On the bustling Lunar New Year's Eve, Aurora City was all the more alive with Aurora Celebration.
Meiyue stood upon the brilliantly colored Aurora Bridge, her long robes billowing in the air, her veil dusted with snow. Nine paces before her stood Liu Yanzhao, bishop of Frost Union District, whom she had stopped.
"Miss Meiyue, what is the meaning of this?" Liu Yanzhao's face was frost-cold. "This cooperation between our two sides is secret beyond secret. The reason you and I went ahead first, and chose to meet in Aurora City, was precisely to avoid alerting anyone. The frozen Heavenly Secret here, along with the flow of people coming north and south, could also help conceal us..."
"Now that someone has stumbled upon us, we must settle the matter one way or another. Three-Part Fragrance Pavilion has come from afar as our guest; leave this to me. I will handle it, I will bear the responsibility—why do you keep stopping me?"
This archbishop simply could not understand the way this demoness from Three-Part Fragrance Pavilion conducted herself. "You would even go so far as to eat and live with this person, just to guard against me?"
"You misunderstand, Bishop." Meiyue smiled like a spring orchid. "Ye Little Cloud and I reside in the same courtyard purely because we are kindred souls of the martial world, sharing wine in high spirits and talking through the night by candlelight... It is not to guard against you."
Liu Yanzhao said coldly, "The wine has been drunk, and the talk has been had. No banquet under heaven lasts forever. It is time for Miss Meiyue to make way."
"Oh!" Meiyue lifted her eyes to the dazzling aurora. "What a beautiful night."
Still smiling, she said, "How about another day?"
"The hidden danger appeared on