The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 79

Chapter 79: Dreaming 79

After dinner, Gu Jiao tidied up the house and made the bed in the western room for Xiao Jingkong. Then, she went back to her room to sleep.

Two months had passed since her last dream, and Gu Jiao hadn’t had any dreams since then.

Unexpectedly, that night, she had another dream.

But this time, she didn’t dream about Xiao Liulang, but about “herself”.

She dreamed that she became the daughter of the Gu Residence, met Gu Jinyu from Wenquan Villa, and returned to the Capital City with him.

She moved into a mansion with intricate carvings and paintings. Every day, more than a dozen servants waited on her, and unfamiliar family members cared for her deeply.

The servants respectfully called her Miss Gu, but the good times didn’t last.

Gu Jinyu was devastatingly beautiful, serene and elegant, knowledgeable and eloquent.

In contrast, she was scarred, coarse, illiterate, and spoke awkwardly.

Next to Gu Jinyu’s strong contrast, she became an utter laughingstock.

Everyone was saying that the Gu Family had brought home a rustic country girl.

The servants began to ridicule her, the ladies started to distance themselves from her, even the family members who once loved her seemed unsure of how to face her.

In order to reclaim what should have been hers, she did some terrible things under someone else’s instigation, causing everyone to be thoroughly disappointed in her.

In the end, she was sent to a villa outside the Capital City, where she spent her days in deep melancholy, and then died from illness in a cold winter.

Upon waking up, Gu Jiao wondered why she would have such a dream.

When she dreamed about matters related to Xiao Liulang, she understood that those were events that were going to happen, but it wasn’t the case when it involved herself.

Not because of anything else, but because the “her” in the dream was simply not her.

She was not unlearned, nor did she have a dull tongue.

She wouldn’t care about what others thought of her, wouldn’t envy Gu Jinyu, wouldn’t be instigated by others, and definitely wouldn’t use those incredibly stupid tactics against Gu Jinyu.

If she really wanted to kill someone, she would do it cleanly.

As for being heartbroken because she wasn’t loved by her family, that was even more ridiculous.

So, why would she have such a wild dream? Had she gone mad?

Meanwhile, after several days of long-distance travel, Xiao Liulang and Fen Lin’s carriage finally arrived at the Prefecture City of Pingcheng.

They didn’t arrive early. The inns around the Exam Site were all filled, so they had to settle for one a street away.

Two taels of silver for a room, the price was extortionate.

But there was nothing to be done about it. After all, all the candidates were waiting for a place to stay. They could only obediently pay the silver.

When the Prefecture Exam ended, the price would drop by half as the first group of examinees who did not pass left. When the College Examination ended, the price would drop by half again.

Fen Lin and the coachman had eaten some unclean food on the road, which gave them a stomachache and almost prevented them from continuing their journey. Luckily, they had diarrhea medicine prepared by Gu Jiao.

Xiao Liulang was fine, except that he had some problems getting used to sleeping every night.

Two days later, the Prefecture Exam began. _{fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm}

The Prefecture Exam was held at the Imperial College in Pingcheng, with candidates brought into the venue with their examination passes at the fourth quarter of the hour.