Quick Wear Dream Qiqi

Meng Qiqi stepped lightly into the space through the mist. In the dim light, she saw Chi sitting leisurely beside the stone table, tapping the celadon teacup with his fingertips, causing slight ripples in the amber tea soup in the cup.

When he raised his eyes, his eyebrows were slightly raised, and there was a faint smile at the corner of his lips, as if he had been waiting for her footsteps in the depths of time.

The girl's eyes suddenly lit up, and her skirt fluttered as she flew straight to the table.

Her fingertips slid across the gilded tea tray carved with twined branch patterns, and her eyes were suddenly caught by the mutton-fat jade tea pet - the jade turtle carrying the lotus pod was lifelike, and even the patterns on the tortoise shell were shining with a warm luster.

The corners of her mouth curled up unconsciously, and her white fingertips had already grasped the exquisite pear-shaped teapot. When she shook it lightly, she could hear the clear sound of tea hitting the wall of the pot, like the broken jade of wind chimes under the eaves.

"Hiss--" The moment the tea soup entered her mouth, Meng Qiqi's eyes lit up. The tip of her tongue first tasted the coolness of the snow water brewed tea, and then the aroma of pine needles and wild honey spread in the aftertaste, and a warm heat spread in her throat.

She shook the thin porcelain cup in her hand, smiling slyly, "Brother Tiandao, is there any celestial dew hidden in this teacup? It's even more alluring than the dewdrops in the Peach Garden."

Chi paused holding the teapot with his fingertips, and when the corners of his eyes slightly raised, he looked even more like a banished immortal in the mist of tea: "You are welcome, fairy."

His fingertips brushed the edge of the tea boat, and the gilded patterns glowed with spiritual power. "This tea is taken from the thousand-year-old clouds and mist of the 36,000th fairy mountain, and simmered in black tortoise shells for seventy-seven days..." He was interrupted by the girl before he finished speaking.

"Brother Tiandao is so powerful—" Meng Qiqi rubbed against him with the cup in her hand, the sound of silver bells in her hair, "Finding another ten or eight kilograms is just a matter of waving my hand."

She suddenly stopped smiling and drew a small battle formation on the stone table with her fingertips. The embroidered image of the new Princess Huanzhu appeared at the center of the battle formation. "It's what someone promised..."

Chi chuckled softly, and three jade slips flew out of his sleeves and floated in the air. The top one was engraved with the words "Shufangzhai, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty": "I have prepared it for you a long time ago. But——"

He tapped his finger on the jade slip, and the formation diagram suddenly glowed pink. "If you get into trouble in this small world, don't cry and ask me to clean up the mess."

Meng Qiqi had already clutched the jade slip and ran towards the teleportation array. As her skirt brushed against the stone bench, she left behind a crystal clear mermaid tear: "Brother Tiandao is the best!"

Before she finished her words, the pink light had wrapped around the girl's figure and disappeared into the mist, leaving only the jade turtle tea pet on the stone table, still quietly emitting wisps of tea smoke in the morning light.

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The gilded incense burner was filled with the scent of ambergris. Meng Qiqi stared at the unfamiliar face in the bronze mirror, her fingertips unconsciously clenching the cuffs embroidered with twin lotus flowers.

The person in the mirror has eyebrows as dark as distant ink, eyes as clear as autumn water, and a ruby ​​flower on her forehead that makes her skin look whiter than snow - this is Princess Xinrong in "New My Fair Princess" who was betrothed to the Fifth Prince, but it is also the reality that she still cannot digest on the third day of her time travel.

"Princess, the Empress Dowager has summoned you to the Cining Palace." The voice of the maid Xier came from outside the door, sounding a little cautious.

Meng Qiqi took a deep breath and let the palace maids put on the golden phoenix robe for her. The pearl tassels swayed gently at her temples, as if the barrage of comments when she was watching TV series in her previous life had turned into golden threads swaying before her eyes.

She remembered Xinrong's ending in the original novel: she tried her best to marry Yongqi, but on her wedding night she was told "I already have someone else in my heart", and finally she wasted her youth in the deep palace.

But at this moment, his fingertips touched the cold jade pendant on his waist. It was the object that suddenly appeared on the night of the time travel. The word "Heaven's Way" was engraved on the front, and there was a line of small words faintly seen on the back: "Those who change their predetermined fate can return."

The white marble steps of the Cining Palace shone coldly in the sunlight. As Meng Qiqi stepped over the threshold, she heard the Empress Dowager's kind laughter: "My Princess Xinrong is here."

