Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

Before the young man could finish speaking, Ye Yuchan frowned. "I didn't call any young master over. You've got it wrong, haven't you?"

"Huh?" The young man was stunned.

"What do you mean, 'huh'?" Ye Yuchan stood up from her seat in annoyance, venting all the resentment she had been holding in during her boredom on the person in front of her. "I told you, I didn't call you any young master. Go back to where you came from."

Go back to where you came from!

This was the first time in history that a young person had felt a sense of unease about what they were seeing.

Even his mother never said that to him!

This...this shouldn't be happening!

He quickly recovered from his shock and immediately put on a smirk.

"Excuse me, miss, are you sure you're not mistaken?"

"I haven't made any mistakes. I don't want to see any more young master." Ye Yuchan's gloomy face was like a dark cloud pressing down. "I'll say it again, now, immediately, get out of my sight."

The young man couldn't hold back any longer. Go back? He'd just bragged about his skills to his friends; what if he went back empty-handed…

That would be incredibly embarrassing.

Furthermore, he had rarely suffered losses at the hands of women, and Ye Yuchan's attitude had already made him somewhat angry. "Miss, since you know who I am, you should know the price of speaking to me like this."

This time it was Ye Yuchan's turn to be stunned. "When did I say I knew who you were?"

"...Didn't you say I was the young master?"

"Yeah, aren't you the young master?" Ye Yuchan tilted her head, not quite understanding the logic of the person in front of her.

"Since you say I'm the young master, how could you not recognize me?"

"Are you crazy?" Ye Yuchan was amused and annoyed. "Why should I know who you are, you young master?"

"You said I'm the young master, so of course I am the young master, Young Master Feng. Don't you recognize me?"

"I don't care if you're Young Master Feng or Young Master Yu, why would I know a young master from a restaurant? Are you out of your mind?"

They started arguing.

Because the two of them were referring to completely different things as "young master," they couldn't understand each other's logic.

They started arguing over nothing.

No—they didn't even really have a conversation.

Ye Yuchan finally gave up on continuing to talk to this lunatic. Since this was the young master of Zuiyanglou, she decided to ask someone from Zuiyanglou to handle it.

So she went to Yu Bai Niao's private room, where Yu Bai Niao had just finished playing her piece behind the curtain.

dong dong dong.

Ye Yuchan's voice came from outside the door—

"Bai Niao, let me tell you, the service at your Zui Yang Lou restaurant is really problematic."

"...Huh? Is there a problem?"

Yu Bai Niao was startled, thinking to herself, "This is impossible! This is the most luxurious restaurant in the Northern Ice Palace, with impeccable service. There's no way something could go wrong here."

However, she quickly calmed down. If a problem really arose, she would have to handle it properly. After all, the other party was Uncle Hu's benefactor, and she couldn't let them leave unhappy.

"Um, Sister Yuchan, can you tell me what the problem is?"

"This young master refuses to leave no matter what. I've already told him I didn't call him 'young master,' but he still keeps pestering me. This is hard selling, coercion!"

"Young...Young Master?"

Yu Bainiao felt like his brain was a little slow to process. He understood the word "young master," but what did it have to do with sales or buying and selling?

Could the other party be the young master of a merchant family?

With a puzzled look on her face, Yu Bai Niao slowly walked out of the music room.

It's not her show next, so leaving for a while isn't a big problem.

It was at the very moment she pushed open the door that she saw someone she didn't really want to see.

The young man, surnamed Feng, was currently glaring angrily at Ye Yuchan with a group of people behind him.

"Feng Tanghuan?! What are you doing here?!"

43. The owner of Zuiyanglou

Feng Tanghuan was also stunned for a moment when he saw the Jade Hundred Birds.

Throughout his life, he has been a master of romance, possessing exceptional skills; there is no woman he cannot win over.

But amidst this long period of carefree enjoyment, two beautiful women suddenly appeared who rejected him.

One of them was Ye Yuchan, who directly cursed him and told him to get lost.

There was also Yu Bai Niao, who slowly walked out of the music room.

Yes, Yu Bai Niao was the first woman Feng Tang Huan took a liking to, but who never accepted him.

"Junior Sister Bai Niao!" Feng Tanghuan was excited the moment she saw Yu Bai Niao. "You're one of the Yue Lian tonight?!"

