Throne Steps

Chapter 175 New Year's New Moth

A few months later, the noble New Year's dinner in pure white.

Li Chen stood in the corner, holding a glass of fruit wine in his hand, his face remained calm, but he sighed again in his heart.

——Why on earth did you call me here?

Half a month ago, he received a private letter from Saenz, asking him to pack his bags immediately and come to this year's nobles' New Year's dinner.

Li Chen couldn't understand it.This event is almost like a New Year's party for the top nobles, or the kind that most of the younger generation's eternal colors will appear.Wiggins had been with Saenz a few times before, but it was to increase Wiggins' social status.Li Chen is now nominally affiliated with Black Swan, which claims to be a free mercenary group that "follows Saenz, but does not obey Saenz". Why did Saenz bring himself to the New Year's dinner?

You can’t say to these future patriarchs and nobles, “Hello everyone, let me introduce the black swan, which is actually under my command, so I will bring someone to recognize the face”, right?

But doubts are doubts, Li Chen still came.No way, Saenz used the "loyalty contract". Even though there was no actual harm, the sense of existence was very strong, and Li Chen had to submit obediently.

The final result was that tonight he was wearing a white guard uniform, with a face he didn't even know, and followed in under the name of Saenz's guard.

Since he came in, countless probing eyes have glided over him either explicitly or covertly, and Li Chen understands the reason very well.The guards who regularly showed up beside Saenz had already been identified. Anyone who heard that a stranger like himself was brought in suddenly and introduced as a guard would be suspicious!

Finally, the surrounding lights dimmed and the music started, and Saenz got to the open space in the center of the banquet hall to dance the opening dance.

Li Chen secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and walked to the corner with a glass of fruit wine.The light here is dim, and it's hard to be noticed, but even so, Li Chen didn't dare to relax his straight back a little bit.

He is now wearing the uniform of the pure white family, and he must have the self-consciousness to maintain this honor.

The sweet fruit wine slipped into his throat, and Li Chen looked through the men and women in front of him, and saw the people dancing to the first song through the cracks.

yes people.The opening song of the younger generation is not so particular, mostly the children of the main family of Eternal Color dance together.Li Chen only took a few glances and recognized several pairs.

Fjalal was naturally with his wife, and the lady who was born in navy blue was not inferior to her husband in terms of temperament; the pure white pearl Lailier, who had vacated the seat for his sister-in-law, was holding Saenz's hand Turning lightly on the dance floor; the blond twins, who have similar faces but have their own characteristics, have become the most tacit dance partners.

In addition, there is Belen, the flower of the high mountains of the Meloyer family in the color of sea blue, holding a girl of the same clan as him; The girl who was dressed in a flame-like dress like him was hard to ignore.

The other eternal colors will not be repeated one by one.

"That's..." Li Chen murmured, taking two steps closer, his eyes gliding past the face of the girl who turned around.

She was Cervantes' biological sister, and Li Chen defined the identity of this girl.He watched the girl slowly turn away with the music, and the light cast on her skirt. She was like a flame burning on the dance floor, bright, beautiful, and passionate.

Sure enough, she has already entered the social circle, it seems that her goal is really...

While thinking about it, Li Chen turned his eyes away, and happened to meet Saenz who turned to him.

Dressed in a gold-edged dress with a white background, her golden, slightly curly hair hangs down to her shoulders.The corners of his mouth were curled up, his eyes were slightly bent, his expression seemed to be full of tenderness, and his smile seemed to be filled with compassion that could heal people.Standing together with the pure white pearl, he was radiant, no matter how grand the clothes were, it was just icing on the cake for them.

Li Chen knew Saenz's appearance, but he still couldn't turn a blind eye to such a god-given appearance.

There were two rows of people between them, and Saenz seemed to just glance over inadvertently.But Lichen knew that he saw himself.

Li Chen smiled and raised the wine glass in his hand to him.

The next moment, their eyes staggered.

Li Chen left the radiant dance floor and returned to the darkness.

The young eternal colors danced a total of three songs.In the third song, the silvery and vermilion delicate flower finally came to Saenz.

Even after dancing the three songs, Li Chen did not return to Saenz immediately.All kinds of nobles were surrounding him. To be precise, the nobles gathered together to talk in twos and threes. As a pure white color, Saenz would never be let go.The main purpose of everyone coming to this kind of banquet is to socialize, especially to develop and consolidate friendship with the top eternal colors.

Li Chen is just an unknown person, standing leisurely in the corner, quietly watching the separation and reunion of the crowd, and guessing the relationship network of these people when he is interested.

"Look, here is a young master who is spending time alone!"

