Curiously asked again, “What are third- and fourth-tier cities?”

“About the same as you!”

Second Young Master Foster looked her up and down with a smile, then suddenly said, “Since I’ve paid today, does that mean anything goes?”

Miss Grace gave him a gentle glare, then lowered her head without saying a word.

Yet her delicate, boneless body softly leaned toward him, almost lying in his arms.

“I’m asking you, does anything go?”

Second Young Master Foster asked again with a grin.

Miss Grace blushed deeply, and after a moment, gently nodded and said, “Silly, do you really need to ask?”

“Then I’m relieved!”

Second Young Master Foster suddenly pushed her away, took out a scroll of scripture from his robe, slapped it on the table, and said with a laugh, “Copy this ‘Book of Documents’ for me ten times. Not a single character can be wrong, and it all has to be in standard small regular script. I want it done by tomorrow morning…”

Miss Grace was dumbfounded when she heard this.

Second Young Master Foster, on the other hand, cheerfully called for someone to quickly bring paper and brush, his face full of satisfaction.

Chapter Two: A Genius Born

“Young master, did you have fun yesterday?”

The next day, countless students and wealthy gentry of Liuhu City who had attended yesterday’s grand event were all talking about their legendary encounter with Foster Family Second Young Master. Even more people were secretly guessing what kind of wonderful night Second Young Master Foster and Miss Grace had spent together, drooling with envy. But this Second Young Master Foster had already boarded a carriage at the back gate at dawn.

Driving the carriage was his personal attendant Little Lily, who poked his head in from the front with a mischievous grin.

Second Young Master Foster, who hadn’t slept all night, looked a bit tired, but was in a great mood. He was holding several scrolls of paper with ink still wet, flipping through them page by page. The more he read, the more he smiled, nodding at his attendant and saying, “The fox’s tail is showing. In the first three scrolls, she was still careful and hid it well, but later, when she got tired, her demonic aura leaked out!”

The attendant lowered his voice and said, “So you mean…”

Second Young Master Foster said, “Let’s take a trip to the teahouse outside the city, offer a reward of five thousand taels of gold, and get rid of her!”

Little Lily nodded, “Still using the old channels?”

Second Young Master Foster glared at him, “Do you expect me, Second Young Master Foster, to do it myself?”

Little Lily quickly shrank his head back, not daring to ask further.

Second Young Master Foster lifted the curtain and glanced outside. By now, the carriage had returned to the main street. Everywhere, well-dressed ladies with hangover faces were walking arm in arm, laughing and chatting as they headed home to have breakfast with their husbands.

“These fools…”

He let out a cold chuckle and dropped the curtain. “Throwing away piles of silver in the arms of beauties, thinking they’re getting a bargain, priding themselves on being romantic. How could they know that these seemingly delicate girls are actually man-eating demons? Spending a little silver is nothing, but in reality, after a night of supposed tenderness, even the last traces of their innate vitality have been stolen away.”

As he spoke, he frowned slightly:

How could a fox demon cultivate so openly in Liuhu City? Whose protection does she have?

In this world, there are indeed fox demons and ghosts, but there are also cultivators. The city has its own guards and divine generals, and outside the city, several old masters from the Baixiang Academy keep watch. With such sharp eyes, these monsters should be hiding far away—how dare they enter the city?

His expression gradually darkened.

If not for his promise to his elder brother, he really shouldn’t bother with such troublesome matters.

How nice it would be to just be a carefree playboy?

As he thought, he picked up an old umbrella from the side and carved a mark into it.

By now, the umbrella was already covered with twelve crisscrossing marks.

Perhaps only the coachman Little Lily knew that these represented the three river monsters eliminated in Liuhu City and its surroundings, four bandits who used sorcery for evil, a demon sect that kidnapped children to make pills, and four demons hiding in the city.

“Second young master is back…”

When the carriage returned to the Fang residence in the north of the city, Carter Foster was already asleep inside.

Inside the residence, hearing that the second son who hadn’t come home all night was back, the Mr. Foster, who was having breakfast in the hall, immediately slammed his chopsticks down in anger, grabbed the feather duster by the door, and stormed out. The Mrs. Foster in the hall was instantly worried, repeatedly trying to dissuade him as she followed. At the second gate, they saw the plump, strong maid carrying the drowsy Second Young Master Foster into the hall.

Mr. Foster stormed up, cursing and waving the feather duster, “You useless thing, where have you been fooling around again? You don’t study your books, you don’t practice your skills. How many times has Baixiang Academy called for you? You just think it’s too hard and refuse to go. Can’t you put in a little effort? Look at your brother—he entered the academy at seven, joined the county sect at nine. And look at you, all you do is cockfighting and dog racing. Now you’ve even learned to hang around brothels…”

The scolding was unusually fierce, and the feather duster swished through the air.