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Edited on November 3, 2020.

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Dressed as a servant maid, Chu Zhu Yu massaged her stiff shoulders. To be a servant maid means you have to do physical labor, but sweeping the yard is so tiring, it will be the death of her.

Who knew that the general's yard was so big, seeing it firsthand would definitely make many people speechless.

The young master of the Kang residence and General Xiao Zhi Zhi of the General's residence are both good looking men.

However, the main difference between them is that the young master of the Kang residence is well known for being promiscuous, has a bunches of wives, and has an affair with a lady courtesan.

That's why Chu Zhu Yu wanted to sneak into the Kang residence to complete her plan. But instead, she entered the General's residence.

General Xiao is famous for his indifference towards women. So when she entered the Xiao residence as a maid, it means she'll work there and accomplish her job which is ... being a maid.

Chu Zhu Yu has continuously massaged her shoulders for almost half a day, but she still felt shoulder pain. At this moment, she even craves for tea.

Since she was young, she was influenced by her father's love of tea. She loves to smell tea, brew tea, and drink tea. Even Chu Sheng told Chu Zhu Yu that her body smells a lot like tea.

Chu Zhu Yu opened the window and observed the full moon. She looked around and noticed that everything is silent. She will now start her plan.

She scanned for danger, and walked out of her room. She sneaked around the residence while carrying her tea set.

Then she sneaked into the kitchen and secretly boiled a pot of water. In here, there was no way to brew the tea using good water so she settled with their water.

Chu Zhu Yu put the tea leaves into a pot half-full of water, she slowly increased the temperature until the tea leaves would rotate, then she gently scraped the tea leaves off. She waited until the tea was floating in white foam, and she covered the pot with a lid.

Her black shadow revealed a slightly plump figure holding a tea pot. She successfully returned to her room feeling relaxed and at ease.

After returning to her room, she put her teapot on a small table and prepared a cup for drinking the tea.

While pouring the tea into the teacup, the boiling tea slowly filled her room with a pleasant aroma.

Chu Zhu Yu couldn't wait any longer. Both of her hands gently raised the cup of tea, and she enjoyed its delicious aroma.

While gently sipping her tea, she felt as if all of her tiredness and bad mood on entering the wrong residence was blown away.

"It's alright. Since I'm already here, I will just move according to the originl plan. Besides, the general is also a handsome man, so it doesn't mean that I lost a good opportunity."

She comforted herself by saying those words outloud. She was sipping her tea while looking at the full moon from the corner of her room.

As she was looking at the moon, she suddenly recited a poem, "The light of the shiny moon, Zhao Cui is the most difficult, if this time there is man here, then I will marry him..."

At that moment, in front of her eyes, a shadow blocked the moonlight and swiftly landed in front of her.

Having an otherworldy demeanor, the wind gently ruffled the person's dark and long straight hair, he was standing behind the moonlight, making his appearance very difficult to ignore.

Is this a human? Or a spirit?

Chu Zhu Yu was dumbstruck. She stared at the figure that was standing outside her window.

The person was a tall and good looking man. His lean body was fully dressed in a black robe, emphasizing his wide shoulders and narrow waist.

He was wearing a jade crown on his hair and had a golden belt tied around his waist.

He had beautiful eyebrows, eyes as clear as water, aquiline nose, and thin lips. At night, looking at this good-looking face makes people think about immortality.

"Are you a human?" she blurted out before thinking.

The person briefly glanced at her and said, "Who are you?"

"I'm the new servant maid of the Xiao residence." yep, this is her new status.

"Name?"

"Chu.... Zhu Yu." She hesitantly told her name.

He raised his brow, and in the next moment, he jumped to the front of her window and weirdly mumbled to himself,

"This is good enough."

Chu Zhu Yu was confused, "What is good enough?"

"You aren't too thin, so you'll fit snuggly in my arms when I hug you."

"....." Her face darkened, "I am plump, not fat!"

Her chubby body is the only thing that makes her self-conscious. Every time she sees other girls shopping at the market, she would feel discouraged because she would have to spend more gold in order to buy herself some fabric to make custom clothes.

"No one said you're fat." The beautiful person looks at her, his voice sounding like soft willows, "Just now, what were you reciting?"

...Alright, a good looking person will always be a sight for sore eyes, even his voice sounds nice to hear.

She decided that on behalf of his beauty, she will forgive his previous rude comment.

