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

"May I ask a question?" Fan Luokui spoke slowly, clearly already preparing to extract information: "The groom at this wedding is your...brother?"

Faced with Fan Luokui's tentative tone, Duan Yu smiled mysteriously.

Since it wasn't something shameful or a secret that couldn't be shared, Duan Yu had no intention of hiding it.

He opened the folding fan, and the flowing characters engraved on the fan ribs looked like a quatrain, while the landscape painting on the fan surface was quite masterful.

"Regarding the groom for this wedding, the three ladies—he's far away, yet right before our eyes."

……

His meaning was already very clear.

Ye Yuchan blinked, then stared blankly at Duan Yu, who had a mysterious smile on his face, and swallowed hard.

"You don't mean to say that you're the groom, do you?"

"It's down."

These words struck the three of them like a bolt from the blue.

at the same time--

shhhhhh!

A low rumbling sound suddenly came from behind me.

Everyone turned around and looked in unison, with everyone on the top floor of the restaurant looking towards the source of the sound.

As seven dazzling beams of light rose vertically, they exploded the instant they reached the dark curtain of the night sky. In an instant, colorful sparks illuminated everyone's faces, and the exploding fireworks displayed multiple changing colors like a bright rainbow.

shhhhhh!

Night, new moon, fireworks.

Fireworks burst forth in bursts, dazzling and exquisite. The fleeting fireworks illuminated the faces of lovers sitting below the restaurant, embracing each other as they watched this beautiful spectacle.

The fireworks display, which only happens once every few years, finally revealed its unique splendor at this moment.

People embraced, sat, and watched the fireworks that danced in the sky, becoming eternal in that very moment. They held their loved ones in their arms, feeling each other's warmth, listening to each other's voices, and gazing at the sky that belonged only to them at that moment.

They looked on...

The young man in the white shirt sat by the window, gazing at the fireworks outside, silently sighing as he savored the fleeting beauty.

As Ye Yuchan watched the fireworks, the familiar figure of that young man—a bit of a liar, but surprisingly reliable—faintly appeared before her eyes.

I wonder if he was watching the fireworks too, and who he was thinking about while watching them?

……

The black-haired girl didn't continue drinking heavily. Instead, with a carefree smile, she looked up at the beautiful and dazzling flames that burst open like blooming flowers, silently picked up her wine glass, and filled it to the brim.

She didn't drink it because it wasn't for her.

……

Although Fan Luo Kui saw the incredibly beautiful fire in her eyes, it didn't seem to be the fireworks of the present. Instead, it seemed to be the simple fireworks that a man and a woman had seen years ago, holding the hand of a young girl with cherry-red hair, on the palace of the Northern Ice Palace.

Those were truly like flowers in bloom, intoxicating fireworks.

……

The young man, holding a folding fan and dressed in a snow-white Taoist robe, looked at the dazzling fireworks with a slight upturn at the corners of his mouth, but there was no sense of happiness in his eyes.

"Ugh……"

Duan Yu lowered his head and sighed deeply, as if recalling something, but then shook his head as if resigned to his fate.

"I'm sorry everyone..."

His expression suddenly turned somewhat serious, and he said to Ye Yuchan and the other two, "I suddenly remembered that I have some urgent matters to attend to at home, so I will leave this wedding invitation here. If the three of you do not mind, you are welcome to come to the Duan family's backyard in ten days to attend my wedding ceremony."

"Goodbye."

Duan Yu clasped his hands in a fist and bowed to the three of them, then turned and left with rather heavy steps.

Watching Duan Yu's departing figure, the sound of fireworks around them abruptly stopped.

The three of them turned around in surprise, staring at the empty sky, somewhat bewildered.

They had heard before they came that the fireworks display would last for a full half hour, but it's already over after only a short time?

This is such a disappointment!

However, the disappointed expression only flashed across the faces of Ye Yuchan and the other two before being replaced by a more serious expression.

What do you think?

Faced with Ye Yuchan's seemingly all-knowing expression, Zhang Ruoxue began to imitate her senior sister, crossing her arms and speaking in a tone like a detective in a detective drama: "I think there must be something fishy about this."

"Junior Sister Luo Kui, what about you?"

Fan Luo Kui was taken aback when she suddenly received stares from her two senior sisters.

She took a deep breath, and then made the same guess as them: "I also think there might be a problem... although I can't see anything dishonest about him..."

"I think so too!" Ye Yuchan quickly chimed in, "This young master Duan's polite demeanor might just be an act. According to the usual pattern, he should be a gentleman on the surface but a beast at heart!"

—If Yunping hadn't been absent, he would definitely have complained that Ye Yuchan had watched too many novels and movies.

Zhang Ruoxue stared thoughtfully in the direction Duan Yu had left, muttering, "I think we need to investigate. If that young master Duan really is a hypocrite... then Third Senior Brother might have a much better chance of winning!"

"The premise is that his politeness and civility just now were all an act."

Fan Luokui's words revealed the crux of the problem, and at the same time, also raised a rather troublesome issue.

"And if he's not faking it, and really is a good person... then what about Third Senior Brother..."

