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 85 Every night holding a handsome man while sleeping
This girl wasn’t willing to speak. So, many things couldn’t be answered. Even if she (SH) wanted to send her home, she (SH) didn’t know where she lived. To facilitate them, Shu Huan gave her a temporarily name, Shang Xin.
Shang: reward; Xin: heart
“Shang Xin…”
Here, Shu Huan was trying to find a way to make her open her mouth, who would’ve known that she just called her once when she (SH) heard laughter coming from behind her (SH)…
“Mute, mute, after being seen stealing melons, catch and beat ruthlessly.”
No need to guess. The one who sung such a childish nursery rhyme would be no one else than Gu Xihe.
Shu Huan turned and looked helplessly at him. She saw that he held a white cat in his arms and rushed in from the door. He ran to them, reached out and wanted to pull Shang Xin’s hair. The speed was so fast that Shu Huan couldn’t stop it.
“Ah…,” Next was Shang Xin’s shout of pain.
Gu Xihe proudly pulled her hair and said, “Little mute, talk, ah!”
“Little fourth…”
Shu Huan shouted to stop him when she saw Shang Xin turn around, grabbed Gu Xihe’s wrist, opened her mouth and bit fiercely on it.
This bite, not to mention Gu Xihe, even Shu Huan draw out a mouthful of air.
It looked very painful!
Gu Xihe’s distorted expression and his sharp shout from pain reflected the degree of pain very well. Even the white cat in his arms screamed, jumped down and was gone without a trace.
“Ugly mute, let go!” Gu Xihe’s voice seemed to be crying. He pulled even harder on her hair.
Shang Xin humphed from pain but endured it and continued to bite him without any intention of letting go.
Shu Huan wanted to separate the two of them, but the two had already wobbled to the ground and rolled in the mud. She couldn’t separate them. She could only yell, “People! Help me separate the two!”
The noise of the courtyard had already alarmed the people inside the room. Two maids immediately ran out after Shu Huan’s shout. When they saw this scene, the quickly went up to pull them apart. Only Ji Danqing was standing leisurely at the door. He wore a faint smile on his face and stared gently at this scene as if he was looking at the dogs and cats fighting in his yard.
Two children that were dirty like mud monkeys were pulled apart. They were still unwilling and glared at each other. Ji Danqing gestured at the speechless Shu Huan and said, “Don’t bother with them. Come in for tea.”
“…”
Shu Huan looked at Gu Xihe who had a red face from anger, whose fists was clenched and seemed to want to rush forward, she asked hesitatingly, “Is it right to not bother…?”
It was a maid who grinned and said, “Second young mistress, it’s no big deal. They are just playing!”
Just playing!
Does one play like this?
However, when she saw that the person beside her wasn’t nervous and it seemed that she was the only one making a fuss out of nothing, Shu Huan also didn’t care anymore. Anyway, she had already persuaded and it looked like that they didn’t suffer any injuries. If they fought again, it wouldn’t be too late if she meddle in then. She entered the room with Ji Danqing.
This room was simply furnished. All the furniture was made from bamboo. There were three bamboo chairs that would make squeak sounds when you sit on them. The water sitting on the stove made of red mud was boiling. Ji Danqing lifted the pit and made tea at a not slow nor fast pace.
When he pushed a cup of tea to Shu Huan, he smiled and said, “These few days, they fought all day long and wouldn’t listen to persuasions. I can only put some medicine on their injuries after the fact. Fortunately, these two children still knew where the line is. They didn’t fight two fiercely and didn’t leave any serious injuries.”
The hand that Shu Huan picked the cup with paused. They fought so fiercely and he still said that they knew where the line was?! It seemed that she had underestimated a child’s ability to withstand. She was a bit puzzled and asked, “Fighting all day long? Why haven’t I seen it?!”
She came in and out of this Bamboo Pavilion all day long!
Ji Danqing laughed, “You didn’t have the coincidence to catch them in act. There were two times where you just went away when they fought. I also don’t know why, every time, it was fourth young master who wanted to tease Shang Xin into speaking, but Shang Xin refused to open her mouth. One had a bad temper, the other was stubborn. No one was willing to yield. When they got annoyed, they would use their hands.”
This was truly a special way of getting along!
