12 Results in the "The Stand-In Doesn’t Want to Play Anymore" category
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The next day, after Gu Jingyuan had finished attending morning court and just returned home to change his clothes, a message arrived from the Regent’s residence summoning him over. When Gu Jingyuan arrived at the Regent’s manor, he had not yet seen the Regent when Gu Shenming blocked him outside. Gu Shenming was the Regent’s biological son: both the legitimate heir and the eldest. Now that the Regent wielded overwhelming power, not only was Gu Jingyuan’s status far beneath his, but among all…-
30.3 K • Ongoing
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“Lord Gu?” Song Xinrui’s voice came from behind, “Why have we stopped?” The moment he spoke, the voices behind the artificial hill abruptly fell silent. Gu Jingyuan knew those two were still there, but he pretended to have not heard anything and continued walking forward. He replied, "It's nothing." Even though those two voices had been extremely brazen, growing louder and louder without any restraint. Song Xinrui had also overheard some of it when he drew near. Though he…
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30.3 K • Ongoing
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In the teahouse filled with the fragrance of tea, the young nobleman who had just caused a stir by striking someone suddenly ran off and came back with a skewer of candied hawthorn in full view of everyone. This in itself was already strange enough. Even stranger was that he actually held the skewer out to the ethereally handsome young man sitting across from him… As if presenting a treasure. The scholars in the hall watched, all of them inwardly puzzled. How old were these two? Though…
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30.3 K • Ongoing
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After morning court the next day, Gu Jingyuan and Long Yanzhao changed into another set of clothes and left the palace together. On the second floor of Ming’an Pavilion by a window seat, Gu Jingyuan sat with the emperor, drinking tea. “Do you usually come here to sit, Ah Yuan?” The waiter set down a kettle. Dressed in plain clothes, Long Yanzhao personally poured tea for Gu Jingyuan and said with a smile, “I’ve heard you often come to teahouses with the second young master of the Yang…
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30.3 K • Ongoing
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