his natural temperament.
In his previous life, even if he had been tone-deaf, clumsy, and terrible at acting, this body alone would have been enough to make him a big star on the screen.
Across hundreds of days and nights, he had watched with his own eyes as the excess fat beneath his skin was burned away bit by bit, feeling every strand of muscle tear and rebuild amid the soreness of overtraining.
From daytime to late night, from summer to the depths of winter—the River Valley Town at four in the morning was something he had truly seen.
It was like some kind of development