Warm sunlight spilled over the white walls and green tiles around Wende Bridge. Ladies and young misses could be seen walking everywhere along the street. Since they were all members of wealthy households, their looks were exceptionally fine; calling them a gathering of beauties would have been no exaggeration.
Dressed in an ordinary black robe, Ye Jingtang stood near the Wang Family Medical Clinic with his arms folded. His status was different now, and he feared provoking gossip, so he simply kept his gaze fixed on the drifting clouds overhead. Suddenly, he felt he ought to get himself a pair of sunglasses. Otherwise, standing in the street looking at young women was terribly inconvenient...
Fluffy Niao Niao paced around his feet, cooing and chirping incessantly. As Ye Jingtang understood it, the bird was probably saying-men were always fickle. Last year, when they entered the capital, he had only two taels of silver to his name, yet he still remembered to buy Niao Niao a roast chicken. Now that he was rolling in wealth, he no longer thought to take Niao Niao out for roast chicken...
It was not that Ye Jingtang was stingy. Niao Niao had simply been eating and drinking recklessly lately and really had put on some weight.
Because Niao Niao was so distinctive, Ye Jingtang used to have to conceal the bird whenever he went out. But now that he was famous, plenty of people in the martial world had started copying him, wearing black and bringing a snow eagle along.
Other snow eagles had stray black feathers on their wings and little intelligence, but they looked imposing. When Niao Niao went out, people's first reaction upon looking up was-huh? Was this fellow's head full of water? Why was he carrying a snowball on his travels? Oh,