Chapter 708: Dear in Her Heart

Chapter 708: Dear in Her Heart

Zhou Ziyun and Li Yuechan stepped out of the tower and arrived in the wide courtyard. A large horse carriage with an impressive array of eight colorful horses had been prepared. Two familiar faces were also waiting for them.

“Good morning, Miss Zhou, Miss Li.” Qu Jing greeted.

The man was wearing a black leather outfit. This along with wild red hair gave him a brooding, vigorous aura, especially amidst the morning fog on the mountain. Any casual woman might have swooned at the sight. Dark, handsome, and dangerous; Qu Jing could be considered an enemy of all men.

Beside him, Qu Rong also made her greetings. She was short and unattractive. She was wearing some kind of heavy makeup that made her seem like a circus performer. It wasn’t clear what she was trying to accomplish but she failed at it anyway.

“Good morning, Sir Qu, Miss Qu,” Zhou Ziyun and Li Yuechan returned the greeting.

Compared to Qu Rong, the two of them were like fairies that had descended from the sky.

Zhou Ziyun had chosen a white outfit with white wolf fur accents. It had thick tufts of fur around her wrists and around her neck. She also wore a large hood that hid her features from stray eyes. She looked like a noble lady about to take a stroll in the depths of winter.

Li Yuechan wore an intricate purple outfit with embroidered flowers and soaring dragons. It was extremely elegant and exuded class with every layer. Her long black hair flowed down her back like a waterfall. She could have said that she had just stepped out of a painting and everyone would have believed her.

Qu Jing couldn’t take his eyes off her. He stared with an intensity that bordered on impropriety. His gaze drifted from her perfect, symmetrical features to the swell of her chest and then to the arousing curves around her narrow waist and wide hips.

Zhou Ziyun coughed, “Shall we go?”

“Brother Jing, we should get going.” Qu Rong added, unable to hide tinges of unhappiness in her voice.

The four of them went into the carriage. Qu Jing went to the front to act as the driver while the three ladies sat inside.

“Jia!” He whipped the horses and the carriage started to move.

They soon left the eagle lord’s castle and proceeded down a wide avenue toward the festival grounds.

Today was the Liu Wu Festival, a tradition within the Beast God Sanctum that started five hundred or so years ago when the sect first started. It was held to celebrate the summer rainy season as well as to celebrate the six kings that fought over the eastern wilderness. Even though the snake lord had fallen, it was still called the Liu Wu Festival out of honoring history.

Li Yuechan was curious about the event. She had gotten the basic information from Zhou Ziyun but it lacked detail. She glanced out of the curtains of the carriage at the city passing by outside. The streets had been decorated to match the festivities. There were paper lanterns of six different colors as well as paper cutouts of tigers, eagles, snakes, toads, mantises, and monkeys. It was a celebration of the six kings, three humans and three beasts that were the absolute rules of this region.

“Miss Li,” Qu Jing called out after a short while of silence, “Do you want to sit up front? You’ll be able to see more of the city.”

Li Yuechan pulled her head back from the window and hid a blush. She looked toward Zhou Ziyun for assistance but Zhou Ziyun only gave her a sly smile and small push.

“I...”

She squirmed in her seat, not wanting to entertain him with an answer. She looked towards the other two women in the carriage but they seemed to be busy with their own conversation.

“Sir Qu...” She almost wanted to say something rude.

This charade was too much for her and she really wished that her master had chosen someone for the mission. She especially didn’t want to do anything that would sully her master’s name.

Just as she was in the midst of an internal struggle about what to say, a gentle wave of spiritual energy from the Ageless Ice Sword. A warm breath and a soft voice entered her ear.

“Yuechan, relax. I’m here for you. Don’t worry about Qu Jing, he is harmless.”

Hearing Chen Wentian’s voice, all the tension left her body and she felt reinvigorated.

“Master...”

“Good disciple, look at Qu Jing. Tell me, what do you see?”

She did so and coincidentally, Qu Jing also turned toward her. Their gazes met. His eyes were an ordinary brown but there was also the briefest flash of blue light, blue like the dragon flames she was so familiar with. He smiled and recognition hit her.

“Ah! I... understand. Thank you, master!” She whispered and then straightened her posture, “Sir Qu, if you must know, the person I hold dear in my heart is my master. There can be no one else and there will never be anyone else.”

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