Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 1 - Detention
Chapter 2 - Concubine Yun
Chapter 3 - Encountering Joy Is The Norm Of Happiness
Chapter 4 - Fire
Chapter 5 - The Bath
Chapter 6 - The Bean-Like Plum Flower
Chapter 7 - Dealing With Anger
Chapter 8 - The Scheme
Chapter 9 - Fine Time, Beautiful Scenery
Chapter 10 - Paying Respect
Chapter 11 - The Punishment Of Protracted Kneeling
Chapter 12 - Mischievous Young Master
Chapter 13 - Tease
Chapter 14 - Unexpected Pleading
Chapter 15 - Sunbathing In A Hot Summer Day
Chapter 16 - The Illness Examination
Chapter 17 - Eavesdropping Inadvertently
Chapter 18 - Intimacy
Chapter 19 - Hostility
Chapter 20 - Unfamiliar Father And Mother
Chapter 21 - The Reason Of The Visit
Chapter 22 - Who Is The Little Fat Sheep?
Chapter 23 - The Ins And Outs Of The Matter
Chapter 24 - Losing When Taking It Seriously
Chapter 25 - The Fragrance Of Agarwood
Chapter 26 - The Wonderful Redwood Of Yingge
Chapter 27 - The Carved Rabbit
Chapter 28 - The Sachet
Chapter 29 - To Sympathize
Chapter 30 - The Summoning
Chapter 31 - Opposing Each Other With Equal Harshness
Chapter 32 - Condemning
Chapter 33 - Nothing To Discuss Regarding Kissing You
Chapter 34 - The Birthday
Chapter 35 - Going Out
Chapter 36 - Jingtian City
Chapter 37 - Pay The Money
Chapter 38 - The Idle Man On The Street
Chapter 39 - The Ecstasy Of The Purple Lilac
Chapter 40 - The Man Who Forced A Man
Chapter 41 - Eight Naked Men
Chapter 42 - Can’T Provoke A Black Belly
Chapter 43 - The Pendant
Chapter 44 - The House Of Danqing
Chapter 45 - The Interrogation
Chapter 46 - The Hidden Mind
Chapter 47 - The Warning
Chapter 48 - The Incident At The Restaurant
Chapter 49 - The Discussion
Chapter 50 - Fighting To The End
Chapter 51 - Borrowing A Sword To Hurt People
Chapter 52 - Away On The Summer Holidays
Chapter 53 - The Resort At Mountain
Chapter 54 - The Heavily Scented Building
Chapter 55 - The Scream Of The Small Lotus
Chapter 56 - The Misunderstanding
Chapter 57 - Blackmail
Chapter 58 - Test The Waters
Chapter 59 - The Meaning Of Executing With The Firing Squad
Chapter 60 - Each Person Has His Own Aspiration
Chapter 61 - The Heavy Bundle Wrapped In Cloth
Chapter 62 - The Joy In The Forest
Chapter 63 - The Cliff
Chapter 64 - Little Fourth Flipped Out
Chapter 65 - Ashamed
Chapter 66 - Keep Watch At Night
Chapter 67 - The Mysterious Voice
Chapter 68 - The Starved Girl
Chapter 69 - Inadvertently Peeping At A Bath
Chapter 70 - The Overbearing Maid
Chapter 71 - Hopelessly Entangled
Chapter 72 - The Perfect Coordination
Chapter 73 - Seeking Justice
Chapter 74 - Stealing A Kiss
Chapter 75 - Doesn’T Remember Anything
Chapter 76 - The Resentment
Chapter 77 - Skillfully Deflected
Chapter 78 - The Hidden Meaning Behind The Words
Chapter 79 - A Bag Of Gold
Chapter 80 - Carefree
Chapter 81 - Obsessed
Chapter 82 - Discussing In Private
Chapter 83 - Bewildered
Chapter 84 - The Flowery Bright Moon Was Covered In The Dark Fog
Chapter 85 - Every Night Holding A Handsome Man While Sleeping
Chapter 86 - The Mental Disparity
Chapter 87 - Enemies On A Narrow Road
Chapter 88 - Ream On
Chapter 89 - Identity
Chapter 90 - The Silence
Chapter 91 - The Emotional Outburst
Chapter 92 - The Search
Chapter 93 - The Truth
Chapter 94 - Wife, Don’T Be Angry
Chapter 95 - Concealing The Original Motive
Chapter 96 - Retain
Chapter 97 - The Night Of Gentleness
Chapter 98 - Don’T Want To See
Chapter 99 - I Am Your Mother
Chapter 100 - I Don’T Even Have A Copper Coin
Chapter 101 - Shang Xin
Chapter 102 - The Unspeakable Career
Chapter 103 - The Emerge Of The Feeling
Chapter 104 - Inquiring
Chapter 105 - The Ulterior Motive
Chapter 106 - The Slave Contract
Chapter 107 - Counting One’S Chickens Before They Are Hatched
Chapter 108 - Price Competition
Chapter 109 - Please Sir, Get Into The Boiling Pot
Chapter 110 - Get Out
Chapter 111 - Using Violence Is The Right Way Of The King
Chapter 112 - Mooncake
Chapter 113 - The Banquet Of The Mid-Autumn Festival
Chapter 114 - Ill-Timed Person
Chapter 115 - Little Cousin Sister, Please Conduct Yourself With Dignity
Chapter 116 - The Beggar At The Lantern Market
Chapter 117 - The Strong Love
Chapter 118 - Half-Cooked Rice
Chapter 119 - Bringing Trouble To Oneself
Chapter 120 - Thousand Five Hundred Liang
Chapter 121 - Very Stupid, Very Naive
Chapter 122 - The Sudden Grievous News
Chapter 123 - The Past
Chapter 124 - Absolutely Not
Chapter 125 - Grief
Chapter 126 - A Very Strange Thing
Chapter 127 - Searching For Clues
Chapter 128 - Pregnant
Chapter 129 - Candy
Chapter 130 - Who Is The Real Culprit?
