The person who recognized Xiaoyao seemed to be only this one person. Others all said they had never seen Xiaoyao before. Even the Luo family members hadn't seen Xiaoyao, so it was even more impossible for others to have seen him.

Xiaoyao had only shown his face once during that time when he sat in the hall practicing medicine, but that was just for a moment—he only appeared in the last half hour, so the possibility of being encountered was extremely low.

If that young lady from that time had come, she would have recognized Xiaoyao, but it seemed that young lady wasn't among them. It was unclear whether she hadn't come or was busy with other matters and hadn't seen Xiaoyao.

Actually, even if she saw Xiaoyao now, she might not recognize him at first glance. Xiaoyao's current attire was that of a professional traveler, unlike his previous casual appearance.

"Friend, this isn't a place you should be. Please leave!" Before long, Xiaoyao was surrounded by guards, and a squad leader came over to speak with him.

"Why be polite to such a servant? Just drive him away," the young masters on the side said disdainfully, not very satisfied with the squad leader's politeness.

"Sorry, but my identity here isn't that of a servant. I'm one of the participants," Xiaoyao replied with a smile.

"Haha, how ridiculous! Do you know what kind of gathering this is, what kind of people participate? With your status, you claim to be one of the participants? Don't be so laughable," a very arrogant young master said with a big laugh. Not to mention Xiaoyao's clothing and appearance, just the fact that Xiaoyao had helped carry luggage earlier made them very certain that Xiaoyao couldn't possibly be a participant.

...

...

"It's just a spring outing. What kind of people? I don't see anything special—just a group of young people's activities," Xiaoyao said nonchalantly.

"A group of young people? Do you know that everyone here is a person of status and position?" the young master sneered.

"I really don't know. What are your statuses and positions?" Xiaoyao asked with a smile, but his words seemed to be casual responses. His attention was still on his kite, which was now standing out prominently. Basically, all other kites were gradually moving away from his, or were simply being reeled in.

"Let me tell you, my father is Liu Jin, she's the second young lady of the Chen family, he is..." the young master said proudly. These identities were indeed extraordinary in this Flowing Stone Kingdom, but—

"After talking for so long, you've only mentioned your parents' and families' identities. What about yours?" Xiaoyao's lips curved slightly upward, his disdainful meaning very obvious. You're only relying on your birth. What about your own identities and positions?

"Boy, are you looking for death? How dare you mock us!"

"This isn't mockery, just a fact. When you can present some identity and position of your own, then talk. Don't say such things now, or it will only make people think you're merely spoiled young masters and pampered young ladies," Xiaoyao replied with a smile.

"No matter what, we're better than you—a servant who dares to talk like this!!" The young master was angry and rushed over to hit someone, but was blocked by the guards.

The guards weren't protecting Xiaoyao—they just didn't want any conflicts here, especially if Xiaoyao had any abilities, then this young master might get hurt, which they didn't want to see.

"Even if I am a servant, I speak using my own abilities, not like you, only knowing to say who your father is and what your family is," Xiaoyao said disdainfully, finally waving his hand, "Don't interfere with my kite flying. All of you, move away!"

"Friend, do you have any proof that you're a participant?" the squad leader asked. He couldn't afford to offend anyone here. Although Xiaoyao's clothing looked casual, this was also relative.

The squad leader could see that the reason Xiaoyao's clothes weren't gorgeous was their practicality—they were quite suitable for this kind of spring outing activity. If he had come alone, dressing like this would be very convenient.

It was only because the young masters and ladies here were dressed too gorgeously that people felt Xiaoyao was dressed casually. In fact, these young masters and ladies' clothes were abnormal—Xiaoyao's were normal. But when everyone else was abnormal and he was the only normal one, he also became abnormal.

At the same time, although Xiaoyao's clothes didn't look very gorgeous, the fabric was still good and the workmanship was exquisite. This wasn't something ordinary servants could possess. Perhaps some families would issue some good fabric uniforms, but those were just uniforms. Xiaoyao's outfit didn't look like a uniform at all—it should be specially customized.

Such specially customized clothing definitely wasn't something ordinary servants could possess. Perhaps this young man was also one of the young masters, just wearing clothes suitable for this activity but not suitable for this occasion.

"Participants don't have invitation cards. Use this!" Xiaoyao took out the Luo family's identity jade token. This should be able to prove something.

"Oh, this is the Luo family's jade token. He's from the Luo family!"

"This might be a jade token for Luo family servants!"