A coquettish smile followed by a burst of fragrance powder suddenly rushed to Li Chen's side, Li Chen couldn't help being shocked, but he reacted immediately in the next second, turning his head and showing a smile: "Good evening, beautiful lady."

A well-dressed, plump lady stood next to Li Chen. Although she didn't meet him yet, the distance was much closer than normal social interaction.Perhaps capturing Li Chen's startled expression, the lady opened her feather fan and half covered her mouth, giggling.

"Don't be nervous, I won't eat you again."

...Maybe really, Li Chen secretly groaned in his heart.He was the one who had been fanned by noble ladies a lot, and he knew what these women were thinking as soon as he met him.To be honest, if it weren't for their complicated backgrounds and social relationships, Li Chen wouldn't really mind this kind of one-night spring dinner.But whoever has time to investigate who is standing behind the lady throwing the fan, in order to prevent kicking the iron plate, Li Chen has always been respectful to this ethnic group.

Especially in a banquet of this level, it is better not to mess with this group of top nobles who are hidden dragons and crouching tigers.

Seeing that Li Chen just smiled and didn't answer, the lady moved closer: "Are you free to enjoy the moon at night, young master?"

Li Chen's hairs stood on end, but he said calmly, "I'm afraid I'll disappoint you. I'm a guard and I still have work at night."

"I don't think you are like a white guard." The lady smiled coquettishly, stretched out her fingertips and slid across Li Chen's skirt, "The white guard is more rigid than you... Oh, no, much more reserved and serious. Your eyes look like Not so straight, with a slightly sinister smile and glance - just my favorite type!"

It turned out to be this kind of taste, no wonder I was caught hiding here, if you want to let you know that I am a black swan, is that okay? !Li Chen took a step back silently, and replied with a smile as dignified and elegant as possible: "Thank you for your attention, but it is really inconvenient for me."

"Hey, this kind of deliberate seriousness is really cute..."

"Respect yourself, ma'am."

An unfamiliar voice suddenly came in, and Li Chen turned his head to see that it was Cervantes in a red dress.He is tall, but not overly muscular, and his ornamental sword looks explosive in his hands.His skin was brownish, and his eyes were determined, but this did not contradict his elegance.

After leaving Pesa, the number of contacts between Li Chen and Cervantes decreased greatly.Looking at it now, the young soldier who had killed the Quartet in school had also grown into a gentleman with both strength and elegance.

The noble lady seemed to be a little jealous of him, but she wasn't particularly scared, she just took two steps back and said, "Hey, the noble young master who is as silver and vermilion is also here to take a break from his busy schedule."

"That's right. As you know, as a fighter, I'm more used to being active on the training ground." Cervantes easily dropped the topic, "Please let me have a good rest."

The noble lady looked at him, then at Li Chen, and said goodbye with a hint of reluctance.

Li Chen saluted Cervantes: "Thank you."

"It's nothing, they've been eyeing the pure white guards for a long time, and they finally found one..." Cervantes smiled, took off his right hand glove, and twirled a delicate pastry on the dining table, "Oh, So sweet!"

"We are just honored by Your Highness." Li Chen smiled and pointed to another snack next to him, "This one may suit your appetite."

Cervantes clapped his hands lightly as if he didn't hear, and then put back his ceremonial gloves on his own: "The last time we met was at the inauguration ceremony of the Ainuma Temple?"

... straight ball.

No matter how calm Li Chen was, he couldn't help coughing lightly: "At that time, I was able to see you from a distance, but I haven't had the honor of meeting you face to face..."

"Forget about the scene." Cervantes happened to have gloves, and without looking at Li Chen, he just raised his hand to beckon the waiter who served the wine, "What does he want to bring you here today?"

"I'm sorry, but it's the truth—I don't know." Li Chen also stopped looking at Cervantes, his eyes darting around the crowd, "Your Highness, don't dare to speculate."

When the waiter approached, they naturally stopped talking, just like two people who happened to be standing close to each other.It wasn't until Cervantes finished taking a glass of champagne-colored cider and the waiter walked away that the silver-colored young master said leisurely: "You say he didn't tell you, I can believe it; you say you didn't guess it, I don't believe it .”

Not to mention that Li Chen really didn't guess it, even if he guessed it, he didn't dare to admit it: "You think too highly of me."

"Come on, I don't dare to provoke you." Cervantes took a sip of the drink in his hand and put the cup on the table, "By the way, I am not the only one present who can guess your identity, you Guess how many are interested in you?"

He asked, but didn't intend to really listen to the answer, turned around and left.

Li Chen stood in the darkness and smiled, looked around calmly, then walked to the table, with his back to the glass with wine.

He looked at the lively part of the crowd, with his hands behind his back, he suddenly shook out a handkerchief.

The handkerchief lightly covered the glass, and the next moment, the glass had disappeared.