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"Sashimi, octopus balls?"

Chen Leyao couldn’t help but exclaim, covering her mouth with her hand, "Oh my goodness, sashimi? Can fish really be eaten raw?"

Even Lady Jiang couldn’t help but twitch the corner of her mouth, thinking of eating raw fish? Absolutely out of the question!

Lady Jiang and her companion had been discussing for half an hour in the elegant room without deciding what to eat, until a maid came in and explained some dishes. Only then did they finally decide to order some sushi to taste.

While the Jiangs were discussing, Lin Yuan had already brought Xia Zhen and Tian Hui, filled with secrecy, to the third floor.

Facing the tightly closed door, Tian Hui looked at Lin Yuan with some puzzlement. "Yuanyuan, is this the surprise you mentioned?"

Xia Zhen was also puzzled—where was the surprise? There was just a closed door!

Seeing his big brother’s skeptical look, Xia Zheng pulled Lin Yuan’s hand indignantly. "Yuanyuan, didn’t we agree not to make this room public? Why have you brought big brother and sister-in-law here? Hmph, we had agreed this was our little secret. Really, now."

Seeing Xia Zheng’s disgruntled expression as if his little secret had been spied upon, Lin Yuan chuckled and curved her lips. "It indeed is a little secret. However, if this little secret can bring us quite a bit of economic benefit, I am very fond of sharing it with everyone."

Xia Zheng’s mouth twitched—sure enough, that girl had gone into her money pit again and couldn’t climb out.

Lin Yuan gave Tian Hui a wink and then led Xia Zheng away.

Tian Hui’s cheeks flushed. Why did her heart flutter like a startled deer when she caught Lin Yuan’s eye just now? It was as if she were eagerly looking forward to entering that room.

Xia Zheng shot Xia Zhen a resentful glare and threw out the phrase "don’t miss the opportunity" before letting Lin Yuan drag him away.

With the two bright lights gone and Tian Hui wracking her brains on how to broach the subject of entering, Xia Zhen had already taken the lead, pulling her hand to push open the door.

"The little rascal doesn’t want me to enter, so we will just have to go in and see for ourselves, hmph.

Yi Ran Residence was once my turf, I was wondering, is there anything in this restaurant I don’t know about? Really..."

He couldn’t finish his sentence, as he was utterly astonished by the sight before him.

Yes, dumbfounded!

Tian Hui’s mouth was agape. Had it not been for the firm sensation of Xia Zhen holding her hand, she might have doubted that she was in a dream.

The moment the room opened, it was as though the world had changed colors—the sunlight became colorful and sparse, casting through some unknown transparent material onto the corners of the room, filling the entire room with ever-shifting rainbow lights.

"Wow, how beautiful!" Tian Hui couldn’t resist stepping forward, unaware of how many steps she had taken to the center of the room, nor did Xia Zhen, drawn forward as well, even notice when the door behind them had closed.

Hand in hand, side by side, their heads were illuminated by a huge chandelier made of glazed glass, a gigantic glazed bead as big as a table, suspended in mid-air like the moon that seems both near and far.

No, more precisely, like a mysterious twinkling cluster of stars, surrounded by a special craft that included eight small platforms on the corners, each topped with a small candle and dangling various shaped pendants.

The candlelight, after refracting through a series of differently shaped glazed beads, scattered on the floor in a dappled, endearing shimmer.

The walls around them were not bland either. Opposite the room was a window facing the street, with curtains made of Cicada Wing and Light Gauze in three different colors, inner and outer layers. The already thin Light Gauze, overlapped in layers, was even more dazzling and radiant.

On the other walls were patterns of colorful glazed beads, which at first glance seemed without order, but upon closer inspection, the placement of the beads felt strangely familiar.

"This is, a starry sky?" Xia Zhen, having seen much of the world, especially during military campaigns, often relied on the stars to navigate. He only needed a few glances to recognize that the wall’s glazed beads were arranged according to the positions of stars in the sky.

"Husband, do you recognize this?" Tian Hui blinked curiously, as she hadn’t made out what the arrangement on the wall represented at all.