Lu Shuo didn't know how he managed to walk out of that courtyard.
All he knew was that after leaving it, as he passed through the long back alley, behind the half-closed courtyard doors, pairs of peeping eyes were hidden.
It had been too long since he lived with them, and they had reappeared in such a destitute and helpless form that he had completely forgotten what their living habits used to be like.
The unlatched window, the loud voices, and the residences of the servants' families just a wall away.
They must have heard it all.
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