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"I… um," he nodded slightly, then with bowed head followed behind his second brother. Yet the moment he remembered seeing that woman return home not long ago, Yixuan welcoming her and her lovely smiling face, he felt a strong aversion, not wanting to go back at all.
But that was his home, why shouldn't he be able to return?
Right, why not?
Summing up his courage, he straightened his chest once more.
Exactly, it was his home. Of course, he could return, and indeed he had to return!
Otherwise, wouldn't that be letting Dong Dabao gloat?
Her occupying his home and forcing him not to return. Where was the sense in that?
Right, that was it, there was no mistake!
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After several days of braving the elements in the mountains, once Dong Huiying was back home and lying on the wide and long earthen kang bed of the eastern room, she closed her eyes in contentment.
The bed beneath her was warm. The heated floor had been made so cozy, she drifted off to sleep without knowing it.
