Yu Ke slowly looked around. The theater blazed with light and excitement, crowded with moving figures and laughter. It was as though he had returned to the dazzling city of his previous life, a city that never slept and whose revelry never ended.
Women in all manner of splendid dress drifted between the tables or spoke with guests, lowering their eyes with soft smiles. Their grace and allure added to the lively scene, leaving him scarcely able to take it all in.
Zhou Yun'er quietly approached, concern filling her bright eyes. "Young Master Guan, are you all right?"
Xie Guan had stood motionless as a statue. Even when she gently nudged him, he had not responded, and an inexplicable worry had risen in her heart.
Yu Ke gradually came to himself. Feeling the delicate touch against his arm, he could not help looking at the beauty before him.
Her bodice opened at the front, revealing a glimpse of snow-white skin beneath the lamplight. Alluring charm played across her face, and a dark mole at the corner of her mouth lent her a distinctive appeal that made it hard to look away.
This had to be Zhou Yun'er.
Xie Guan quickly surveyed the others. The woman in gold, whose bearing was so noble, must be Li Xiangjun.
As for the three scholars around her, their words and manner suggested they were Jia Yu and the others.
And Xie Guan had a fair idea who the round-faced, anxious-looking middle-aged man was: Zhang Yuanlai.
Everything matched the scene he had simulated.
Only before, this so-called Celestial Reincarnation had felt more like a carefully designed game, where different choices unlocked the story that followed.
Taking part in person was entirely different. He felt as if he were truly there, with everything within reach.
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