As the saying goes, once the wine and food have filled the belly, lustful thoughts arise.
Whether the wives in the Inner Court were having such thoughts now was unclear, but they definitely had not eaten their fill.
That was a matter for later.
After extricating himself from Lazy Master, Lin Heng went looking for Bai Yi.
By sheer coincidence, Chen Changqin had gotten there before him and was facing Bai Yi across a chessboard.
"What's with you two... at a time like this, you're still playing chess?"
"Well, if it isn't Lin Sizhu!"
Bai Yi slightly raised her head and cast Lin Heng a sidelong glance, saying with displeasure, "I thought you were never coming back. I was happy for nothing all that time. What a bummer."
"Bai Yi, is your skin itching?"
"Hold on. A true gentleman does not speak while watching chess. Watch me slaughter Old Chen until not a scrap of armor remains."
Chen Changqin propped her chin on one hand, wearing the air of a melancholy, solitary young master. Her brows lifted slightly before she finally dropped the black stone in her hand onto the board.
She truly was not very skilled at chess.
Though the calculating power of the human mind was finite, this simply was not her interest.
"Alright, let's talk business." Chen Changqin rose to her feet and shook out the spiritual aura clinging to her clothes. "I'm preparing to make a trip down to the Netherworld to see Lian'er, and while I'm there, I'll enter seclusion for a while and break through my shackles."
"Bai Yi, come with me."
Bai Yi froze for a moment, then asked in confusion, "Why do I have to go with you? I'll open the passage for you, and you can go by yourself!"
Lin Heng