Chapter 131 - Old Madam Is Furious
Chapter 132 - Prefer To Die Than To Admit
Chapter 133 - Why Torture Me By Hellish Means?
Chapter 134 - I Hated Him For A Long Time
Chapter 135 - Old Accumulated Grievances
Chapter 136 - Punishment
Chapter 137 - One Word Sentenced For Life
Chapter 138 - Risking One’S Life To Protect
Chapter 139 - Get Poisoned
Chapter 140 - Miscarriage
Chapter 141 - Old Madam, Save Her
Chapter 142 - Where Did The White Arsenic Come From?
Chapter 143 - Innocence
Chapter 144 - The Method Of Poisoning
Chapter 145 - The Miserable Past
Chapter 146 - Not To Stop Until Death
Chapter 147 - Not Believing At All
Chapter 148 - The Hidden Ugliness
Chapter 149 - Ironclad Evidence
Chapter 150 - Shifting The Misfortune To Someone Else
Chapter 151 - I Will Stay With You Forever
Chapter 152 - Rumor
Chapter 153 - The Sky Was About To Change
Chapter 154 - The Letter Of Announcing Divorce
Chapter 155 - No One Owed The Other
Chapter 156 - Goodbye
Chapter 157 - Shameless
Chapter 158 - Extort
Chapter 159 - Selling Herself To Save Her Mother
Chapter 160 - No Choice But To Suffer In Silence
Chapter 161 - Freeing Herself
Chapter 162 - New Home
Chapter 163 - The Life Outside Of The Residence
Chapter 164 - Tailoring
Chapter 165 - On A Windy Night With A Dark Moon
Chapter 166 - Catching A Thief
Chapter 167 - The Date Of Returning Is Distant
Chapter 168 - False Alarm
Chapter 169 - With One’S Heart Set On Speeding Home
Chapter 170 - Something Is Going To Happen
Chapter 171 - Question Intensely About Her Whereabouts
Chapter 172 - The Break Off Of The Relation
Chapter 173 - Facing An Imminent Catastrophe
Chapter 174 - Fleeing For One’S Life
Chapter 175 - Struggle In The Rain
Chapter 176 - The Reunion
Chapter 177 - An Old Friend That One Doesn’T Want To See
Chapter 178 - Rushing Back To Jingtian City
Chapter 179 - The Desolation In Aftermath Of A Disaster Was Everywhere
Chapter 180 - The Ban
Chapter 181 - Meeting But Doesn’T Know Each Other Yet
Chapter 182 - Locked Up In The Dungeon
Chapter 183 - Visit The Prisoner
Chapter 184 - Provoking Intentionally
Chapter 185 - Mess Less With Him
Chapter 186 - Unreconciled
Chapter 187 - Clear The City To Search For Someone
Chapter 188 - Clues
Chapter 189 - Five Silver Liang
Chapter 190 - Sorry, I’M Late
Chapter 191 - Embracing Indifferently
Chapter 192 - What Kind Of Weirdo?
