She didn’t want to be pretty; she just wanted to be like an ordinary person. She didn’t want to wear a face veil whenever she went out. She didn’t want to worry about scaring little children with her face because the wind blew away said face veil!

Yu Wanqing was quite satisfied with this courtyard. It was secluded and serene, which made it  a perfect place for her to recuperate. There weren’t many flowers and plants in the courtyard, and the courtyard was also decorated in a simple manner. Older Sister Yu said that this place was suitable for her to live, so she decided to live in this courtyard.

Yu Xiaocao prescribed her some medicinal cuisine that would help her recuperate her body. There was a small kitchen in the courtyard that her maids could use to brew medicine and make tisanes. Lady Yu loved her daughter, so she sent the cook that was most experienced with making medicinal cuisine over to her daughter. In addition to brewing medicine for her daughter, the cook could also make some foods to help recuperate her daughter’s body.

Because Yu Wanqing’s face injury was quite serious, Xiaocao increased the concentration of the mystic-stone water in her prescriptions. It was said that an extremely high concentration of the mystic-stone water could ‘bring the dead alive and knit together the bones that had been broken’. It was unnecessary to go into details of how powerful it was. Yu Wanqing’s face recovered very quickly, and...