The entire Marquis's mansion regrets it? Too late, their little one has become the darling of t

Yu Ningyao clasped her hands together, closed her eyes, and chanted the incantation over and over again.

She didn't know what she could summon, and she had no idea.

"Oh my god—"

After an unknown amount of time, a chorus of exclamations erupted from below.

Yu Ningyao opened her eyes.

The animal in front of her looked somewhat familiar; it seemed to be a phoenix as well.

She was immediately puzzled. Did the woman summon phoenixes?

"A seven-colored phoenix? Impossible!" The Empress was the first to change her expression.

Everyone was talking about it.

"The Empress just summoned a five-colored phoenix, and this Crown Princess, who is from another country, can also summon a phoenix, a seven-colored one at that..."

"Impossible. The Empress is from the Feng family. Only the Feng family can summon a phoenix in the entire Yunchi. This princess's seven colors must have been dyed with peacock blood, right?"

"How could a mythical beast be faked? Don't talk such nonsense."

……

The ministers were buzzing with discussion when Yu Ningyao finally understood: her phoenix was even more powerful.

She took a closer look and discovered that the phoenix she had summoned indeed had two more colors than the one the empress had before.

The empress's expression shifted rapidly. She hadn't expected that the foreign woman she had completely disregarded would actually slap her in the face so hard.

"Your Majesty, you have lost your composure," the Emperor reminded her from the side.

The Empress quickly straightened herself and forced a smile: "Your Majesty, I was just too surprised. I still have the seven-colored peacock-gold cloak that the late Emperor bestowed upon me in my storeroom. I will give it to the Crown Princess tomorrow and have a new cloak made for her. What do you think, Your Majesty?"

"Very good." The emperor was very satisfied with her transformation.

The mother of a nation should not be easily startled.

Following the example set by the Emperor and Empress, Yu Ningyao handed the offerings to the seven-colored phoenix.

The phoenix plucked a tail feather and gave it to her.

This is unprecedented.

Those present were shocked once again.

The seven-colored phoenix stretched its neck and cried out, then took the offerings and left.

The ministers were truly stunned. Yun Chubai stepped forward at the perfect moment and shouted, "May Heaven bless Yun Chi!"

The ministers, regaining their senses, echoed, "May Heaven bless Yun Chi."

"Your Majesty, this is the Crown Princess chosen by Heaven. Let her marry the Crown Prince as soon as possible and hold a grand ceremony," someone couldn't help but suggest to the Emperor.

"Yes, I have already ordered people to prepare for the Crown Prince and Crown Princess's wedding." The Emperor nodded.

Yu Ningyao breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

[Now my task progress has finally changed, right?]

She secretly asked the system in her mind.

[Host, unfortunately, it's still 0%. Because you haven't held a wedding ceremony yet.]

The system's response drove Yu Ningyao completely insane.

She used to exploit loopholes in the system, but now the system is exploiting loopholes in her place.

[Won't they tell me later that I have to consummate the marriage to be considered a favored concubine?]

She asked through gritted teeth.

The system timidly replied: "Um... I don't know either, but I think it's not impossible..."

Yu Ningyao: ...

She had only recently come of age, and she refused to consummate her marriage at such a young age.

Damn it, how long will it take to complete this mission?

Just as Yu Ningyao was secretly complaining.

She heard a "click" sound.

She looked down and discovered that the dragon egg from before had a crack.

“Yun Chubai, it’s cracked!” Yu Ningyao blurted out.

The ministers, who were already quite surprised, were now truly astonished.

The dragon egg is cracked?

Could it be that a dragon, which hasn't appeared in the world for over a hundred years, is about to be born again?

"Don't be afraid, just stay where you are, it won't hurt you," Yun Chubai quickly comforted her.

The altar still belongs to Yu Ningyao; no one else is allowed to go up there.

So Yu Ningyao could only wait cautiously.

She was both nervous and excited. What would hatch from this egg?

Everyone held their breath, joining her in anticipation.

