Myriad Splendor Tower.
"Young Master Jiang, this way, please!"
The maid named Xiao Lü led the way, taking Jiang Ning toward the top of the tower.
A short while later.
At the top of Myriad Splendor Tower.
In the open-air pavilion.
"Tower Mistress Lin is bathing at the moment. Please wait here a little while, Young Master Jiang."
"All right!" Jiang Ning nodded and sat down in a chair.
Xiao Lü then began brewing tea in front of him.
A short while later.
Gurgle, gurgle—
The freshly brewed tea poured slowly into a cup.
"Please have some tea, Young Master Jiang!"
Jiang Ning picked up the cup, blew on it to cool it a little, and took a gentle sip.
Even after he finished one cup and had it refilled, Lin Qingyi still had not appeared.
Seeing this, Jiang Ning could only continue waiting patiently.
Only after he had drunk five or six full cups, until he vaguely felt the urge to relieve himself,
did he finally hear movement inside the pavilion.
A short while later.
Creak—
The door was pushed open.
Only then did Lin Qingyi appear before Jiang Ning.
Dressed in thin robes of green, she stepped lightly out of the room, like a willow leaf over the newly risen waters of spring.
Fresh from her bath, her skin looked even fairer and finer. She looked nothing like a woman past thirty, but rather a maiden of eighteen.
Her long hair hung loose, droplets sliding down the strands onto her thin green robes. The damp fabric clung to her skin, outlining her graceful figure all the more clearly.
As she crossed the threshold, Lin Qingyi lightly lifted her long, gauzy skirt, revealing a pair of translucent, jade-white feet. They left a trail of footprints as they touched the