(E/R: Why did she ignore the "you'll fit in my arms when I hug you" part, isn't that usually more disturbing?) 😂

"Nothing, I was just reciting what came to my mind."

"...That thing in your hand, what is it?" The beautiful man continues to ask her questions.

"Oh, this is tea." Chu Zhu Yu just remembered that she was in the midst of drinking tea.

"It smells good." He said.

As soon as Chu Zhu Yu felt her hands loosen up, her teacup was already on the other person's hand.

Seeing that the man's slender fingers was holding the purple tea cup so elegantly, Chu Zhu Yu stared at the beautiful man and silently declared that even his fingers are beautiful.

Xiao Zhi Zhi picked up the teacup, and noticed that the smell of the tea was very soft, not strong. It had the mixed scent of fruits and flowers.

Just now, he couldn't sleep, so he took a small stroll under the moon light and got hooked with a pleasant aroma, which was this tea scent.

"Is this really the scent of tea?" He felt conflicted because it was different from the usual tea that he's drinking.

"Do you like to drink tea?" she asked.

It was hard to find someone who also likes tea in the general's residence, so she wanted to have a good chat with this skilled person.

He pondered for a moment and answered, "sometimes."

Chu Zhu Yu got excited, "What kind of tea do you usually drink?"

"Jun Shan Yin Zhen."

(E/R: It is a type of tea that is famous for its excellent shape, color, aroma and taste.)

Chu Zhu Yu was speechless, that tea is one of the best types of tea that you can find! Because it is a valuable tea variety, it had an extremely expensive price in the market.

"Aside from that?"

"That's all." He shook his head.

"...." Chu Zhu Yu was speechless, "So you only drink that kind of tea?"

"Is there a problem with that?"

"Tea has so many types and variants, if you only drink one kind, you're completely missing out." She looked at him with pity and continued, "When you drink tea, you should try many varieties because each type will give you a different feeling."

"Is that so?" He looked down and stared at the cup in his hand.

Chu Zhu Yu continued, "Just like the tea in your hand, that is the Keemun Tea from the An Hui province, that tea has a clear red color, so once it enters your mouth, it leaves behind a fresh aftertaste."

While she was speaking, she continuously directed her sparkling eyes at Xiao Zhi, as if her eyes were saying,

Try it, lah~ try it.

(E/R: "Lah" is Zhu Yu's expression from time to time)

Xiao Zhi Zhi frowned, but his hand raised the teacup. His thin lips touched the lip of the teacup and slowly drank the tea.

She carefully observed his expression, but she's still not sure if he liked the tea or not.

"It is good, the taste is exactly as you described." He smiled, the beautiful man seems to be satisfied with the tea.

What a beautiful smile!

While blatantly staring at him, Chu Zhu Yu can now understand why many people love to drink tea and smile while talking.

"I told you." She smiled, "When drinking tea, you shouldn't always drink a single type of tea, you should try other varieties too."

He lowered his head. He seemed to ponder about what Chu Zhu Yu said, and not long after, he walked to the side table and poured a second serving of tea into the cup.

Once the tea entered his mouth, the tea's thick and sweet scent penetrated his senses, and his body slowly relaxed after smelling the scent of the tea.

He felt his bad mood slowly disappear. Once he finishes a cup, he pours another cup and keeps on drinking.

Even if Chu Zhu Yu knows that she brews delicious tea, she also knows that he can't keep on drinking like that!

She kept on looking at him weirdly, and finally said, " You... don't you think you have drank too much?"

"No." he shook his head. "This is good tea. After I drink it, I feel drowsy. It might help me sleep."

Xiao Zhi Zhi looked at Chu Zhu Yu while holding the tea cup. He filled the cup again with expectation.

"Drowsy? Do you have a sleeping problem?"

The reason why he was strolling at midnight and incidentally found her place was precisely because of his sleeping difficulties.

"Hm...I do." He nodded and frowned. His hand gently massaged his forehead, showing his exhaustion.

In that moment, Chu Zhu Yu looked at Xiao Zhi Zhi with pity and said, "Can my tea really help you sleep better?"

"...The tea that you brew is different from the tea that other people brew, it makes me comfortable."

Ingesting the tea truly made him feel very comfortable and relaxed. He never knew that tea can help cure his weird illness.

"Is that so..."

She thought hard about his situation. Her father also experienced insomnia before when her mother was still alive.

So every night, her mother would brew a special kind of tea for her father to help him sleep easily. After a long time, her father's insomnia was gone.

