After eating mung bean cakes, Skye wanted to try the flaky mooncakes. Once she had tasted those delicious mooncakes, she wanted to try striped rice cakes too.
She claimed she had no appetite, but in truth, her little belly was like a bottomless pit. All kinds of pastries disappeared into it. If Su Ming had not known she was an Inhuman, he would have suspected she was related to a Flerken.
Just drinking tea and eating pastries was a little dull, so Su Ming had an apprentice fill in as a storyteller and tell the two women the tale of Lin Daiyu Uprooting Weeping Willows in the reception hall.
Neither the agent nor the detective had any language barriers, and they could understand Chinese as well. It was the perfect chance to enjoy Kamar-Taj's traditional arts.
This place was all about smoking, drinking, and getting perms, so having storytellers was perfectly normal, right?
Before they knew it, more than half an hour had passed.
"Now then, Lin Daiyu passed five gates and slew six generals, traveled through White Camel Mountain KTV, and arrived beneath Jingyang Ridge. At the tavern, she drank eighteen bowls of strong liquor in succession and ate three jin of braised beef before the hunger and thirst in her belly finally eased somewhat. Before her stood a mountain thick with woods and steep slopes, shadows of ghosts everywhere, enough to make one shiver all over even in broad daylight."
"She summoned the innkeeper and asked him about it. He replied, 'Fine eyes you have, honored guest. A willow tree spirit lives in these mountains. It often ties up passing merchants using Eastern Turtle Shell Restraint. It is extraordinarily dangerous!'"
"Lin Daiyu burst into laughter and slapped the table as she rose. Not only was she unafraid, her