The young lady had this feeling, she knew the other party had seen her appearance clearly yet ignored her charm. His clear eyes showed he wasn't deliberately pretending to ignore her. This point made the young lady feel very surprised, this was something she had never encountered before.
What surprised her was that when she spoke up to indicate she had taken a fancy to this sword, he didn't give the sword to her. Instead, he said he also liked it and had picked it up first. This clearly meant: regardless of whether you liked it or not, if you acted too late, you lose - don't bother me.
The young lady wouldn't think that seeing such a beautiful young lady, Xiaoyao didn't know to be courteous. From when Xiaoyao had ignored her charm earlier, she hadn't thought her allure could work.
What the young lady found somewhat surprising about this matter was that the other party should know this sword's value, this was the key point. She had looked here for a long time and searched for a long time, then after some confirmation, finally knew where this sword's value lay. Yet the other party also knew, which meant he must have amazing strengths in this area.
Why think this way instead of feeling Xiaoyao was randomly picking one? If he were randomly picking one, then after the young lady said what she did, ordinary people would give up this sword and randomly choose another.
"Young sir, why do you want this sword?" the young lady looked at Xiaoyao and asked. She wanted final confirmation of whether Xiaoyao really knew where this sword's value lay.
"I like it," Xiaoyao said directly and straightforwardly.
The young lady was stunned. This response didn't seem quite right. Had she encountered an unusual spoiled young master today? The type who liked things just because they liked them, wanting certain things without reason.
Xiaoyao knew the young lady would have this feeling, he wanted exactly this effect. Because he was currently playing a spoiled Young Prince, and since he was acting, naturally he had to continue performing. As long as he was in Yue City, before matters concluded, Xiaoyao's identity was that of a spoiled young prince.
...
His words and actions would all have a somewhat spoiled flavor. This was also quite amusing for him, so he very straightforwardly carried it through.
At the same time, Xiaoyao felt this reason could also be considered fact, because he was buying it precisely because he liked this sword's materials.
"I like it" was a very versatile reason that could answer all such questions while providing any explanation or no explanation at all.
Liking could have countless reasons or no reasons at all.
"Young sir, is it just because you like it? Not for other reasons?" the young lady asked.
"That's right, just because I like it. This reason is already sufficient. Do I need others?" Xiaoyao replied indifferently, then turned around dashingly to leave, preparing to leave this heart-intoxicating beautiful young lady standing alone there.
"Young sir, please wait," the young lady immediately called out.
"Do you have other business?" Xiaoyao asked without turning back.
"This sword contains a very rare material. Please treat this sword well and give it a good destination," the young lady revealed the secret within this sword.
At this moment, Xiaoyao turned back and looked at the young lady. He felt this young lady was very good, extremely good!!
Originally, Xiaoyao knew this sword contained rare materials, but the young lady feared Xiaoyao didn't know this situation, so she specially revealed it to prevent the materials in the sword from being buried.
When ordinary people encountered such situations, they would only sneer inwardly, secretly pleased by others' ignorance and waste. They absolutely wouldn't tell the other party about this, because they wanted to watch this good show, wanted to see the other party's future regret.
However, this young lady didn't do this. She told Xiaoyao about it because she didn't want the materials in the sword to be buried. This point was very surprising.
Whether this young lady did this for the materials inside or as a kind reminder, such behavior made Xiaoyao feel it deserved praise.
So Xiaoyao left behind one sentence, "You are very good."
After hearing Xiaoyao's words, the young lady first was stunned, then smiled helplessly.
Of course she was good, extremely good!
If others had heard the conversation between Xiaoyao and the young lady, they would definitely say the same thing. In their eyes, this young lady was the best of the best...
Of course, these matters had nothing to do with Xiaoyao. After buying these swords, Xiaoyao took Chi Chi to its favorite place. Chi Chi's favorite place was naturally related to food, a small market in Yue City that had first-class tasting snacks at very reasonable prices.
Xiaoyao loved taking Chi Chi there to eat because how could one miss delicious and affordable food? As someone wandering the martial world, the places he went were these commoner-level locations. He had no interest in noble places and couldn't afford them either.