"You don't understand. For the Luo family's jade tokens like this, only those with Luo family bloodline can possess them. Although I don't know what his status is in the Luo family, he's at least not a servant. If he appears here, he should be a participant."

At this point, the expressions of those young masters and ladies changed slightly. Anyone from the Luo family, regardless of their status, might be more important than them. Just now they had called him a servant—if the Luo family knew about this, it might be troublesome.

Of course, this was only a possibility. He might also be weaker than them. Besides, generally when conflicts arose, they were just matters between juniors and theoretically wouldn't involve the families.

But this at least showed that Xiaoyao's status was now equal to theirs. This was the most crucial point!

"So you're a young master of the Luo family. Our apologies! Everyone, withdraw!" the squad leader immediately said. Now it didn't matter whether Xiaoyao had come uninvited—they didn't want to deal with this matter.

When immortals fight, what does it have to do with us!

"So you're from the Luo family. You don't need to play pig to eat tiger like this, do you? Who exactly are you trying to eat?" the previous young master snorted coldly. This matter could only end here. Later he'd go inquire about this kid's identity from those few from the Luo family.

"I'm just here for the spring outing. How was I to know you'd all dress like you're attending a banquet," Xiaoyao said helplessly.

"..."

Those young masters and ladies immediately fell silent. Speaking of it, it really was like that—this person's way was what spring outings should be like. But didn't he know the purpose of this spring outing activity? This was for blind dates, so of course one had to dress nicely. Dressed like you, who would take a fancy to you?

But thinking about it, he didn't seem to be here for blind dates at all, just purely for the spring outing. In that case, they understood.

Let's disperse. In this situation, they had no reason to continue. Regardless of what Xiaoyao came to do, it wasn't their place to manage.

"Whose kite is that up there?" a young lady pointed at Xiaoyao's kite and asked.

"It belongs to that guy over there. Do you know him?" someone who had just returned from Xiaoyao's side asked.

"I don't know him. Who is he?" the young lady shook her head.

"You don't know him? He's from the Luo family," the person said again. This young lady was the daughter of the Luo family head, Luo Baochai.

"From the Luo family? Speaking of it, he does look somewhat familiar... No, I should never have seen him," Luo Baochai said puzzledly. Looking at Xiaoyao, she seemed to have seen him somewhere, but she was certain she hadn't, because she had a photographic memory.

"Eighth Brother, do you know that person?" Luo Baochai asked a twenty-three or twenty-four-year-old rakish young master beside her. He was currently laughing and playing with a wealthy young lady, flying kites. He was the eighth young master of this generation of the Luo family.

"Who?" After hearing Luo Baochai's words, the eighth young master stopped what he was doing and asked back.

"That person!" Luo Baochai pointed at Xiaoyao and asked.

"Don't know him. Dressed like that, might be a servant. Even if I've seen him, I wouldn't remember," the eighth young master glanced at Xiaoyao, then directly shook his head and continued playing with the wealthy young lady.

"I'll go ask," Luo Baochai said. Seeing the eighth young master's attitude, asking him was basically hopeless. There was another Luo family member here who was close to her—her fifth brother—but Fifth Brother was busy as one of the organizers, and she didn't want to disturb him.

"Baochai, don't go. There's nothing worth asking about such a person. Even if he's from your family, it doesn't matter," seeing Luo Baochai wanting to go over, her companions tried to dissuade her.

"But I want his kite. It looks so cute," Luo Baochai said.

"..."

Everyone fell silent, but Luo Baochai's companions knew this was Luo Baochai's quirk acting up. She often saw strange things and called them cute, then wanted to possess them.

Take this kite for example—it looked as crude as could be, and they couldn't see anything cute about it at all, but she found it cute. This was her peculiar vision.

They also knew that stopping Luo Baochai was basically impossible. They could only accompany her and prevent Xiaoyao from taking advantage.

"My name is Luo Baochai. We're both from the Luo family. Shall we get acquainted?" Luo Baochai looked at Xiaoyao and asked.

"External clan member of the Luo family, Le Xiaoyao. Please treat me kindly," Xiaoyao looked at Luo Baochai and said very politely, though he couldn't figure out who this Luo Baochai was or why she had suddenly come to find him.

"I feel like I've seen you somewhere before, but I can't remember. Have we met before?" When Luo Baochai looked at Xiaoyao, she felt even more that she should have seen Xiaoyao before. This made her even more puzzled—why couldn't she remember?

(End of Chapter)