Card Master: My Special Feature - Choose One of Three

The Jiang family patriarch's punishment ultimately failed to materialize, and as Bai Miao had predicted, the belated Second Master Yin arrived with Yin Changfeng's face.

He proposed that since the scandal had already happened, Jiang Zhiyue and Jiang Yuexin should exchange their marriage contracts: Jiang Zhiyue would marry him, and Jiang Yuexin would marry Jiao Beiyao.

Jiao Beiyao agreed with the suggestion, and the two of them angered the Jiang family patriarch to the point of fainting. Madam Jiang then sent someone to fetch the family physician.

The matter of family discipline was left unresolved, as was their proposed marriage exchange.

With things having progressed to this point, it was no longer appropriate for the two of them to stay at the Jiang family's house any longer.

The two treated marriage as a game, changing it whenever they wanted. Strangely, neither Madam Jiang nor Master Jiang intended to stop either of the two marriages.

Before leaving, the two invited Bai Miao to have drinks at a restaurant in the city that evening.

The maids and servants left one after another with their mistress, and Xiao Cui also followed her young lady away, trembling.

As the young master of the Jiang family, Bai Miao was respectfully greeted by everyone as they passed by, and soon he was left alone outside the ancestral hall.

The servants closed the door to the ancestral hall. Bai Miao turned and looked at the elegant courtyard with its winding paths, unsure of where to go.

Fortunately, a short, round-faced servant called himself "Tangyuan," his personal attendant.

"What are you thinking about, young master? Should we go back to the room first? The second young lady is a lucky person. She only suffered one whipping. With proper care, she will recover in less than a week."

"Young Master, we also have scar-removing cream from the Bai family. I'll send it to the Second Miss later; I guarantee it won't leave a scar."

"Okay, let's go back first."

Tangyuan didn't know if the young master had something on his mind today, but he kept a few steps behind him. So she braced herself and walked a short distance ahead of the young master to lead the way for Bai Miao.

A dark golden light flashed in Bai Miao's eyes; he was indeed preoccupied.

After activating [Shared Vision], he was unable to see the threads of fate of everyone except himself, not even the threads of fate of Jiao Beiyao and Yin Changfeng.

Bai Miao walked past a pond, his reflection in the water entangled by threads of fate.

He began to hesitate, wondering whether he should go to the restaurant that Jiao Beiyao and Yin Changfeng had mentioned tonight.

Tangyuan slipped and his body tilted. Before he fell, Bai Miao grabbed his arm.

"Thank you, young master. If it weren't for you, I would have fallen and scraped my skin if I had tripped and fallen by the pond."

"Damn it, someone spilled tung oil by the pond, making it slippery."

Tangyuan grumbled and cursed, but Bai Miao, the instigator, gestured for him to be quiet.

"This is the Jiang residence; be careful what you say and do."

Tangyuan then realized that she and the young master were in the Jiang residence, not the Bai residence, and belatedly shrank her neck.

The stewards, servants, and maids in the Jiang household respected him somewhat because he was Young Master Bai's personal attendant, but if they heard him hurling insults, they would make things difficult for him in no time.

"Tangyuan, do you still remember how you came to be by my side?"

Back in the small courtyard where they were staying, Bai Miao called out to Tang Yuan, who was about to go outside to keep watch.

"Of course I remember, little...little..."

Tangyuan's face scrunched up. Every servant who could serve the young master and young lady would have a good memory, let alone a personal servant like him.

He could remember the young master's daily routine, what time he woke up each day, his favorite foods...

He could remember the relationships between the various stewards of the Jiang family: Steward Li and Steward Liang were outwardly friendly but inwardly at odds; Steward Li's wife and Steward Zhang were exchanging glances.

Xiao Cui, the maid in the second young lady's courtyard, is the most protective of her mistress, while Hong Liu, another maid in the second young lady's courtyard, loves to stir up trouble.

