The sky outside the window was beginning to brighten.
Xie Jinhuan leaned against his pillow and gazed at the top of the Canopy Bed, feeling that martial artists in this world were actually quite prone to losing their heads and going berserk.
Only yesterday, he had said he would teach Wanyi a Cultivation Technique, but the moment he entered her room, the Bespectacled Girl had crawled under the desk to find him medicine, leaving him all but forgetting his own surname...
After he took a moment to recover, the distracting thoughts in his mind gradually subsided. Turning his head, he saw Wanyi lying blissfully on the inside of the bed, her skin growing ever more supple and lustrous. By the look of things, she would not get up until the sun shone on the moon.
Xie Jinhuan did not disturb his patron's rest. He rose quietly, put on his robes, then took a stack of banknotes from inside them and placed it on the pillow.
Yesterday, he had returned to the Prince's Manor with Momo, intending to visit his landlady, but the Commandery Princess was still confined to her quarters. Her confinement had not been lifted, and it was inconvenient for her to meet outsiders, so he had not seen her.
Instead, he had spent a couple of hours with Momo, applying medicine, launching sneak attacks, and whispering sweet nothings. Only after the night deepened and Momo returned to her room to sleep had he left alone to collect his money from Carefree Cave.
Unexpectedly, he had discovered the Fur Shop deserted, as though its occupants had absconded with the money. Only after grabbing a helpful medicine peddler had he learned where Bu Hanying's new hideout was. He had called on him as Thief Saint Bai Zhan and retrieved the