The many quirks and little-known secrets of the masters at Beiliang University flowed from Zhou Li as freely as roasted beans given away without cost. Coupled with her home-turf advantage, once Zhou Li opened her chatterbox, the gossip flowed endlessly.
Master Li, in his fifties, had tried matchmaking six times unsuccessfully, failing eight times—the extra two were because he had taken a fancy to the other party's mother, the impact of which was explosive. The old scholar, in his desire to drink a little wine, shamelessly befriended a student and became sworn siblings with them, only to be beaten to a pulp by Lady Zhang for an entire day and night. The medical master Chang Chun was once a famous bald healer and, after intensive research, managed to produce several convincing wigs instead of a hair growth medicine, having failed to develop the actual remedy.
"Wow..."