Chapter 1 Guo Luoluo traveled through time

"Boss Yu, the bridge will be completed soon." Tao Hong, holding the calculation book in his arms and wearing running shoes, ran quickly to Guo Xiuyu, a rare female chief engineer of Jianzhong Group, with excitement written all over his face.

Guo Xiuyu clutched a walkie-talkie, occasionally directing her fellow workers on the bridge. After giving her final instructions, Guo Xiuyu switched off the radio and looked at Tao Hong, who had come running up to her. She asked with a smile, "Why aren't you calling me 'Master' today?" Although she was chatting with Tao Hong, her eyes remained fixed on the bridge.

Tao Honghui replied, "It's not that there are so many people here, and there are people from the TV station here, so calling me Master is really inappropriate."

Guo Xiuyu smiled and shook his head, then looked up at the sun and moon hanging in the sky at the same time. He couldn't help but sigh, "It's as if the heavens knew we were going to merge today. Even the moon has come out to join in the fun at this hour."

"The sun and the moon shine together, what a good omen!" Tao Hong leaned closer to Guo Xiuyu and asked in a low voice, "Master, isn't it time to promote you to project manager for the next project? Then you'd be the only female project manager in Jianzhong Group. You're both young and capable."

Guo Xiuyu lowered her eyelids, but didn't care: "Being the protruding rafter is not necessarily a good thing. So when you were assigned to our project, I strongly suggested that you go into business. Who knew you were so stubborn and insisted on following me to do technology." As she spoke, she raised her hand and gently poked Tao Hong's head.

"Do I like Master?" Tao Hong is not a shy person with a thin skin. On the contrary, he is quite thick-skinned to have made it to the project department. "To be honest, I came to this project department just for Master. I know Master is this position among the chief engineers." Tao Hong gave a thumbs up. "If I can't follow Master, I won't do this job."

Guo Xiuyu's eyebrows curved, and the corner of her mouth raised: "You, even in a crowd of people, are still a smart guy!"

Tao Hong and Guo Xiuyu stared at the nearby bridge together and replied, "Even if I'm a smart guy, I'm a smart guy who listens to my master. I'll do whatever my master tells me to do. I'm willing to be my master's follower for the rest of my life."

"Boss Li is over." Guo Xiuyu's expression suddenly turned serious, and his grip on the intercom tightened. "I've worked on a few projects like this before, and every time I close a joint, I get a little nervous."

"It's normal to be nervous," Tao Hong comforted Guo Xiuyu. "The several bridges that Master has been responsible for since becoming chief engineer have all had their own unique designs. You've put a lot of effort and thought into building each one, which is quite tiring."

Guo Xiuyu narrowed his eyes, raised his head and looked at the sun in the sky, and sighed: "Being able to successfully integrate the dragon and not have any problems during its service life is the greatest wish of us engineers."

Tao Hong nodded. The five words "lifelong responsibility system" are not just talk, but should be kept in mind throughout one's life.

The moment the bridge closed, Guo Xiuyu finally felt relieved, but the light before her eyes grew brighter. She raised her head to gaze at the "sun and moon shining together" in the sky; the sun and moon seemed to be merging. At the moment she fainted, Guo Xiuyu first thought, "Shouldn't the sun and moon be merging together to produce a solar or lunar eclipse?" Why was there such a bright light? Then, a man's voice faintly echoed in her ears: "Concubine Yi, Yu'er, in the next life, I still want to be your wife."

In the next life, I still want to be your husband and wife...

In the 17th year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the eldest son of Antamu, who was then the commander of the Bordered Yellow Banner, Sanguan Bao went to his house. After tossing and turning all night and all day, the cry of a baby was finally heard in the blood room.

Sanguanbao was standing outside the blood room, anxiously wondering whether to stand or sit. It was not until he heard the baby crying that he put his palms together and muttered something to thank the shaman god.

After the blood room was cleaned up, Sanguanbao was finally able to go in and reunite with his wife and daughter. At that time, Sanguanbao's wife Dong E was leaning against the head of the bed, holding her daughter who had just become a bandit in her arms.

"She's a princess, do you like her?" After all, after a day and a night of tossing and turning, Dong E's voice was still hoarse.

Sanguanbao sat down beside his wife and said with a smile, "My daughter, the daughter of the Guoluo family, will surely be a skilled warrior on horseback in the future! Even if she becomes a daughter of the Sanguanbao family, she will not be inferior to the boys!"

Dong E sighed, "It's a pity that our daughter is so pretty. I'm afraid you, my father, will raise her as a boy."

Sanguan Bao looked at his daughter's pretty appearance, and the smile between his eyebrows gradually faded, and instead a hint of sadness appeared.

Dong E tugged at San Guan Bao's sleeve and asked, "What's wrong, Master?"

Sanguan Bao patted the back of Dong E's hand, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Don't forget, our princess will not be able to escape the selection process in the future. If she is born too beautiful, I don't know whether it will be a blessing or a curse."

