Just as Liu Yiyi silently made a grand vow to herself,
several maids waiting outside her hall spotted her return and hurried over.
"Senior Sister Yiyi, you're back. An unfamiliar cultivator in green robes is outside the sect asking to see you."
"Who is he? Do you know him?"
She spent her days refining elixirs inside the sect and had hardly ever left it.
Hearing that someone had come to see her, Liu Yiyi immediately grew curious.
"He's a young cultivator in green robes, quite handsome, but none of us recognizes him. He probably hasn't visited the sect before. As for his cultivation, he seems to have reached Great Accomplishment in Dao Integration only recently."
At Liu Yiyi's question, the maid answered without delay.
"Hm?"
Liu Yiyi frowned at the description.
Aside from being handsome, the visitor had nothing remarkable about him. Ordinarily,
word of someone like that would never reach her. After all, cultivators bold enough to come to the Heavenly Pill Sect seeking cultivation elixirs usually had something to distinguish them.
"Well, he said Senior Qin Yezhou sent him here."
Seeing the confusion on her mistress's face, the maid hastened to explain.
"I was worried Senior Qin Yezhou might be an old acquaintance of yours, so I came to report it."
"Qin Yezhou? That heartless bastard?"
The moment she heard the name, Liu Yiyi's breathing quickened. After a long moment of thought, she shook her head.
"Tell him I don't know him. I won't see him."
"Yes, ma'am!"
The maid kneeling before her caught the displeasure that had crossed Liu Yiyi's brow and quietly wiped the cold sweat from her forehead.
It was her own fault for letting the green-robed young man's looks turn her head. She had lost her judgment for a moment.
After all, this was