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2024-10-29 19:42:56Ten or fewer minutes after Kang Xianliang ended the call, somebody knocked on my door. After giving my permission butler Che entered with eyes brimming with compassion. If that wasn’t a bad sign…
‘’Young Miss, the Old Master wants to speak with you in his study.’’ Goodness Gracious, after Han Wei, now my grandfather wanted to reprimand and lecture me. Grumbling inwardly, I followed the butler to the study on the first floor. I hadn’t been there much. When Yan Si and I were children, I used to hide in this study while playing hide and seek. It was my secret place until the moment my grandfather caught me hiding behind his desk. He got angry like a leprechaun whose gold had been stolen and punished me to not go out of my room for three days. Since then, my foot never stepped there. This would be my first time in years going inside the study.
After grandfather let us in, Butler Che bowed politely and left the room, leaving me alo
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