What's It to You?

Shen Qing finished dressing and was about to get up, light the lamp, and send her away.

But then he remembered that she was so tired because she had treated him...

He settled back down.

He would wait a while.

Before he knew it, Shen Qing fell asleep on the inside of the bed too.

Bai Mo had felt exhausted, too tired even to lift a finger, and had only wanted to rest for a moment. She had not expected that when she woke again, the first pale light of dawn would be showing on the horizon.

She immediately sensed something was wrong and snapped her eyes open. Warmth met her hand. Someone was in her arms?? Her mind was a little muddled, and it took her a while to come to her senses.

After drawing the poison out of Shen Qing last night, she had fallen asleep in his bed??

It was rather awkward, but what she felt beneath her hand really did feel good.

Bai Mo quietly withdrew her hand and tiptoed out of bed.

She had to leave first.

But just then, Shen Qing opened his eyes.

Bai Mo: "..."

Shen Qing looked at her somewhat awkwardly. An unmarried man and woman had slept in the same bed; even if he were a sage, his heart would still be in turmoil...

Bai Mo could neither leave nor stay.

"Eldest Miss Bai, you sleep very badly."

Seeing Shen Qing frown slightly, Bai Mo did not know how to respond...

"Sorry, there are still matters to attend to at my residence, so I'll head back first. Thank you for taking me in, young master. Let's call it even this time."

A social death scene?

She just wanted to get the hell out of there. This man was no easy man to sleep with!!

Seeing Bai Mo come and go in such a hurry, Shen Qing had mixed feelings.

"She's quite different from the rumors. Not only is she skilled in martial arts, she even knows medicine. She's hidden it so well; she really is no ordinary person."

Shen Qing murmured softly, his thoughts turning over and over.

One really could not blame Bai Mo. Although she had lived through the apocalypse, she had only been a female college student before it, and afterward she had been too busy lying low. Surviving each day had been hard enough; how could she have had the mind for affairs between men and women?

She had a bit of a dirty mouth, but she had never fought with real guns and live ammunition...

Besides, she was just an ordinary, run-of-the-mill mortal, greedy for money, lustful, and gluttonous.

She had suddenly stumbled into a peaceful, prosperous age where women reigned supreme, with one top-notch handsome man after another offering himself up for free. Who could withstand that?

If she had not been bound by that tiny shred of morality, who knew what she might have done!

Bai Mo quickly climbed out of the Grand Preceptor's Residence. When she reached the main street, she spotted breakfast stalls by the roadside. Her stomach was rumbling with hunger, so she went straight to a wonton stall and sat down.

"Boss, a bowl of wontons."

"Would you like a large bowl, miss?"

"A large one, with extra soup."

"Coming right up. Please have a seat."

Bai Mo sat there, bored, looking this way and that.

Huh, why was it him again?

A young man emerged from the entrance of the inn across the street. He wore a plain, pale-blue long robe, and though his attire was exceedingly simple and elegant, it could not conceal his splendor in the slightest. His brows were tightly knitted and his face was anxious as he hurried outside, as though fleeing wolves, tigers, and leopards.

It was Yun Wu.

A woman followed behind Yun Wu, saying something or other and pestering him without end. She was just about to reach out and grab him.

Bai Mo had not wanted to meddle and simply pretended not to see, but Yun Wu's eyes had already met hers.

A look of delight appeared on Yun Wu's face, and he hurried toward her.

"My wife is just across the street. Please conduct yourself with propriety."

"Don't fool me, young sir. You stayed here alone yesterday. Do you know who I am? Come with me, and I guarantee you'll wear gold and silver every day, with servants in droves. You won't be losing out."

As the two drew closer, Bai Mo heard their conversation.

Bai Mo sighed softly to herself and told the wonton seller, "Add another bowl of wontons."

When Yun Wu came over, she naturally took his hand and said gently, "Are you hungry? I've already ordered wontons."

The woman who had followed him was stunned. This man really did have a wife?

She looked up again. Wasn't this Bai Mo? When had she taken a husband?

Among the circle of female wastrels, she had always looked down on Bai Mo. Not only was Bai Mo prettier than a man and without a shred of womanly bearing, she was also a complete good-for-nothing.

"Oh, who did I think it was? So it's Eldest Miss Bai? What brings you down from on high today to eat such lowly food at a little stall like this?" the woman said provocatively, sitting down casually across from Bai Mo.

"Who are you?" Bai Mo thought for a moment, but had no recollection of the woman.

The maid beside the woman immediately came forward like a fawning lackey and said haughtily, "Open your dog eyes wide. Our mistress is the eldest daughter of the vice minister of revenue, Pan Qinglian."

"Heh, never heard of her." After hearing the maid, Bai Mo did remember her. She was not angry, though. A mere daughter born of a concubine dared to lord it over her?

Pan Qinglian got straight to the point. "Bai Mo, I haven't heard that you've taken a husband. Who is this man to you?"

"What's it to you?"

Bai Mo rolled her eyes very obviously.

"I fell for this young master at first sight and intend to take him into my household. Please part with him for my sake. I'll owe you a favor for today, and another day I can give you two beautiful attendants in return." Pan Qinglian's tone was nothing like someone asking a favor; it sounded more like an order.

Bai Mo snorted coldly. "You think I'll hand over the one I love just because of what you've said and done? What the hell are you? I don't want to argue with you, but no matter where this matter is taken, you're in the wrong. If you keep pestering us, I'll beat you to death."

Hearing her words, Yun Wu felt a deep tremor in his heart, and the way he looked at Bai Mo changed somewhat.

"Beat me? You really are outrageously arrogant, and you love telling lies too. He was clearly staying alone yesterday. If he's your attendant, why would he be out here on his own? Besides, I had the innkeeper ask around. He has no wife."

Pan Qinglian felt she had seized on the crucial point, and grew more confident.

Bai Mo looked at Pan Qinglian as though she were an idiot. "Is there something wrong with your brain? You really don't know who he is?"

Yun Wu's face turned pale, and he gripped Bai Mo's hand tightly.

Feeling the sting in her palm, Bai Mo patted Yun Wu's hand reassuringly.

Only then did Pan Qinglian stare at Yun Wu and begin to think.

A moment later, she said in surprise, "Dark-blue eyes, a figure like a willow. He, he's the Green Grass Pavilion's top courtesan, Young Master Yunwu, that whore??"

Before Pan Qinglian could finish speaking in astonishment, Bai Mo cut her off.

"Then do you know that last night I paid the high price of eight thousand taels to redeem Young Master Yunwu? He's been removed from the courtesan register and is now a respectable young man. We can report you for harassing and molesting him like this. Or are you planning to pay an even higher price to buy him from me?"

Pan Qinglian froze. She had thought he was just an attendant or a bedwarmer, and that she could simply take him; it was a common way for people of rank to socialize.

When she heard he was merely a man from a brothel, she had thought getting him would be as easy as reaching out her hand. She would only need to spend a little money, and he would be hers to do with as she pleased.

But she had never expected that he was now registered as a commoner, and that Bai Mo had paid such a high price to redeem him. She knew she could not gnaw through this hard bone today.

Just then, the seller brought over two bowls of wontons. "Miss, the wontons you ordered."

After setting down the bowls and utensils, the seller hurried away.

Bai Mo gestured for Yun Wu to eat.

Seeing that Yun Wu did not pick up his spoon, she knew he must have been badly frightened too. She suddenly felt that the men in this other world really were delicate and soft, which was rather interesting.

She picked up a spoon and placed it in his hand. "Try it and see if it suits your taste."