"Yes."

Yu Bai Niao responded coldly, then walked to Ye Yu Chan's side.

He glanced at Yunping, who was still indulging in pleasure among the women, and sighed helplessly in his heart—he didn't know what the teacher was thinking, completely disregarding his own disciple.

Feng Tanghuan wields considerable power, holding a place within the inner three palaces of the Northern Ice Palace. To provoke him is akin to provoking a hungry wolf in the wild.

If I hadn't had some tricks up my sleeve, I probably would have been forced into this situation long ago.

"Bai Niao, do you know this persistent, stalker scoundrel?"

"I guess you could say we know each other." Yu Bai Niao didn't deny Ye Yu Chan's lewd assessment, and glanced at Feng Tang Huan with a cold expression. "He was a disciple of my previous generation from the Northern Ice Palace, but he should be one of the Inner Third Palace members now."

Feng Tanghuan smiled and immediately began to flatter, "This is all thanks to Junior Sister Bai Niao."

"Heh." Yu Bai Niao put on an indifferent look, not even bothering to say another word to him. "You're welcome."

This sentence almost choked Feng Tanghuan to death, leaving him speechless for a long time.

Yu Bai Niao sat down. She was wearing a light purple off-shoulder dress, and the slightly exposed outline of her chest immediately captivated Feng Tang Huan's eyes.

She crossed her slender, fair legs and stared at Feng Tanghuan: "Tell me, what happened to you? How did you offend my guest?"

"Your guest?" Feng Tanghuan glanced at Ye Yuchan curiously. This little girl was only at the Xuanmen stage, so how did she become a guest of Yu Bai Niao? "And this young lady is..."

Before Yu Bainiao could introduce himself, Ye Yuchan glanced at him and said, "You don't need to know who I am. Anyway, I really, really didn't invite the young master to accompany me for drinks, so please stop bothering me."

Feng Tanghuan's eyebrows shot out a sharp glint. "Accompany you for drinks? This young master is not here to accompany you for drinks."

"So what are you here for?"

"I'm here to..."

……

That's a bit difficult to say.

Am I here to pick up girls? That's way too blatant, especially with Yu Bai Niao here. If she finds out I'm a womanizer, I'm doomed.

I'm here to exchange cultivation techniques and secret manuals with you? That doesn't make sense. The other person is clearly not a disciple of the Northern Ice Palace. What kind of exchange is this?

"I came here...I came here..."

Feng Tanghuan looked up at the sky while trying to find an excuse.

Ye Yuchan could easily tell that this guy was making up a story, and looked at him with great interest, "Tell me, what are you here for?"

In the blink of an eye, his keen eyes landed on the Jade Bird.

With gritted teeth and a stomp of the foot, I decided to give it my all.

With a fawning smile, he said to Yu Bai Niao, "I've come today to exchange ideas on literature and art with Junior Sister Bai Niao."

"To exchange literary and artistic ideas?" Yu Bai Niao hadn't expected him to come up with this reason, but then she thought, "Wait a minute, when you saw me just now, weren't you quite surprised that I was here?"

"...Uh, that was just a beautiful coincidence that added a touch of romance to our meeting."

Upon hearing these words, Ye Yuchan trembled violently.

This is absolutely disgusting.

I got goosebumps all over the place.

Yu Bai Niao's expression wasn't much better. "Sorry, I have another performance to do."

"Uh... then..."

Before he could finish speaking...

"It's alright."

Powerful words echoed in my ears.

The man's voice was so familiar that Feng Tanghuan recognized him in the blink of an eye.

He fixed his gaze on the middle-aged man in the distance wearing a black overcoat, his expression suddenly froze, and an invisible pressure loomed over his head.

The man walked up to Feng Tanghuan.

Feng Tanghuan looked up at the man who was taller than him, whose gloomy face had once been his nightmare.

"Brother...why are you...here?"

That's not the real point.

Feng Tanghuan's brother is still just Feng Tanghuan's brother; his words have no say.

But he has another identity.

Yu Bai Niao's fair fingers trembled as she dug them into her palm. She stared at the tall man in front of her with trepidation, and after a long while, she lowered her head in dejection.

This revealed the person's identity.

"boss……"

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