On the rosewood carved couch in the hall, the Empress Dowager was holding Qing'er's hand and talking, and on the table was the jade bracelet that had just been awarded to Xiaoyanzi - she remembered this scene, today was the day when Yongqi and Xiaoyanzi were caught having a secret meeting in the Imperial Garden.

"Greetings to the old Buddha." Meng Qiqi deliberately lowered her body when she bowed, and caught a glimpse of a bright yellow figure flashing in the corridor out of the corner of her eye.

Yongqi was wearing casual clothes, with a few flower petals in his hair. He was being stopped by Li Dequan behind the corridor pillar, and his handsome face was full of anxiety.

"Xinrong," the Empress Dowager beckoned her closer, her fingertips gently stroking the pearl hairpins on her temples, "Your engagement banquet with Yongqi will be in a few days. I have asked the Imperial Household Department to prepare brocade tribute from Jiangnan..."

Before he could finish his words, there was a sudden sound of porcelain breaking outside the hall, followed by Xiaoyanzi's clamoring voice: "It's all your fault! I broke the bracelet!"

Meng Qiqi lowered her eyes to hide the undercurrent in her eyes.

According to the original novel, at this moment the Empress Dowager should order people to capture Xiaoyanzi, and Yongqi would rush out to protect her at all costs.

But when she raised her eyes, she was met with the inquiring gaze of Karl Lagerfeld - those eyes that had experienced many vicissitudes of life actually contained some expectation of her reaction.

"Old Buddha," she suddenly chuckled and took out a handkerchief embroidered with twin lotus flowers from her sleeve. "Just now I passed by the Imperial Garden and saw the little princesses chasing butterflies. It reminded me of the 'Song of Everlasting Regret' I read as a child."

The handkerchief gently brushed across the jade bracelet on the table. "When Fairy Taizhen was in favor, she probably never imagined that her golden hairpin would eventually become a heartbreaking gift."

The old Buddha paused, and Qing'er's eyes flashed with surprise. Yongqi, who was outside the palace, suddenly looked up, and their eyes met through the gauze curtain.

Meng Qiqi raised the corner of her mouth into a gentle smile that was just right, but her heart was filled with turbulent waves - she was gambling, gambling on the old lady's obsession with "female virtue", and gambling on Yongqi's curiosity about the sudden "difference".

"Xinrong, what you said is quite interesting," said the old lady, stroking the jade bracelet. Suddenly, she turned and instructed Qing'er, "Go call Xiaoyanzi over. I want to hear her explanation for dropping the bracelet."

Meng Qiqi stepped aside and looked at Xiaoyanzi's stubborn look when she was brought in. She suddenly remembered the scene in the original novel where she jumped off the cliff in Shufangzhai.

The system's Xiaoyanzi notification suddenly rang out in my mind: "Warning! The original plot character Xiaoyanzi is about to trigger the 'Imperial Garden Petition' event. Do you want to intervene?"

Her nails dug deep into her palms, and she heard herself speak in a soft voice: "Master Buddha, this bracelet fell in a strange way."

Everyone's eyes focused on her. She slowly walked over to the broken jade. "The bracelet has cracks on it, obviously an old injury. The young princesses are playful and probably took inferior pieces from the warehouse to please the princess."

Xiaoyanzi looked up suddenly, her eyes full of surprise.

There was a hint of scrutiny in Yongqi's eyes, as if he was seeing the woman in front of him who was being betrothed for the first time.

The Empress Dowager signaled Li Dequan to pick up the fragments, and sure enough, he found traces of old patina at the broken ends.

"You're quite attentive." The old lady's tone was filled with approval. "In that case, I'll have the Imperial Household Department make a new bracelet for Xiaoyanzi. Xinrong, please accompany me to the Buddhist temple to copy scriptures."

When I walked out of the Cining Palace, the setting sun had dyed the palace walls amber.

Xi'er followed behind him, holding the Buddhist scriptures, and suddenly whispered, "Princess, you are really smart today. The way I look at Fifth Prince is different."

Meng Qiqi looked at the sunset sky and thought of the cold jade pendant around her waist.

The system interface suddenly expanded on the retina, and a new prompt popped up in the taskbar: "Trigger the hidden plot 'Jade Bracelet Mystery', gain +10 Lao Fu's favorability and +5 Yong Qi's attention. Do you want to activate 'Emotional Line - Two-Way Choice'?"

Her fingertips stroked the jade pendant on her waist, and the sound of the prince's piano came from afar.

She was very familiar with the tune, it was the "Distant Mountains and Rivers" that Yongqi taught Xiaoyan to play.