Chapter 467 - 131: Succeed or Die Trying! Guest of the Inner Chambers

No need to even think about it—Ye Liuyun could already guess who sent this letter.

He opened it and had a look.

Just as he thought, it was indeed a letter from Mei Ji.

But the content of the letter was pretty simple.

It said something like Mei Ji missed Ye Liuyun, that she fell for him at first sight, and hoped he could come to the Imperial Music Bureau tonight to relieve her longing.

Gotta admit,

This Mei Ji really did hang out with the scholar girl Liu Qingqing for a while.

The content of this letter was all fancy and poetic.

There’s definitely some literary flair in there.

"Boss, what’s this about?"

Unlike Si Nan, Shi Sheng and the others next to him had no idea what was going on. The matter of investigating Mei Ji’s background was something only Si Nan was handling.

Shi Sheng and the rest didn’t know a thing yet.

"With your brains, it’d be hard to explain it to you anyway!"

But then.

When he saw Shi Sheng’s curious look,

Si Nan just grinned, lifted his hand, and slung an arm around Shi Sheng’s shoulders as he spoke.

"All you need to know is—we get to go drink at the Imperial Music Bureau again tonight!"

"Now that works!"

Hearing that they could go drinking, Shi Sheng nodded in understanding.

Even though he’s a martial arts fanatic, Shi Sheng quite liked everyone getting together to drink.

But then.

He’d just nodded when suddenly realizing something, Shi Sheng shot a fierce glare at Si Nan.

"You think I didn’t hear you calling me dumb? What, you wanna get hit?"

Though Shi Sheng was putting on a fierce front, Jiang Jing and Feng Feiyi just looked on, grinning and watching the show, not intending to stop them at all.

They’d been together long enough to know each other’s personalities inside out.

Shi Sheng only seemed fierce—he wasn’t actually mad inside.

The bickering between Si Nan and Shi Sheng wasn’t anything new, and no one ever really went full force.

Getting "threatened" like this, Si Nan definitely wouldn’t chicken out. If this was before, when his cultivation was still at First-class and couldn’t match Shi Sheng’s Postnatal level, maybe Si Nan wouldn’t talk back so easy.

But ever since lately, Si Nan’s cultivation had officially reached the Postnatal Realm.

Just a few days ago, Si Nan and Shi Sheng really did spar once. Surprise, surprise—it was a tie, neither could best the other.

Not that Si Nan’s cultivation had grown ridiculously fast,

It’s just that they specialized in different things. Shi Sheng’s forte was Horizontal Training, all about fist-to-flesh.

Si Nan, on the other hand, was good at Qinggong and throwing daggers.

No matter how accurate his daggers were, he couldn’t pierce Shi Sheng’s defense.

When it came to Qinggong, though, Si Nan far outpaced Shi Sheng. So even if Shi Sheng was stronger, if he couldn’t land a hit, there was nothing he could do.

So in the end,

The two of them spent more than an hour running circles in the Embroidered Uniform Guard’s courtyard, and finally had to call it a draw.

But if it was fists against fists for real, even after reaching the Postnatal Realm, Si Nan still wouldn’t be Shi Sheng’s match.

Si Nan knew this perfectly well.

That’s why, from the very beginning, he never planned to take Shi Sheng head-on—just kept him running with Qinggong and occasionally tossed a dagger or two, though he couldn’t even break Shi Sheng’s skin.

But honestly, just running endlessly would feel pretty lame for Si Nan too.

Tossing a couple daggers, at least it looked like he could fight back, right?

"You think I’d be scared of you? Don’t forget last time we fought, it was a tie!"

So, with Shi Sheng threatening him, Si Nan didn’t back down at all—instead, he shot back without holding back.

Shi Sheng had almost calmed down, too.

But hearing Si Nan’s words, the fire came right back up.

"You have the nerve to say that? Got what it takes, let’s go fists against fists! All you did was run around—what the hell was that!"

If it’d really been fists for fists and ended in a draw, Shi Sheng would have accepted it.

But you dragged me running in circles for over an hour—for that kind of tie, Shi Sheng would have to be crazy to accept it!

"Heh heh!"

Si Nan knew too—the way he got that draw was kinda embarrassing.

But who cares?

With Si Nan’s thick skin, he didn’t mind these things at all.

Not only did he not care, he even chuckled cheerfully.

"Doesn’t matter how I did it, just admit it was a draw. If you’ve got the guts, let’s go again—think I won’t drag you jogging all around the Imperial City this time?"

"..."

Shi Sheng honestly didn’t know what to say.

He could only glare at Si Nan in annoyance.

"Alright, enough!"

In the end, it was Ye Liuyun who stepped in.

He waved his hand and cut off the bickering between Shi Sheng and Si Nan.

After so long,

Ye Liuyun was already used to how Shi Sheng and Si Nan got along.

"Just like Si Nan said, drinks at the Imperial Music Bureau tonight—who’s in?"

Mei Ji already sent out the ’invitation.’ If he didn’t go, it’d just look like he was scared of Mei Ji.

Just as well,

Ye Liuyun also wanted to see what exactly Mei Ji had planned. He had his guesses, but he couldn’t resist hearing it from Mei Ji herself.

"I’m in!"

Drinking, and at the Imperial Music Bureau too—Si Nan was the most enthusiastic, no way he’d miss it!

"Count me in too!"

Shi Sheng quickly followed.

As for Jiang Jing and Feng Feiyi, of course they had no reason to turn it down, both nodding to agree.