"This junior would not dare. This junior has offended you, Senior!" Xiao Hua said in panic, hurriedly apologizing.
"Mhm." Chen Yi waved her sleeve and instructed, "Dong Jin, bring three cups of Snow Jin Wine for Xiao Hua to drink!"
Hearing that it was spirit wine again, Xiao Hua hurriedly waved his hands. "Many thanks for Senior's kindness, but this junior does not enjoy the taste of spirit wine."
"Hmph, how could this old woman take advantage of you?" The words "this old woman" sounded rather awkward to Xiao Hua, but he understood that Chen Yi had accepted Gen Qing's jade slip and felt indebted, so she was repaying him with spirit wine.
As they spoke, Dong Jin, dressed in snow-white garments, came carrying a jade tray. Upon it sat three fist-sized jade cups, each filled with nearly transparent spirit wine. Before it was even tasted, a cold yet intoxicatingly sweet fragrance rushed to the nose.
"This Snow Jin Wine is one of the four great spirit wines of my Burial Flower Villa. Female cultivators who drink it retain their youth forever. As for male cultivators?" Chen Yi said with a beaming smile. "I do not know its effects. But it most certainly will not intoxicate you!" She looked as adorable as a junior martial sister.
Xiao Hua's heart stirred, and he said with an ingratiating smile, "May this junior bring this spirit wine to his junior martial sister?"
"No!" Chen Yi flicked her sleeve. "What is given to you is for you to drink!"
"Very well..." Xiao Hua said helplessly. He could only reach out and pick up a jade cup. The instant his fingers touched it, a chill pierced into his finger bones.
*Good heavens, it's this cold, yet the spirit wine has not frozen? And... if I