Chapter 87 His Gray World I Want to Watch the Moon with You
When Youan was just one year old, the queen passed away due to an illness caused by a difficult childbirth. The king fell onto the throne, holding the wrinkled baby in his arms.
The queen's personal maid, Elsa, is a witch. She is a weaving witch who can weave colorful silks. When the queen leaves, the king decides to expel her.
Because someone offered him a slanderous rumor: "The silk woven by the maid Aisha caused the queen's early death."
All the clothes that Aisha had woven were consumed by the flames, and so Aisha cast a curse: "One day your son will fall into a deep sleep, and I will weave him into an endless dream, from which he will sleep until death!"
As soon as he finished speaking, countless shining dots floated into Youan's cradle, leaving a curse mark on his heart.
"But you seem to have fallen asleep in a tower once." Ye Wan asked. The hateful rabbit insisted that she kiss a stranger, but she didn't want to.
"It's not actually a vicious curse," Youan replied.
Yuan's father was a cold and irritable monarch. He quickly married a new queen and placed Yuan in the palace where the previous queen had left, and ignored him. The servants were also not sincere towards the disfavored prince.
Every day, Youan could only talk to the queen's portrait.
When he was ten years old, the queen's bedroom caught fire unexpectedly. It took an hour for the knights to arrive and put out the fire with water.
Everyone thought that Yuan was dead, but when the knight opened the burned door, he found Yuan lying in a pile of ice, his body wrapped in a layer of silver light.
It turns out that Aisha's curse is not a real curse. She knows the old king's cruel nature very well. This curse is just a shell to protect Euan when he is in danger.
Warmth and love will awaken him again.
But this protective spell can only be cast three times, after which he will fall into an eternal sleep.
Hearing this, Ye Wan was very scared: "What if we encounter a crisis next time and you fall asleep again, I won't be able to wake you up?"
Youan comforted her: "Don't worry, I will be careful."
After listening to a whole night of bizarre stories, Ye Wan looked a little dazed. She hadn't slept well in the first half of the night, and her mind was full of bizarre stage plays and fairy tales.
She dreamed that in Cinderella Square, Youan was wearing a beautiful crinoline dress. He held up the hem of the dress with both hands and said to Ye Wan, "I have been cursed by a witch. Please come to the tower and save me."
He showed the audience his finger that was pricked by the spindle, then turned and ran into the dark curtain and fell.
The audience below burst into laughter. Ye Wan, wearing a crown and a prince costume, was at a loss. Soon she arrived at the bottom of the tower. Finally, the villain made a gorgeous appearance. There was only a dull loud "bang" that shook the floor.
The light shone down, illuminating a furry shadow as big as a hill.
It looked like a pancake with a leavening agent, its orange fur was shiny as if soaked in oil, and its round body was like a hill.
It was still gnawing on the carrot.
Ye Wan said in panic: "Puff...pancakes?"
Pancake's fat body pressed down on him, and Ye Wan was so scared that he ran away. The audience below burst into laughter again.
Then Ye Wan woke up with a start. It was still the middle of the night. The white gauze that was made transparent by the moonlight was lifted by the night wind. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and turned her head to look at Muffin who was sleeping soundly in the small basket. Although it had become as fat as a pig, it was still the size of a normal guinea pig.
On the other side, You An felt the movement and woke up in a daze. He tightened his arms and pulled Ye Wan deeper into his arms.
"Did you have a nightmare? Don't be afraid, I'm here." His lips touched her sweaty temples: "It's just the night wind, don't be afraid."
With such comfort, Ye Wan calmed down strangely. She buried her face in You An's chest, and all the mess in her mind was dispelled.
The summer breeze also weakened, leaving only the noisy chirping of cicadas outside the window.
The next day was still a hot summer day. The tiles on Honey Lane looked like they were burned through. Ye Wan was only wearing a thin linen shirt, but his back was still soaked.
This morning she and Youan went to the market with muffins. There were a lot of fresh black plums on the market, wrapped in fresh lotus leaves.
Ye Wan immediately thought of black plum soup, the antidote for the hot summer.
The black plums were a ripe dark purple, almost black, and the hawthorns were bright red. Ye Wan bought quite a few.
There was another surprise when they returned to the restaurant. The mermaid Lorelai sent a box of seafood, and an ice lizard came with the box on its back. It handed over the receipt, and when Ye Wan approached to take it, he felt a chill all over his body.
After the Ice Lizard took the receipt and left with the empty box, Ye Wan curiously opened the box, which was filled with oysters, scallops, shrimps, and squid legs.
"Let's make a seafood feast today." Ye Wan said to Pancake who was lying on her shoulder.
“Squeak!”
"Gulp...Gulp", a pot of clear water slowly stewed into a deep and attractive purple-red color. Ye Wan threw two pieces of rock sugar into it and gently stirred it with a long spoon, and the dark black plums rolled up.