The second young lady's favorite thing to do is to wash her face and rinse her mouth with water infused with willow leaves. She also loves the color of goose yellow. In order to maintain a slender waist, she only eats ten bites at each meal.

He didn't know why, but whenever he thought about anything related to the Second Miss, a whole list of her preferences would spring up in his mind like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

Tangyuan felt that her head was pointed.

"Young master, I'm so confused, I really can't remember anything at all."

Tangyuan was so anxious that she almost cried. She had forgotten something about herself; anyone would be anxious and cry in that situation.

"Alright then," Bai Miao said, seeing that it was getting late, and told Tang Yuan to prepare to go out. "Master Jiao and Master Yin have invited me to a banquet at a restaurant tonight."

Tangyuan quickly stopped thinking, but as she walked out with Bai Miao, she was clearly distracted.

The two left the Jiang residence through a side gate.

Outside the Jiang residence, everything was bright red, and elegant palace lanterns lined the long street.

Tangyuan, who had previously failed to answer Bai Miao's question, now tried extra hard and volunteered:

"The River Lantern Festival is approaching, and the streets are filled with river lanterns. On the day of the River Lantern Ceremony, these lanterns will be launched into the sea along with the River Lantern Goddess who presides over the ceremony!"

"Where will the Goddess of the River Lantern go after she enters the sea?" Bai Miao asked the question that the children of Yujiang City often asked.

Tangyuan also gave the adults' unanimous explanation: "There is a Dragon King in the sea outside Yujiang. The Goddess Jiangdeng has entered the Dragon Palace and is enjoying her freedom."

Bai Miao didn't delve into it. With the Jiangdeng Festival approaching, even the streets were decorated with lanterns and colorful lights, not to mention the restaurant where Bai Miao was to meet.

Aside from the usual colorful river lanterns, the entertainers and singers in this restaurant all looked like celestial beings.

Bai Miao arrived rather late. When he pushed open the door to the private room, Jiao Beiyao was surrounded by two beautiful women, one on each side, leaning against his chest, drinking and playing with him.

Yin Changfeng was not to be outdone; he covered his eyes with a ribbon and played hide-and-seek with several fairy maidens.

The room was filled with decadent and dissolute atmosphere, reveling in sensual pleasures.

Bai Miao appeared, and the two of them enthusiastically let Bai Miao choose a girl, having a great time.

"Brother Jiao, Brother Yin, you two are already engaged. Aren't you afraid that the Jiang family will break off the engagement and no longer wish to have any connection with your two families?"

Bai Miao politely declined the girls who rushed towards him; none of these girls were bound by the threads of fate.

"Ha, how dare they? If they don't marry us, they can only dress up as river lantern goddesses and go to their deaths on the dragon boat."

We gave them a way to live.

Grandpa Jiao nonchalantly lifted the chin of the beauty in his arms, picked up the wine jug, and poured wine into it.

The beauty had drunk quite a bit of wine, her cheeks flushed as she closed her mouth to refuse. Old Master Jiao's wine jug was still pouring, the wine dripping down her slender neck and wetting her clothes.

Thump thump thump—

Explosions resounded across the sky. Bai Miao pushed open the window of the private room, and fireworks burst forth in the sky under the glow of lights.

"The Yu family is about to announce the list of Jiangdeng Niangniang (Goddess of the River Lanterns)! Everyone come out and see what's going on!"

The windows of all the private rooms in the restaurant were opened, and a high platform was erected in front of the Yu residence. A dignified-looking man took to the platform with a scroll of names in his hands.

His voice was extremely powerful, and every utterance resounded throughout every corner of Yujiang City.

"The list of girls to preside over the Jiangdeng Festival this year has been finalized. They are Jiang Zhiyue, the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, and Jiang Yuexin, the second daughter of the Jiang family."

"What? The Jiang family already set a wedding date two years ago. Besides, I heard that the eldest and second daughters of the Jiang family are fighting over a husband and interfering with the marriage. How can such people be pure and innocent?"