Early the next morning, the three of them arrived at the meeting place they had agreed upon.0

Li Haoran came the earliest and looked a bit nervous.0

With the old horse around, Lu Yang didn’t need to worry about riding the flying vessel.0

“Who would have thought that you fellow have been keeping a low profile all this time? You even have a fiancée, huh?” Meng Jingzhou teased Li Haoran, winking at him.0

As the eldest son of the Meng Family’s main branch, even before Meng Jingzhou was born, nobles from the imperial city had already come knocking, hoping to establish a connection with the Meng Family through him. After Meng Jingzhou was born, marriage proposals came in such droves that the doorstep was nearly trampled to pieces.[1]2

“If it weren’t for cultivating, I would be living it up in the imperial city.” Meng Jingzhou sounded somewhat melancholic.0

Li Haoran comforted him, “As the saying goes: when one gains something, they often lose something...1