30. Princess Qixia
「Second floor of the Chuxiang Pavilion」
A dazzling silhouette dashed out from the private room, looking as if she was about to collide with the waiter carrying a full tray of dishes. Murong Ting leaped out to intercept the woman at that exact moment, but she was half a beat too slow, and the bright red sleeve slipped through her fingertips.
"Watch out!" Ye Li had already calculated where the scalding hot soup from the tray would splatter the instant the waiter was struck by the lady in red. She quickly grabbed an empty bowl from the table and tossed it. Her precise calculations of position and force knocked the soup pot, which was flying towards someone's head, off its trajectory and to the left. The soup pot crashed to the ground in a clear space some distance away. Thanks to the waiter clutching the tray tightly, the other dishes were mostly spared—only one fell near his feet, its contents splashing onto a guest's clothes.
