Category: MMPMH
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Chapter 45: Not associating with trash
Without eating even a single bite, Gu daren left the room. Xie shi sat on the chair with a dazed expression. Her mind was blank and she was completely at a loss. “Taitai? Taitai! Are you alright?” Chun He whispered anxiously. “Help me sit on the couch.” Xie shi’s voice…
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Chapter 44: To bully intolerably
Li Chuan knelt inside the outer yard study, trembling with fear. Gu daren sat on the chair, his expression cloudy that it could drip water. “Did you just say that er guniang stabbed Xie Xian because he misbehaved with her?” “Yes! Xiaode doesn’t dare to speak false words.” Gu daren…
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Chapter 41: To kill or not to kill
Late in the night, Tianmen Temple’s rear court was brightly lit. The abbot of the temple, Master Huitong, stood before Gu Jiu. “We caused Gu shizhu to be startled.” Gu Jiu’s neck was wrapped with a cotton cloth to cover the marks. The maidservants woke up after being splashed by a bucket…
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Chapter 42: Keeping distance
Second geng Zhao San was extremely anxious. “But if gongzi’s treatment is delayed again, what should we do?” Liu Zhao was calm. “No matter.” Saying so, he began writing. Zhao San didn’t dare to disturb him, so he could only stand at the side, quiet as a chicken. After Liu Zhao finished…
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Chapter 43: Who hurt my son?
Two prescriptions and a note were placed before Liu Zhao. Liu Zhao merely swept his eyes across the prescriptions. His gaze finally landed on the note. First, boil the gauze used to wrap the wound in water for as long as it takes to drink a cup of tea. It…
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Chapter 35: Tricked
“Taitai, Gao Sanfu requests to see you.” Inside shangfang, Xie shi lay on the couch, reclining, The room had already been cleaned up, the carpet had been changed and the decorations were still splendid as before. The maids prepared another pot of tea and placed a cup in Xie shi’s hand. Xie shi sat up. “Call…
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Chapter 36: Tianmen Temple
The bullock cart swayed and rocked all the way and finally reached Tianmen Temple. Gu Jiu was completely exhausted by the ride. She also began feeling dizzy. She had never been car-sick, train-sick or air-sick; but unexpectedly, she turned out to be bullock cart-sick. Even she was startled by this. …
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Chapter 37: My gongzi invites you
Gu Jiu changed into simple and clean clothes and walked out of Puxian courtyard with her maids. When her eyes swept across her surroundings, she spotted a powerful guard stationed in front of a courtyard to her right. Qing Mei said, “Guniang, there seems to be someone living in the…
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Chapter 38: Gongzi is ill
Gu Jiu followed the guard inside the pavilion. When she got closer, she saw that the black-robed gongzi was quite good-looking, as if he had walked out of a painting. There was a faint melancholy in his countenance, his temperament seemed cultured and refined and one would have a favourable impression of…
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Chapter 39: Don’t talk unless you want to die
“Walk quickly, don’t speak.” Gu Jiu lowered her voice and sternly warned her three maidservants. Leaving the orchard hurriedly, they crossed a courtyard wall and returned to the rear court. Gu Jiu’s complexion was pale and her forehead was covered with sweat. Only once they returned to Puxian courtyard, Gu…
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