Sure enough, when they headed out, Xu Yuan was once again left staring in a daze.
"Young master... you look so beautiful today..."
Yin Chao smiled, ducked his head, and climbed into the carriage.
The carriage rolled into the bustling streets, where a tall building with carved beams and painted rafters could be seen from afar.
Sitting outside the carriage, Xu Yuan lifted a small corner of the curtain.
"Young master, we're almost at the Gathering Immortals Tower."
The Gathering Immortals Tower was the restaurant where Midnight had invited him. Yin Chao murmured an acknowledgment and closed his eyes, pretending to sleep out of boredom.
Suddenly, a faint scent of peach blossoms drifted to his nose.
Yin Chao's eyes snapped open, and he called for the carriage to stop.
His appearance drew the surrounding crowd to a standstill, but the scent of peach blossoms was dispersed as well.
Seeing his young master's tightly furrowed brow, Xu Yuan asked worriedly, "What's wrong, young master?"
Yin Chao shook his head. Looking past the crowd packed in front of him, he spotted a woman in a pink dress in an alley beside the street.
An exquisite peach blossom ornament hung from her hairpin, and a lifelike peach blossom was painted on the exposed nape of her neck.
Two young maids in emerald-green dresses followed behind her, and they soon vanished around a corner.
Yin Chao pointed at the alley paved with blue stone slabs.
"Xu Yuan, where does that alley lead?"
His instincts told him something was wrong with that woman, but he couldn't rashly rush over and seize her.
That could alert her.
Instead, he could settle for finding out where she was going first.
Xu Yuan stood on tiptoe to look in the direction he was pointing, then replied, "Young master,