Chapter 193 - The Most Incurable Poison
Chapter 194 - The Odor
Chapter 195 - Mean And Despicable
Chapter 196 - Revert The Incident By Taking Liberties With A Woman
Chapter 197 - The Marriage
Chapter 198 - Throw Out
Chapter 199 - The Deep Feeling
Chapter 200 - Obituary Notice
Chapter 201 - Backfire
Chapter 202 - The Taboo Feelings
Chapter 203 - Eavesdrop
Chapter 204 - Affectionate Couple
Chapter 205 - The Back Garden In The Middle Of The Night
Chapter 206 - Escape
Chapter 207 - The Discovery Of The Incident
Chapter 208 - Taunting Sarcastically
Chapter 209 - Stealing A Kiss
Chapter 210 - Wait For Me To Deal With A Matter
Chapter 211 - Dressing And Grooming Oneself
Chapter 212 - The Wedding
Chapter 213 - The Dejection Of The Wedding Night
Chapter 214 - The Jade Pendant
Chapter 215 - The Past Fate
Chapter 216 - Decreed By Fate
Chapter 217 - Why Care About Who Wants To Cross The Single-Log Bridge?
Chapter 218 - Do Your Best And Listen To The Mandate Of Heaven
Chapter 219 - Could Die In Peace
Chapter 220 - Arranged Properly
Chapter 221 - Giving You The Cold-Shoulder
Chapter 222 - To Bully Intolerably
Chapter 223 - You Are Something!
Chapter 224 - New Rules
Chapter 225 - Wife, Your Medicine
Chapter 226 - Ten Fingers Intertwined
Chapter 227 - Don’T Turn Your Back On The Good Period Of Time
Chapter 228 - The Happiness Of A Dragon And A Phoenix (Twins)
Chapter 229 - Little Fourth’S Marriage
Chapter 230 - Perish That Thought
Chapter 231 - Loosen The Reins Only To Grasp Them Better
Chapter 232 - Begging Earnestly
Chapter 233 - Ending Part 1 The Happy Occasion Filled The House
Chapter 234 - Ending Part 2 The Happy Occasion Filled The House
Categories Genre: All, Historical, Josei, Ongoing, Romance Status: Ongoing Alternative names: Gazing Huan, Seeking Affection, 顾盼生欢, ______
Total Chapters in book: 235
Estimated words: 424262 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2121(@200wpm)___ 1697(@250wpm)___ 1414(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 424262 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2121(@200wpm)___ 1697(@250wpm)___ 1414(@300wpm)
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Chapter 81 Obsessed
To earn money and to pass time, Shu Huan working tirelessly every day on her handiworks.
Naturally, the two boxes of agarwood that Gu Xiran gave her wasn’t enough. The archive of the aromatic herbs was also almost sorted out completely with Ji Danqing’s help.
A fine hole was made at the edge of the thick stack of bamboo paper and bound together with a cotton thread. Turning the pages, were the excellent colored sketches. No matter who looked at it, they would be full of praises. However, if you gaze continued to look down, the praise would be stuck in the throat because people truly couldn’t praise that new calligraphy that Shu Huan learned. If it was necessary to praise, one could only say that the writing was neat. At least, some letters weren’t big and the others small or slanted and crooked…
After finishing these things and because the embroidery couldn’t be done in a day or two, hence, Shu Huan immersed herself in painting the stones. The last ten painted stones were sold for only five silver liang. One wasn’t even worth five hundred coins. Therefore, she felt that she should improve her paintings. She couldn’t continue to scribble on the stones and also couldn’t paint things that were not popular in the ancient times and that the stream couldn’t understand. She decided to draw some flowers, birds and famous people on the stones with the skills that Ji Danqing had thought her. Perhaps, she could sell them for a higher price like that.
She got the idea. Now, she only had to paint. However, after painting eagerly for a few days, she suddenly felt that something was missing. Unable to think what it was, she stared blankly at the pile of stones for a very long time.
She sat in daze like this for two days. It made Gu Xiran felt that she was acting strangely. Before going to bed this night, he couldn’t help but say, “If you are not going to paint, then sleep earlier. If you continue to be in daze like this, I will even think that you had become a person made from stone.”
Shu Huan fiddled with a stone where a court lady was painted on and said dispirited, “Is it that the light that I kept on at night disturbing your sleep? I’m sorry. Why don’t I go to the study to continue be in daze?”
Gu Xiran said helplessly, “The light is a trivial matter. The scary thing is that when I opened my eyes from the land of dreams, I will see a woman dressed in white sitting in front of the window with her back faced to me and with her hair scattered!”
Right at this moment, Meijing came in with tea. Hearing this, she couldn’t help but wonder, “Second young master, what’s there to be afraid of? Your courage (gut) is too small!”
Gu Xiran casted her a sidelong glance and then smiled sinisterly at her, “Right, it’s not scary but think, if that woman dressed in white turned around very slowly and you discovered that the front of face was exactly the same as the back of her head and also had scattered hair…”
He hasn’t finished yet, when the hands that Meijing held the tea tray with began to tremble. She panicked and stopped him, “Second young master, stop! If you continue, I wouldn’t dare to go back to my room to sleep…”
Shu Huan laughed, “Alright, I will sleep earlier. Don’t scare her.”
