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

Yan Ke tasted something different here than outside, so he wanted to bring it to his father to taste.

Prince Qi couldn't bear to disappoint his daughter's kindness, so he reluctantly withdrew his gaze and fixed his eyes on the lotus cake. This lotus cake was so lifelike that one could even smell a faint fragrance of lotus. This fragrance seemed to have traveled from a distant time. When he went to the Pei Mansion to pick up Pei Lan, he had heard that she loved to eat this, so he specially packed a portion before the visit.

Unexpectedly, Miss Pei Er just took it with a faint smile, and turned around to give it to someone else. He even felt that Miss Pei Er was difficult to get along with because of this. It was not until later when the two of them were on their way back to Nanye that they had the honor of eating the lotus cake she made herself, and then he understood why she looked down on the ones outside.

"You didn't eat a single bite of the lotus cake I brought you last time. I thought you didn't like it or had a problem with me. It turns out you just don't like the ones outside." Prince Qi covered his chest and asked, "This is indeed different from those vulgar things outside. Miss Pei, can you teach me how to make it?"

"If you hadn't saved me just now, I wouldn't have given it to you. Now you want my secret recipe." Pei Lan stood in front of the horse and watched King Qi finish the cake in his hand. She didn't feel embarrassed at all and even felt a little cute. It was completely different from the arrogant attitude she had when they met a few days ago. So she smiled and joked, "Exclusive secret recipe, sorry, it won't be passed on to others."

Prince Qi stared at her with a silly smile, clasped his hands in front of him, and bowed to Pei Lan: "Since Miss Pei is unwilling to teach, I will have to bother you when you want to eat in the future. Please don't be annoying, Miss."

Pei Lan quickly stopped him from bowing and said jokingly, "For such a small matter, I cannot accept such a great gift from King Qi. Just... just call me... sister."

"Don't even think about it. You're obviously one year younger than me, but you want to be someone's elder sister all day long." Prince Qi retorted with a smile. Seeing that it was getting late, he carried Pei Lan onto the horse first, and then he climbed on top and held her in his arms. "It's a bit inconvenient now, so please let Miss ride with me. We'll change to a better carriage when we get to the market."

After saying that, the two of them galloped away in the wilderness towards the afterglow of the setting sun.

Back to the scene of the banquet, the sword in Wan Ning's hand, which was still flying in the air, suddenly turned into a ribbon. The beautiful ribbon was tied around her waist like a shackle, making her movements clumsy. She no longer had the coolness of sword dancing. When her symbolic attempt to break free was futile, she gave up struggling.

At this time, petals were scattered from all directions, and Wan Ning, who was tied up, fell with the petals. At the same time, several screens gradually rose in front of the audience. According to Wan Ning's design, she suddenly disappeared in front of everyone after falling, leaving only the sea of ​​flowers to bury herself.

Just as everyone at the scene was shocked by the scattered sea of ​​flowers, Shuiyue in the backstage excitedly pulled Wantao's hand and shouted, "It's done, it's done."

Wan Tao was also very excited, but she was more worried about the princess's safety: in the previous training sessions, Wan Ning often failed to grasp the timing of landing. She kept her eyes fixed on the princess, but fortunately, Zi Heng suddenly appeared in the middle of the sea of ​​flowers, stretched out his arms to catch Wan Ning falling from the sky, and helped her land safely.

"Very good, very good. Why didn't you tell me about the changes to the ending? But this change is really good. It suddenly has a sense of redemption, and the ending is suddenly uplifting. But where did you find this handsome guy? Didn't you say there would be such a dancer during rehearsal?" Ru Fei in the backstage exclaimed excitedly like an outsider.

Seeing this, Wan Tao was worried that something might happen again, so she took out five gifts that she had prepared in advance and stuffed them into Concubine Ru's hands, anxiously urging her to leave first: "Concubine Ru, this is the last show, why don't you go back now? It will be difficult for you to leave when there are too many people around. These are gifts that the princess specially prepared, you can take them back to the other ladies, and our princess will go to Wuming Palace to talk to you in detail when she has time."

