Volume 5 Phoenix Flower Blooms, Chapter 44: Reviving Majesty (Part 7)

Wuzhiqi did not speak. He held the wine bowl aloft, as if lost in a daze.

Shattered pieces of masks lay all over the ground, with sunlight filtering through the patterned gaps of the door, speckling them. After a long while, he suddenly sighed, tilting his wrist, he poured the wine over the masks. "In the old days, how carefree we were…" he muttered, "Who knew that being human could be so arduous."

Having said that, he gently tossed the wine bowl aside, and it shattered with a clang. He then grabbed the wine jar and downed it in one go, emptying it in the blink of an eye. Wuzhiqi wiped his mouth cheerfully and strode out of the door with a flourish.