The aftershocks of D&K's opening had still not completely died down by the class meeting on Sunday evening. If anything, they seemed to be growing worse.
Thanks to those all-knowing media outlets, everything that had happened in the depths of the shop—such as the Wandering Wizard arriving with a bottle of wine to offer his congratulations, two Upper Councilors from the Moonlit Parliament, and a group of Big Rats in differently colored vests banging gongs and drums inside the shop—every one of those events hidden behind the sunlight had been dug up by the reporters.
Several Grand Wizards who rarely appeared in public, including the Rat Immortal from First University's underground world, had taken turns standing behind an unknown little shop, arousing tremendous interest among the readers.
Why would the Grand Wizards care about a little shop? Could there be some filthy secret behind it? What dealings did D&K have with the ratfolk of the underground world? Had the Wandering Wizard really gone to offer congratulations merely because a neighboring shop was opening? Most importantly, Beauty Su and Duke Milton had appeared in the same room!
Zheng Qing could easily imagine the reporter who had first dug up the news, his face flushed and his expression feverish as he wrote the article, his lips trembling with excitement. He could even picture the reporter's quill darting across the parchment like a convulsion, leaving behind a messy, barely legible original draft.
Ever since Su Shijun had revealed in September that she was married and had a child, she had kept a low profile and rarely appeared in public. As for the famous failures Duke Milton and Prince William, they had hidden themselves so thoroughly that people had almost come to believe the two of them had never existed in the first place.