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The work in Chuxiu Palace was not as difficult as Gu Yunxi imagined. As Madam Du said, Concubine Xu was cold-spirited and short-spoken, and she was never fastidious. Born in a scholarly family, Concubine Xu was so elegant and she played the zither and painted in the Palace every day. Gu Yunxi would light the sandalwood incense burner just before she played the zither and put it on the zither case. After Concubine Xu wrote and sang poems, Gu Yunxi had to put the manuscripts of the poems into the brocade box in chronological order and placed it on the cabinet. Concubine Xu would get out of a large plain robe after painting every time, and Gu Yunxi would take it for washing. Because Concubine Xu looked beautiful and she was never harsh on the servants, nobody thought she was affected to h