"Oh! A pleasure! A pleasure!"
Chun Xiaobai grinned, ignored all those fussy formalities, and brazenly threw a big hand over Bai Yutang's shoulder.
He warmly pulled him into the courtyard, with such force and enthusiasm that they looked like brothers reunited after years apart, regretting they hadn't met sooner.
"Great King! Show a little decorum!" Bai Jin'er stamped her foot anxiously beside them.
This was Bai Yutang!
The Inner Sect's undisputed dreamboat!
Their Great King was being so rough! If he offended Bai Yutang and word reached those female disciples who adored Senior Brother Bai, wouldn't all hell break loose?
Yet Bai Yutang merely smiled serenely and waved it off without a care.
"No matter, no matter!"
"Junior Brother Chun Xiaobai is a man of genuine feeling, warm and unrestrained. Such sincerity far surpasses those hollow, hypocritical formalities!"
"Among us cultivators, the most sincere feelings often lie beneath a seemingly rough exterior."
"To my mind, Senior Brother Chun's directness is precisely the expression of a pure, childlike heart. Those who appear as gentle and polished as jade may not have hearts to match!"
Bai Jin'er and Fang Yuan listened as he cited the classics, every word a pearl, somehow making their Mountain King's crude, ill-mannered behavior sound so lofty...
Truly, he had a scholar's noble spirit, unconstrained by petty details!
Their admiration knew no bounds!
Even Chun Xiaobai was momentarily stunned by this towering hat of praise he'd been made to wear.
Could this Great King have misjudged him?
But he still felt something was off.
Damn it, with that silver tongue, this guy was fucking wasting his talents by not going into sales!
I've found exactly the right man!
Then Bai Yutang changed tack and said gently, "Senior Brother Chun, I heard you wished to speak with me. Were