In all his years, Pan Long had never before heard women discuss going to the toilet over a meal.
Even men rarely talked like that, let alone women!
So he was quite curious about the two women who had said it.
Curious or not, he did not immediately go over and strike up a conversation. That would have looked less like curiosity and more like the work of a brazen lecher.
The Great Xia Dynasty was fairly open-minded overall, but there were limits. A man approaching two young women he had never met was hardly appropriate. Even in that other, more open world, it would not have been considered proper—though some might have envied him for it. That society's advanced productivity had made homebodies of so many people that social skills were generally poor. Even those who criticized a smooth talker aloud probably envied him in their hearts.
Ah! I really should have read more guidebooks like How to Talk to a Woman You Fancy!
But I was a decrepit old man back then. Even my grandson was married. Reading books like that would have been a little odd...
Weren't VR games fun enough? Wasn't it nice to be young again in a game world? Where would I have found the time to read?
Damn MiHoYo! They wouldn't let me buy a full-dive game pod, and I died with my eyes still open over it. What a pity that world had no demons or ghosts. Otherwise, I'd have become a vengeful spirit and wailed outside their headquarters for three days and nights!
*It's been a long time since I dwelled on that. The longer I live here, the more my past life fades. A young body really does change your outlook. I'm nothing like I was back then... If I