Throughout that week, He Yuan spent his days like this; Wake up, dress up, pay respects, have breakfast at Cao Long's courtyard in utter silence, return to his courtyard to 'study', lunch at Cao Long's again, etiquette lessons by evening and dinner in his own courtyard.
The most eventful thing he did amidst all these was monitoring the matriarch's courtyard. Cao Xiwang was currently raised by her and would soon be dumped to the servants so he had to make sure he got to the baby before Chen Bi did.
On the seventh day, He Yuan rushed over to the greeting hall quite early only to be turned away at the door. The matriarch was under the weather so they were all exempted from paying respects for the day.
He Yuan switched directions and went over to the matriarch's courtyard. Rather than step in, he sat on a bench right outside to wait.
