Li Xiang accepted the gold-embossed invitation, his gaze settling on the three elegant yet bold characters of the signature.
Zhang Yunshang.
It was the name of Tianjin's noble young lady. Born with a heart ailment, she had spent her childhood shut away in her chambers. Now that she had received a new heart, she had finally broken free of that invisible cage and dared to step outside to see the world's splendid mountains and rivers.
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"Zhang Yunshang, Zhang Yunshang..."
The face he had seen only once but could never forget surfaced almost instinctively in Li Xiang's mind. "Clouds long for her clothes, flowers long for her face. Clouds long for her clothes, flowers long for her face..."
There was no mistaking it. It had to be her.
She really was beautiful enough to deserve a poem by the Sacred Dynasty's foremost immortal.
"Are you done looking?"
A cool voice cut through Li Xiang's wandering thoughts.
At some point, Ye Qingyao had come to stand beside him. Without ceremony, she plucked the invitation from his hand.
She was not wearing her training clothes today, but a plain everyday outfit. Even so, it could not conceal the heroic air that seemed to come from her very bones.
She lowered her eyes and skimmed the invitation.
Its contents were brief and to the point, much the same as what Qin Zhong had relayed earlier.
Zhang Yunshang, the noble young lady from Tianjin, was hosting a banquet at Heavenly Fragrance Tower and had invited the rising talents of every trade in Linjiang County.
They would discuss what needed to be done after sealing the Ghost Calamity Passage: clearing out the scattered, insignificant lesser ghosts still lurking nearby, for instance, and arranging deliveries of supplies to remote villages cut off by heavy