The place Xiaoyao stayed now was also commoner-level - a wanderer inn most commonly chosen by martial world people. This was a traditional property of the Wanderers' Alliance, originally intended to provide convenience for alliance wanderers, but later became the largest chain inn on the continent, accepting anyone, not just wanderers.
However, wanderer inns offered corresponding discounts based on wanderer tokens - the higher the level, the bigger the discount, even free. Even newly entered wanderers, as long as they had completed recent missions, received huge half-price discounts. Discounts for slightly higher levels were even better.
Xiaoyao, as a Level 4 Wanderer, originally could have 30% discount privileges, but he didn't use them because he wouldn't use anything related to identity.
After this period passed, he would immediately use them, this was his right, so why not?
However, even without this discount, wanderer inn consumption wasn't high, half that of ordinary inns with clean environments. Therefore, this was the choice of many commoner tourists.
Xiaoyao stayed in this inn's lowest-grade room, Heaven, Earth, Profound, Yellow's Yellow Room Seven. Yellow rooms were eight-person shared rooms where each person only had a bed. The lowest standard, naturally saving more money at just ten copper coins per day.
It wasn't that Xiaoyao wanted to save money, but he couldn't find other rooms. Not only were Heaven and Earth level rooms full, even Profound level was full, because Yue City was overcrowded now. This princess's marriage competition was a moderately significant event. Since registration conditions weren't restricted this time, even more people came, all wanting to try this opportunity.
In Xiaoyao's Yellow Room Seven, three people had come to participate in this competition.
Xiaoyao could move in also due to luck, someone happened to need emergency checkout just then, so Xiaoyao took his spot. However, this person's spot was in a Yellow room.
Xiaoyao didn't mind much, as long as he could stay somewhere. He often used to sleep with other servants, not many servants had independent rooms.
The next day, Xiaoyao used simple but complete facilities to wash his face and brush his teeth. When preparing to eat breakfast, he met a roommate named Tian He, an ordinary Baiyue Kingdom sword-forger who came to try his luck at marrying the Baiyue Kingdom princess.
For this marriage competition, Baiyue Kingdom citizens as the home crowd naturally had the most participants!
"Tian He, is today the last day for registration?" Xiaoyao suddenly remembered he still needed to register.
"Yes, but if you want to register, hurry up. Registration ends at noon," Tian He didn't seem to think Xiaoyao's registration would interfere with him. Partly because he was an honest person who liked speaking through strength, feeling that if he had ability, one more person registering didn't matter.
Another part was that he knew too many people had registered this time, including many high officials and nobles, even empire princes. In such circumstances, he felt even if Xiaoyao participated, he'd be like himself, without much hope.
Since this was the case, and they were temporarily staying together, why deliberately make things difficult for the other person?
"Oh, then I'll go after eating. By the way, where is the location?" Xiaoyao nodded and asked again.
"..." Tian He was somewhat speechless. Since you came to participate in the competition, you should at least ask about these basics clearly. At this point, you're still asking me.
However, honest Tian He still answered this question, "At the small square in front of the royal palace. It's very obvious, you'll see it when you get there."
"Very obvious?" Xiaoyao hesitated. Were there any landmarks?
"Mm, very obvious. The queue is so long, it would be strange if it weren't obvious. Oh right, if you're any later, you might not reach your turn even after the deadline," Tian He suddenly remembered this and immediately reminded Xiaoyao.
Xiaoyao could arrive before noon, but arriving was useless because you still had to queue. By the time your turn came, registration might have already ended.
"So that's how it is... Waiter, give me a basket of steamed buns to go..." Xiaoyao turned to shout at the waiter. He had originally planned to eat slowly here, drinking soy milk while eating fried dough sticks and steamed buns. But now he felt he needed to change his plans. He didn't want his registration to fail. Although he hadn't thought about marrying the Baiyue Kingdom princess, he wanted to sabotage Li Cheng from the Greedy Wolf Empire.
(End of Chapter)