Chapter 1 Dream I have been waiting for you for a long time.

She and her Rose Princess

Casual Words/Article 2024.11.28

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Chapter 1 Dream

Los Angeles, July.

This summer is much hotter than in previous years. The asphalt on the road has become sticky due to the sun. The branches and leaves on both sides of the road have curled up due to the heat and are drooping their heads. The commercial center that used to be bustling with people is now deserted. The stray dogs passing by are hopping on one leg with their tongues hanging out.

Qi Xunsheng met those dark and pitiful eyes squarely. Just as the car was about to pass by, she yawned, leaned her elbows against the window and said lazily -

"stop--"

The driver immediately pulled the car over upon hearing this.

As soon as the car stopped, Qi Xunsheng opened the door and walked out. The servant sitting in the back seat with her only then reacted and quickly opened the parasol and followed.

Qi Xunsheng lifted her skirt, half-knelt down, and raised her hand towards the dog's front paws.

Qi Xunsheng's dress, embellished with real gold and diamonds, was custom-made and worth a fortune. Meanwhile, the stray dog ​​was not only hairless but also had dirt in its paws. After hugging him, the dog's hair must have stuck to him.

"Miss, don't!"

When the servant wanted to stop him, it was too late. Qi Xunsheng's hands had already firmly grasped the dog's paws covered in mud.

Today is my wife's birthday party. If the trip is delayed, she and the driver might lose their jobs.

"Miss, this stray dog ​​will bite people." The servant silently took a step back, fearing that Qi Xunsheng would throw the dog into her arms.

Qi Xunsheng raised his eyes, with a half-smile on his face, as if deliberately going against her, and took the puppy directly into his arms.

When the servant saw this, his eyes went dark.

As far as she knew, the lady had spent millions to customize this specifically for Qi Xunsheng.

In her opinion, although this outfit was a bit tacky, it was made of real gold and silver, and it also fits Qi Xunsheng's wild and spoiled image.

The lady was so good to her, but she didn't expect that she was really as ungrateful as the rumors said.

"The possibility of it biting me is lower than the possibility of you biting me." Qi Xunsheng raised his little face slightly, his pink lips were straightened, and his eyes seemed to be smiling, as if comparing the two.

She was just young, not so stupid as to not see the contempt and rudeness of others.

maid:"……"

How could such a sweet face say such cold and heartless words?

Qi Xunsheng put the dog on the back seat, and the servant got into the car carefully, silently drawing a line between himself and the dog, and from time to time he would glance at the silent man and dog next to him.

"Miss, today is the Madam's birthday party. It's not a good idea to go with a stray dog ​​in your arms, right?" The servant looked at the dog with undisguised disdain.

It was just a stray dog ​​begging for food. I don’t know what was wrong with this young lady that she had to carry it from the street into the car.

He doesn't mind getting this car worth tens of millions dirty.

The wife was kind and treated her husband's ex-wife's children as her own, taking care of them with real money. However, she ended up raising such an ungrateful and arrogant young lady.

Is this what they call "good things don't get rewarded"? It's really puzzling.

Qi Xunsheng ignored her, turned his head to look at the dog who was also looking at her, and raised his chin:

"Come on, call out."

“Woof——”

Qi Xunsheng laughed: "The dog is more obedient than you."

How could the servant not know that Qi Xunsheng was mocking her?

This young lady is truly arrogant and domineering. No wonder servants quit every few days out of anger.

The servant murmured quietly, "Miss, the mistress is so kind to you, not only did you not bring a birthday gift, but you also made things difficult for the mistress. You know that the mistress hates dogs the most."

When they came back from the villa, the servants didn't see Qi Xunsheng prepare any gifts. Instead, the lady specially prepared an evening dress worth one million for her.

"If you make any more noise, I'll throw you down."

Qi Xunsheng glanced at her sideways, his sweet face full of impatience.

The servants also knew that the young lady was a man of her words. She didn't want to be dried into meat in the weather of nearly 40 degrees Celsius, so she simply kept her mouth shut and decided to complain to the mistress later.

"I told you, be quiet."

After a few seconds, Qi Xunsheng's eyes slowly opened, and this sound obviously scared the servant.

She clearly didn't say anything just now, could it be that he heard her muttering?

Or is it true, as rumored, that Miss Qi suffers from severe schizophrenia?

The servant kept his lips tightly closed. The most important thing now was to rush to the birthday party and not let the lady wait too long.

Qi Xunsheng pursed his lips, turned his face slightly, and his eyes stopped on the stray dog ​​in the middle.

The little yellow dog was startled and tilted its head to follow her movements.

——"Can you hear me?"

Qi Xunsheng rolled his eyes and ignored him.

