Chapter 36

Lingxiao had always felt that she never truly had a home, and naturally, she had never had a room that belonged solely to her. Back at the Lu Estate, she was unwanted, squeezed into a courtyard with her sisters and relegated to the smallest, most dilapidated room. The old matriarch had taken pity on her and moved her into her own quarters, but after the matriarch passed away, Lingxiao returned to that cramped little room, only to find the door pushed open and the space filled with her sisters' clutter. It had become a storage room. She had cleared out a small corner to shelter herself, but she never dared to ask them to move their things back. Thus, until the day the Estate of the Duke of Yong came to retrieve her, that room remained stuffed with junk.