'More wine',a drunken young master asked as he lazily waved the empty wine jar in his almost limp hands around,his legs sprawled and his face in a disheveled state. A young woman of about twenty years of age walked up to him with a larger jar of wine than the one in his hand.Her beautiful features appeared cold and contemptful as she approached the young lord,to refill his own jar. Gingerly she bent to serve the wine and as she did the man's previously disoriented face gained some decorum as he gazed at her completely stupefied by her beauty which seemed to shine alongside the bright scorching sunrays that had found their way into Chun Hua Lou,the top brothel on Xunzhou. The young woman noticed the young master's almost lecherous gaze on her and fought down the urge to teach him a lesson.Just as she was about to fully loose it a female voice rang out from behind her,another waitress like herself called,‘Lin Yi Xiang,Chef calls for you.Hurry up over there’ Yi Xiang gave a gentle reply ,‘En’ and immediately left the table relieved that she wouldn't have to get in trouble for disrespecting a customer . As he watched her retreat however the drunk young master,unaware of the calamity he'd just escaped began to wonder,‘How could this beauty be so blatantly misplaced to such a place.Such ethereal beauty,more intoxicating than the wine itself,,’ Lin Yi Xiang made her way to the brothel kitchen and went straight to Chef Du ,the head chef of the brothel who happened to be one of her closest acquaintances there and reported. “Chef asked for me ?”,she asked The bubbly man who looked in his late thirties nodded enthusiastically with tightly clenched eyes and a soft sigh “Yes.Yi Xiang,I'm doing to need you to do something very important for me alright?”he told her "En”,she nodded slightly to show that she understood “See, there's a young master upstairs in the third room,waiting for his meal.Tgis young master hates going out and I heard a rumour he hates people as well.Its almost a miracle that he came to our brothel,so ,I assume he's here for business . You see ,Yi Xiang ,all these girls are young and they want to grasp every opportunity to get involved with people of prominence so the Madam is afraid he'll be disgusted or enraged by them.” “You want me to go,isn't that it”,Yi Xiang posed The chef nodded and she sighed “Arent I also young ?” “Its better if you go,you have more..... restraint ”,the chef told her with a smile She shook her head gently, “Its my job after all ,so ,I have no choice” ”Good,Come and take the meal”,he said . When Yi Xiang turned to leave ,she suddenly halted for a second and spoke,“Chef Du,who is this young master exactly?” “Ah,it's the young master of Marquis Fu,Fu Xiao Lin” “Fu?”,Yi Xiang froze for a second at the painfully familiar surname,“Good,I see” “Ill head up now ” Yi Xiang went up just as instructed to drop the meal,and when she reached the designated room she gave a subtle knock on the door while balancing the tray of food on her other free habn.From what her sharp hearing could grasp there was no sound coming from the room so she knocked again and this time she heard faint footsteps in the room which were them accompanied by a deep yet crisp voice that came from within the room “Who?”,the voice said. 'Such a honey filled tongue and you hate people',she silently mocked before answering “I brought your meal, Young Master ”,she equally replied. Silence ensued for a moment before the an spoke gain with a much gentler tone. Gently,with her free hand ,Yi Xiang pushed open the door to the room and slowly walked in then turned to shut the door ,so that the noise wouldn't filter into the room from all the bustle going on outside the room. However as she turned ,the face she saw left her amazed for a while . A young man about her age or her senior with a year at most stood in the middle of the room in blue robes staring serenely at her as she walked in . For a moment ,Yi Xiang thought she'd met an immortal,a real one ,so otherworldly and unreal. Almost too perfect indeed.

Chapter 1