After traveling through time, I became the aunt of the loyal dog emperor

It was nearly midnight and everyone had fallen asleep. There was silence in the Xiangwan Pavilion. The bright moonlight sprinkled on the ground like water, and the treetops in the wind swayed slowly in the water.

Wan Ning tiptoed to open the door and sneaked into the pavilion outside the corridor in the dead of night. Not long after, a slender shadow appeared at the gate of Xiang Wan Xuan and walked towards her. In the moonlight, she saw that it was Mu Xiu. His face under the moonlight was more tough, completely different from the first time she saw him at Jiang Zhifan's house, but he was just as handsome. No wonder the king of Tu Mo chose him to marry!

"What do you want from me today?" As soon as they arrived at the pavilion, Mu Xiu asked Wan Ning straight away.

"Nothing, I just came out to admire the moon. What a coincidence that you are here too." Wan Ning sat on the stone bench, looking up at Mu Xiu's face with a smile, and joked with him.

Mu Xiu didn't respond to her words, but turned around and was about to leave: "In that case, I'll leave first."

"Hey, don't worry!" In a hurry, Wan Ning grabbed Mu Xiu's clothes from behind, and because of the strong force, half of his arm was exposed. Wan Ning scratched his head a little embarrassedly, sat on the original stone bench and explained: "Don't worry, I asked you to come here because I have something important to discuss. Isn't Boss Jiang curious about you traveling through time with me? Don't you have anything to say to me?"

After hearing this, Mu Xiu sat on the stone bench next to Wan Ning with his back to her. After tidying up his clothes, he replied coldly, "Not yet."

Wan Ning was speechless for a moment, and complained in her heart: "Nothing for now. Such a big thing happened, but this person didn't have anything to say! Does he still think he is my client's boss? He acts like a difficult client."

During the day, she was able to recognize Jiang Zhifan through a very unauthentic Black Forest cake, and learned from the conversation what happened to him when he first came to this era. But there are still many things and many questions that have not been solved. They need some time to sort out what is happening now and find the secret of time travel. So before leaving Yuxi Palace, Wan Ning specially invited Meng Zhu in front of Mu Xiu: "There are still many delicious and fun things in Xiangwanxuan. You can go directly to Xiangwanxuan later. It's settled. We will wait for you in Xiangwanxuan. See you there."

As soon as she finished speaking, she made an "OK" gesture to Mu Xiu, hoping that he would be as smart as Sun Wukong and understand her secret code to meet at midnight. While waiting in the pavilion, she kept wondering whether he would show up on time and how the two of them would start communicating. She lamented the wonder of fate. Before she traveled through time, she was not familiar with Jiang Zhifan and had only met him once. Now she felt like she was waiting for a good friend she hadn't seen for many years. She didn't know what he had experienced recently and what would happen after they met, so she was full of trepidation.

After they met, she realized that all her anxieties were unnecessary. Everything was the same as before. She still had the timidity of visiting clients alone right after graduation. She forced out a standard professional smile and patiently explained to Mu Xiu: "But there is something I have always wanted to ask you. Do you remember what happened on the day we traveled through time?"

Mu Xiu turned around and turned his right shoulder towards Wan Ning, but his eyes were not on her: "Remember, before I traveled through time, a fool merged the two halves of the jade pendant together, and then I ended up here." His voice was very flat and without any ups and downs, as if he was talking about someone else's affairs.

Wan Ning knew very well that the fool he was talking about was herself, and she also knew that she could not be blamed for this matter. At that time, she just took out her half of the jade pendant and compared it with the box. She did not expect that something would happen in a flash. However, this incident caused Mr. Jiang to travel through time and space and become a beggar to experience so many things. She blushed and felt a little guilty.

"I'm really sorry about this. I accidentally saw the jade pendant in the box in the restroom, and it was very similar to the half in my hand. So I put them together for comparison, but I didn't expect that they would be combined into one and cause so many problems. If I had asked you to come over first, then take them out for comparison, that would have been great." Wan Ning blushed, lowered her head and sincerely apologized to Mu Xiu.

"It's not your fault. You don't know what will happen next." Mu Xiu turned his head and looked at Wan Ning who was lowering her head, his tone still calm.

