The tea was Five-Colored Spirit Tea unique to the Phoenix Spirit Realm; the cup was a Ten-Thousand-Year Parasolwood Cup from the Phoenix Spirit Realm; and the water was Spiritbond Spring that Phoenix Spirit Second Princess Jiang Huiying had brought from the Phoenix Spirit Realm.
With her delicate hands, she brewed the tea. Its clear fragrance curled through the air, and through the mist rising from the tea, the graceful figures of Phoenix Spirit Second Princess Jiang Huiying and Caiyi gradually, faintly overlapped in Ye Zhen's eyes.
A slender hand passed through the mist and abruptly scattered the double image, making Ye Zhen's heart tremble slightly.
Perhaps because he had been separated from Caiyi for too long, that fleeting overlap left him somewhat reluctant to let go.
Phoenix Spirit Second Princess Jiang Huiying possessed an incomparably powerful primordial spirit, and it was a Five-Colored Primordial Spirit at that. She keenly detected that instant ripple in Ye Zhen's mind.
Yet Phoenix Spirit Second Princess Jiang Huiying was deeply puzzled. She had merely handed him a cup of tea—was there any need for Ye Zhen to be so shaken?
Though she was very confident in her beauty, she also knew perfectly well that as one of Great Zhou's foremost nobles, Ye Zhen should not have been stunned by her appearance.
Even Ye Zhen himself did not know that, upon their very first meeting, he had left the ever-thoughtful Phoenix Spirit Second Princess Jiang Huiying with a mystery she could not make sense of no matter how she pondered it.
Taking the scalding teacup, he first lightly inhaled its faint fragrance, then took a small sip. The delicate aroma spread through his abdomen before the clear fragrance rushed straight to his head, invigorating his spirit. Ye Zhen could not help praising it instinctively. "Good