In order to ensure this martial arts contest stage won't end the match, she, Bu Tingyue, definitely needs to spend a little money.

Yuchi hesitated for a moment, then also tossed a piece of broken silver over. Although he still wanted to freeload, since a young girl had already done so, it would be quite embarrassing for him to freeload as well. So, he came to watch the fun while earning a full meal's worth of gold and silver.

"Good luck!"

Yuchi shouted to the woman, "I voted for you!"

"Okay!" The woman nodded heavily, "I will defeat him!"

The match now officially began, and the atmosphere was already appropriately heightened.

Crack, crack, bang, bang, the stage was filled with the sounds of swords, guns, and staffs. It was evident the woman was a practitioner.

As Yuchi and Bu Tingyue clenched their fists together, watching the match on stage, a girl appeared in the private room directly opposite the stage.

The girl seemed to be about the same age as Bu Tingyue, quite pretty as well. It seems that there are quite a few beautiful girls in Cuncha City.

Being someone of status, even if she came to watch the contest to pass the time, she wouldn't squeeze with the other commoners. The smell of sweat wasn't pleasant, so the inn directly opposite the stage was ideal. On one hand, it offered a bird's-eye view, and on the other, it was free from disturbance.

However, while watching the match, she noticed a girl wearing a water-blue dress—Bu Tingyue. Initially, she didn't recognize Bu Tingyue, but the more she looked, the more familiar the figure seemed, until she finally couldn't help it.

She directly called for her maid, asking her to go over to the crowd at the stage to check things out. The maid hurried over, and in her view, she could see the maid hastily departing from the inn downstairs and running toward the stage across the street.

After hesitating in the crowd for a moment, she rushed back.

Hastily, she reported to her miss, "Miss, that person really is Bu Tingyue, the eldest miss from the Celestial Craft Workshop."

The girl was shocked upon hearing this, realizing she hadn't been mistaken. But hearing this news from her maid made her feel something wasn't quite right, because Bu Tingyue, being from the Celestial Craft Workshop, how could she suddenly appear here?

Bu Tingyue wasn't her sister Bu Luohua, who would usually stay honestly in the Celestial Craft Workshop without venturing out. So her being out now was one thing, but squeezing into the crowd without worrying about her status as an eldest miss was perplexing—was she not afraid of being pawed by passing strangers?

"I really can't understand when she became such a girl. If that's the case, then I shouldn't compete with her. After all, there's no need for me to bicker over this with such a frivolous girl, right?"

"Haha."

"In the end, Bu Tingyue is not my match."

The girl's eyes formed crescents, her smile was quite pleased.

At this moment, her maid suddenly chimed in, "Miss, behind Bu Tingyue, there's a strange young man. I don't know who this young man is, as I've never seen him before, but he clearly has a good relationship with Bu Tingyue."

"Bu Tingyue trusts him enough to give her back to him directly. That's why she dares to appear in the crowd – it's this youth protecting her."

The maid timidly noted, there was another thing she dared not say, that is "also, this young man looks very handsome, and now he has a lot of smiles on his face, looks like he is out having fun with Bu Tingyue." She dared not directly voice this.

She knew there was some conflict between her miss and Bu Tingyue. How the two suddenly started bickering was unclear, probably only the two girls themselves understood. Nonetheless, their relationship wasn't particularly good.

Especially from her miss's tone just now, it was a kind of calm sarcasm, treating Bu Tingyue as her rival.

"Is that so?"

The girl indeed looked a bit shocked momentarily. Bu Tingyue coming out of the Celestial Craft Workshop was already an unbelievably peculiar thing, and now to say there's an unfamiliar young man beside her? How could... could it be possible she fell in love?

Hahaha, how could it be?

The girl clenched her fist violently, a # symbol on her forehead, speaking calmly but clearly seething with jealousy.

Impossible, impossible, this can't happen. Though I've always thought Bu Tingyue is a hypocritical girl, since she could be my enemy, she must have her merits. Not to mention, being the eldest miss of Celestial Craft Workshop, how could a young man suddenly appear beside her?