A Meeting With You

Blurb:

The Wanhe Restaurant, ground-floor hall.

Half the people in the hall were acting mysterious. From their appearance, they were all young men from prominent families in the capital. They had not come to eat. Each had ordered food, but they could barely taste it as they waited anxiously.

A waiter who had been serving guests upstairs came down, and they immediately called him over. “Hey, waiter! Come here, come here.”

The waiter hurried over. A silver ingot was slipped into his arms, and several handsome young men from prominent families surrounded him, their expressions grave. In low, equally grave voices, they asked, “Did you get a good look?”

The waiter nodded with practiced ease, for what felt like the thousandth time. The silver was warm against his chest. “I got a good look. This time, it’s Lord Xue Chen.”

The young men from the prominent families all looked astonished. “Xue Chen?”

Was Xue Chen going to get caught up in their squabbles too? This was bad, very bad indeed.

At the next table, a man in blue robes leisurely tossed a fruit in the air, reminding them that he was there.

The young men exchanged glances and reached a unanimous decision. They presented a bag of silver to Zhou Ling. “Young Master Zhou, we’ll have to trouble you again this time.”

“Young Master Zhou, your hard work is greatly appreciated.”

“Young Master Zhou, you’re a man of honor and courage.”

“Of course, of course.” Xuan Cang accepted the silver without the slightest hesitation, glanced toward the private room upstairs, and made his way up at an unhurried pace.

The waiter watched Young Master Zhou Ling’s retreating figure and shook his head helplessly, but said nothing.

Only Young Master Zhou, who was crazy about money, would be willing to ruin other people’s romances.

The private rooms on the second floor of the Wanhe Restaurant were customarily reserved for guests on matchmaking dates.

Ever since Lord He Rong’s younger sister, He Yi, returned, Lord He had arranged for all her matchmaking dates to take place at the Wanhe Restaurant.

It was crucial to know who would be the first to attend a date. Lord He Rong had granted them a fine opportunity, and those who couldn’t wait had come downstairs disguised as diners to await the outcome.

Know yourself and your enemy, and you can win every battle. How to wage that battle was another matter. They were all fine young men of Dayue, and some methods might be too underhanded to use openly, though that didn’t mean they wouldn’t use them. Gathering information was one thing; ruining someone’s romance might work, but it could also earn them a bad name.

Who wouldn’t want to protect their good reputation? But Young Master Zhou Ling didn’t care.

For the first date, Young Master Zhou persuaded the jealous men downstairs to pay him a fee, then went upstairs and won fame in a single battle.

By then, it no longer mattered who had attended the first matchmaking date.

What mattered was that, through the eleventh date, Zhou Ling remained undefeated!

They just had no idea what would happen when you tried to make a deal with a tiger!

[This story has a happy ending, so you can’t go wrong giving it a try~]

Theme: Knowing something cannot be done, yet doing it anyway