Gu Xiran smiled faintly and took the tea that Meijing handed over. He took two gulps, walked to the table, picked up a stone she painted and said, “You painted well. What is troubling you lately?”
Shu Huan frowned and sighed, “I also don’t know. I just feel that something is missing.”
After she said this, Meijing also came over to probe. She saw a few painted stones on the table. On some were painted flowers and on the others birds. She couldn’t help but stuck her tongue out and say, “It’s more interesting if this is a set like the vaudeville carved jade boys at Plum Flower Pavilion…”
After her voice fell, Shu Huan suddenly stood up. She excitedly grabbed her (M) and said, “Right! This is it! This is what was missing!”
No wonder the more she painted the more unsatisfactory it felt. It turned out that she lacked a theme. Moreover, the ancient people paid attention that everything was in pair as a good omen. What should one do with a lonely painted stone after he bought it? It was better to paint a pair or a set. The selling price could also be set higher like this. She would also find it more interesting when drawing them.
Meijing was a bit embarrassed after being hugged by her, but it was also not good to break free. She could only look at Gu Xiran for help.
Gu Xiran put on a serious face and coughed twice, wanting to get Shu Huan’s attention. Who knew that she was still immersed in the joy of getting away from the puzzlement? She didn’t pay attention to the movements of the person next to her. She still held Meijing and muttered to herself, “Should I paint the twelve hairpins of Jinling (ancient name of Nanjing city) or the hundred mountains and eight generals of Liangshan city? The four beauties are also a possibility…Right, right, I can also add some simple stories to these paintings. However, that my handwriting isn’t well-trained is really nerve-racking…”
This person truly became insane!
Gu Xiran sighed helplessly. He secretly made a decision to never discuss painting with her again and he even thought about whether he should limit her time used for painting.
Only Meijing didn’t give up and nudged Shu Huan, “Second young mistress, let your senses return. I still have to ask you something!”
After several nudges did Shu Huan’s regain her senses. After discovering that she was holding Meijing, she also became embarrassed. She quickly let her go and barely put on a serious face, “What do you want to ask?”
Meijing laughed, “Big sister Huiyun said that the day after tomorrow is concubine Yun’s birthday. She asked me to ask you how to celebrate it.”
Shu Huan went blank for a moment, “How was it always celebrated?”
She didn’t ask Meijing but Gu Xiran. After all, it wasn’t a long time that Meijing had come to her (SH) side. How could she (M) knew the affairs of the previous year?
However, Gu Xiran didn’t hesitate for a moment, shook his head and said clearly, “I don’t know. Go ask Huiyun tomorrow.”
Nothing to talk about anymore on this night.
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Early in the next morning, Shu Huan summoned Huiyun first to ask her questions. Only now did she got to know that the previous year, concubine Yun spent her birthday in Gu residence. Because there were many people there and Gu Xiran was ill, concubine Yun didn’t let the maids prepare a celebration. At most, she would collect some embroidery as gifts. Then, she would order the birthday noodle for everyone and listen to some birthday wishes. The day would have gone by like that.
Now, Gu Xiran was getting better and better. Every affair was dealt with by Shu Huan. In order to avoid being resented, she did everything according to the routine. However, this naturally couldn’t be done as negligent as before. But, Shu Huan felt that she was in a difficult position without an example to learn from. After all, she had never organized such a thing. Not too mention, the identity of a concubine of concubine Yun was too awkward.
After thinking for a while, she finally got the idea to let Huiyun go secretly to Heavily Scented Building to ask an old maid how the concubines of master and eldest young master celebrated their birthdays. With an example, she could deal with it by reducing or adding something more to it.
Huiyun took the errand and went to Heavily Scented Building. She just arrived at the yard and hasn’t entered yet when she heard the sound of things being smashed mixed with the persuading voices of the young and old maids. It was very messy and lively!
She often encountered this arrogant and spoiled miss when she run an errand or pass a message. Although, she also had received reward money from her (ZHF), but she (H) didn’t like her (ZHF). Hearing that she (ZHF) was angry now, the corners her (H) lips couldn’t help but curve up slightly. However, she had always been cautious. Hence, her face didn’t reveal any inappropriate expression. She slowed down and probed inside the yard. She wanted to find a gap to call an old maid out and leave after she asked her some questions.
Total Chapters in book: 235
Estimated words: 424262 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2121(@200wpm)___ 1697(@250wpm)___ 1414(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 424262 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2121(@200wpm)___ 1697(@250wpm)___ 1414(@300wpm)
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