Jiaozilou, inside a luxurious suite on the top floor.
"Creak—"
The inner room's door was pushed open, and a figure slowly walked out.
Mo Lin, who was seated in the outer room sipping tea, looked up at the sound. When his gaze fell on the newcomer, he could not help but freeze for a moment before a flash of amazement passed through his eyes.
The one who emerged was none other than Yao Yao, disguised as a man!
She had changed out of her usual long green dress and into a well-fitted moon-white men's robe. The fabric was fine cloud brocade embroidered with elegant bamboo patterns. Her waterfall-like dark hair was tied high with a simple white jade hairpin, revealing her smooth, full forehead and slender, fair neck.
She had already possessed peerless beauty, her exquisite features seeming as though they had been sculpted by heaven itself. With a few minor adjustments, some of a woman's softness vanished from her brows, replaced by a young man's handsome clarity and easy grace. She also held a jade-ribbed folding fan in her hand, gently waving it as she appeared even more refined and otherworldly.
If Mo Lin had not known her identity beforehand, he truly would have thought she was a peerless young gentleman stepped out of a painting, with an ethereal temperament!
"Wow! Sister Yao Yao, you're so handsome!" Zi Yan, who had been playing with the little trinkets she had just bought nearby, immediately jumped up. Her purple eyes shone as she circled Yao Yao, her little face filled with astonishment.
Yao Yao felt a little embarrassed under Zi Yan's gaze. She lightly tapped Zi Yan on the head with her folding fan, deliberately lowering her cool voice slightly and giving it a faintly androgynous magnetism. "Stop fooling around."
Mo