Chapter 63: Abandoning His Wife and Entering the Army (4) (2/2)

The personal maidservants also had sad expressions on their faces.

Senior Servant Gui saw that the atmosphere in the parlour had dampened, so she quickly wiped at her tears with a handkerchief. Then, she took to scolding them in a low voice. “Why the gloomy faces! Your mistress is standing hale and hearty before you! Dismissed, dismissed! Go off to your chores! It’s not like Third Young Master will never return. This is his home; no matter where he goes, he’ll still have this place in his heart.”

All the maidservants left in a hurry.

However, Senior Servant Gui knew that the situation wasn’t as good as she had tried to make it seem.

She knew what kind of place the northern border was. Since Third Young Master had gone there to join the army, once he entered the border troops, he’d have to stay there for a full five years unless he somehow achieved some merit!

Five years!

Third Young Madam was fifteen this year. She would be sixteen next year. If Third Young Master really stayed at the border for five years, Third Young Madam would be twenty by the time he came back.

Five years… How was Third Young Madam supposed to wait for him? Those were supposed to be the best years of a woman’s life.

How could Third Young Master treat their Sixth Miss this way?

However, Chu Lian’s thoughts were completely different from Senior Servant Gui’s. She was currently wearing a yellow halter top undergarment and white lounge pants as she lied on her large bed. Her legs were crossed as she fanned herself with a round fan. In the other hand, Chu Lian held a comedy book, which she was happily reading.

Whenever she got to an interesting part, she would even forget to fan herself.

She would also murmur to herself from time to time.

“I didn’t think that the ancients would have such vivid imaginations; they even wrote stories with gender roles reversed! Tsk, tsk… Too bad it’s not the guys giving birth, though.”