C426 Chapter 426

A red banner with white lettering was staked outside the tavern, snapping and fluttering in the mountain wind with a sharp, rasping hiss.

Lingxiao and Jicheng stepped inside, and a strange, heady aroma of liquor filled the air. A young man—handsome, with a roguish, dangerous ease about him—reached out, pushed open the wooden door of the thatched hut