Song Qingshu secretly smiled bitterly. Just what he feared had come to pass. But he quickly realized something was off. Uncle Tang Kuo? He looked up in astonishment and saw a pretty young girl standing before him, gazing at him with a smile. Who else could it be but Wanyan Chongjie?
Noticing the murderous looks from the men around him, Song Qingshu smiled bitterly again. No wonder they were so furious. He had already married the Jin Dynasty's Number One Beauty, yet the future Jin Dynasty's Number One Beauty had come over to him of her own accord. It would have been stranger if they were not angry.
But why had Chong Jie come looking for him? Though there was no explicit rule, everyone generally accepted that unmarried people danced with the unmarried, while married people danced with their spouses. She knew Tang Kuobian was already married, and his wife was right beside him. Was it really appropriate for her to come straight over and invite him?
Song Qingshu did want to accept her invitation, not because being with a beautiful young girl would be especially romantic, but because he was curious why this girl always seemed to have it out for him. They had neither old grudges nor recent enmities.
Could Tang Kuobian have bullied her before, abandoning her after seducing her? Scenes from some trashy romance dramas from his previous life even surfaced in Song Qingshu's mind, but he quickly dismissed them. He was highly sensitive to that inexplicable sense of familiarity he felt toward Chong Jie. They must have met somewhere before, yet no matter how long he thought about it, he could not remember where.
Although Song Qingshu wanted to take the opportunity to get close to her and test the waters, he knew his own