The Black-and-White Auction

The Capital City was where all the most powerful and distinguished people in the Kingdom of Qing gathered.

In other small cities, a fortune of a million might be enough to make someone a person of importance.

But in the Capital City, that kind of wealth barely counted for anything.

Everyone held high office and wielded great power. So how could the differences in status between them be further distinguished?

When it came to such distinctions, the Capital City had refined them to an extreme.

Even a mere token from Cuckoo Bird Tower was enough to inspire a whole host of fuss.

After pumping Steward Hai for information, Fang Yue had confirmed that the Double Reed Token was a high-tier pass, a symbol of status.

He couldn't help sighing inwardly. Were these rich people really that bored, or was the rat race simply that intense? They had to compete over absolutely everything.

Ordinary people probably couldn't understand this sort of thing at all.

After all, the requirements for entering Cuckoo Bird Tower were already so strict that only the rich and powerful could get in. Yet they still had to make further distinctions and rank everyone by status.

But Fang Yue understood that the closer one got to the pinnacle, the more clearly power and status had to be divided. Otherwise, the relationships between people would fall into disorder, and that could lead to serious trouble.

After spending quite a while comforting You Sisi, he personally saw her back to the You Family. While she watched him, looking back again and again, Fang Yue climbed into the carriage and returned to the Seventh Prince's Mansion with Steward Hai.

He would have liked to accompany You Sisi to visit the You Family, but after what had happened at the morning court,