Knowing a man, none surpasses his wife; Cai Shang seeks his door; strange encounter beneath the river; boarding a pirate ship by mistake

Wen Caishang stood quietly, carefully smoothing her lovely hair and straightening her silver hairpin. Her beautiful eyes concealed both annoyance and delight. The Ancestor Silkworm had found the thread; Li Xian had to be here. Her hands overlapped before her abdomen, her bearing cool and aloof. Framed by moonlight, she seemed wreathed in a halo.

The long dress trailed to the ground, dignified and elegant. It was called the "Moon-Retaining Immortal-Visiting Dress," meaning that under moonlight, its special fabric could capture the moon's glow and make its wearer seem like an immortal maiden.

Footsteps sounded in the courtyard.

Someone muttered, "Who could it be at such a late hour?" He pushed open the vermilion gates. The man was clearly wealthy, draped in brocade robes.

It was Tian Fu.

The instant Tian Fu saw Wen Caishang, he could not help but stare blankly. Strange, strange... Why have all the ladies these past few days been so breathtakingly beautiful? Could it be that a whole host of heavenly maidens has descended to earth?

He, too, was a local power and a romantic by nature. Admiring flowers beneath the moon, indulging in amorous pleasures—such things were commonplace to him. Yet compared to her, they inevitably seemed vulgar.

When he saw Wen Caishang frown slightly, his thoughts ran wild. For no reason, he grew bashful, lowered his head, and bowed. "This..." He had initially intended to call her "young lady," but Wen Caishang's charm was far too mature, without the slightest trace of a maiden's youthful innocence between her brows. Her cheeks were faintly flushed, as though she had come seeking her lover for pleasure.

"Madam" would be the more fitting address. So he said, "Madam, have you also... come to view the residence?"

Wen Caishang thought, *That poor boy Li Xian, after leaving