These young dandies were most skilled at flattering young women, and Gu Ning, having never had contact with men outside her circle, was quickly bewitched by them.
For a daughter of a respectable official family, she had lowered herself to mingle with this crowd of wastrels, living a life of drunken stupor day after day. She, however, felt quite popular, convinced that if she spent a little more time cultivating her relationship with the young gentleman she had set her sights on, he would marry her, and she would finally be free of the suffocating life within the Gu family.
The day for her meeting with Young Master Yang had not yet arrived, but looking at the rented courtyard she was now forced to live in, Gu Ning could hardly bear it. Accustomed to the antique elegance of the Gu Mansion, this small courtyard was not even as nice as a gatekeeper’s quarters.
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