If Qi Xunsheng hadn't heard the dog singing "Sad Waltz" on the roadside, sometimes crying for its parents, sometimes wanting to fly around the world, and sometimes begging for a kind-hearted person to come, he would never have gotten out of the car in the scorching heat to pick it up.

——"Can you hear me? Can you hear me?"

——"Can you hear me?"

…

Qi Xunsheng hadn't dealt with these strange creatures for so long that he forgot that exposing himself like this would only bring more trouble.

For example, now this stray dog ​​keeps calling her.

When he was young, Qi Xunsheng suffered from a very strange disease. Since then, his five senses have become more sensitive than others. He can hear sounds that others cannot hear and see things that others cannot see.

For example, the voices of animals, such as ghosts.

She can hear and see through everything except human hearts.

This frightened her for a time.

Later, her mother found a hermit who prescribed some medicine for her. The medicine worked after she took it, and those strange things slowly disappeared from her world.

But the bad thing is that the medicine has a time limit, and you need to find a doctor to prescribe new medicine every once in a while.

The car was very quiet, but Qi Xunsheng could hear a thousand different sounds. She couldn't understand how a dog could be so noisy.

"bite--"

A cell phone suddenly rang.

"Hey, teacher."

"Follow the sound, come to Beilu Village quickly, there are ancient tombs here."

The person on the other end of the phone was her teacher Luo Qingqing.

"Turn around and go to Beilu Village."

After Qi Xunsheng finished speaking, he was undoubtedly dissuaded by the driver and the servant.

"Miss, you can't do that. Madam's birthday party is about to begin."

"If you have anything to do, it's not too late to go after the banquet."

The two of them were talking back and forth, which made Qi Xunsheng very annoyed.

Half a minute later, the driver and the servant looked at each other in bewilderment as they watched the speeding luxury car. The weather was as hot as an oven, and the two of them were left behind.

In the car, the little yellow dog looked up and met Qi Xunsheng's gaze. Frightened by her fierce look, it huddled into a ball. Without her reminder, it dared not disturb her with any psychological movements.

Beilu Village is a small village in the north of Luocheng. To the west is a primeval forest called Kunling Mountain. According to her teacher, the miasma in the forest is very heavy, and all researchers have turned back halfway. No one has actually been there, so there is no accurate record of this forest in the materials.

No one knows what's inside.

Perhaps the ancient tombs discovered in Beilu Village this time will help us understand the situation in Lingshan.

Luo Qingqing was 45 years old at the time, and it had taken her more than 20 years to study Kunling Mountain. Qi Xunsheng knew clearly what this meant to Luo Qingqing.

As soon as he got off the car, a heat wave hit him in the face. The little yellow dog in the back seat was pretending to sleep. Qi Xunsheng heard it mumbling in his heart, saying that it didn't want to get off the car.

Qi Xunsheng didn't force it to get out of the car, and walked towards the village without looking back.

Luo Qingqing had heard the noise of the car a long time ago and guessed that it was Qi Xunsheng. She crawled out of the cemetery, her face and body covered in mud, and she was holding a shovel in her hand. When she saw someone from afar, she frowned before she spoke.

"Where did this upstart come from?"

Qi Xunsheng: "..."

Of course she knew that this outfit made her look like a nouveau riche, but she had no other clothes to change into since she was called in halfway. She had cleverly hidden a few sets of clothes in the carriage before, but her stepmother Lu Qinglian found excuses to throw them away.

I came in such a hurry that I had no place to find clothes.

Didn’t Lu Qinglian prepare this dress for her just to make her daughter stand out at the birthday party?

Being watched by the people she sent, she had no chance to change into other clothes. Her original plan was to wait until she got to the scene and change into the clothes prepared by her friends to dazzle everyone, but she didn't expect that this plan would be aborted halfway.

"I was going to attend the banquet, no matter who I was attending," Qi Xunsheng said, "if you had told me that Senior Gu was coming, I wouldn't have come. Since you don't need me, I'm leaving."

After saying that, she lifted her skirt and turned to leave.

"Hey, come back, come back," Luo Qingqing shook off the dirt on her body, "I need you, I need you."

Gu Yue, whose name was mentioned, glanced at her indifferently and continued to use tools to scan the words on the tombstone with his head down.

They were both in the Department of Archaeology. Gu Yue was two years older than her and would be a senior at the start of the school year. They rarely interacted with each other, but they had considerable conflicts and neither of them could stand the other.

Qi Xunsheng never had a good face towards people who hated her, but she respected Luo Qingqing, so she didn't say anything else and just tied up the hem of her long skirt with a hair tie.

Fortunately, the dress Lu Qinglian prepared for her had puff sleeves, which did not expose her shoulders and made it more convenient for her to move.

