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Unexpectedly, the turmoil I broke out this time was well concealed. It has been almost ten days, and neither my father nor my mother asked about it at all.

I became inexplicably happy, and I was also grateful that I was not reprimanded, but more of it was the joy that I didn't have to mention Ah Li to my parents.

Strange to say, I just don't want to tell anyone the story about me and Ah Li.I didn't tell anyone about it except Cuixiu who went out of the house together last time and couldn't hide it.

I regarded this memory as a treasured private property, and then I became stingy.

In September, autumn has gradually begun to rise. I put down the embroidery in my hand and stood up to close the window, but I caught a glimpse of a clump of green bamboo outside the window.

As I stared at the bamboo, I remembered Ah Li's thin but tall figure at the door in the evening.

I can even imagine the way she looked at me, like a deep pool, focused, quiet, and gentle.

Thinking back to the days when I was out of my mind, I would think of her when I was feeding the koi in the yard, I would think of her when I was embroidering purses on the attic, even the warm water when I washed my hands reminded me of the touch of her holding me——

I sat back on the concubine Xiang's couch dejectedly, touched the bright red silk thread that the maid had already prepared, and made up my mind to embroider the first stitch on the material on the back of the purse.