Peerless Alchemist: Useless Sixth Miss

Shopkeeper strobe over to Qishi, his head lower and in humbly tone he speak: "Young Master may I ask why you treat her so well?"

"What do you think of her?" Qishi asked in monotone voice, his gaze rested on the spot where Rong Fangsu dissolved into the crowd.

"Sixth Miss Zhang, the infamous disgrace of Zhang Manor, on top of being trash her reputation is…poor." He spoke with a dim voice as he reached the last word. Before he continued, "I heard she lacking innate talent and courage is the size of a mouse, cowardly and weak. There are many rumor about regarding her but none of them are decent. Her only blessing was her engagement with His Highness Gao Tang but with her lack of talent even that…"

"Cowardly and weak? That is weak? How off the rumor is" Qishi chuckled as he recalled a previous event drama, he thought back to the time she completely disregard the eye-catching collection near counter at the front of store and unhesitant walked to the back and her knife-like gaze as she enter the inner zone of the shop before it halt at that particular bookshelves and brought out a dusty-covered book. Regardless of dirt and dusty and musty smell, her interest toward the item remained strong. Not to mention her way of handling the swindle act, she was calm and still like water, nobody can disturb or cause ripple.

She act pitiful and bravery face challenge, a true black-bellied. Proud yet full of grace, an interesting person, on top of that the way she looked at him was unlike other, the so-called noble miss who looked at him with those sicken-sweet gaze while act innocent but ready to stripe off their clothes as long as their can gain his favor. Toward those filthy woman he felt disgust as he recalled the image in his mind, caused him to unconscious knitting his brows.

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Zhang Wen Jing's courtyard.

To what was happening behind her, Rong Fangsu was oblivious. Unknown to her, today she gained a friendship with a powerful person.

Inside her personal room, Rong Fangsu carefully laid her purchased items, herbs on one side and dusty book on another. In the middle were the two stones: one shiny and one dull. The shiny one was semi-polished and glossy with slight smooth and less edgy than another one. Next to it was two palm-size stone with gloomy dullish grey surface; its texture is rough and bumpy with uneven edge.

As she finished organized the various size objects, the little black beast leaped from her embrace. The little creature grew as he metamorphosed into man with vitality and grandeur of Monarch, a deep glint embed in his eyes showing amus.e.m.e.nt as he stare at the dull rough stone in the middle of the table. C.a.r.e.s.sing its rough surface with his solid fingertip, his mouth lifted upward, a please smile rested on his complex amplify his handsomeness. Rong Fangsu witnessed the domineering man before her, it certainly cause uproar in this man was to appear in public, many women would faint from just a glim of his demonic charming smile.

"Little girl" his deep voice cause her sturdy gaze to rest on him. He raised his hand as he picked the bulky dull-looking stone as if it weights nothing. Against it rough texture, his hand appear both solid and beautiful as jade, his hand pale in contrast to deep dismal grey surface, making its perfection more perfect.

"Do you know what this is?" his low voice both majestic and charming, his lip part slightly on his smooth distinct face causing one to unable to avert their gaze elsewhere. His simple gesture was enough to one feel like kneeling before him as if he is a distant aloof king descend from heaven.

In respond, Rong Fangsu shook her small head: "No but I do know it has spiritual energy inside them" her smooth finger pointed at the rough grey stone at Ru Shun's palm then to semi-polished stone on the pine square wood table.

"It's Jade, inside is a Dan Yin Jade, its purity isn't too bad" Ru Shun amused as he toyed with the rock in his hand as if it's weightless.

"What is Dan Yin Jade?" Rong Fangsu voice filled with puzzlement she didn't know about jade by such name. She tried to recall both through knowledge from her previous life and original Zhang Wen Jing's memory but no information about this called Dan Yin Jade came to mind.

Ru Shun shook his head in disappointment, "child of a man, to think so much time passed that no one know this jade property anymore. Ten thousand years ago, countless man would fight for a glimpse of this Dan Jade which can help Martial Practitioner to cultivate but now such knowledge is lost to world." He lamented as he speak before letting out a light sigh.

"So it has such affect" she said astonished as she looked at common grey stone that can be found anywhere. To think it a diamond in rough, if they know she could get it by paying a measly amount of copper coin, would they spit a mouthful of blood in regret. She did a good shopping today. Rong Fangsu cracked a stunning smile, her slight pale face due to malnutrition but right now beamed with delight, nonetheless it still peasant to the eye.