As the only sophomore archaeology student called in to help during the summer vacation, Qi Xunsheng worked very hard, and Luo Qingqing cast admiring glances at her from time to time.

Although she was very unconvinced, she had to admit that she had no talent for archaeology. The reason she chose this major was because her scores were not high enough and she had to accept the transfer. Gu Yue chose this major because she was passionate about it.

If you don't have talent, you can only do hard labor and receive special training from Luo Qingqing.

"This ancient tomb should have originated from the Qi Dynasty a thousand years ago." Not knowing what she saw, Luo Qingqing suddenly became excited.

"Did the Qi Dynasty really exist?" Gu Yue asked.

Qi Xunsheng didn't know much about history, but he was particularly familiar with the two words "Qi Dynasty".

Rather than saying that Luo Qingqing has spent her entire life studying Kunling Mountain, it would be more accurate to say that she has spent her entire life exploring the mysterious Qi Dynasty.

In that legend, there was an era where humans, ghosts, gods and monsters coexisted, and the dynasty flourished for a while and then suddenly disappeared.

Many people think that Luo Qingqing is sick, so she has been exploring unfounded myths and legends. One of the main reasons why Qi Xunsheng was able to stay with her was that she believed what Luo Qingqing said.

In fact, she had to believe it even if she didn't want to. What happened to her was even more bizarre. Why wouldn't she believe in a mere Qi Chao?

"Xunsheng, where is your bracelet?" Luo Qingqing suddenly asked her.

Qi Xunsheng subconsciously touched his wrist and said, "I left it at home."

That was a gift given to her by a hermit, who told her to wear it at all times to ward off evil spirits. Hearing the voice of her heart and seeing ghosts were no big deal; the most worrying thing was encountering an evil creature with ill intentions.

Qi Xunsheng has kept it in mind all these years, but recently Lu Qinglian didn't know what was wrong with her and hid her bracelet somewhere.

So I went to Lu Qinglian's birthday party today to get her bracelet back. I had no choice but to go find that hermit again.

She could only pray that nothing major would happen in the next few days.

Luo Qingqing usually paid a lot of attention to her, but asking in this situation was not appropriate. Sure enough, Gu Yue glanced at her.

Qi Xunsheng glared back, not wanting to be outdone.

"Well, you go back first, and I'll come to you if there's anything." Luo Qingqing's face suddenly changed.

"It's useless for you to stay here. You've become the focus of the whole place," Gu Yue said coldly, "Why don't you go home and change your clothes?"

Qi Xunsheng turned around and was about to confront her when he met the gaze of the person next to him, which seemed to attract some attention.

"Don't touch it, don't touch it—" Luo Qingqing took the shovel from her hand and whispered, "Look for the sound and listen to the teacher."

Seeing that she said that, Qi Xunsheng was no longer angry. It was normal for Gu Yue to speak harshly, but Luo Qingqing must have her reasons for saying that.

Qi Xunsheng put down what he was holding and wiped his face. He could already guess that he must be dirty now.

"Then I..."

"Here's a dagger—"

Hearing the voice, Luo Qingqing no longer cared about her and turned away.

Driven by curiosity, Qi Xunsheng followed her over to take a look.

The handle was inlaid with jade and had a sharp tip. There were words engraved on the top of the handle, but she couldn't make out the ancient characters clearly.

At this time, Gu Yue said: "It seems to be a Zhao character."

——"Don't be afraid, I don't blame you."

Who is talking? Who is crying?

The ethereal voice echoed in her ears. Qi Xunsheng looked up and around, but could not find the source. She felt inexplicably tired all over, and a bitterness that did not belong to her spread in her heart. The dagger became more and more blurred, and the voices around her became distant.

"Looking for the sound——"

Qi Xunsheng felt that his soul was floating in the air, and his feet seemed to be stepping on floating clouds, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, all around him was red. A woman was lying on the red cloth, and the red silk was kissing her eyes. He couldn't see her expression clearly, but her slightly open red lips were tickling his heart, and his skin was like jade, so beautiful that it made people tremble.

She clearly felt what was happening. A feeling she had never experienced before filled her heart. She only wanted more. The red mole on her chest tempted her to bow her head. At this moment, she was like a puppet, not knowing where she was, and only wanted to go to the deepest point.

Suddenly, she felt her chin being gently lifted, and she looked up unconsciously, meeting those captivating eyes. Qi Xunsheng heard her say -

"Will you come with me?"

Qi Xunsheng was like a puppet being controlled, unable to express herself. She could only half-kneel blankly, allowing the woman to pinch her chin condescendingly and utter:

"I've been waiting for you for a long time."

"Sound."