"What about you, Mr. Jiang? Do you know what will happen after the merger?" Wan Ning keenly noticed the loophole in Mu Xiu's words, and suddenly looked up and looked directly into Mu Xiu's eyes firmly.

Mu Xiu was stared at by these sudden eyes and had nowhere to escape. He was silent for a moment, then nodded heavily: "I know!"

Wan Ning had not expected this answer. She just wanted to tease the serious "Boss of Party A" and for a moment she didn't know how to answer. She just looked at him in surprise.

"That half of the butterfly jade pendant was handed down from my ancestors. Every generation of the Jiang family has to appoint someone to guard it. The last person to do so was my father. When he handed it to me, he told me that the jade pendant was originally divided into two halves for some reason. One half is kept by our family, and the other half is missing. If you are lucky enough to see the other half one day, you must never put them together."

"What will happen if they are put together?" Wan Ning asked.

Mu Xiu glanced at Wan Ning meaningfully, spread his hands and said, "Just like you and me now."

Wan Ning was dumbfounded by her own stupid question. She touched her cheek in embarrassment and asked, "Since it is something left by our ancestors, do you know the history of this jade pendant? Or how to travel back in time?"

"You know a little bit, most of the legends from our ancestors are vague. It is said that this jade pendant was originally in the shape of a butterfly, and its material is rare and valuable. A family found it by chance when they were cleaning up a battlefield full of corpses, and it was covered with blood. The ring in the middle of the half of the jade pendant you see is what was left when it was pierced by an arrow." Mu Xiu gestured to the shape of the ring shot by the arrow on the jade pendant, and then continued to narrate: "That person saw that it was valuable, so he washed it and sold it, but the families who owned it all encountered misfortune, ranging from poverty to life-threatening. Later, with the guidance of a martial arts master, the butterfly jade pendant that had not been completely broken was split into two, half of which was kept by himself, and the other half was thrown into the gap between the frames of a carriage that was traveling far away, and disappeared with the carriage. Since then, the two halves of the jade pendant have never met again, so they have been living in peace."

"So were your ancestors coachmen or martial arts masters?" Wan Ning asked curiously.

Mu Xiu glared at her helplessly, but still answered her question: "Of course it was that martial arts expert. What about you? Where did you get that half of the jade pendant?"

"It was a thought my grandma gave me before she died." Wan Ning thought of her grandma's love for her and smiled. "My grandma's eyesight was not very good since she was young. Later, she found a master to learn divination and became a fortune teller in our village. Whenever she was right, someone would give her some gifts. I think this half of the jade pendant was a gift from someone who came to tell fortunes before. My grandma loved me so much that she left it to me as a thought before she died. I guess she didn't know the origin and secret of this jade pendant."

Mu Xiu listened quietly. Suddenly, the moon in the sky was covered by a cloud. The surroundings lost all light and became dark. The two sat opposite each other in the darkness, unable to see each other's expressions. But since they could travel back here, there must be a way to travel back!

"Did your ancestors explain why one can travel through time by putting the jade pendants together?" Wan Ning asked anxiously.

Mu Xiu shook his head.

"Did your ancestors tell us how to go back?" Wan Ning continued to ask, not wanting to give up.

Mu Xiu shook his head again.

"What else did your ancestors say?"

"Our ancestors required every generation of guardians to abide by the motto of the two jade pendants: 'never meet each other'." Mu Xiu continued to answer calmly.

"I already know this." Wan Ning's voice was full of loss.

"They have never merged before, so no one knows what to do if it really happens." Seeing her pitiful look, Mu Xiu felt a little sorry for her and added, "But it's not that there are no clues at all. You can think of the butterfly jade pendant as the key to time travel. If you want to travel back, you must find this key again."

Wan Ning thought that one of her goals when she came back to Nanye from Beiqi was to find the butterfly jade pendant. But before, it was just her guess. Now that she got a positive answer from Mu Xiu, she felt more at ease.

She nodded to signal Mu Xiu to continue, and Mu Xiu continued speaking, his voice still as if he was talking about someone else's story: "Secondly, the butterfly jade pendant brought you and me to the current era, probably because there is something we need to do. As for what this thing is, there is no way of knowing. Only when we do the right thing can we make progress in traveling back in time."

