#myyj

+ duke su giddy from happiness cuz he FINALLY got his girl FOR REAL and confusing the heck out of everyone else:

Back by unpopular demand -- me, writing yet another Lian Lou WIP that might never see the light of day.

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Another vendor was more interested in the funeral procession that Fang Duobing had evidently just missed. “It’s a love story for the ages,” the man sighed as he presided over a boiling pot of stew. “Xue Fangfei, the daughter of a local magistrate, had eloped with a nobody. And through their partnership, it seems, that husband of hers rose to a grand position in court. “How tragic,” said the vendor as his pot ran over. “She recently committed adultery, and committed suicide on a mountain. Perhaps the guilt was too much to bear. Her poor husband.”

“She died from adultery?” Di Feisheng asked with a blank stare.

“It’s not the adultery that kills you, but the guilt of it,” the vendor sighed dreamily, even as Li Lianhua helpfully took a jar full of his spilling stew.

So, just locals being locals.

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