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Inside the pavilion, a white‑haired elder watched the retreating figure through a slit in the curtain. His brows knotted, smoothed, and knotted again, thoughts unreadable. Then his awareness drifted toward the inner courtyard.
Moonlight gleamed on a young man’s flawless, muscular frame, each line seemingly carved by divine hands. To a woman, such a youth was what a nation‑toppling enchantress was to a man.
Li Yuan eyed the lotus petals bobbing on the water. They were absurdly dainty in his view, but he mostly found them amusing.
He lifted the warm water laced with a drop of fourth rank blood and washed with care, scrubbing away every speck of dust. At last he dried off and slipped into the clean night‑robe a maid delivered.
The maid had been instructed to bring the robe as soon as he finished bathing. If Li Yuan had failed the test, the Patriarch would have intervened, and a robe would have been unnecessary.
Snow‑white cloth now wrapped a perfect, powerful body still...
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