A young man in a blue headband pushed his way through the crowd, eyes wide, and shouted, successfully catching Ji Xiu's attention and making him pause.
Seeing this, some of the more arrogant youths in the crowd were immediately displeased, unwilling to be outdone.
They all began speaking at once, scrambling to introduce their own "sisters." This made Ye Ningzhi and Cai Ling'Er's faces darken; they felt these pampered young masters truly deserved a good thrashing.
In Jiangyin Prefecture, within the Thirty-Six Professions, these young masters were born into a circle of the rich and powerful.
It was common for the Young Masters and Young Ladies in this circle to affect an air of sophistication and chase the latest gossip.
They had all heard the rumors about Ji Xiu from before.
But those old feuds were matters of the previous generation. What did they have to do with them? Some of them weren't even connected to it at all.
As for the here and now...