Guo Xiuyu was still dizzy when she woke up. She only vaguely heard the words "Guo Luoluo family", "riding horses to fight", and "beauty contest". When she wanted to listen more clearly, she suddenly found that she had turned into a baby. More than three hundred years later, the strange phenomenon in the sky actually sent her, an outstanding female chief engineer who could have done more practical things for the country, to the Qing Dynasty. It was so dramatic.

But what could she do? She couldn't go back now anyway, so she could only choose to adapt to her new father, mother, and this new home. Of course, the words "Concubine Yi, Yu'er, in the next life, I still want to be your wife" were forgotten by Guo Xiuyu as the baby cried.

In the blink of an eye, it was already the fifteenth year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign. Sanguanbao had already taken over his father's position as a lieutenant commander of the Bordered Yellow Banner over a decade earlier. Beyond the Great Wall, the land was vast and the Manchus living there naturally enjoyed a greater sense of leisure and ease than those who had entered the Great Wall.

Guo Luoluo's Xiuyu was just as her mother had described her, a blossoming beauty, her beauty unlike any that of a Manchu princess. Her carefree demeanor even evoked the allure of a Jiangnan girl. Only Xiuyu herself knew that this beauty, unlike that of a Manchu princess, was a gift she had brought from over three hundred years ago, a beauty unique to Guo Xiuyu.

"Father, my daughter's dart shooting skills are not inferior to her archery skills!" On the training ground, Xiu Yu raised her head slightly, with the corners of her mouth slightly curved, showing off to Sanguan Bao.

Sanguanbao stroked his beard and nodded, saying, "It does look somewhat like one."

"Father, you are always like this." Xiu Yu ran to Sanguanbao, took his arm, and said, "My daughter wants to get a word of praise from you, just one word. Is it so difficult?" Xiu Yu stretched out her right index finger and placed it in front of Sanguanbao, and her face, which was originally full of smiles, fell.

But Sanguan Bao said, "You are the daughter of my Guoluo family. Our Guoluo family is full of loyal and brave people! Horseback riding and archery are in your blood. If you do well, it is only natural. If you do not do well, then we will have to discuss it separately."

"My daughter is clearly better than the men in our tribe." Xiu Yu simply started to show her temper: "Father, if you continue like this, I will simply stop practicing."

In the past, Sanguanbao would have lectured Xiuyu on his Guoluolu ancestors, describing how they had followed Taizu and Taizong in conquering the world and how they had been loyal to them. He'd eventually veer off into the topic of "You were born into a family of loyal and brave men, so naturally you're skilled in riding and archery." But today, he simply said, "If you don't want to practice, then don't practice."

"Father?" Seeing the melancholy look on Sanguanbao's face, Xiu Yu asked, "What happened today? Father, are you worried? I'm not used to you not forcing me to practice riding and archery."

Sanguanbao sighed, touched the back of Xiuyu's head, and finally smiled at his daughter: "You are seventeen years old this year. Although our family lives outside the Great Wall, we are still servants of the imperial family. We must abide by the imperial rules."

Xiu Yu was incredibly clever; she naturally knew the rules her father had been referring to as the "rules" a royal servant must obey. She took Sanguan Bao's arm and walked toward the parade grounds. After a long hesitation, she said, "Father, do you mean to send your daughter through the border?"

Sanguan Bao forced a smile. "My daughter is not only beautiful, but also, under your mother's education, she is a master of both housework and cooking, and is also skilled in horseback riding and archery. Among the Bannermen, it's not an exaggeration to say that she is one of the best. It's a pity that you were born into our family."

"I was born into the Guoluo family, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it." Xiu Yu never felt that there was anything to complain about her origins. It was all fate, whether in the era three hundred years from now or in this era. Of course, how the future would develop depended entirely on her own luck, which was beyond human control. "Father, you often say that our Guoluo family is full of loyal and brave people. You clearly feel extremely proud to be born into our family!"

"But Father's status and position..." Sanguan Bao looked at his daughter's pretty face and felt that he had been rather unfair to her. "When you enter the Forbidden City someday, I imagine you'll have to start as a palace maid."

Xiu Yu raised her head and looked directly into Sanguan Bao's eyes, saying, "Father, do you think your daughter is a lucky person?"

"My daughter, of course you are blessed!" Sanguan Bao never doubted this: "You are a phoenix, but you still need to meet someone who recognizes phoenixes."

Thanks to the influence of various Qing Dynasty palace dramas over three hundred years later, Xiu Yu, ever since she learned her father's name was "Sanguan Bao" and that she was a descendant of the Guo Luoluo clan, likely anticipated her future as the "most favored" Concubine Yi. So, it was essentially fate; her life after entering the imperial court was generally good for at least many, many years.

"Don't worry, Father!" Xiu Yu held Sanguan Bao's hand tightly. "With my martial arts skills, no one can hurt me. If anyone dares to bully me, I will beat them to a pulp!"

Sanguan Bao laughed out loud at Xiu Yu, and a tear eventually flowed from the corner of his eye. He raised his head, not wanting his daughter to see his tears. Only after the tears dried did he say to Xiu Yu, "Yu'er, your life will get better and better, which is naturally my greatest hope. However, the palace gate is as deep as the sea. I actually..."