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“Me worried about her?” Madame Ying snorted a few cold laughs, then quickly asked, “What do you mean by that?”
“She’s a titled noble and the head of a Daoist sect. She would not become anyone’s concubine.” He Lingchuan waved a hand. “The Marquis of Songyang could never marry into our family. What do you have to be afraid of?”
Madame Ying fell into thought.
Her eldest son was not wrong. A woman of the Marquis of Songyang’s standing would only ever be a wife, never a concubine. Still, the thought did not completely ease her mind.
He Chunhua was only thirty-four or thirty-five this year. He was tall, handsome, and not without his attractions. His appetites were hardly negligible. And he was only about fourteen or fifteen years older than the Marquis of Songyang, such an age gap meant little. In this world, it was not unseen for old men in their eighties to take a twenty-year-old bride if they wanted.
Just then, the Grandmaster Artisan Li Fubo requested an audience.
Since the Marquis of Songyang was traveling with the Coordinating Army, Li Fubo had been running between both camps. After all, one side was his patron, while the other side was his client.
This time, he told He Lingchuan, “Young Master, Lord Marquis requests your presence.”
He Lingchuan was surprised...
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