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Edited on November 20, 2020

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Early in the morning, the usually peaceful general's residence suddenly fell into an uproar. Xiao Ren, the head housekeeper, almost flipped the entire house.

"What? You guys haven't seen the general?"

Xiao Ren glared at each maid in the general's residence. He thought that something bad happened to the general.

Yesterday night, he clearly saw that the general was in his room, but why was it that in the morning, not even the shadow of the general was seen?

Inside the residence, he gathered all the servants and maids and kept asking them if they saw the general.

Once he thought of the possibility that his master could be in danger, Xiao Ren felt cold sweat dripping from his back.

If something bad happened to his master, won't the imperial court be in trouble? After all, his master controlled one-third of the military force. This was very serious.

"Military officer Liu, what can you say about this situation..."

Xiao Ren turned his head embarrassedly to Liu Shan, who was one of the important subordinates assigned under the general. Liu Shan himself regularily visits the general's residence.

"Perhaps the general just went out." Liu Shan did not panic like Xiao Ren.

"That's impossible, the guard who oversees the residence didn't see the general go out."

"...The general is a martial artist expert, he might have secretly gone out of the residence by flying through the wall."

"Whenever the general goes out, he always walks out of the residence's main entrance." Xiao Ren replied. "Moreover Officer Liu, do you really think that the general will go out of his own residence by secretly flying through the wall?"

"That's..." Liu Shan started to sweat profusely.

"Officer Liu, how about we make a report?" Xiao Ren suggested.

"Make a report? To which court?"

Xiao Ren's head started to hurt. Normally, the military court would handle missing cases, but he was worried that no one would dare take the general's case.

"The general is a highly ranked officer, if it should be reported, it should be reported in--"

Before he could finish speaking, the master of their residence suddenly appeared in front of their eyes.

"General!" Xiao Ren called with relief, his eyes watering.

"What's the matter?" Xiao Zhi Zhi turned his head towards them, his face radiating with a smile.

Xiao Ren and Liu Shan secretly swallowed their saliva, is that really the general? The general who was always in a bad mood is... smiling!

"Just now, this lowly one didn't see the general inside the room, so we gathered and planned to search for the general." said Xiao Ren.

"Oh, I was strolling around the residence." Xiao Zhi Zhi walked towards his room and ordered Xiao Ren, "Tell the servants to bring breakfast to my room."

"Yes." Xiao Ren answered obediently and started hustling, leaving only Liu Shan to accompany the general.

Liu Shan started to observe Xiao Zhi Zhi's mood. To be honest, it was rare to see his superior smiling in such a way.

Usually, he will only show that kind of smile when he's about to win a battle. Other than that, he had never seen the general smile like today.

When Xiao Zhi glanced at Liu Shan out of the corner of his eye, Liu Shan's anxious expression immediately changed into a calm one.

"Have you slept well, general?" He asked.

"Hm. It has been a long time since I've slept this well."

Xiao Zhi Zhi sat on a chair and gently pinched one of the beads in the bracelet that he wore in his hand.

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At Chu Zhu Yu's side, after waking up, she struggled to move, yet she couldn't even lift her fingers.

All of a sudden, her acupuncture point simply opened up like nothing happened.

Chu Zhu Yu cursed the beautiful man whose name she didn't know for the hundredth time.

He acupunctured her, and even slept while hugging her last night. In the end, after she woke up, she still couldn't lift her body!

Now that she can move, the situation got a bit better but...but...her body is currently screaming in pain lah!

Because the culprit disappeared, she couldn't even get a chance to file a case to the court.

Chu Zhu Yu resumed her work as a maid and swept the yard until it was almost clean. As she continued to work, she heard a few maids gossiping not too far from where she's standing.

The talkative gossiper was Tao Jie, who's been working at the general residence for about two years now, and those who listened to the gossip were the new maids who were employed at the same time with Chu Zhu Yu.

"Tao Jie yah~, do we really have the chance to meet the general? I've been here for days, but I never saw the general." A cute-looking maid asked.

Chu Zhu Yu also wanted to know the answer, so she quickly moved closer.

"In these two years, I only saw him a few times from afar, do you guys actually think that the general is good-looking?" Tao Jie laughed.

"I saw the general." A tall maid replied, "Once, when I was on the streets, I saw him going out of the residence while mounting a horse at a distance."

"So, are the rumours that the general is really good-looking actually true?"

"Yes ah, is the general good-looking?"

"He is absolutely good-looking." The tall maid was blushing as she remembered the event, "The general wore body armor, but he wasn't the same as those martial arts people, he moves elegantly, and his gestures are similar to an immortal."

Oh? If I compare the general to the good-looking man last night, I wonder who will be more beautiful?

Chu Zhu Yu wondered in her mind.

Encouraged by the saying that the general was very good-looking, all of the maids showed a hopeful expression and wanted to see the general up close. Tao Jie sighed,

"

Since all of you have entered the general's residence, just peacefully become a maid. Don't think that just by entering the residence, you can become closer to the general.

If you're lucky enough to be seen and be liked by the general, perhaps it's easy to elevate your status. But aiya, General Xiao won't easily fall in love with ordinary women.

Just a few years ago, there was a maid who thought she was beautiful, she ran in the middle of night to go to the general's room...and...

"

"...What happened?"

"She was hit by the general until she went out of the door on her own, she was already considered lucky enough to only have some broken bones."

Gu Lu! (」ﾟﾛﾟ)｣

(S/F: A sound made by a chicken)

Chu Zhu Yu swallowed hard, it seems that sneaking into the general's room at night won't work.

"Rumours say that the general only used a bit of his martial art, because if not, that maid might have died." Tao Jie continued with a pitiful voice,

"She was a fine girl, but because of a moment of delusion, she got such a result. Even if the broken bones were healed, it would still be hard to move. In the future, how can she get married!"

All the maids were dumbstruck. Chu Zhu Yu was no exception, even though she really wants to have a baby, she won't sacrifice herself until she would break all her bones!

"Is the general's martial art... really that good?"

"His skills are absolutely the best of the best. I heard this from the head house keeper, and he said that the general's martial art is known as one of the best in the world."

Tao Jie spoke seriously from the bottom of her heart. "The general isn't an ordinary man, and no one can really guess his thoughts. Anyway, all of us should just work the best we can."

"Okay..." All the maids answered with dissatisfied faces.

Chu Zhu Yu felt as if there's a dark cloud hanging over her head, can she still turn back and run to the Kang's residence next door?