Chapter 799: Chapter 797: Another Period Drama_1
Xia Ningxing’s heart skipped a beat.
Could it really be such a coincidence? This young boy’s sister was also nad Xia Ningxing, sharing both her na and surna!
Moreover, the girl who was bitten to death by the wild beast just now, could she be the sister he was talking about?
As if to confirm her speculation, the boy was already running towards her from not far away.
The boy was about twelve or thirteen years old, wearing coarse hemp clothes, with his dark hair tied up high and secured with a rough little wooden stick.
It was another ancient costu.
Xia Ningxing frowned slightly, feeling that sothing was not quite right.
As expected, the boy quickly closed the distance between them in just a few strides.
“Sister, didn’t I tell you to stay at ho? How co you’re here? Do you know how hard I’ve been looking for you?” the boy panted heavily, his chest heaving, beads of sweat the size of beans dripping from his forehead, his eyes filled with worry and a hint of slight grievance.
Xia Ningxing: “…!”
Alright, this young boy really was that girl’s brother.
Now, he obviously had mistaken her for soone else.
Just as Xia Ningxing was about to correct him, her body was suddenly tightly embraced by the boy.
“Sister, when I couldn’t find you anywhere, I nearly thought sothing had happened to you… I thought you were in trouble!”
The boy’s eyes reddened with choked sobs, and his frail shoulders trembled slightly.
Heaven knows how panicked and desperate he felt when he could not find her, as if the whole world had collapsed.
“Since our old nanny died, it has been just the two of us, brother and sister, relying on each other. You mustn’t have anything happen to you, do you understand? Otherwise, I won’t be able to go on living either…” He cried a ss, but his voice was extraordinarily firm.
He and his sister were people abandoned by their family, so they had been very close since childhood. He saw her not only as his sister but also as his mother, and even more as soone more important than his own life.
So, if she died, he was determined to follow, not to let her walk alone!
Xia Ningxing felt her eyebrows twitch, and the words “I’m not your sister” that were on her lips were abruptly swallowed back.
She could tell that the boy’s talk of dying together was more than just talk.
And since one was dressed in ancient costu, and so was the other, and their speech was also archaic, it seed she might have traveled back to ancient tis.
Although she didn’t know why she had suddenly ended up here, as the saying goes, when in Ro, do as the Romans do.
Xia Ningxing gritted her teeth and decided to impersonate the girl who had died.
It was for her own sake, so she could have a place to stay, and also for the sake of her “brother.”
She imagined that the girl wouldn’t want her brother to learn of her demise and then do sothing foolish.
After all, in ancient tis, one needed proof of identity, and without such things, life would be very difficult; in severe cases, one might even be captured as a spy for an enemy nation, so she needed to have an identity to proceed.
So…
Xia Ningxing suppressed her guilt and stroked the boy’s head: “You silly child, what nonsense are you talking? Even if your sister really did have an accident, you would still have to live well.”
Xia Ningxing didn’t know how the girl used to interact with her brother; all she could do was fumble her way through.
If it really didn’t work out, she would have to tell the truth.
Alas, so who traveled through ti at least received mories or sothing, but not her; she was completely in the dark, without even a guide for beginners!
However, perhaps her fumbling was convincing, as the boy showed no suspicion but instead looked up at her with tearful eyes, determination in his face: “No, my sister and I were born at the sa ti, so we must also die together!”
It turns out these siblings were indeed dragon-phoenix twins.
Xia Ningxing couldn’t help but laugh and cry, “That’s twisted reasoning.”
“I don’t care about what’s twisted or not! Anyway, my sister is my life!” The young boy, like a little puppy, clung to her waist and wouldn’t let go, cooing softly.
Even though she knew he was talking to his real sister, not her, Xia Ningxing still couldn’t help but feel warm inside.
Back in the modern world, she had been an orphan with no idea who her parents were, later entering the entertainnt industry.
Just when she was getting famous and starting to make good money, who knew, she ended up transporting through ti to ancient tis.
Enough said, it’s all too tearful.
On the way back, the young boy still noticed sothing peculiar.
“Sister, I rember you wearing a blue dress this morning.” He frowned slightly, staring at her curiously.
Xia Ningxing, feeling goosebumps from his gaze, forcefully made up an excuse: “If I said it was a kind person I t, and they gave it to , would you believe ?”
Ah, such child’s play, who would believe that!
Xia Ningxing was already prepared to tell the young boy the truth.
However!
“I believe it! Of course, I do!” The young boy’s eyes were clear and trusting as he vigorously nodded his little head, then added, “If we et this kind person again, we must properly thank them. Just by looking at the material of these clothes, it seems quite valuable!”
Xia Ningxing: “…”
He could believe even this kind of talk?
Xia Ningxing couldn’t help questioning the young boy’s intelligence.
But thankfully, the young boy wasn’t lacking intelligence, it was just that he was severely sister-obsessed, the type who would unconditionally believe anything his sister said, even if she claid dung was fragrant.
So, leveraging this blind trust, Xia Ningxing quickly managed to extract the real Xia Ningxing’s basic information.
Since there was no newbie guide, she had to gather the information herself.
After all, you can’t really live life completely in the dark, can you?
It turned out she had traveled a thousand years into the future, to a fictional dynasty in history—Southern Country.
And the identity of this brother and sister pair?
Do you think because they live in the countryside, they are just country bumpkins?
No, no, no, no!
They are the legitimate son and daughter of the current Minister of Public Works.
The reason they ended up living in this small mountain village is rather ludicrous, as it turns out their father, Mr. Xia, was once just a poor scholar. After marrying the farm girl Mrs. Xia, she embroidered daily to support him in his studies and gave birth to twins, a boy, and a girl. But what happened after, this love rat, upon passing the imperial examination as the top scholar, planned to marry a lady from a prominent family.
Mrs. Xia intended to cause a scene but had no idea why on her way bandits appeared out of nowhere and she was hacked to death.
Now, with his original wife dead, Mr. Xia could confidently marry the lady from the prominent family without worrying about the cri of bigamy.
As for Xia Ningxing and Xia Tuandzi, the bona fide legitimate son and daughter, he outright denied them.
Because Mr. Xia felt that his past with Mrs. Xia, a humble farm girl, was the greatest sha of his life, and the children born from her were even more shaful.
Therefore, he didn’t acknowledge them and even feared they might be as unreasonable as Mrs. Xia and cause trouble in the imperial city, so he secretly banned them from leaving their remote and impoverished rural area.
If they tried to leave, they would be intercepted by people watching them in secret.
What a scumbag!
He’s practically a modern-day Chen Shii!!!
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