As the morning light emerged, casting its glow between the intricately arranged pavilions and towers, the Xiao Family's ancestral residence, vast and housing hundreds, buzzed with activity. The numerous maids, as soon as dawn began to break, busied themselves, carrying various tools and weaving through the blue-tiled, white-walled paths.
The vendors delivering vegetables and fruits to the Xiao Family, led by Guards, entered through the back gate, stopping at the rear kitchen. The chief cook and the Housekeeper came over to inspect and check the quality seriously, extracting even if it was just a single wilted leaf.
A group of maids, each carrying basins, towels, and other morning toiletries, headed towards the separate courtyard where Chen Mo resided.
Inside the master bedroom of the separate courtyard on the east side of the Xiao Family's ancestral residence, the biological clock awakened the toiling-all-night Chen Mo.
