Chapter 224 Encountering a Cellphone Swarm...
That night, Qi Chengming couldn't wait to check his phone.
The phone wasn't connected to the internet and couldn't make calls, but just as he expected, all the novels, videos, and music he had downloaded before were still there. Even single-player games and some games that weren't connected to the real-world internet could still be played after connecting to the infrastructure system's LAN!
This is already a great comfort.
Qi Chengming stayed up all night in a good mood.
I spent the first half of the night reading novels, the second half watching TV series and movies, and finally, as dawn approached, I fell asleep while playing a sword game.
In the morning, Gan Tang quietly went into the main room to check, but there was no movement from the bedside. She softly called out, "Your Highness..."
This is no longer the time in Liuzhou where Your Highness can sleep in as long as you want. Today, Scholar Mu is coming to the residence to study as His Highness's new tutor. This is their first meeting, and Your Highness shouldn't be late... to avoid making a bad impression.
There was still no movement from the bed.
Gan Tang sighed helplessly, not at all surprised. She pulled back the curtain and prepared to lift the prince up, dress him and tie his hair first, and then wait for him to wash up... According to custom, the prince should be awake by then.
Gan Tang's hand froze in mid-air.
"Xiao Ju, wait outside first." Her voice was perfectly calm, without the slightest abnormality, simply stopping the second-class palace maids behind her from entering.
"Yes." The second-class palace maids withdrew, and even the head palace maid, Shishuang, glanced cautiously in this direction. Obeying her sister Gantang's words, she lowered her head and followed her out, determined not to listen or ask any more questions.
"..." The air in the main room was so quiet it was almost unbearable. Gan Tang watched this scene with her breath held, her mind completely blank.
His Highness was still sleeping peacefully in bed. The young man had remained slender for the past few years, never gaining weight; even when he slept on his side, Gan Tang could see his thin back. But that wasn't the point. The point was…
Before His Highness's sleeping hand lay a strange, palm-sized, black inkstone. This inkstone was actually glowing! On it were moving images, trees, water, and people, like... another world glimpsed through this inkstone.
Gan Tang felt dizzy and her legs were weak.
She couldn't understand what this thing was, and could only rely on instinct to keep the other palace maids calm. Her first thought was... whatever you do, don't let anyone else know.
Gan Tang took another deep breath, steeled herself, and reached out, her fingers trembling slightly. She carefully approached, picked up a bean pillow from the bed, and silently covered the object before finally letting out a sigh of relief.
"...Huff! Huff..."
"Your Highness? It's time to wake up." Gan Tang soothed her dry throat and then casually resumed her usual gentle tone.
When Qi Chengming groggily sat up to get dressed, he was so sleepy that he could barely keep his eyelids open. The consequence of not sleeping for a few hours was that his brain felt like mush.
But his first reaction was a jolt, and he pretended to casually turn around to look at his bed.
cell phone! !
I was so excited that I wanted to stay up all night, but I ended up falling asleep without even realizing it!
Weren't we discovered?
This startled him awake, but there was no phone in sight on the bed, and Gan Tang and the other palace maids who were serving him with their heads down all looked perfectly normal, as if they hadn't noticed at all.
Qi Chengming calmed his wildly beating heart. After everyone had left, he went back to his bed and groped around until he found his phone, which was almost out of battery and had shut down. He then went to the restroom to charge it.
When Xiao Dezi arrived in a grand procession of palace maids and eunuchs from the main kitchen, His Highness had already disappeared from the main courtyard.
"Where is His Highness?" Xiao Dezi asked, completely bewildered.
Gan Tang knew that there was a side room in the main courtyard that no one was allowed to approach normally, and she had naturally guessed what might be inside. But after the terrifying scene this morning, Gan Tang had more guesses about her prince's identity and what was in that side room.
She said respectfully, "His Highness has something to attend to and instructed that he would come over later."
Xiao Dezi looked at the sky and became even more anxious: "We're almost going to miss Yinquan Courtyard! Where did His Highness go so early in the morning?"
Gan Tang simply lowered her head and remained silent.
If she would normally be anxious about her prince being late for his audience with the Grand Tutor on the morning of his first meeting after becoming the Crown Prince, then now…
Gan Tang thought to herself:
'His Highness must have his reasons.'
"That matter in the side room is far more important than anything else!"
Your Highness... what could it be?
A celestial being? Or a dragon descended to earth?
Thinking about the various miraculous coincidences that had happened to her prince over the past few years, Gan Tang suddenly felt that everything made sense...
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Author's Note: I'm so sleepy, but I just can't fall asleep. I haven't slept more than twelve hours in the past three days. I've been suffering from severe insomnia these past few days. This chapter is only a tiny bit long; as I was writing, I realized I was so sleepy that my logic was all over the place, it's just ridiculous.
Continue trying to sleep
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