Chapter 4 (2/2)

Her mistress had thought things through, but she seemed to have seen through the world a little too much. She was no longer wary of anything. If Hupo had not been constantly with her mistress, she would have thought that someone had taken her mistress’ place.

However, compared to her past self, her current mistress made her feel much more at ease.

While watching her mistress drink the ginger and jujube soup with brown sugar, Hupo poured a basin of hot water so that her mistress could wipe off her body. She had sweated, so it would be better for her to wipe her body clean.

“How considerate of you,” Chu Yue said in satisfaction.

Hupo’s face turned red, and she reproached Chu Yue. “Milady, you really like joking now, don’t you?”

“I lived a suppressed life in the past. Now, I want to live as I am. Hupo, you have to be prepared for it,” Chu Yue said, trying to get Hupo to accept her changes.

Hupo chuckled with her mouth covered.

Chu Yue went off to wipe her body.

She trained every day and also went off to try and get herself affiliated with the handsome monk on the other mountain.

As for Shangqing Temple, there was a nun there who was really difficult to handle. Earlier, when Chu Yue was training at the periphery, the nun saw her, and she stared Chu Yue with an incredibly mocking and disdainful look. However, Chu Yue ignored her.

The prince’s mansion had sent her here in secrecy. The mountain was far away from the capital, and no one knew her real identity.

To the nuns in Shangqing Temple, she was a divorced woman, and there were some who even said she was a widow.

She had heard about it from Yuhe.

Chu Yue did not mind it since she did not plan to stay around for long. She just needed to be able to provide for herself, and that would be enough.

Right then, the important thing for her was to get the monk. Or else, when winter came, it would be too bothersome to go and look for him.

Hence, Chu Yue went to his mountain even after she had failed to meet him multiple times.

This time, the man in black asked for the eight characters of her birth time.

“What?” Chu Yue was unable to wrap her head around his question for a period of time.

“The eight characters of your birth time,” Yingda repeated faintly.

Chu Yue did not think that the eight characters of her birth time were a secret, but she did not say it immediately. Instead, she said, “Sir, why do you want the eight characters of my birth time?”

“If you’re an unlucky soul, then forget about it,” Yingda said faintly.

Chu Yue then understood what was going on and smiled. “Of course. You can go and see whether my eight characters match with the master’s.”

Then, she gave him the characters of her birth time.

Yingda noted them down and cast her a glance. “You should go back.”

“You’re asking me to go back? You should let me know when I can get the results, right?’ Chu Yue asked with a smile.

She had no choice. Her life was too boring. She had to search for something to do, and the monk was her current goal.

“We’ll naturally let you know once we have the results,” Yingda said.

“Okay.” Chu Yue nodded and left.

But when she was on her way back to Shangqing Temple, she came to a realization. What sort of identity did the monk have? Why did they ask her for her eight characters? And they even said that if her eight characters were bad, she would not be allowed to get together with the monk.

Oh well, she would just let them search for someone to make a reading of it.

She felt that her destiny was actually pretty good.

Yingda sent the eight characters to Eunuch Feng, but Eunuch Feng had something to do, so the matter of handing over the eight characters to the imperial astronomer so that they could see whether Chu Yue’s eight characters were a good match for their master was delayed for two days.