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Chapter 661 Drawing Lots to Decide Who Performs First
The banquet had started. Unlike regular banquets, the guests were served fresh fruits, light dishes, and sweet fruit wine. Everything was meant to be mild-tasting.
A maid presented a small tube filled with many polished bamboo sticks. The sticks were beautiful because of their careful engravings of all sorts of flowers.
It went without saying that the tube of bamboo sticks was taken to Ning Xueyan first. The maid knelt respectfully in front of her, held the tube high, and waited for her to pick a stick. This meant that whether or not she wanted to perform, whether or not she was ready to perform, she would have to show the guests something after drawing a lot.
On the surface, this was a show of respect. In reality, they were forcing her to perform.
Ning Xueyan knew that Wu Yao wouldn't give her a chance to reject performing. She could guess as much after experiencing their little scheme with the zither.
Thus, she smile
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