Suddenly, a stream of cyan-gold light burst forth from the crack in the eggshell, and the bronze animal patterns on the entire altar seemed to come alive and begin to move.

Yu Ningyao's skirt moved without any wind.

With a "crack," a piece of eggshell broke off and fell to the ground, turning into flowing liquid gold.

As the second crack pierced through the dragon egg, a thunderbolt suddenly struck from the sky, terrifying everyone present.

When the last piece of eggshell was peeled off, everyone gasped.

A young dragon, entirely silver-white, crawled out of its egg and chose to land in Yu Ningyao's palm.

It curled up into a ball, yawned, and fell asleep.

The original eggshells were all shattered into gold nuggets.

Yu Ningyao: ...

Can anyone tell her what to do next?

She turned stiffly to look at Yun Chubai, who had obviously never encountered this situation before and didn't know what to do.

She then looked at the emperor.

Surely the emperor couldn't be unaware of this matter?

"Your Majesty..." she began hesitantly.

The emperor interrupted her: "Since the young dragon has chosen to stay by your side, then you should take good care of him."

Yu Ningyao: ? ? ?

She's owned cats and dogs, but never a dragon.

Yun Chi hadn't seen a dragon appear in the world for hundreds of years, and the officials present didn't know what to do.

The only option is for Yu Ningyao to take the dragon back to the East Palace to care for it.

The court officials spent the entire night poring over historical records, trying to figure out how to raise the young dragon after its birth.

……

As Yu Ningyao carried the baby dragon into the East Palace, the exorcising copper bells hanging from the eaves all exploded into dust.

Yu Ningyao was startled.

She stared at the palm-sized dragon in her hand, full of doubt.

Is this little thing really that powerful?

At this moment, the young dragon suddenly stretched out its claws and hooked the jade at her waist. It was a gift from Yun Chubai, who said it was a symbol of the Crown Princess.

Yu Ningyao was too late to stop it and could only watch helplessly as it swallowed the jade.

Then I saw it burp contentedly.

"It feeds on the spiritual energy contained within the dragon vein!" Yun Chubai realized.

That night, the Ministry of Revenue urgently dispatched ten cartloads of Kunlun jade to the Eastern Palace.

As soon as it was sent to the Eastern Palace, the young dragon gnawed it to pieces like a snack.

Overnight, the young dragon grew from the size of a palm to two meters long, a growth rate that was simply outrageous.

Yu Ningyao nudged Yun Chubai on the bed, and the two of them leaned over the bed to watch the little white dragon together.

"Do you think it won't grow bigger than the palace?"

"It can't be that big, can it? Yun Chi's palace is quite large." Yun Chu Bai Ye was uncertain.

After all, neither of them had ever seen a real dragon.

We can only infer from historical records that it will grow very large, at least one or two hundred meters.

Yu Ningyao felt a headache just thinking about it.

Where in the Eastern Palace could such a large dragon be contained? Wouldn't it cause destruction wherever it went?

This dog's ability to destroy things is even better than a husky's.

"Are we going to keep it forever?" Yu Ningyao couldn't help but ask.

"Let's wait for it to give us instructions," Yun Chubai said, unsure herself.

And so this little dragon was raised in the Eastern Palace.

First, a seven-colored phoenix was summoned, and then a small dragon that had not appeared in the world for a hundred years was hatched.

Yu Ningyao's position as the Crown Princess was even more secure than the Emperor's.

No one in the entire Yunchi clan dared to disobey her.

Even the Empress, who had always disliked her and wanted to compete with her, gave up her ambitions and focused on her pregnancy.

When the two were standing at roughly the same height, she thought she could reach out and try to take a turn.

But now they're so far ahead, standing on the clouds, she simply can't compete with them.

Why do those annoying things?

As a result, Yu Ningyao's path to becoming the Crown Princess proceeded exceptionally smoothly.

As winter turned to spring, when the little dragon grew to fifty meters tall, it flew away on its own.

But no one expected that it would take Yu Ningyao with it as well.