"Rules are in someone else's hands. What can you do in vain?" A thread of Thousand-Spirit Saintess's voice slipped into Lin Xiaosu's ear.
Yes, that was the inevitable result when the rules were controlled by others.
No matter how dazzling you were, their broad policies had already been set.
No matter how well you performed, they could still make a conclusion against their conscience...
What could you do to them?
Hu Ji in the painting smiled softly. "Young Master Su, would Miss Ling be willing to visit this little woman's mountain and have a cup of clear tea?"
Lin Xiaosu exchanged a glance with Thousand-Spirit Saintess. "Courtesy compels us to accept!"
"Please!" Hu Ji moved her feet, and the little boat in the painting seemed to turn from illusion into reality, appearing beneath their feet.
The two stepped onto the boat and departed. The boat sank into the painting and vanished without a trace...
Within Qingqiu, the lights were brilliant and the wine flowed freely.
Host and guests all enjoyed themselves at the banquet.
The shadow cast by Lin Xiaosu's interruption seemed to have quietly dissipated amid that merry gathering of host and guests.
Yet it only seemed so.
At least one person was unhappy: the Seventh Princess. Several times, she had wanted to rush into the Osmanthus Hall. In her words, she wanted to flip the table and pluck every last hair from the Grand Elder's body...
However, her Third Sister was rather calm. She knew perfectly well that even if the Grand Elder let her pluck his hair, she would not be able to pull any out.
Even if he let her overturn the table, she would not be able to lift it.
More importantly, she herself approved of the clan's marriage alliance with Heart Pavilion.
This was