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Su Wanyi, a maid in the Marquis Mansion, has spent three years pouring her secret affections into Gu Zhao, the cold-faced Marquis who’s as unresponsive as an iron tree: she burned her fingertips learning to make his favorite osmanthus cake, gave him a jade hairpin bought with three months’ wages only to see him gift it to his cousin, and even polished his mud-stained boots until they shone—only for him to ask, “Did you steal these new boots?” Just as she was burning the handkerchief covered with “Gu Zhao” in tears, deciding to become a scullery maid, the usually unyielding Gu Zhao blocked the firewood room door with a dog-eared copy of *Ladies’ Love Stories*, his ears red: “The book says you give a hairpin to someone you like… I got the hairpin back from my cousin. Do you want it?”
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