Legend of the Moon Sword
Lady Fei

The dark sky spread out wide with scattered stars adorning it. The crowds tonight are inevitable almost every day. The city has been called a place that will never die. The trading center is located here. Red lanterns hang on every corner of the street, shops, and other crowded places.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle of this shining city, there is a pretty magnificent building that attracts attention. How not? This building was the residence of the wife of one of the wealthiest merchants, the owner of almost every branch of commerce.

Gu Fei, the woman of about 40 years old was sitting gracefully in her room. Her plump fingers combed her long hair. Perhaps a little more he would call his servant to tie his hair. Gu Fei, even though he was not young anymore, but his beauty was still awake. Not much different than his old self.

Plus her well-to-do life, she actually took care of her face in such a way.

Yes, Gu Fei was certainly a wife who loved her husband.

A faint smile was seen on Gu Fei's lips, he picked up the lip-brushing box in front of him, applying the red powder to his lips slowly.

One of the servants went inside, greeting Gu Fei politely and kindly. Gu Fei gave his smile then asked, "What's the matter?".

"Reporting to Lady Fei, the medicine has already been sent to Mr. Gu's residence," the servant said politely.

Gu Fei fell silent, a second later he smiled. Smile differently than usual.

"Alright, thanks. Please get me a paper and pen, I want to write a letter to Lin Mei." Tell Gu Fei to his servant.

The waiter bent down, then prepared some paper, pen, and black ink as instructed. Then give all that to his master.

Gu Fei graciously held the pen, dipped it in ink and smeared it onto the white paper. His fingers moved here and there forming a rhythm. Gu Fei was filled with gentleness and elegance, he lived as a noble so he had to behave like a noble himself.

Gu Fei finished with his letter, folded the paper and gave it to the servant.

"Give this to Lin Mei, tell her before I leave she must come here." Gu Fei said after giving the letter to the servant.

The servant nodded, then resigned to give the letter to Gu Fei's confidant to be taken directly to Master Gu's residence.

Gu Fei finished beautifying himself. All night long he always put on himself. Looking at the mirror alone has made her happy about her face that does not age, still looks beautiful and youthful.

But there was one thing Gu Fei wanted other than beauty. And it was still buried in his heart.

And there's one person who knows what he wants.

That night the full moon shone brightly, clearly visible among the expanse of stars and the landscape of the night sky. Gu Fei got up from his seat, walked up to the side of the room window and stared at the bright full moon from there. He hummed softly, his smile never coming off his lips.

Gu Fei was a graceful and gentle figure, even during his life he almost never got angry. It was a perfect figure in the eyes of people. Even Mr. Gu loved her very much.

Gu Fei did not mind that he was the second wife where the previous wife of Master Gu had died from severe illness. In the old days of Mr. Gu who had begun to be fragile and sickly, he sent many slaves who were sold cheaply to accompany Mr. Gu like a child.

She could not accompany her husband up close. They split up their residences.

Gu Fei bore the surname 'Gu' after legitimately becoming Master Gu's wife. Previously he was surnamed 'San'. And now the surname 'San' was carried by his adopted son with Mr. Gu.

The door to his room was suddenly knocked. Gu Fei was a little surprised, then he calmed down again when he saw the silhouette of his adopted son being at the door.

San Tian, the adopted son of the Gu family. He smiled thinly on his handsome face, his skin as white as a persolen. He gave a faint smile to Gu Fei.

"Mom, are you busy?.." He greeted Gu Fei politely as a child.

Gu Fei shook his head, he waved his hand telling San Tian to come in. San Tian said, he stepped in closer to his mother.

"My sweet son, what are you here for these nights?" Gu Fei asked, slightly chuckling with a hand stroking his son's head which was now even taller than him.

"No, I'm just confused. Why did you send so many letters to my father's house? Not as usual." San Tian replied.

Gu Fei laughed lightly, he stroked San Tian's cheek gently.

