That same afternoon, at the Food Ward in the Divine Capital, in the same restaurant tucked away in a relatively quiet alley on the edge of the district—the one called Guests Always Come.
At that moment, in a private room on the third floor beside the window, a great "clean sweep" was taking place at the square table.
That's right!
It was pretty much as Tanchun and Daiyu had secretly told each other: when Yuanchun's celestial carriage arrived at the floating-island dock of the Ning and Rong Mansions, a certain troublesome little girl immortal really was fast asleep at an inn in the Divine Capital!
And while Yuanchun was in the garden, following all sorts of rules about where to stop, where to change, where to sit for a while, where to receive greetings, where to talk, where to hold a banquet, and where to retire, the procedures still hadn't finished by afternoon. Only then did a certain immortal wake up at her leisure and leisurely stroll all the way to the restaurant called Guests Always Come.
See?
"..."
(￣~￣) Munch!
Annie was already sitting at the table like a regular, her head ornaments swaying slightly as she bent over her food and dug in with gusto.
There were only a few dishes on the table, but the portions were generous enough to fill it completely: a large plate of chicken stewed until tender in a rich, savory sauce; crisp, tender fairy fern steamed with garlic; steaming wild-vegetable and tofu soup; and a whole gleaming roast fairy crane glazed with honey, among other things.
This place was different from the other restaurants, hotels, and inns in the Divine Capital. The setting wasn't very nice, and the food wasn't especially refined, but the portions were large, the meals filling, and the