"Delicious! Delicious! So delicious!" The little girl, Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma, sat before a white jade table, swinging her little feet back and forth. She hugged a bottle of Red Lotus Immortal Wine Fruit wine and gulped it down, her little face brimming with enjoyment as she clicked her tongue and praised it again and again. Watching her from beside the table left Li Xiaoya utterly frustrated...
"...!" A bottle of Red Lotus Immortal Wine Fruit wine sat before Li Xiaoya too, along with a tiny cup... He showed no intention of touching either, merely watching with a miserable expression as Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma gulped down the wine...
Li Xiaoya regretted it...
Who knew what this Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma really was? How could he ever have assumed her tastes had anything in common with a human's?
More than three years had passed since he first drank the Red Lotus Immortal Wine Fruit wine...
Remembering that cup of wine filled Li Xiaoya with misery...
For the first time in his life, he had learned what "the worst thing to drink" truly meant...
Before drinking the Red Lotus Immortal Wine Fruit wine, Li Xiaoya's clearest memory of anything like that had been from his childhood, when he was still scrounging food and drink in Treasure Immortal Town. Back then, he had not always succeeded in tricking people into giving him tasty food and drink. Sometimes he failed and suffered for it...
Once, he had gone to a tavern beside the Four Directions Inn to swindle a meal and some drinks. Who would have thought the owner and several workers would seize him the moment he entered? They dragged him into the backyard, tied him directly to a post, gagged him, and left him hungry for a full day and night. He had