Novel Full Chapter 3368: I Feel like I’ve Seen You before Too
Chapter 3368: I Feel like I’ve Seen You before Too
They were looking at the water droplet on her forehead.
The seemingly flirtatious but inwardly pure man in an elegant qipao snapped open his folding fan and recited, “Graceful brows and refined eyes, a glance that stirs the soul; literary brilliance shines forth, as if an old acquaintance has returned.”
Ning Shu: …
It was this lifelong virgin again, always flirting with women with flowery words but never daring to make a real move.
Ning Shu said, “I feel like I’ve seen you before too.”
“Ah, no wonder you look familiar!” The qipao man tapped his palm with his fan, suddenly enlightened.
“You’re here for the ordinance embodiment gathering, right? Please come in.” The qipao man spoke courteously to Ning Shu.
Ning Shu walked deeper into the tavern, noticing many people staring at her.
She spotted a woman dressed in white. On her forehead was a crimson flame-like mark, vivid as if it were burning. It was stunningly beautiful.
Fire.
This must be Ah Wan.
Ning Shu walked up to her and politely said, “Hello, I’m Ning Shu.”
Ah Wan gave Ning Shu a calm smile. The flame mark on her forehead seemed to flicker with life. “Hello, I’m Ah Wan.”
Ah Wan reached out and shook Ning Shu’s hand. Looking at the water droplet on Ning Shu’s forehead, she commented, “It’s a very beautiful ordinance mark.”
“Yours is beautiful too.”
Ning Shu looked around. Most of the people here were men.
Before she arrived, Ah Wan had been the only woman.
Moreover, Ning Shu noticed that a few people were looking at her with unfriendly eyes.
She had no idea why, but she maintained her composure.
The qipao man was fanning himself with a fan that had a delicate and elegant ink painting. He leaned over to Ning Shu and asked, “Last time I saw you here, you weren’t an embodiment of an ordinance?”
Ning Shu responded with a soft “mm,” but quickly noticed a few people staring at her so intensely, it felt like their eyes could bore a hole into her body.
The qipao man straightened his back, fanning himself with deliberate leisure. Smiling, he said, “Want to know why they’re looking at you like you owe them money and kicked their dog?”
Ning Shu wanted to know—she had never seen these people before, let alone met them.
Where did this inexplicable hostility come from?
“Do you want to know?” The qipao man asked again.
Ning Shu nodded. “Yes, I do.”
Ah Wan glanced back at the qipao man, then looked at Ning Shu, turned her head away, and said nothing.
“If you become my girlfriend, I’ll tell you,” the qipao man said.
He was dressed in an exquisite Republic of China-style male qipao, fanning himself, looking just like a wealthy young master from old Shanghai—well-read, yet seemingly influenced by foreign open-mindedness.
Ning Shu: …
Ning Shu always felt this guy was in a hurry to get a girlfriend.
“Do you like me?” Ning Shu asked in return.
“I do.”
Ning Shu: Get lost…
Ning Shu sat across from Ah Wan and asked, “Is there something I don’t know about all this?”
“The embodiments of ordinances serve as the city lords of ordinance cities, and the city lord’s role is to ensure the safety of their city.”
“In return, all transactions and shops in the city must pay taxes, which is a significant source of income.”
“Previously, before the embodiment of the water ordinance was born, the cities were managed by the embodiments of the earth, wind, and ice ordinances.”
“Now that you’re becoming the honorary city lord of the City of Water, that income is gone. It’s natural for them to be upset.”
“Especially since cities based on fundamental attributes—Time, Space, Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth—attract more people than those with more niche ordinances.”
Ah Wan spoke indifferently.
Ning Shu: …
So, she had taken a piece of their cake.
Simply put, the City of Water was a big, juicy piece of meat.
But Ning Shu wasn’t going to back down because of this.
Translator: Kaho