The Apothecary Diaries: Volume 13 (Light Novel)

Jinshi gently picked Maomao up. She’d gained a little weight since the last time he’d held her, but still she was light. Her hair smelled of camellia oil.

I am deeply in love with Master Lahan.

“Why, there’s one of those rain-rain-go-away dolls in here! Why, that’s the biggest one I’ve ever seen!”

“Honored father, that’s a human corpse.”

“Why, there’s one of those rain-rain-go-away dolls in here! Why, that’s the biggest one I’ve ever seen!”

“Honored father, that’s a human corpse.”

“Why, there’s one of those rain-rain-go-away dolls in here! Why, that’s the biggest one I’ve ever seen!”

“Honored father, that’s a human corpse.”

In his opinion, his brother was a real jack-of-all-trades, but a master of none—except for pulling the short straw, if that were a trade.

His brother and this boy shared the same family name and the same given name, so they must have been mistakenly swapped. It was patently ridiculous, but that was exactly the kind of star under which Lahan’s older brother had been born.

He couldn’t quite put his finger on why, but Lahan’s sixth sense was telling him that he was standing in the middle of a battlefield.

“Are you sure about this?”
“I told you I came prepared for this, didn’t I?” She averted her eyes as if begging him not to make her say it again.

He put his hand on his heart in an effort to slow it down; it was beating so hard he was sure she could hear it.