Yourheartbeat
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Chapter 14 Liu Yuru listened to everything Jiang Rou said, and did not respond. Jiang Rou waited. After a long silence, Liu Yuru said: "What was it like for you, when you first married Master Gu?" "Him?" Jiang Rou laughed softly. "He was a mess. He was keeping a woman outside the household. Then in the first three years after we married, he brought in several concubines." Liu Yuru's expression shifted slightly. Jiang Rou continued: "These things were common enough. But I was young then, and I was fond…-
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Chapter 13 Liu Yuru recognized Jiang Rou. She hesitated for a moment, then began to push herself upright to offer a proper greeting. Jiang Rou pressed her back down. "You are not well. Stay lying down. We do not stand on ceremony in this household. I have brought a physician to look at you." There was nothing physically wrong with Liu Yuru. But her mind was so thoroughly empty at that moment that she could not summon the will to pretend otherwise. She lay back and let Jiang Rou call the physician in to…
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Chapter 12 Liu Yuru slept through the night and woke still holding the banknote. She lay on the bed without moving, her mind empty and still. After the night's full reckoning, the grief and the rage had run out of her and left something quieter behind, a blankness that was not peace but was at least not pain. She did not know what all those years of careful effort had been for. She did not know how she was going to move forward. However sharp her mind, she was still only fifteen years old. Fifteen was…
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Chapter 11 Liu Yuru stared at him. Gu Jiusi was still happily planning out the future, absorbed in his own vision of it. He said earnestly: "I have thought it through. The reason women care so much about reputation is to marry into a good household. And the reason they want a good household is to live well. But if you can make yourself live well on your own terms, you do not need the good household, and if you do not need the good household, it does not matter what people say. Does that not follow?" "A…
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# Chapter 12 Shen Xinyan had actually been waiting for Wei Junhang's reaction. The sudden replacement of those who attended him with unfamiliar faces could not possibly escape his notice, yet he had said nothing, leaving her unable to read his mind. Until the following day, when Wei Junhang presented her with an exquisite embroidered box, his eyes shining brightly, full of anticipation. Shen Xinyan felt her heart flutter under his intense gaze: "What, what is this?" Wei Junhang did not answer…-
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Chapter 10 It was Ye Shi'an. On the day of her wedding, Ye Shi'an had come back. Liu Yuru sat completely still inside the palanquin. When she had lifted the veil, she had not actually expected him to be there. She had done the calculation: he had just finished the provincial examinations, and by any reasonable reckoning, he would need several more days of rest before making the journey home. His being here made no sense. And it made her mind go in directions she had no business following. Why had he…
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Chapter 9 Liu Yuru guided Su Wan in with measured, unhurried steps, her bearing composed in a way that would not have looked out of place in any household of standing, despite growing up in a modest merchant's home. It was something she had learned carefully over years of visits to the Ye family, who held themselves to a high standard in all things. She could feel Jiang Rou's eyes on her, and she did not raise her own. She stood quietly behind Su Wan, exactly as propriety required. Jiang Rou smiled and…
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# Chapter 11 Wei Chenglin shook his head: "Not directly. It is only that I happened to learn of this matter and thought something about it was amiss. So I came to ask Mother about it." Shen Xinyan gave a small nod, but did not ask what he found amiss. Wei Chenglin hesitated for a moment before finally speaking, though his voice grew quieter: "Mother, do you not think you should have informed Father beforehand? After all, those people were serving Father. If this causes friction between you and…
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# Chapter 10 Having successfully struck a nerve in Yang Shi's heart, Shen Xinyan set down her teacup with a satisfied smile after taking a small sip, only to see the Great Princess emerge from behind a standing screen with a beaming face, supported by a young woman in purple robes. Shen Xinyan glanced at the girl and recognized her at once as Fang Shi's legitimate younger sister, Fang Bibi, the youngest daughter of the Marquis of Pingliang. Judging by the Great Princess's manner, it came as no…
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# Chapter 9 "How would I dare anger her? She's the mother of Concubine Lianxiang, half a mistress of this household herself!" Xiahe said mockingly, then turned on her heel and walked off with a dark expression. "What Concubine Lianxiang? Where did this concubine business come from? What madness has gotten into this girl?" Qiutang was thoroughly confused, until Granny Wang at her side quietly recounted the whole incident from start to finish. Qiutang's brow furrowed as she heard it, rubbing her…
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