That day, the sky was bright and clear, the gentle breeze warm and soothing.
The sun, like a ball of fire at the horizon, had only just risen. Gu Han was eating breakfast when Xiao Liuzi's voice, as booming as gongs and drums, rang out from the doorway:
"Young Master! Young Master! This is bad! This is bad! Mama Wang has come again today!"
"Mama Wang? She came again? Go tell her I'm not here. Hurry and send her away!"
At Xiao Liuzi's words, a flicker of impatience crossed Gu Han's eyes, yet there was nothing he could do.
It was not because Mama Wang held enough power that even he, a direct descendant of the Innate Family Zhou Family, could not afford to provoke her. Rather, it was because that old woman held a "Death-Exempting Token" in her hands, leaving him helpless.
Two months ago, Third Master of the Zhou Family, Zhou Huaiyu, had been beside himself with anxiety over his son's frenzied cultivation. Who knew whose slander he had believed, but he came to think that finding his son a woman might make him settle down. Then he would no longer cultivate himself into madness, but instead train with proper rhythm and order, returning to the life of a normal person.
Thus, after considering the matter and taking his son's current age into account, Third Master Zhou nodded. Soon afterward, he found the most renowned matchmaker in all of Dongchang Prefecture, "Mama Wang," and had her handle the matter.
He even made a promise on the spot: so long as Mama Wang could find Gu Han information on a woman who was beautiful as a flower, of sufficiently noble status, and qualified to become the concubine of a direct descendant of the Zhou Family, she would immediately receive