The next day.
The skies had cleared, and the blazing summer sun spilled over the windowsill.
Outside the rooms at the top of the manor, Coal Ball turned into a woodpecker as usual, frantically hammering on the door to demand breakfast:
Rat-a-tat-tat-
A pretty young girl's lilting voice also rang out from outside. "Aunt, Aunt, the sun's shining on your bottom-"
Inside the room.
Lin Wanyi lay on the inner side. Since the young Daoist nun, cold outside and burning within, had pulled away the thin blanket, a shaft of warm sunlight really did slip through a gap in the bed curtains and fall on the round full moon below her waist. It lent her already snow-white skin an extra softness and sheen, while the much-ravaged grand household also showed faintly in the gentle light.
Xie Jinhuan lay in the middle, his right arm around Wanyi, with Ling'er and Qingmo on the outer side. Absorbed in their competition, all three women had exhausted themselves. Yet with the reserves of a Sixth Realm old devil, even after a whole night of business, he still felt as though he had only just warmed up. He even wanted to go keep his other five patrons company.
But the spring night was all too short, so that would clearly have to wait. Hearing the sounds outside, Xie Jinhuan opened his eyes. Unable to announce that he was in the room, he could only discreetly pinch Wanyi as a reminder.
"Whew~"
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Lin Wanyi had actually been asleep for less than half an hour. Hearing that soul-summoning voice, she truly could not get up, and murmured groggily, "I spent all night worrying. I'm a little tired. Go wander around down the mountain yourself. Buy whatever you want, and I'll reimburse you when you get back-"