As a newly minted Juren, Zhao Yan had already been congratulated over and over again. The inn clerk now looked at him with burning eyes, seemingly thrilled that he had blindly stumbled into securing a Juren for the inn.
Zhao Yan did not understand; he just wanted to crawl into a crack right now.
To avoid those total strangers, he refused to come out of his room once he went inside. Congratulations from acquaintances were one thing, but people he had never met somehow caught wind of the news, camped outside his door every day, and started showering him with extravagant flattery. Zhao Yan had been terrified by these rigid praises; he would rather stay cooped up in his room than come out.
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