C1 Part1

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Ancient City of Yang Province

Why do great figures in history,

In different times, in different eras,

Come here, one after another?

…..

Slender West Lake, beside the 24th Bridge.

Several wealthy youths in upper-class dresses chatted to each other under the moonlight.

Amongst them, a young man in a light blue tuxedo held a wine glass and gently shook it:

”Young Master Qu, what do you think?”

The words of the young man couldn’t help but make let everyone look at him.

The man called Qu Shao, delicately handsome, was dressed in a black ceremonial robe.

He possessed a calm aura.

It seems that he had the apex identity and status among these young people.

And from everyone’s different gazes.

There was awe.

There was worship.

There was flattery.

There were also some fearful looks.

Qu Tianyuan, the aristocratic master from the Suyang Territory, couldn’t help but feel happier in his heart.

Taking a sip of red wine, his eyes slightly revealing his pleasure, he looked at the crowd, feigning profundity, and indifferently said:

”You can first make some guesses.”

”I think those big people were simply looking for beauties.” A slightly younger teenager responded in one breath.

”After all, Yang Province’s history of producing beauties has been recorded since antiquity.”

However, just as the boy’s words settled.

Some people refuted:

”If it was just for beauties, then a thousand years ago, why did that great man in the classics dig an ancient canal? He could have totally just ordered people to convene all beauties to the imperial palace.”

”In this way, wouldn’t the result only be a tarnished reputation of lasciviousness?”

No matter how befuddled.

Would you still not understand this?

”There was also that person five hundred years ago; that person’s imperial prestige, genuinely arose out of a mountain of corpses.”

”Such a hero, how could he have hurriedly graced Yang Province for the sake of mere beauties?”

The young man in a tuxedo, with elegant mien, nodded slightly in agreement:

”As for the Sir three hundred years ago.”

”How could he, a lord of a golden generation, for beautiful women, come to this province five times?”

”A person who has climbed to the pinnacle of a dynasty, how could a mere powdered beauty let him personally visit five times?”

…..

”Ke Kongji, you come from the Ke family, which is known for its hundred years of heritage, don’t you understand this?”

The young man in the tuxedo looked at the boy, shook his head slightly, and faintly uttered a sentence:

”Do you, an aristocratic young master, lack beautiful women?”

”Even you aren’t lacking, so, those exceptionally magnificent characters, how could they be lacking?”

Several aristocratic youngsters had just wanted to agree with Ke Kongji’s remarks.

Suddenly.

They were startled.

Yeah!

We are not lacking; would those big people be lacking?

In their aristocratic eyes, what deficiency of beauties was there?

Except for the cherished daughters of the same aristocratic status and identity.

What kind of beauty couldn’t be obtained?

Let alone a giant standing at the top of a dynasty!

…..

In fact, Ke Kongji didn’t deserve the blame.

Since ancient times, there had been examples of people wasting time and money for beautiful women.

For a beauty’s smile, King You of Zhou lit the dukes’ beacons.1

It led to the destruction of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

King Zhou was obsessed with Daji’s beauty all day long, abandoning the dynastic government, arousing the whole world’s anger.2

…..

If not for beauties, then for what?

Money?

Military talents?

Peerless giants, what could you need?

”Young Master Qu, can you stop purposefully mystifying, and tell us why?”

The young man in a tuxedo asked.

Under normal conditions, Qu Tianyuan, the second young master of Suyang’s Qu family, he would completely ignore the other party.

Let alone use honorifics.

You must know that he was from an aristocratic royal family; with his identity, he could pressure everyone present.

But today–

After today.

Suyang Territory’s distribution of forces was about to change.

The Suyang Qu family and the Xie family formed an alliance, and their influence approached that of an aristocratic royal family!

…..

And looking at the tuxedoed youth.

In the eyes of Qu Tianyuan, there was a glimmer of complacency, as if there was a shower of abuse that would pop out of his mouth at any time:

”Your Lu family, even if you are now an aristocratic royal family, with an illustrious reputation throughout the world, what about it?”

”Even if you are Lu Jiuxian, the eldest young master of the Lu family, what about you?”

”Don’t you still obediently toast me today?”

From now on!

My Suyang Qu family, will soar into the sky like a dragon, and keep pace with the two-hundred-year-old Lu royal family!

Becoming the grandest family in Suyang today!

…..

Just as the triumphantly complacent Qu Tianyuan was about to explain the situation to everyone.

Suddenly there was a faint voice, as if streaking through the moonlight, carrying deep vicissitudes:

”Are you trying to say,”

”These esteemed characters, endlessly arriving in Yang Province, were seeking the law of immortality?”

”It’s a pity, that’s wrong. No, they just came to see someone.”

”That’s all.”

This voice seemed to contain endless loneliness.

Unconsciously, Qu Tianyuan and the others couldn’t help but tremble.