Expectation Management

"Wow—"

"Hiss—"

Amid wave after wave of startled cries, the gauzy veil was drawn aside, revealing the true forms of the figures behind it.

One wore a lotus crown, another had jeweled pendants draped with pearls. Their earrings gleamed brilliantly, while armlets and flowing shawls fluttered around them.

Some of the twenty-four held incense tablets, jeweled lotuses, bright lamps, or bell vajras. Others played flutes or plucked pipa in reverse... all of them were beautiful, with enchanting eyes and lovely faces, circling and dancing down amid the chanting of Buddhist hymns.

For the Twenty-Four Flower Messengers' debut, they decisively chose a flying apsara dance modeled after the Sixteen Celestial Dance that the Sect Leader had once demonstrated for them. Its impact clearly met their expectations perfectly.

It even exceeded them somewhat...

"Ahhh! Why are they wearing so little?!"

A fairy who had come with her sect leader could not help covering her face with one hand. Unfortunately, her spread fingers covered neither her flushed cheeks nor her darting eyes.

Wow, so this was what men looked like with their shirts off...

Wow, that sister smiled at me. She was so beautiful—her smile was so lovely!

"Th-this... this is utterly improper..."

A scholar blushed furiously and hurriedly lowered his head. He glanced sideways, only to find that a familiar friend beside him was staring upward without the slightest restraint.

"Brother Qingshan? How could you..."

"Ahem~ Though one should not look upon impropriety, I am clearly appreciating art right now!"

The scholar called Brother Qingshan had a rosy flush across his cheeks. Smiling, he raised a hand and waved upward.

"That fairy is still smiling at me..."

"Th-this Flower Wandering Sect is actually this kind of sect?!"

Tanfan Shangxian could not help rising to his feet.

"Tanfan, calm down!"

Donghua Shangxian hurriedly