Transmigrated Female Official

Guangrentang was essentially a place for miscellaneous tasks; all matters, big and small, in the palace had to pass through here. Although they didn't have to worry about food, clothing, or daily necessities, they were responsible for everything from the Empress's travels and sleeping quarters to every single plant and tree in the palace. This included Yun Palace and even the Imperial Medical Academy. You could say that Guangrentang was the palace's super-chief steward training center.

Ji Jie instructed Chu Qingluo to first learn from another executive officer, Li Yan, how to identify various plants and flowers. First, what flowers bloom in what season. Then, what prefers shade or sun, what needs more or less water, and so on…

However, Chu Qingluo knew very little about these things. She didn't recognize many plants and couldn't read all the characters. On her first day at Guangrentang, her head was already spinning.

So the first thing she did upon returning to the Chu family was to take the small characters she had copied to Gongsun Yu: "Gongsun, quick—help!"

"What happened?" Seeing her in such a hurry, Gongsun Yu couldn't help but feel nervous.

"Quickly teach me all the words about plants and flowers! And help me collect books on these topics!" She handed over the cheat sheet, looking like she was about to cry. "Looks like I can't be lazy anymore! Waaah..." she lamented as she spoke.

"So that's how it is." Gongsun Yu's eyes were filled with laughter as he took her small book. "Then you'll have to be more careful from now on."

"It can only be the!"

Even so, Chu Qingluo started to feel tired as she studied, and kept yawning.

Seeing her struggles, Gongsun Yu felt a pang of pity. But for her survival in the palace, he forced her to continue her studies. "Have a couple more sips of tea to perk yourself up..."

……

Before going to sleep, Chu Qingluo was exhausted.

He put the Xiuyan jade given to him by Ziyan back on the dressing table, his eyes swept over the wooden box containing Ji Qiran's jade pendant, and he couldn't help but pick it up and play with it for a while.

"Knock knock knock—" Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

"Miss, Madam said that mosquitoes are rampant these days, and she asked me to burn incense for you to repel them." It was Nine-Tailed Fox's voice outside the door. He only came in after Chu Qingluo responded.

Seeing her staring blankly at a piece of white jade, he sighed softly, "Miss, it's no use for you to keep looking at things and thinking about him. Why not just have the Second Young Master invite him to the manor as a guest? Wouldn't it be better for him to be face to face with you?" After saying that, he lit some incense on his own.

Nine-Tailed Fox's casual words took Chu Qingluo by surprise: "Do you know whose jade pendant this is?"

"Of course, he's just the Seventh Prince," Nine-Tailed Fox said dismissively.

The moment he uttered the words "Seventh Prince," Chu Qingluo grabbed him and forced him to sit down. She asked solemnly, "How much do you know about Ji Qiran and the jade pendant? Tell me everything!"

She'd racked her brains trying to figure this out, only to find herself with a vague understanding, and now there was someone right beside her offering the answer? She felt like she was about to spit out a mouthful of black blood! No, two mouthfuls!

Nine-Tailed was startled by Chu Qingluo's sudden outburst of violence. Not sure if she had said something wrong, she stammered, "It's just... Miss has always... been fond of the Seventh Prince, which is why she took the official examination."

Chu Qinglu nodded, signaling him to continue.

"The jade pendant is... One night, the Second Young Master brought the drunken Seventh Prince back to Heqing Courtyard. When Miss found out, she also went to Heqing Courtyard... She didn't return until the next morning, and when she came back, she had this jade pendant in her hand."

After hearing this, her face turned ashen, and she gritted her teeth, saying, "Why didn't you say so sooner?!"

Nine-Tailed Fox looked completely innocent and pouted, "Miss didn't ask... Besides, there are words engraved on this jade pendant... I thought you knew."

"..." Seeing that Nine-Tailed Fox was right, Chu Qingluo sighed helplessly and asked, "What else did I say that day?"

“That day, I saw the exquisite jade pendant in Miss’s hand and asked curiously, ‘Who gave it to you?’ Miss seemed very happy at the time and said that she had secretly taken it from the Seventh Prince’s waist as a keepsake and did not intend to return it.” He spoke softer and softer, afraid that he might agitate her again and cause her to resort to violence.

Just as I expected!!!

Chu Qingluo gasped a few times. Besides the phrase "outrageously audacious," she really couldn't think of any other words to describe the original host.

"...Go ahead, I'm going to sleep." She was too exhausted to say anything more and simply collapsed onto the bed.

"Yes." Nine-Tails shrank back, quickly slipped away, and neatly closed the door.

In Chu Qingluo's view, the original host's behavior was that of a complete brainless fan! A brainless fan with audacious lust!

No wonder Ji Qiran kept picking fights with her before! No, picking fights was being too polite; he probably wanted to throw her into the fishpond to feed the fish...