[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-doted-by-the-regent-king":3,"chapter-doted-by-the-regent-king-doted-by-the-regent-king-chapter-374":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Doted By The Regent King",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1324915,1760,"Chapter 374 - 374 374 The Purpose of Coming to Nanyue","doted-by-the-regent-king-chapter-374",374,"\u003Cp>374: Chapter 374 The Purpose of Coming to Nanyue 374: Chapter 374 The Purpose of Coming to Nanyue Why do you say that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu, without any sense of poise, stretched out her legs from under her skirt, revealing a pair of Embroidered Shoes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at a white cloud in the sky and, turning her head, giggled with a “hehe”: “I’m just guessing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah Jiu’s gaze swept over her swaying legs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The embroidery on the shoes wasn’t very intricate, just outlined with the pattern of auspicious clouds, but the feet wrapped in white socks underneath those shoes…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hadn’t bound her feet!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu didn’t hear a response from Ah Jiu and followed his gaze downward, then quickly withdrew her feet and sat up properly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah Jiu noticed her action and instantly felt he had been rash and impolite, his face flushed with heat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hastily picked up his teacup and took a sip, but the tea was scalding hot, nearly causing him to spray it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cough, cough.” He choked and coughed repeatedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu pursed her lips and snickered quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Ah Jiu recovered, he looked towards the pavilion and asked out of the blue, “Your mother didn’t bind your feet for you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bind feet?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu appeared a bit stunned, and her mind quickly conjured up an image, causing her hair to stand on end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In ancient times, women sought the beauty of “Three-Inch Golden Lotus,” and from a young age, they would bind their feet with cloth strips, deforming their feet in a very frightening manner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is that something people should do?” Wufu’s voice rose sharply, her anger almost erupting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah Jiu was somewhat surprised by her intense reaction, saying, “The beauty of the Three-Inch Golden Lotus is something that many women long for, isn’t it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu scoffed, “That’s clearly the perverted thoughts of men, yet they insist it’s what women want…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You don’t like that too, do you?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Have you seen the Three-Inch Golden Lotus?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How could I?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ve only heard about it,” Ah Jiu said, frowning in his defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In a farmer’s household, foot-binding is impossible, after all, they need to work in the fields.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they bound their feet so small, they’d wobble as they walk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could they work?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, that Three-Inch Golden Lotus you’re talking about is probably only something the daughters of wealthy households would have.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The daughters of wealth, surrounded and waited upon by maids and older female servants, supported by others even when they walk a few steps, swaying with every step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Never having to soil their hands with work, binding their feet doesn’t matter to them, and it even adds to their delicate and frail beauty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Wufu hated that notion of weakness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In case of danger, one couldn’t even run, barely walk fast—wasn’t that just seeking death?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah Jiu took another sip of tea, feeling it was best not to continue this topic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He changed the subject, “You said earlier you were guessing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What did you mean by that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The topic shifted unexpectedly…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The first time I saw you, you were half-dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Either someone was out for vengeance against you, or you had just been in a fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then after that, more and more people started to appear by your side…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>your identity…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>let’s not delve into that,” shrugged Wufu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Couldn’t I just be out to study?” Ah Jiu said with a laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I didn’t know that a whole crowd would come out to study.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don’t scholars usually set out with just a servant?” Wufu looked at him and said, “Or perhaps your entourage just has to be larger?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah Jiu chuckled at the sarcasm: “What if I told you that my life was fated for a deadly calamity, and I came to Nanyue on my family’s orders to stay away from the state?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You probably wouldn’t believe that, would you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do you think?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah Jiu smiled, “I likely wouldn’t believe it myself, but that’s actually the case.” He paused, then added, “Besides, I have other business to attend to.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m looking for someone, someone very important to me,” Ah Jiu stated, looking at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t give away the whole truth; rather than looking for a person, it was more like searching for an organization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An organization that had existed for two hundred years, even before the split between Beiyan and Nanyue—Eagle Hall.\u003C\u002Fp>",730,"2026-06-05T19:25:17.774Z",1,"novelbin.me","2d2851dfd43c9e42b33dfd9cdea6bee67059868db094bd9368e6e66ba8f923ce","doted-by-the-regent-king-chapter-375","doted-by-the-regent-king-chapter-373",1685,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdoted-by-the-regent-king-cover.jpg"]