On the stage at the four corners, the courtesan queen took the stage once more, her graceful figure swaying, her bearing captivating.
The lights blazed brilliantly, and beneath the candlelight, her features seemed all the more delicate and radiant, as though she had stepped out of a living painting.
The atmosphere gradually reached its climax, and the cheers of the people on both banks of the Zhi River shook heaven and earth.
Yet no one had expected—
At the Gathering of Beauties Banquet, three scene-setting poems would emerge out of nowhere.
Xie Guan of the Thatched Cottage Poetry Society rose to fame on the strength of his poetry, stealing the splendor of countless courtesan queens.
The nobles present all began asking around. Just who was this Xie Guan?
Zhang Yuanlai looked at Xie Guan before him with an indifferent expression. He merely lowered his head and drank, seeming not to care.
Yu Ke had just drained his cup when Zhou Yun'er hurriedly refilled it for him.
Zhang Yuanlai sighed softly. "I had thought that if I wished to hear Young Master Guan's name, I would have to wait until after I left for Longxi Circuit."
"I never expected that, at this Gathering of Beauties Banquet on the eve of our parting, Young Master Guan would already have made his name resound throughout Bianjing."
Feng Yaya stood quietly at the side, gently taking Zhang Yuanlai's arm.
She had once heard Zhang Yuanlai praise Xie Guan. At the time, she had assumed there was much exaggeration in his words. Only after seeing it with her own eyes today did she realize that Zhang Yuanlai had still underestimated this Young Master Guan.
With merely three poems, he had rewritten the rankings of the courtesan queens at the Gathering of Beauties Banquet, leaving everyone