A figure stepped out from behind the screen, and Gu Zhi, who was sitting beside Yu Ci, let out a praising click of his tongue for no other reason than that the two women who emerged were truly a feast for the eyes.
Flower Lady went without saying; arrayed in pearls, jade, and silks, she radiated a dazzling brilliance. As her alluring eyes swept around, the colors in the entire reception hall brightened. The look in Zuo Huang's eyes as he watched her practically flashed with green light.
Yet the other woman was not the least bit inferior compared to Flower Lady. She wore a simple, pure white dress without even an embroidered border, and her dark hair was bound up in a standard knot that trailed behind her shoulders. From head to toe, not a single ornament was to be seen, forming a sharp contrast with Flower Lady.
This made one exceptionally curious about her appearance and bearing, and people were not disappointed.
To Yu Ci, the refinement of this woman's facial features was already top-tier among all the females he had seen in his life. Her skin perhaps appeared a bit pale, but the elegant grace deeply contained within it gave her an extra measure of poise and serenity. When she stepped into the reception hall, the pace of her steps beneath her skirt flowed like a clear stream, and the so-called "floating clouds and flowing water" was precisely this.
Gu Zhi unconsciously opened and closed the folding fan in his hand before finally taking a breath and saying in an extremely low voice, "I never imagined Yinan Garden concealed such a peerless beauty."
He had deliberately suppressed his sound waves when speaking, but the moment the words left his mouth, Yu Ci saw the woman's water-like gaze