Princess and the General

How to Make Her Like Me

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“Mother, if Yu Fu wasn’t some random girl from the wilderness and was actually from an influential family, would still hate her as much?”

Su YunYan lay in bed with her clothes partially removed, revealing the snow-white skin of her shoulder and arm.
The purple mark on her skin looked particularly ferocious.

A pair of hands covered in ointment moved towards the injury and applied it with force.
The pain was so much that she almost wanted to leap up.

“Mother, be gentle.
It hurts!”

Madam Su was seated next to the bed.
She was personally taking care of applying the ointment and let out a sigh.

“Just bear with it a little.
If it isn’t applied with a bit of force, your injury will heal slower.
You are a girl.
You also don’t hope to have any noticeable bruises on your body, right?”

Everyone loved beauty, much less someone like the great young miss Su YunYan?

She gritted her teeth, closed her eyes, and nodded.
Compared to this pain, beauty was obviously more important.

When the ointment was finally done being applied, Madam Su handed it to a maidservant then said to Su YunYan: “What did you say earlier? What influential family is Yu Fu from?”

“Huh? That’s not it.
It’s not some family.
I was just asking.
Mother, what do you think?”

Su YunYan allowed a maidservant to dress her while looking at Madam Su with a look of anticipation.
She was waiting for an answer.

“That’s impossible.
Not to mention some influential family, but even if she was from some common wealthy family, it’s impossible that they would allow their daughter to go to someone else’s home to be an adopted daughter.
If not for the family being unable to afford for her to eat, how could they possibly do something like this?”

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Her words were well-reasoned.

“But…”

“But what?”

Madam Su felt that there was something a little off about her for the past few days.
In the beginning, Su YunYan would clearly talk to her about how much she hated Yu Fu and things of that nature.

But why had she suddenly changed her tune?

But those clothes were physical evidence.
There was also the gold and silver that Yu Fu had mentioned.
She had verified that it was real.

She did indeed have status and did not care about money.
She was not someone with ulterior motives as they had initially believed.

Thinking some more, she did not end up saying it out loud.
She just let out a sigh.

“It’s nothing.
I was just asking.
Mother, don’t take it too seriously.”

…

The days were getting cold.
The bamboo forest surrounding the small path from the Western Wing to the main hall was as verdant as usual.

After Gu ShuBai finished paying his respects in the main hall, he subconsciously headed toward the Western Wing.

Yu Fu liked to leave the front and back doors of her room open while she was in the back hallway.
This was the case whether she was looking at the pond, playing with her white puppy, Pang Jiu, or training with her needles.

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He was worried that Yu Fu’s habits had not changed and would be susceptible to catching a cold.
As a result, he went to remind the people taking care of her.

Who knew that he would not see Yu Fu in the Western Wing.
It was Yao Lan who came out to greet him, pointing towards the back.

“Yu Fu is in the backyard?”

“Young miss said that she wanted to enjoy the silence on her own.
Eldest young sir absolutely must not reveal that I told you!”

Gu ShuBai heard this and immediately knew that things were not good.

Yu Fu liked liveliness.
When things were fine, she would chat and laugh with her maidservants, kick jianzi, or fiddle with string figures.*

Only when she was in a bad mood would she like to spend time in silence on her own.

“Alright, you can go.”

He nodded to Yao Lan then headed toward the backyard.
Sure enough, he found a young girl squatting in the grass next to the pond.

She was wearing a light-green jacket embroidered with weeping willows.
At a glance, it was not particularly amazing, but upon closer inspection, it was full of vitality.
On such a colorless autumn day, it added quite a bit of vitality.

Like a deity of spring abandoned in the human realm, not even the autumn days could hide her radiance.

As for the present…

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The little deity was currently digging at the mud.

She held a small twig in her hand and was mindlessly prodding the ground.
At her side, a small white dog obediently remained next to her foot.

“Pang Jiu, what do you think I should do?”

“Do about what?”

Gu ShuBai suddenly walked up, startling Yu Fu, as she patted her chest.

The twelve-year-old little girl’s chest was slightly rising and falling but could not be seen because of the thick autumn clothes that she wore.

With her patting her chest, this movement was revealed, and Gu ShuBai subconsciously averted his gaze.

One must never look at women in such an improper way.
Yu Fu was still young and did not understand such things.

He could not be so lacking in understanding.

“Eldest brother, why are you here?”

“I came to see whether or not you were being good, and whether or not you’re keeping your windows open even after autumn has arrived.
Who knew that your windows would be closed, but you would personally come outside and endure the wind.
What would you do if you caught a cold?”

Yu Fu knew that she was in the wrong and grimaced, “Eldest brother, can you teach me how to get other people to like you?”

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Gu ShuBai nearly laughed out loud.

Yu Fu was asking him… how to get other people to like her?

Could it be that she was not the most likeable person?

He could not hold back his laughter, and he laughed so hard that his eyes were watery, “Who do you want to like you? Is it a male or a female?”

“It’s a female.”

This was good.

If Yu Fu wanted to get a male to like her, he would definitely have split that person in half with his sword, or he would stab him so much that he would resemble a honeycomb.

“A female, huh… Then you should ask your second brother.
He knows best how to get a girl to like someone.
Have you not seen how girls always like to gather around him at every banquet?”

Gu ShuBai was enjoying this while also “selling out” Gu JiuGe.

Yu Fu nodded then suddenly shook her head, “That’s not it.
Second brother is getting young girls to like him.
I feel that the older women like eldest brother the most.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival’s imperial banquet, when I was speaking with the madams from various families, they would always praise you!”

Older women?

Gu ShuBai instantly understood, “Could it be that you want to get aunty to like you?”

*TN: Jianzi is a game revolving around kicking a shuttlecock around.
String figures would be games like cat’s cradle.