Just like that, Concubine Ru was sent out the door before she could figure out the situation.

Behind the curtain, Ziheng held Wan Ning's hand, and with his other hand he held her waist to help her stand safely in front of him, watching the petals falling on her black hair, which made her look even more beautiful. Everything was just right, even her makeup today made him feel very cute, his heart was beating violently, and he let go of his hand belatedly.

"Why are you here? Thank you!" Wan Ning smiled with surprise, but she saw Prince Qi and Yan Ke standing behind Ziheng, so she held up her skirt with both hands and walked towards Prince Qi, but in her heart she was glad that the coolness of the winter night hid the heat on her face.

Yan Ke said first: "Auntie, you look so beautiful today!"

Hearing the compliment, Wan Ning happily put down her skirt and turned around gracefully, showing off her outfit to the fullest: "It looks great, doesn't it? This skirt is made to imitate the portrait of Concubine Lan entering the palace, and even the makeup is a one-to-one replica."

She pointed at the stickers on her face, and Yan Ke also looked at them carefully, exclaiming: "It's really beautiful. The style of this dress has never been outdated. It still looks good even today! Royal aunt, looking at you like this makes me feel that Concubine Lan was really like you when she entered the palace. Father, I heard that you have met Concubine Lan before. Do you look like Concubine Lan now?"

Yan Ke couldn't see the deep look in King Qi's eyes behind him. His heart felt like someone had dripped lemon on it and then smeared it all over with a feather. It was sour and unbearable. He pretended to be calm, and nodded without saying much, and replied, "Very similar! Exactly the same!"

"A daughter naturally looks like her mother," Wan Ning joked, "Your Majesty, Brother Prince, please go sit over there for a while. I'll go arrange for someone to see the guests off and will be back soon." After saying that, she skipped away, lifting her skirt.

In fact, she didn't need to arrange to see the guests off. Zhu Ying, Wan Tao and others had already seen the guests off according to the original arrangement. She left just to go backstage to hide from the enthusiastic gazes and her own involuntary emotions. She sat in front of the mirror backstage and carefully examined her appearance, slowly removed the pearl hairpin from her head, and then changed into her own clothes, deliberately washed off her beautiful makeup, and simply tied up her beautiful hairstyle.

It's like an adolescent girl who feels the affection of the opposite sex for the first time. She is at a loss in the face of this pure love, so she clumsily thinks that he is only attracted to a certain aspect of her. Therefore, she is shy to show herself and wants to make herself sloppy and unreasonable, trying to scare the other person away.

But she obviously underestimated him. He was not an innocent boy who would not back down because of superficial things.

When Wan Ning finished everything and came out from the backstage, the courtyard was unusually quiet. Only Ziheng was sitting at a table with his back to her, his eyes always watching the direction she left. The temperature was a little low at night. Wan Ning saw Ziheng sitting there quietly rubbing his hands to keep warm, and silently said in her heart: "Fool". So she no longer avoided him and picked up the untouched wine on the next table and walked towards Ziheng.

Hearing the noise, Ziheng turned around and asked with a look of joy in his eyes: "Yanyan, why are you coming here?"

Wan Ning felt a little soft-hearted, blaming herself for deliberately hiding in the backstage for so long before coming out: "Why are you still waiting here, aren't you cold, idiot?"

"It's not cold. I promised to wait for you here."

Ziheng stood up and walked to Wan Ning. Seeing that she was wearing thin clothes, he took off his cloak and gave it to her. He helped her tie it on very carefully: "You know it's cold, but you still wear so little. You just caught a cold, so you must keep warm."

Wan Ning stood there, not knowing how to refuse. She raised her head and drank directly from the wine pot, which was originally given to him to keep warm. Ziheng was puzzled but did not stop her. He just used his sleeve to silently wipe away the wine that spilled because she drank too quickly.