Luo Cheng fell silent for a mont before responding, "It could very well be."
"Hm, that would be good."
"Second Young Master, Second Young Master!"
You were exercising your arm strength in the courtyard when you saw Cui’er and Little Yue rushing in with wide and small steps, their expressions frantic. Before you could ask, Little Yue blurted out, "An imperial edict has arrived, Master wants you to hurry to the main hall!"
An imperial decree—could it be that the Emperor was coming to arrest soone? Such a thought crossed your mind as you quickly changed your clothes and rushed to the main hall.
"Yun’er, co here and kneel down!"
ng Family hurriedly instructed you to kneel with everyone else, and you noticed that the hall was already filled with people on their knees, even Yang Family had arrived.
You softly uttered an understanding sound and walked over to Little Yue’s aunt, then began to kneel as well.
However, your knees didn’t touch the floor; you astonishingly held your body in place with a highly difficult movent, your knees hovering just less than two centiters from the ground!
Since everyone present had knelt down, except for Little Yue’s aunt, no one else noticed your action.
Little Yue’s aunt rely glanced at you with a look you couldn’t understand and then lowered her head. However, as she bowed her head, you noticed that her knees were also two to three centiters above the ground. Oh Gan, to have encountered a fellow practitioner!
The eunuch opened the imperial decree, but you were unable to understand the classical Chinese written on it, catching only that you had not been punished by Li Shimin—on the contrary, it seed you were appointed to an official position.
As you accepted the edict with utter bewildernt, the eunuch threw you a flirtatious look that sent chills down your spine and said in a weird tone, "Mr. Luo, His Majesty has commanded that you need not attend the morning court tomorrow, but instead, et with Him directly in the Imperial Garden."
"Oh, thank you, Eunuch." During a pause in the chief eunuch Wang De’s speech, Luo Xin surreptitiously slipped a small package into your hand, and you weighed it and deftly handed it over to Wang De.
After sending Wang De on his way, you stood in the main hall, holding the imperial edict and daydreaming. Luo Cheng and others had taken their seats, and even Little Yue’s usually elusive aunt was sitting in your usual spot, while Yang Family sat close to your mother from the ng Family, the two of them whispering to each other.
"Father, His Majesty’s actions are rather unusual," Luo Xin remarked.
Luo Cheng pondered for a mont before asking you, "What encounter did you have with His Majesty at the Moon-viewing Pavilion?"
"Er, nothing much, I just corrected a poem that he had written—though the poem doesn’t seem to be by His Majesty. The original was apparently written by Princess Chang. Right! That Cheng Yaojing—oh, no, Duke Lu, he also said so cryptic phrase, saying sothing like ’I’m done for.’ Father, what does that an?"
Luo Xin looked at Luo Cheng with a face full of bewildernt.
Hearing this, Luo Cheng stood tall and dropped a sentence: "When you et with The Emperor tomorrow, you must conduct yourself properly, not too timid but not too presumptuous either. It’s important to strike a balance as His Majesty is a sage and will make a wise decision."
"Dizzy, as good as saying nothing." You casually tossed the imperial edict onto a side table and yawned out of boredom, turning to your mother from the ng Family, who was engrossed in conversation, and said, "Mother, I won’t be having lunch this afternoon. Little Yue has already prepared rice balls for this morning. I’m going to go practice on the outskirts of the city later."
ng Family nodded, "Be careful, though practicing is important, don’t overexert yourself."
"Your child understands, mother, you can rest assured."
You went back to your courtyard to prepare, but as he was about to leave with his small bundle, you encountered Little Yue’s aunt at the door of your courtyard. Before you could even speak, she had already given you a slight bow and spoke with a celestial tone you had never heard before, "Thank you."
Her voice was like a touching lody, refreshing as a breeze, tinkling like spring water, soothing as aromatic fragrance, and sweet as the dew of immortality.
You hurriedly returned the bow, smiling as you said, "We are all family, no need to be so formal."
"If it weren’t for you, our family’s situation would be quite different. Now my mind is at peace, I am ready to enter the palace tomorrow. Before I depart, I would like you to accept my sincerest gratitude."
Little Yue’s aunt, although standing two ters away, always seed to carry with her an extraordinarily pleasant scent, definitely not that of flowers, but a unique fragrance of her own.
"You’re entering the palace?" you asked, sowhat surprised.
"Mm, I was supposed to enter the palace three years ago, but my master said the ti wasn’t right, so we’ve been delaying until now. Now that my family is safe, it’s ti to fulfill my father’s last wish."
Since it was her father’s dying wish, you didn’t feel it was your place to comnt, though you felt it a pity, "Since it’s your honoured father’s last wish, I won’t say much. But the harem is fraught with dangers, and you must be very careful in the future. If there’s anything, you must send soone to let know." Your words were sincere, without any ulterior motives.
The two of you didn’t chat further. You naturally went to the waterfall at the outskirts of the city to cultivate. After the incident with the Wu Family, you felt acutely aware of your lack of strength. Moreover, whenever it was at this ti, the scene of Ma Linghan coming to the Luo Family to break off the engagent would co to mind. You knew that if you couldn’t surpass Ma Linghan, you would live a life of frustration!
Moreover, only by continuously strengthening your power would you have the chance to break the order of this world and find Zhao’er’s roots.
When you ca ho from cultivation, the moon was already high in the sky, and after washing up, you went to bed.
The next day you woke up and didn’t go out to cultivate. Since you were going to enter the palace to see The Emperor today, you had to do so howork. Entering the study, you found a small sachet on your desk.
You thought it was sothing Little Yue had embroidered for you, and played with it in your hands, only to find that it wasn’t filled with petals but beans that resembled soybeans, only these beans had a strange shape and a rather hard texture. Upon opening it, you discovered the beans were red, and the term "red beans" instantly flashed through your mind!
As you looked at the sachet again, you were stupefied because the other side of the sachet was embroidered with two delicate characters—"Wu Zhao!"
Wu Zhao!
You were unable to express your feelings at the mont, "Wu Zhao!? Could she actually be Zhao’er?"
Historically, Wu Zetian had several nas, representing different periods.
In her youth, for her intelligence and her charming ways, she was affectionately nicknad Lady i; upon reaching the age of fifteen, she was formally known as Wu Wuhao; after claiming the throne, Wu Wuhao deliberately changed her na to Wu Zhao, signifying the sun and moon in the sky, competing with heaven and earth in splendor.
She was a very domineering woman!
However, Wu Zetian never called herself "Zhao" at any point, and this na was actually one you had specifically created for Zhao’er.
Yet she had palpably appeared in front of you.
Could this be destiny?
Yes, you should have realized it sooner. Wu Shihui’s second daughter is none other than Wu Wuhao. Although in this world, Wu Shihui has but two daughters, the second daughter is undoubtedly the real Wu Wuhao!
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