"I'm just sending medicine to your father. He was getting sicker by the day, so I brought him medicine from this town. You know that the drugs here work?" Gu Fei explained as he chuckled anxiously at the behavior of his son.

San Tian, at the age of 17 years he lives with Gu Fei. The reason he did not want to join Mr. Gu was because he was not too close to his father. He prefers to go with his mother.

San Tian grew into a handsome man surrounded by many young girls around his residence. But he didn't think about it at all.

His stature is tall and handsome. He is also smart in all areas. In addition, he also keeps adab and his manners to anyone. This is due to the upbringing and environment that affected him since childhood.

"Tomorrow I'll go two more days to visit your father. Tomorrow Lin Mei will come pick me up and she will visit me tomorrow night. Do you miss him?" Gu Fei asked softly.

Gu Fei laughed, "It looks like you forgot who Lin Mei is. He was the senior servant at the Gu residence."

"Do you like it?" Gu Fei asked again, this time he looked serious.

San Tian blinked his eyes several times, feeling both astonished and confused by what his mother was questioning.

San Tian let out a long sigh, "Mother.I haven't thought about it yet. I want to keep learning until I can continue my father's business."

Gu Fei who heard that fell silent, his smile instantly faded. A second later, the smile came back. He rattled his son's hair with anxiety.

"All right, just do as you please. Growing up to be a good boy has made me grateful." Gu Fei's words were accompanied by a joke.

"Now sleep, tomorrow you must learn again."

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The next morning, Gu's residence was blown away by the increasingly ill host. He could not get out of bed because he felt his legs cramp unusually. On top of that last night he threw up all of a sudden.

The servants gathered in Master Gu's room, some of them taking care of Lord Gu who was hot high.

As the servants gathered, the two rancid boys peeked out from behind the door. Zhi Yuo felt strange, as to why Mr. Gu's condition was even decreasing. Xie Jia thought of a plan.

Yeah, they're trying to steal food.

The waiters eat in the waiter's special dining room. It was still early in the morning and all the servants were preoccupied with Mr. Gu, it was better that they stole some food from the dining room.

Zhi Yuo narrowed his eyes, "I think it's safe. Come on, we're going to the dining room,"

Xie Jia nodded, they slid away from there towards the dining room of the servants. Arriving there, as they suspected that a lot of food was arranged on the table. There is bread with pickles, soups, rice, and so on.

Xie Jia was instantly anxious to drool from being tempted. He gave instructions to take food. Zhi Yuo nodded, he let Xie Jia take the food he liked and the plan was they would eat it in the warehouse together.

Xie Jia prepared the cloth he brought and put some bread in and wrapped some pickles. While Zhi Yuo turned around to make sure it was safe.

Feeling safe because everyone was busy, Zhi Yuo headed to one of the cupboards in the dining room. His intention is one.

"Well, I was expecting it to be here,"

Zhi Yuo found what he had to look for. Mr. Gu's medicine bottle. But this looked different from last night and it made him complain. Even so, this was almost similar and further convinced Zhi Yuo that it was Mr. Gu's used medicine bottle that had run out.

Zhi Yuo opened the medicine bottle and peeked at the contents. There's still a little powder in there and when inhaled it smells like...

Like shit.

"Geek!"

"Sir Yuo!" Xie Jia panicked instantly when she saw Zhi Yuo was about to vomit.

Xie Jia approached Zhi Yuo and asked him how he was doing. Zhi Yuo shook his head and replied that he was okay, just nauseous after smelling the contents of the bottle in the closet.

"I mean Big Brother Yuo's medicine bottle Master Gu?" Xie Jia asked with her innocent face.

Zhi Yuo fell silent, his estimation was correct. This is Mr. Gu's medicine. A little powder in it.

"really? It smells really bad.." Zhi Yuo coughed a few times.

Xie Jia nodded, "Yes.it is a medicine given from his wife. The cure is getting stinky by the day for some reason."

Zhi Yuo furrowed his brows right then and there. His mind was stifled when he heard the explanation from Xie Jia.

"Actually.what does Mr Gu's wife want to do?".

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