Rebirth of an Idle Noblewoman (1-200)

Chapter 45: Late Night Stroll

In the living room, only Gu Zuhui and Su Wan’er were left there, pale from being berated by Master Gu.

“I told you that you should have asked and referred to my brother, now you’ve done it! Father is completely disappointed in you, do you want him to give the Gu family to someone else?” After a while, Su Wan’er spoke.

Gu Zuhui sat down on the sofa and looked at her with a gaze that held a thinly veiled disdain at her words, but his tone was calm. “In any case, Father is back now. He’ll find a way to deal with this.”

Ask those ravenous dogs from the Su family? Did they think that he was a fool that didn’t know their schemes?

Upstairs, Gu Xiqiao took out her papers as always, and as she was in the middle of finishing it, she realized that something was tugging at his pants. She lowered her head slightly, and her gaze locked with a pair of bright and beady eyes.

The fluffy ball of fur realized that Gu Xiqiao had finally noticed it, and so it rolled around and whimpered softly, turning its head over to one side and playing dead.

The weak whines of the dog made Gu Xiqiao feel pity even though she knew very well that it was just acting, so she carried it up and looked at its somewhat weak expression. Its white fur lacked a sheen to it as if it hadn’t been taken care of properly lately, and Gu Xiqiao couldn’t help but pat its head gently. “Look at you, how many days have they not fed you?”

As if it sensed the caring tone in Gu Xiqiao’s voice, the puppy’s cries became even more tragic.

Gu Xiqiao stopped teasing it and dug around her bag for a while before taking out a piece of bacon and a box of milk.

The puppy finished the food she offered quickly before looking up at her again, evidently hadn’t had its fill yet.

Even though this was a stray that Gu Xijin took back home, but she didn’t care about it at all. The servants didn’t exactly like it either because it was just a regular white dog without a pedigree, and they would only feed it leftovers whenever they felt like doing so. Meanwhile, all of the high-grade dog food was fed to Su Wan’er’s Lowchen dog.

“You’re Gu Xijin’s dog, so I don’t like you at all!” Gu Xiqiao carried it up by the scruff of its neck and threatened emotionlessly.

The dog’s paws froze in place for a moment, before it tried even harder to act cute.

Gu Xiqiao put it down again, herself not having eaten anything either and starving, so she chose to just enter the virtual space, quickly calming down and finishing her daily missions and practising ancient martial arts.

“The spirit protects the Kun Palace, and the chi shall flow freely.”

Chi Induction was the second level of ancient martial arts, and the Kun Palace referred to a spot in the body where chi was produced.

In the virtual space that didn’t have a concept of time, Gu Xiqiao used roughly two months yet she felt as if she were perpetually one step away from the next level. She didn’t know what she lacked, but she felt as if there weren’t much use to stay in there any further, so she could only leave the space first.

Seeing that the dog had laid down by her bed, she held her palm to her forehead and chuckled softly. “Hey, I’m going to leave this place now, are you willing to come with me? Bark once for yes.”

“Woof~”

As soon as she finished her sentence, it barked at her once while wagging its tail.

This dog had always been smart, or else it wouldn’t have attracted the attention of Gu Xiqiao. “Saying this beforehand, but you better behave once we get out of here. Don’t think I didn’t know that you peed on the bed and made it seem like the Lowchen did it!”