"Wait, let me brew another type of tea for you to test." She went out of the room and returned with a different set of tea.

"How is it?" she asked while looking at him who was drinking the tea.

In the past, she brewed this tea for her father. She hoped that the tea will also have the same effect on him.

"It's good."

"Do you feel like sleeping now?"

"Perhaps, I probably have to drink the tea some more."

So at midnight, one was brewing tea and the other was drinking tea.

Xiao Zhi Zhi drank a couple cups more until he felt tired. With half-lidded eyes, he came closer and shortened the distance between him and Chu Zhu Yu while she bent down and started to clean the table.

Xiao Zhi Zhi suddenly felt the ooze of tea get into his nose. "It smells good..."

"After drinking a few cups, the tea will naturally leave some of its scent."

"...No."

This scent was not the same as the one he drank, the scent actually came from her body. It's like tea but also not tea. The scent is not heavy but also not too soft, it makes those who smell it feel comfortable.

It gives a sensation of addiction to keep on smelling the scent, more... and more...

Without him realizing, he has already bent down his body. He came closer to her, wanting to smell the scent from her body.

Chu Zhu Yu's body stiffened, their posture was too...ambiguous. His head moved closer and closer to her body until... it plopped beside her shoulder.

"Hey! Y-y-you should know that unmarried men and women aren't allowed to be this close to each other!"

Even if he is a rare beautiful man, this kind of attitude is still unacceptable!

Chu Zhu Yu tried to push him away but her hands were blocked by his broad chest. He searched for a comfortable position and hugged her waist tightly, leaving no gaps between them.

"So soft." He murmured. "It won't loosen."

Please! He just implied that she's fat! She gave him a cold glance and wanted to poke his eyelids but she couldn't do it because she was hugged by him so tightly.

"Hugging you like this feels so comfortable." He was starting to feel very drowsy.

"H-hey! Don't hug me!" she rejected him, but he ignored her.

Chu Zhu Yu used all of her energy to push him away.

She pushed hard once, no reaction.

She pushed hard twice, still got no reaction.

By the third time that she pushed him, there was a slight reaction.

In the end, he hugged her tighter to his body and directly went straight to her small wooden bed.

Squeak!

The hazardous bed is currently sustaining the weight of two people.

"You wake up right now! Don't press my body!" she spoke loudly. Frankly speaking, she is still an unmarried lady.

"You're really loud." he frowned. He was very dissatisfied because at the moment when he was finally getting sleepy, she was shouting near his ear.

"Hey! If you don't get up, I will shout and call people to go here! I will say that you barged into my room and I won't let this end with a simple accusation!"

"I won't be accused, so accompany me to sleep and don't be noisy."

He is now half-asleep, his scrunching eyebrows also disappeared and he now has a satisfied expression.

She noticed that his face was very different from just a while ago. For a moment, he made Chu Zhu Yu feel as if she fell to the demon world because she was sucked by his evil charm.

Seduction! Seduction lah!

Does this count as being tricked by a beauty?

She swallowed her saliva. She was hovering on whether to retain her 'innocence' or feast her eyes on his beauty.

After a personal battle, she chose her innocence, and during that time she forgot the main reason why she entered the general's residence in the first place.

Didn't she want to lose her virginity and give birth to a baby?

(E/R: 😂😂)

"Whatever, you're not allowed to hug me. Also, you are prohibited to say that you want me to accompany you to sleep, I am not your..."

"...Disobedient." Xiao Zhi Zhi mumbled. He lifted his finger and acupunctured Chu Zhu Yu's lower body.

Instantly, she couldn't speak. Moreover, her body also couldn't move.

Oh my word, is this what they call martial arts?

This person who drank so many cups of her tea, this beautiful man who crazily hugged her, is he someone from the martial arts world?

Chu Zhu Yu felt that this was the most ridiculous thing that happened to her life.

Deep into the night, a woman's body was cuddled by a stranger, his arms were hugging her like metal loops, and his head was resting on her shoulder.

Every centimeter of his body was sticking to her body, and only their clothes separated them from each other. She could even feel the warmth of his body.

But the most agonizing thing was that, he... just slept normally! So what should she do? Should she stay still until morning arrives?

She really wasted her sympathy towards him by letting him drink her tea. In the end, she still got this kind of treatment from him!

This was the first time that Chu Zhu Yu experienced crying without shedding tears.