The pot is filled with plenty of ingredients, including black plums, hawthorns, tangerine peels, licorice, and a few mint leaves that Ye Wan picked in the yard. After the black plum soup is cooked, the deep red soup is poured through gauze into a glass jar.
After covering the glass jar and putting it in the refrigerator, Ye Wan breathed a long sigh of relief. The cicadas were still chirping and heat waves were coming over him layer by layer. Ye Wan was thinking about the vampire, Ophelia, and the curse on Youan.
If possible, her greatest wish was that no terrible events would happen, and she would just wait until the sun sets and sit under the rose trellis with You An to drink a bowl of cool black plum soup.
There was a slight breeze tonight. The restaurant's theme today was seafood set menu. The first person to come in was Rose, who looked a little dying.
She had been waiting in Twilight Villa all day. The villa was covered with a more stringent barrier. She brought a bunch of tools but couldn't break the barrier. Finally, when she wanted to try to physically climb over the wall, Dracula appeared again.
He didn't look harmless, but he looked a little arrogant, with his chin facing Rose: "Ophelia belongs to me, please don't come here again."
Then Dracula disappeared with a bunch of bats wrapped in his thick black robe, leaving Rose standing there, jumping up and down: "Damn it! I'm going to fight him someday."
Ye Wan comforted her and brought her a bowl of black plum soup. Rose was angry and drank the black plum soup in one breath.
She packed a plate of seafood fried rice, said hello to Ye Wan, and then went to wait at the entrance of Twilight Villa.
It was closing time when Youan came back from outside. He had already arranged patrols in the royal capital and hoped that there would not be any major chaos later.
The summer breeze at night was relatively cool, so Ye Wan moved the small wooden table under the rose stand in the courtyard.
The rose bush finally blossomed profusely. The summer heat was blocked by the layers of green leaves and flowers. It was very cool under the shade of the flowers, and there was even a faint sweet fragrance in the air.
Ye Wan served him a big bowl full of seafood fried rice.
It is overnight rice, which is fried until each grain is distinct. It is filled with bright red shrimps, white squid rings, emerald green peas, orange-red carrot cubes and other ingredients to add color.
Ye Wan also cut some sausage into cubes. After stir-frying, the sausage exuded an oily and salty aroma. A half-cooked poached egg was placed on top of the rice.
Youan looked at her and smiled: "It looks very delicious."
He picked up the spoon and took a big bite. The shrimp was fresh and sweet, and the squid was crispy. It tasted very delicious.
"Eat slowly, don't be in a hurry." Ye Wan poured him a cup of black plum soup, which had just been taken out of the refrigerator and had ice cubes in it. The ice cubes made crisp sounds when they collided in the deep red soup.
The moment the cool liquid slides down the throat, the heat seems to retreat all at once. This tea has the sourness of hawthorn, the sweetness of rock sugar and a hint of cool mint.
"I know you've been having a hard time lately." Ye Wan hesitated for a moment. "I don't know when this chaos will end, but I still want to tell you."
She held his hand and said sincerely, "My only wish is to be with you in the summer evening breeze, in the courtyard, admiring the flowers and drinking black plum soup."
The moon is round and bright tonight.
Ye Wan glanced at the moon and said, "We have a festival called Mid-Autumn Festival. It's a time for family reunions. That night, everyone will sit in the courtyard, eat mooncakes, and admire the moon."
She stopped talking.
In fact, what she wanted to say was: "I want to appreciate the moon with you."
But even if she didn't say it, Youan completely understood the feelings she wanted to express. He took the petals from Ye Wan's hair and brushed his fingertips across her slightly cool face.
Ye Wan looked up at him.
"From now on, every Mid-Autumn Festival, I will watch the moon with you."
The shade of flowers was thick, the summer breeze was gentle, and he dropped a kiss on Ye Wan's ear: "I will never let you leave my side again..."
He still remembered the painful past. He was the only heir of Oceana, but was still imprisoned in the late queen's bedroom.
For a long time, no servant was willing to talk to him, and the food he ate was often a piece of cold chicken or a large orange.
Until the new queen also died of illness, and the old king could no longer give birth to a new heir.
He became the crown prince of this country, a useless but indispensable thing for the old king.
The attitudes of all his attendants, servants, and even nobles towards him changed rapidly, but Youan had already seen through the fickleness of the world.
He lived in a magnificent palace that was extremely luxurious, with velvet curtains, stained-glass windows, and even emeralds inlaid on the walls.
But it's all just plain stupid.
The world that Youan saw through his smoky crystal eyes was gray until that day.
Until that ordinary summer day, a new maid came to the palace.
Like the other maids, she was wearing a plain white suit and looked a little nervous. She stepped lightly into the cold palace, and then her black eyes met his smoky crystal eyes, as if silently saying to him, "I am here to bring you happiness."
Then Euan's grey world turned into colour.
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