Chapter 49: Can He Match a Golden Body?
Early the next morning, Chen Lingxi had just drawn half a bucket of water from the well and finished washing up when he heard light footsteps outside the courtyard gate.
Liu Zhu stood outside the threshold empty-handed. She simply relayed a message: "The young lady said that from now on, delivering flower arrangements once every ten days will suffice. There is no need to make the trip every five days."
Chen Lingxi gave a hum of acknowledgment. As he watched Liu Zhu's silhouette disappear behind the moon gate, he could not help but commend her in his mind: This Lin Longyue is truly a clever person.
She did not know what had transpired between the Crown Prince and him, nor could she guess why the Crown Prince had let him return.
Yet she had her doubts. Instead of turning these suspicions into interrogations or overcompensating with excessive warmth, she merely tightened the leash of his preferential treatment slightly. Not too loose, not too tight—it was just right.
It left leeway without seeming cold, and it avoided forcing him to expose his flaws while letting him know he was still under her watchful eye.
'This Lin Longyue can certainly be considered a formidable figure... It is just...'
Chen Lingxi's thoughts, however, drifted to another matter entirely.
The great medicine.