Shu Huan was very speechless. She held the cup of tea and looked at the white smoke. Then, she sneaked a glance at outside. She saw that the two children weren’t fighting anymore. One was sitting on the threshold, the other was sitting in the shadow of the bamboo. They let the maids pat away the dirt on their clothes. She didn’t know from where the white cat of before appeared again. It lay in between them and sunbathed with squinted eyes.
She felt that it was funny after seeing such a situation. She vaguely understood why Gu Xihe went less frequent to Japanese Rose Building. It turned out that the moment he was idle, he would come to this Bamboo Pavilion!
It was not surprising. Since young, he didn’t have many playmates. Even if he had maids and manservants of the same age to play with him, but because of their identities, how would they dare to go against him like this? They always yielded to him. He also probably felt that it was boring. It was understandable that after he met Shang Xin who had a wild temperament, he couldn’t help himself from teasing her. It just wasn’t the right way. He obviously wanted to play with her. In the end, it became him bullying her.
If it truly was like that, then Ji Danqing wasn’t wrong. The children had their own way of getting along. They didn’t need to meddle in!
Shu Huan regained her senses, lowered her head and took a sip of the tea.
The water used the make the tea here was the dew on the bamboo which was collected early in the morning. The very light fragrance of the bamboo melted into the fragrance of the tea and slowly spread in her mouth and lingered on the tip of her tongue. There was sweetness in the bitterness.
While she was drinking tea, Ji Danqing reached out to look at the painting that was put on a side. He asked laughingly, “You painted it last night?”
“Mm,” Shu Huan nodded. “Suddenly, I felt like painting and painted it in one breath. I also don’t know whether it is good. That was why I brought it here to seek advice from you.”
Ji Danqing rolled the painting out. Before, he could say whether it was good or not, he was surprised first.
Shu Huan had been paying attention to his expression. Seeing him like this, she couldn’t help but ask anxiously, “Did I paint it too clumsily?”
Ji Danqing didn’t spoke yet when Gu Xihe rushed in from the outside. While he reached out to a cup of tea, he shouted, “So thirsty! So thirsty!”
Him shouting like this was like he was referring to his foible with self-deprecating humor. Seeing that no one bothered with him, he suddenly felt a bit of anger. He went to Ji Danqing and looked at the painting. Unconsciously, he read the words that Gu Xiran put on the painting, “Every night…a handsome man while sleeping, why…privately…”
It was not that he stuttered. He didn’t know two of the thirteen words and he recognize one but he wasn’t sure about it!
If this thing happened on someone else, he would probably scold: Which uncultured one wrote this? So many wrongly written words! However, Gu Xihe had never studied seriously. When he saw words that he didn’t know, his intuitive reaction was, “Second sister-in-law, how boring were you?! You just wrote two poems, why did you use such uncommon words. Could it be that you want to imitate that big cousin sister of mine and pretend to have a profound knowledge?
Shu Huan was shocked, “Poem?”
She didn’t write anything! She knew that her handwriting wasn’t well; how could she personally expose her shortcoming?!
Gu Xihe was still looking at her painting while shaking his head. He pointed at one of the words and said, “Is this the word ‘should’? It seemed to be wrongly written…”
His words just fell when the painting had been snatched by Shu Huan. It was just that she wanted to snatch, but Ji Danqing hasn’t loosened his hand yet. The rice paper was not strong and had been torn into two pieces!
Shu Huan went blank. She felt annoyed and pity. However, when she looked down at the painting, these emotions had been instantly thrown into the Java island.
On the half of the painting that was held by her was written: every night holding a handsome man…
She was shocked and grabbed the other half. She finally put the two lines of the poem together…
Every night holding a handsome man while sleeping, why should they meet privately?
The poem was full of ridicule. There was no need to ask. It must be from Gu Xiran. However, the handwriting wasn’t the same as the one she had seen before. It wasn’t neat, beautiful and tiny. Instead, it was free, easy and unconstrained!
However, this was not the point. The point was that the three words that Gu Xihe didn’t understand was written in simplified Chinese!
Simplified Chinese hasn’t been introduced until 1950s. Simplified Chinese has less strokes than traditional Chinese. Hence, Gu Xihe thought that the words were wrongly written.
TLnote: Finally Gu Xihe is back. It’s like all of you had guessed. Gu Xiran also time-traveled. It seemed that you all are Sherlocks. When I read this book, I didn’t have the slightest idea until this chapter. Seems like I’m not that smart, sigh.
I only managed to translate till this chapter this week. Till next week.
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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