On Monday at noon, Xu Yue attended the luncheon held by Count Hall's eldest son, Hibert Hall, for the Atmospheric Pollution Investigation Committee.
Although the main invitees this time were members of the Atmospheric Pollution Investigation Committee, this was Loen. Great nobles might not invite the royal family, but they would never forget the churches they believed in.
The Hall family happened to be devout believers of the Goddess of the Night.
Under such circumstances, regardless of whether the Church of the Evernight intended to send anyone, an invitation had to be extended as a matter of courtesy.
On the other hand, because of Xu Yue's exceptional status as an outsider and his own shares in Coym Company, a major producer of smokeless coal, he was naturally among those invited.
In fact, if not for Xu Yue's close ties with the Church of the Evernight and the committee's uncertainty over his own attitude, they would even have wanted to invite him to become one of its members.
If someone else had been hosting the gathering, Xu Yue might not even have bothered attending. Even if such parties often led to one romantic encounter or another, most of those women were not as pretty as his maids.
But since the invitation had come from Count Hall's household, Xu Yue felt he should at least show his face.
No one would reject the chance to spend time with a girl like Miss Justice, someone who radiated such boundless vitality.
Count Hall's residence was still magnificent even by the standards of the Queen's Area. It covered a vast stretch of land and was fundamentally different from those townhouses or detached homes with small private courtyards.
Though they were in the same city, they seemed like two entirely different worlds.
Marble statues, pools, fountains,