"I'm very generous, I know." Meng Yao would have protested but he supposed if he wanted to talk to him and learn things, he would have to find a way to keep him around and this honestly seemed ideal. He pulled some coins from his purse and slid them across the bar, smiling politely at the women.

"Come, find us somewhere to sit. It seems we will be dining together." Given he was also buying the strange thing rice balls and all.

This man knew him from the stage, so he must live in Lanling and he probably had some kind of a master. But he wasn't a cultivator? Strange. Then what was it about him that left people so unsettled. "Do you enjoy watching me perform?" He usually got a lot of compliments but not everyone could understand the arts.