Chapter 485
“Li Shidi, what are you still dawdling for? Hurry up!”
Shang Qinqing appeared behind him, her face beaming as she patted his shoulder.
“Oh, oh…”
Li Mo was pushed toward the sedan chair. As he lifted the curtain, a look of foolishness flickered in his clear eyes.
Inside the sedan sat a beautiful woman clad in an exquisite crimson veil. The red gauze did not completely obscure her features; her ruby-red lips and the glimmer in her phoenix eyes only added to her ethereal allure.
She looked both breathtakingly beautiful and unearthly, yet she wore this fiery, passionate attire.
Gently, she extended her delicate hand.
“Carry me.”
“...Okay!”
The moment Li Mo hoisted her onto his back, he abandoned all rational thought.
Who cares if it makes sense!
“How does one get married again…” Qin Yuzhi, lost in her dreams, suddenly found herself at a loss.
She had never been married herself, and after sleeping for so long, she had no idea what the current marriage customs were in the world.
So, she turned to the deity of marriage in the Great Shang.
“First, send her into the bridal chamber!” Shang Qinqing declared decisively.
“?”
Qin Yuzhi leaned back in confusion. “Is marriage really that straightforward now? This can’t be right... Is this the normal process for getting married?”
Shang Qinqing wore a silly grin. “This is the process I want to see; the other steps are just for show.”
Qin Yuzhi replied, “...This kind of dream doesn’t make sense; it’s bound to collapse.”
“Alright, alright, I’ll tell you the normal process.”
Even if it was just for formality, they had to go through the motions. In the end, she still used the Dream Path, beginning to weave the dream as Shang Qinqing instructed.
The atmosphere in the Gui Palace instantly became vibrant and lively.
However, it seemed that the process was anything but normal...
“Bow to heaven and earth!”
The bowing to heaven and earth was the most standard part of the ceremony, but when it came time to bow to the high hall, they hit a snag.
“Who do I bow to?”
Under the gaze of the guests, Li Mo was bewildered.
He was an orphan, and if he had to say, the only elder present—the palace master, his mentor... was about to enter the bridal chamber with him.
This... doesn’t seem right.
“Bow to each other as husband and wife!” Shang Qinqing skipped ahead.
The Shang clan leader didn’t care for formalities, and since she hadn’t presided over a wedding in ages, she was going to do it however she pleased.
Like bowing to each other as husband and wife.
In the grand hall of the Gui Palace, Li Mo stood upright, a bright red flower pinned to his chest, while Ying Bing, a big ice lump, stood beside him. After exchanging glances, their eyes sparkled like candlelight.
His sunny demeanor couldn’t hide his shyness.
Her coolness couldn’t mask her bashfulness.
“Celestial quality, celestial quality.”
Shang Qinqing felt a pang in her heart, her speed of munching on seeds skyrocketing.
“What comes after the husband and wife bow?” Qin Yuzhi asked.
“A kiss!”
“Ah? This…”
“I, Qingluan, am telling you to do it!”
Thus, the final step of bowing to heaven and earth truly turned into a kiss. Li Mo and Ying Bing stood together, and amidst the cheers of those around them, he lifted the edge of her veil.
As he leaned in, Ying Bing instinctively pressed her palm against his forehead.
Before she could ponder where this habit came from, her world seemed to be filled with warmth, accompanied by a strong sense of weightlessness that left her dizzy.
At that moment, it felt as if the world had come to a standstill.
It truly had come to a standstill, for the master of the dream could not think at this moment.
“The dream won’t collapse, will it?”
Qin Yuzhi still felt it was a bit unreasonable, worried that things might go awry.
“It’s fine; they’ll figure it out themselves! Don’t you know how terrifying a love-struck brain can be?”
Shang Qinqing was completely unfazed.
After many overlooked details of the wedding, the bowing ceremony finally concluded, even skipping the toasting segment, and she took Ying Bing’s hand.
They left the grand hall, traversing the long corridor.
In the bridal chamber, the candlelight cast a glow on Li Mo and Ying Bing, blurring their vision and shrouding everything in an indescribable subtlety.
Shang Qinqing rubbed her hands together, secretly observing with Qin Yuzhi...
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Chapter 544: The Ice Lump Calls Me, the Two-Character Kind
Outside the bridal chamber, two sneaky figures lurked.
“Phew... phew...”
