Low Eaves Before the Hall

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The eldest young master of the Song family got tangled up with Gu Xiaoshizi, that little devil and harbinger of calamity.

Whenever Song Yuelang closed a deal, Gu Tanyuan would sabotage it. When Song Yuelang took in a child, Gu Tanyuan complained that the kid was all skin and bones and looked like an idiot. When he heard Song Yuelang was going away to negotiate a business deal, Gu Tanyuan traveled day and night just to go bother him.

Later, the two of them got lost in the mountains.

At daybreak, Young Master Song, who had spent the night sleeping outdoors on the bare ground, looked a little unwell. Gu Tanyuan brought him home and felt inexplicably guilty. Then Song Yuelang dry-heaved at the fishy smell at a banquet, and Gu Tanyuan's feelings grew even more complicated.

The next day, Gu Tanyuan held a wrinkled, yellowed booklet titled Where Can the Little Young Master Run? and suddenly understood everything.

The enlightened young lord immediately rode to the Song residence. He was going so fast that he nearly kicked a little yellow dog looking for food into the air as he rode through the street.

The little yellow dog, its tail fur standing on end, let out a woof as it watched Gu Tanyuan enter the Song residence's side courtyard. His shout of "My shizifei, I've come for you!" rang through the heavens.

In the side courtyard, the upright and self-possessed eldest young master of the Song family was drinking cold medicine by his bed when the young lord burst into the room and grabbed his wrist.

"I failed to take you home after yesterday's flower-viewing banquet, and that was my fault. It was even worse that I failed to take proper care of you that night in the mountains," the young lord said earnestly. All traces of his usual arrogance and bullying had vanished. "Now that you're carrying my child, I will naturally cherish you and never let you suffer again."

The little young lord had barely arrived before making such a shocking declaration. Song Yuelang stared in astonishment, even forgetting to pull his hand away.

"You lecher! What are you doing to my young master? Let go of him!" Outside, a young servant charged in furiously, carrying a broom taller than he was.

"Don't worry. I'll bring the betrothal papers tomorrow. Since you're already mine, I must give you a proper status." Gu Tanyuan ignored the young servant's shouting.

"Let go of him! Stop touching my young master! Let go!"

"There have been some misunderstandings between us, but don't worry, Yuelang. I'll set them right one by one." Gu Tanyuan remained unmoved as the young servant pounced on him and clawed at him. He even picked up the flailing child with one hand. "And I'll treat this little rascal, this child, as my own."

"Bah! You scoundrel, all you do is take advantage of my young master."

"Kid, call me Dad."

The noise faded into the distance. In the study of the Gu residence, someone had marked a passage in red ink on the wrinkled, worn-out booklet.

"Oh, Yange'er, you and your sweetheart slept in the same bed the other day, and she's often been feeling sick. She's pregnant!"

The young Lord Gu had been sent to another country as a hostage when he was little. To humiliate and mock him, the book he was given to learn his characters from was these few pages of a male-male romance. The person who wrote the booklet was deeply sinful, and it was even about a man carrying a child.

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