……

The three of them suddenly fell silent.

In the midst of an awkward silence, Ye Yuchan spoke first: "In short—we'll go investigate this Duan Yu! We must expose his hidden side!"

Fan Luo Kui sighed deeply, her pale golden eyes filled with worry: "That's all we can do..."

"Then, let's set off now!"

Just after saying that, Zhang Ruoxue paused again and quickly corrected herself, "Wait a minute, let me wait a few minutes."

"What?" Ye Yuchan looked at Ruoxue curiously.

Zhang Ruoxue walked up to the last vat of wine and smiled:

"I'll finish my drink first..."

Ye Yuchan and Fan Luokui: "..."

This drunkard is probably beyond saving.

15. Fate can be reversed.

Duan Yu hadn't gone far. At least, after Ye Yuchan and Fan Luokui watched in stunned silence as Zhang Ruoxue downed a whole vat of wine in one gulp, they still saw Duan Yu's figure at the end of the street where the restaurant was located.

The streets were lined with couples still enjoying the fireworks—as well as some children complaining that this year’s fireworks festival had ended too quickly and abruptly. Ye Yuchan and her two companions didn’t pay much attention to them and carefully followed behind Duan Yu.

Following directly would inevitably come with the risk of being discovered, not to mention that the serious-looking, thin old man beside Duan Yu exuded an extraordinary aura.

Therefore, all three of them chose to conceal their presence. At the same time, Ye Yuchan took out a square piece of silver-gray cloth from her storage ring.

"Although I feel it's a bit rude to say it..."

At this moment, the cherry-haired girl stood at the street corner, a square gray cloth covering her head, her expression somewhat strange: "This reminds me of the image of the deceased's family covering the deceased with a white cloth..."

Crouching down as if entering a concealed posture, Zhang Ruoxue, who also had a piece of cloth covering her head, suddenly shuddered, her voice trembling slightly: "Junior Sister Luo Kui, your analogy... is so vivid..."

"And having a cloth over your head... no matter what, it's not a lucky thing."

"I didn't realize Ruoxue believed this stuff?"

“There’s nothing I can do…” Fan Luo Kui shook her head and said with a wry smile, “Lord Yin Han Xue Bing once scolded me, saying that I shouldn’t cover my head with a white cloth, because it’s said to shorten one’s lifespan.”

—Is this supposed to be… advice from an elder?

Ye Yuchan felt a little uneasy after what the two said, so she pretended to be nonchalant and said:

"Oh well, I'll just wear it for now. Even though it's made by that old rogue, it shouldn't be too bad."

"And if you really want to investigate that young master Duan carefully, you can't do without this."

Fan Luokui and Zhang Ruoxue couldn't refute this.

Ye Yuchan had previously confirmed with Fan Luokui that, according to this junior sister who came from the Northern Ice Palace, the cultivation level of this third young master of the Duan family was definitely not low, at least it should be above the Kaiyuan stage.

Moreover, judging from the paper fan and the scholarly air it exuded, the person must be a cultivator who practices literature and Taoism.

Although the sensitivity of literary cultivators to aura is not as acute as that of martial cultivators, their realm is far superior to that of the three. Even Fan Luokui, who has now reached the peak of the Transformation God stage, is at least one small realm ahead of Duan Yu, not to mention Ye Yuchan, who has just stepped into the Transformation Peak stage, and Zhang Ruoxue, who has just advanced to the Spirit Platform stage.

If it's just a simple attempt to conceal one's presence, the other party might still discover it during the tracking process.

That's why we had no choice but to use that old rogue's stuff.

[Invisibility Cloak]

Ye Yuchan had already complained about the name being similar to that of a famous Western fantasy work.

Moreover, although it's called a cloak, it's actually just a few pieces of fabric that have been cut up and covered with a rather complex and sophisticated high-level formation, which serves to conceal one's figure and aura.

This thing was originally invented by the old rogue out of boredom and gave to Ye Yuchan to play with, but unexpectedly it came in handy at this time.

(It is said that he also compressed three ninth-order magic arrays into the branch of a thousand-year-old spirit tree. As long as a specific incantation is chanted and spiritual energy is infused, it can unleash a deadly power—the effect looks just like the Avada Kedavra curse.)

However, it turned out that although the white headdress, resembling a funeral procession, was indeed quite silly, the effect was unexpectedly good.

The three followed Duan Yu for a full ten minutes. Not only Duan Yu himself, but even the old man beside him, whose strength was unfathomable and like a deep pool of still water, seemed not to notice anything.

Ye Yuchan and her two companions followed along. Although Fan Luokui, the former captain of the trial team, questioned, "Why do I feel like we're perverts now?", Ye Yuchan quickly silenced her with, "This is for the greater cause!"

……

After following for about five more minutes, Duan Yu, the old man, and several guards from the Duan family finally stopped.

It was at this moment that Ye Yuchan realized that Duan Yu and the others seemed to have arrived in a courtyard.

Three lush willow trees were planted in the courtyard. In addition to the tender green color, the leaves of the willows seemed to have been tinged with a few dark purples, which looked rather strange.