Chapter 47: Favor
Chapter 47: Favor
Zheng Fa quickly understood why Gao Yuan had said the Seventh Young Master was starting to resemble him.
That morning, as the first rays of sunlight illuminated the eaves and dew glistened on the grass, Zheng Fa and Gao Yuan arrived at the study to find the Seventh Young Master sitting upright. He held a copy of Comprehensive Guide to Symbol Diagrams and was diligently studying, marking the pages with a brush. His intense concentration was unlike anything they had seen before.
Zheng Fa turned to Gao Yuan, who nodded solemnly.
“How long has he been like this?”
“Two days,” Gao Yuan replied.
“He must have had a major shock!”
Zheng Fa frowned. This behavior was completely out of character. Of the three of them, it was hard to say whether Zheng Fa or Gao Yuan was the more diligent, but the laziest by far had always been the Seventh Young Master. Usually, when they arrived in the morning, he was still in bed, let alone sitting at a desk studying so earnestly.
Gao Yuan’s description of him as "becoming like me" was fitting. Zheng Fa preferred to memorize first and understand later, often appearing to be daydreaming. Gao Yuan, on the other hand, loved to pore over books, muttering to himself and scratching his head in frustration—exactly like the Seventh Young Master, who was currently pulling at his hair in exasperation.