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  1. Public Bookmark 15

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    Maomao gets used to interruptions to her day when Master Gaoshun stops by

    or: When you buy a courtesan for your household, you make use of her

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  2. Public Bookmark 3

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    Jinshi had sent him with the last of his dying hope; with a flimsy smile and the quiet prayer that if he’d walked into that swamp and returned, he might be able to walk into that story, and still return.

    Gaoshun didn’t want to put his faith into such things too heavily, but he’d taken her braid with him—the one that was attached to a fox-tooth and wrapped in red silk.

    On the third day she stepped out of the forest-line and matched his horse’s stride.

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  3. Public Bookmark 6

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    Jinshi studied her. “In the capital, nobles wouldn’t speak to a healer. You’d be considered base.”

    “I am base,” she said, tightening the bandage. “I scrubbed floors and boiled bandages before I ever tasted rice that wasn’t half gravel. What you call poor, I call familiar.”

    He didn’t know the difference between gravel rice and polished grain.

    That was the problem.

     

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    Some warlords are born in brothels.

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  4. Public Bookmark 3

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    She turns away every suitor, every man that peacocks for her and assumes he is a great gift to their species.

    But this one is not like the rest.

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  5. Public Bookmark 14

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    “The High Concubines—particularly Lady Lihua and the Lady Gyokuyou—have requested instruction.”

    His jaw flexed. “In the arts of the bedchamber.”

    Maomao said nothing for a long moment. Then: “I see.”

    “I told them I would inquire about your willingness.”

    “I’m willing,” she said, and her voice was still flat—but he caught it now. A flicker behind the apathy. A glint. Not mischief. Not yet. But something darker. A match being struck.

    “Then I would ask,” Gaoshun said, voice lower now, “for a demonstration of your intended approach.”

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