At this moment, the dark clouds were blown away and the moon appeared again. The moonlight shone through the trees and cast spots of light on Wan Ning. She suddenly came to her senses and regained her energy and turned to comfort Mu Xiu.

"Well, in life, the most important thing is to act according to circumstances. Anyway, let's just treat this crossing and time travel as a game, and do our best and leave the rest to fate. Since we can cross over to this world, it must be inextricably linked to it. Why don't we form an alliance and search for the butterfly jade pendant here first, and then work together to find a way to use it to return to our own world. What do you think?"

Mu Xiu sat in the dark and looked at Wan Ning's hopeful face in the moonlight. He actually felt a bit of admiration. He didn't have the heart to say anything to ruin the atmosphere, so he nodded slightly to show his support for her.

Wan Ning received Mu Xiu's affirmation, just like a student who has just entered the workplace and received the recognition of her boss, which gave rise to a sense of strength and hope. There was some joy in her words, and she stood up and supported the table to announce: "Today, the Butterfly Alliance is officially established. The first task is for me, Princess Le Yan of Chu Country, and you, Prince Mu Xiu of Tumo. We will split into two groups. You start from Tumo, and I will start from Chu Country to see if anyone knows about the butterfly jade pendant. If you have any news, please feel free to contact me. Do you have any objections?"

"No objection." After saying that, Mu Xiu saw that it was getting late, so he stood up and walked to the pavilion and looked up at the moon in the sky.

"The Butterfly Alliance is invincible. I believe we will be able to return to our home soon. This boring place is so boring!"

"This boring place is so boring." Mu Xiu was amused by her nonsense literature and prepared to leave without staying any longer: "Okay, let's do it according to your idea first. We can communicate at any time when there is progress. Let's decide on the next action after aligning our progress at the next meeting." After that, he left without looking back.

These words instantly brought her back to the time before she traveled through time, as if she was reporting to her boss in the conference room.

"Mu Xiu, I look forward to the next progress meeting soon." Le Yan quickly caught up with him and put the lantern in Mu Xiu's hand, saying to him, "It's still a little distance, you take the lantern, I won't see you off."

The next morning, Wan Ning woke up and lay in bed, thinking about where to get information about the butterfly jade pendant. It is said that the butterfly jade pendant is rare and valuable, so it must be in the hands of the powerful. Looking for it by yourself is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but if you get close to the center of power, wouldn't you be able to let the butterfly jade pendant come to you? Thinking of this, she regretted her useless and somewhat cowardly identity as a princess.

When the sun goes down in the east, it will shine in the west. Not only do the sisters get along better and better, but things soon turn around.

Wan Tao came into the room with a lunch box. She took out the food and placed it on the table. Wan Ning quickly got up and sat over. She was delighted to see that today's breakfast was vegetable and meat porridge - she had said it was her favorite breakfast, but she didn't expect that Wan Xuan's sisters all remembered it.

Wan Tao placed the porridge in front of Wan Ning and said worriedly, "The princess hasn't had breakfast since she returned to the palace. If she continues like this, she might have health problems. Zhu Ying specially cooked your favorite vegetable and meat porridge today. Come and try it and see how it tastes."

Wan Ning felt a little guilty. She didn't eat breakfast not because the food was not to her liking, but because she went to bed very late every day and had very little time left for breakfast in the morning.

"It tastes really good. Wan Tao, you can sit down and eat with us. I'll call Shui Yue, Zhu Ying, and Zhu Zi to come too. We at Xiang Wan Xuan don't have the bad habit of judging people by their status."

Before she could finish her words, a little red head appeared at the door, holding other dishes in her hands. She smiled shyly at Wan Ning and said coquettishly, "Princess, you don't have to call us, we came by ourselves." After that, several other people appeared together, each with a breakfast, including buns, steamed dumplings, and wontons.

Zhu Ying explained: "They have been wanting to have breakfast with the princess for a long time, and they are just waiting for you to give the order!"

"Come on, come on." Le Yan stretched out her hand to call them over. Everyone sat down at the table excitedly and ate happily. Such days didn't seem so bad.

During the meal, Shuiyue mentioned a piece of news she had heard recently: "Have you heard about it? The autumn hunt has been advanced this year."

"It would be nice if we could go too."

"Wait," Le Yan looked at her in confusion, "What is the autumn hunt? Why is it brought forward again? Why aren't we included?"