Against all odds, the day of the feast arrived and Chu Yun managed to have everything ready on time.
He had scheduled everything for a later supper, which gave him the time to spend the morning and early afternoon overseeing the finishing details.
He hadn't spoken with Tan Ruo since they went to her house, but from what Hua Nanyi had gleamed from her incursions into Haolin's busiest teahouses and restaurants, the Second Prince's 'housewarming' feast was the talk of the capital, and everyone who was anyone would be in attendance.
Chu Yun's goal wasn't to rub elbows with Haolin's finest, he had an inkling the Zui nobility was bound to be just as insufferable as the one in Xin, but he needed to establish Xiao Zai's presence in society.
He had left the palace, established his own household -- he was his own person now, no longer living under the King's shadow.
