After asking Lu Feng about the hairpin's sudden improvement in quality, why Jun Ziya had kept staring at it, and who that beautiful woman who had suddenly appeared was...
Lin Xiaowan got no satisfactory answers from Lu Feng. Convinced that he was fobbing her off, she actually got upset and began sulking, refusing to speak to him.
"There's still quite a while before the banquet begins~" Lin Xiaowan said with a long face, circling around Lu Feng to speak to Chu Youwei. "Sister Weiwei, let's ignore Brother. Let's sneak into the back kitchen and see which senior brothers and senior sisters have come, shall we?"
After joining Lin Xiaowan in probing around earlier, Chu Youwei had vaguely guessed what method Lu Feng had used to remove impurities and secretly improve the hairpin's quality. Yet seeing how he kept things hidden and refused to explain, she too felt inexplicably displeased. She and Lin Xiaowan hit it off at once and began ignoring him as well.
With things having come to this, although Lu Feng wanted to stop the two from leaving, he could not withstand their determined curiosity to seek out their friends. He could only watch helplessly as they headed toward the back kitchen.
At first, Lu Feng had thought there would be guards at the passage leading to the back kitchen. Since Lin Xiaowan and Chu Youwei did not have someone like Qin Tianliang leading them as Jiang Ruoyun did, they should have been stopped.
Yet unexpectedly, the two guards merely asked a simple question before easily letting them through.
This left Lu Feng greatly surprised. After a moment's hesitation, he followed after them.
As he passed the two guards, Lu Feng saw that he had slipped through merely by saying, "I'm with the two women from earlier." Unable