Chapter 404 - Daily Life in a Demon Sect (14) (1/2)

“Jiejie.” Bai Luo fell back so that she was walking next to Shi Sheng. She lowered her voice and asked, “Do you have an invitation? Do you want to use mine?”

‘With so many people watching, it’d be embarrassing if jiejie can’t take out an invitation.’

“Mind your own business.” ‘FLs have a common problem of sticking their nose into other people’s affairs.’

Bai Luo lowered her eyes, hiding the hurt in their depths.

The surrounding people didn’t move. It seemed they were waiting for Shi Sheng to go first so they could see whether she really had an invitation or not.

Well, since they gave her a chance to show off, it’d be rude for her to not oblige, right?

Shi Sheng leisurely drew an invitation out and placed it on the table.

Her finger tapped on the invitation, reminding the person doing the examination. “Take a good look.”

The person smiled and nodded, opening it up to have a look before taking out a name list to compare. He found the name “Wu Zheng” at the bottom.

“Ms Wu Zheng, please come in.”

Those words proved that the invitation was real.

‘How could it be? How could Brightmoon Village issue an invitation to her???’

Everyone was confused, Liu Xu even more so.

This matter became a hot topic of discussion.

Though Brightmoon Village didn’t give a clear explanation, several people who had good relations with them managed to dig up some information.

Shi Sheng was acquainted with Shen Xinghai, the younger brother of the current Alliance Head. He was also the frontrunner for the position in this Alliance Gathering.

Just when had the two met? Well, it was a long story.

Shi Sheng met Shen Xinghai on the way to Brightmoon Village. He was pretty unlucky to have been drugged, causing him to lose all his martial arts and his consciousness to be muddled.

Shi Sheng had just been planning to find someone to test out her poisons on and ran into Shen Xinghai who had been lying on the side of the road, condition unknown.

Seeing that he was still alive, she dragged him back to use as a guinea pig.

Shen Xinghai clung on to life even after she was done with him, so Shi Sheng kindly helped him find a physician. Don’t ask her why. Probably because she was in a good mood.

But Shen Xinghai ended up thinking Shi Sheng saved him…

No matter how much Shi Sheng explained that she had been using him to test her poisons, that she’d been planning to kill him, and that his survival was entirely his own doing, Shen Xinghai simply refused to listen, firmly believing that Shi Sheng had saved him.

Hearing that she was planning to go to Brightmoon Village, he even gave her an invitation.

Even Shi Sheng didn’t have a way to deal with people so capable of self-hypnotism.

Shen Xinghai hadn’t been mentioned in the plot, so he ought to have nothing to do with the leads.

Shi Sheng ended up taking up temporary residence in the village. It seemed like Shen Xinghai wasn’t here—at least, she didn’t see him. But somehow, rumours about the two of them started circulating.

Basically, they could be summarised in a few words:

There was something illicit between them.

Shi Sheng wished to express her disdain. ‘You think just anyone would do?’

……

“Sir Fu is really good to Ms Liu. She merely coughed a bit yesterday, but he was anxious enough to get us to summon a physician.”

“And he’s really good-looking too… It’d be a real fortune to marry him. If Sir Fu took a liking to me, I’d be willing to be a nun in my next life!”

“Keep dreaming! Sir Fu already has Ms Liu—there’s no more room for anyone else.”

The maids walked past Bai Luo, laughing as they teased one another, but their words wouldn’t leave her ears.

Bai Luo despondently continued forward when suddenly, she felt her foot kick something. She slowly lowered her head to look.