Qin Yuzhi’s eyes sparkled as she watched the two, her fists shaking back and forth, unsure of whom she was cheering for.
For the master who had slept for thousands of years, unable to even wander through dreams, the scene before her was overwhelmingly sweet.
“Actually…”
“Shh! Don’t make a sound!”
Shang Qinqing quickly covered her mouth.
She had read many stories where the male and female leads were about to kiss, only to have the door burst open at the last moment, interrupting everything.
She could not afford to make such a blunder! This was a professional standard for a kisser!
But you never know when surprises or tomorrow will come first.
The moon hanging high in the dream sky suddenly shone brightly, as if a pair of eyes from above were slowly opening.
‘It’ cast a silent, supreme gaze upon the world.
Wherever that gaze fell, everything shattered into sparkling fragments, a dreamlike illusion, causing this carefully crafted scene to collapse rapidly.
Like a piece of rice paper erased by an eraser, it quickly turned blank.
‘Something is about to awaken.’
Both Shang Qinqing and Qin Yuzhi simultaneously had this thought.
“Is there an outsider in Xiao Bing’s dream?!”
Shang Qinqing’s silly smile quickly turned serious as she looked up at the sky.
Qin Yuzhi furrowed her thick brows. “That shouldn’t be possible. I control the Dream Path; who could sneak into the dream without my notice? Moreover, this consciousness can actually wrest control of the dream from me, unless…”
“Never mind, I’ll confront it! Let’s go!”
“Don’t rush; it might not necessarily be an outsider…”
“I haven’t finished yet!”
“.......”
Qin Yuzhi fell silent for a moment, then shook her head gravely. “I suspect this existence is rooted deep within Xiao Bing’s consciousness, just like…”
She paused for a moment.
“The Yunmeng Fairy, who could awaken at any time from the depths of my consciousness.”
Her words were succinct.
The one casting a gaze into the dream was the foremost celestial being of the Nine Heavens, the creator of the Great Shang, a being who once recreated the world.
Also, the only one throughout history that no one could ever reach.
“Why has it suddenly descended into the dream?”
Shang Qinqing quietly stepped back.
“Perhaps it’s because Xiao Bing has woven a dream of marriage, something it would never do, just like how I play mahjong, preventing its future awakening, or for some other reason.”
“However, rather than speculating on its thoughts, we should leave while it still allows us to.”
Qin Yuzhi took a deep breath.
When Shang Qinqing turned around, she saw Qin Yuzhi frowning, her face written all over with fear.
Shang Qinqing cast a reluctant glance at the bridal chamber, pinching her own hand hard, cursing her own low realm.
Damn it, if only she were invincible, she could kiss however she wanted, in whatever position she desired...
Qin Yuzhi, meanwhile, was secretly glancing at the moon, then quickly lowered her head.
So terrifying, so terrifying...
Are ‘He’ and the Yunmeng Fairy really both celestial beings?
In the past, she thought that as celestial beings, even if the one in Xiao Bing’s consciousness was the foremost of the Nine Heavens, it was at least on the same level, just a bit stronger.
Now she realized she was gravely mistaken.
The gap between the Yunmeng Fairy and ‘Him’ was as vast as the gap between herself and the Yunmeng Fairy...?
Even the Dream Path, which she controlled and was most familiar with, had slipped from her grasp, like a child who had left a stepmother and thrown itself into its biological mother’s embrace.
...
As the dream weaver withdrew, the dream instantly lost its predetermined trajectory.
This Gui Palace, which had yet to exist in reality, began to collapse rapidly, from the outside in, silently and without a sound.
And all of this, the dreamer remained completely unaware.
The moon, cold and bright in the hearts of countless people across the Nine Heavens, had become even more dreamlike in reality. Perhaps she had long since blurred the lines between dream and reality without realizing it.
At this moment, she was so close, her eyes shimmering like autumn waters, her lips pressed together.
Li Mo had once thought that figures like King Zhou and King You of Zhou were nothing but failures, unable to withstand even the slightest test. If you have the ability, let me take your place!
But now he realized, if it were Ying Bing...
He wouldn’t be able to withstand the test either.
Especially when the ripples in her eyes, the cool and sacred aura, revealed a hint of shyness. To hear her speak, if Li Mo had been an emperor, he would have already sent someone to light the beacon fires.
“Stinky little brother.”
“Not that.”
“Brother.”
“.....”
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