Chapter 690 Dreamer
The New Year comes soon after the Exorcism Festival.
Lu Chaochao and others prepared to return to Beizhao. Xuan Jichuan tried to persuade them to stay, but Lu Chaochao wanted to go home.
She spent her sixth birthday away from home this year and she missed her parents.
Xuan Jichuan was wearing a dragon robe. The originally thin boy had now grown into a tall man.
His eyes were deep and stern, and his brows could not conceal the imperial domineering aura.
Every move he made showed the power of a superior.
"If you want to go home, I won't keep you. But I'm getting married after the new year. If you're willing to wait... I'll ask the Imperial Observatory to move up the wedding date." Xuan Jichuan's brows were curved. The usually cold emperor actually showed a hint of tenderness at this moment.
Lu Chaochao looked at him in astonishment: "Get married?"
"Last month, the Queen Mother asked you to participate in the beauty contest, but you were still resisting..." At that time, the Queen Mother's niece, Miss Chen, was not only beautiful as a fairy, but also had an aura that could make one very charming.
Xuan Jichuan smiled brightly: "The woman I want to marry must be the best in the world! She must be the one I love in my heart!"
"What's the point of having three thousand beauties in the harem? Life is short, and it's enough to have one person's true love."
"Besides...she is the woman of my dreams." The emperor, who was high above everyone else, revealed a hint of tenderness in his eyes.
Lu Chaochao held the teacup and choked.
“Cough cough cough cough…”
Her little face turned red from coughing, and tears were about to fall from her coughing: "Dream...the person in my dream?" She raised her head and looked at him warily.
Xuan Jichuan hurriedly took out a handkerchief and wiped the tea from the corner of her mouth.
"Go slower, you might choke on your tea."
Xuan Jichuan's eyes softened slightly, he rubbed his fingers unconsciously, and a smile filled his eyes.
Although he looked shy, he never hid anything from Lu Chaochao: "Yes, I often had a dream when I was young."
When he talked about his childhood dreams, he became softer and his breath became gentler.
It's nothing like the brutal and murderous behavior as rumored.
"When I was young, a figure often appeared in my dreams. She was in a white dress with black hair and fluttering sleeves. She looked like a banished fairy in the clouds, so high and unattainable."
“Her presence has been with me throughout my past.”
Lu Chaochao tightened her grip on the teacup slightly, not daring to look into Xuan Jichuan's eyes.
He is the reincarnation of his inner demon. Although he enters the cycle of reincarnation again and again, he is still affected by himself. It's just gradually getting weaker.
"I was sent to Beizhao as a hostage because I shouted that I wanted to marry the girl of my dreams and was abandoned by my father." Xuan Jichuan smiled self-deprecatingly. He didn't understand at that time and said it out loud.
At that time, Dong Ling had just been defeated in the war, and all the people in the harem were sent to Bei Zhao as hostages along with Xuan Yin on the grounds that he was suffering from insanity. My mother knelt in front of my father's palace for three days and three nights, but my father did not take back his order.
The little fairy whom he carefully protected was also regarded by everyone as a demon that entered their dreams.
The mother was so angry that she even invited a master to exorcise the evil spirit. He was locked up in the house day after day. The house was covered with talismans and filled with choking smoke. People kept reading sutras and chanting Buddhist scriptures to him.
The mother knelt on the ground and begged him.
Until Xuan Jichuan said in person: "It was the invasion of evil spirits, I have woken up. I will not marry a demon..." At such a young age, he dared not say anything careless anymore.
"Dreams are all fake, how can they come true? Right?" Lu Chaochao looked at him tentatively.
Xuan Jichuan smiled and said, "I used to think so too."
"I even thought that if I couldn't find her, I would be alone for the rest of my life and never marry." He was extremely wary of outsiders and had never thought about participating in a beauty contest or getting married.
“But I met her.”
“I actually met her in such a huge crowd of people.”
"Chao Chao, you know what? The moment I saw her, my heart almost stopped beating."
"She walked out of the dream and walked towards me." At that moment, he couldn't even tell whether it was a dream or reality.
Xuan Jichuan's voice became more and more excited, and he even stood up, his eyes shining with joy.
Just like a rootless duckweed has found its home.
Lu Chaochao looked at him and touched her face unconsciously. After a long time, she opened her mouth with difficulty: "You...really saw her?"
She was about to doubt her life!
Xuan Jichuan pursed his lips and smiled softly: "After the natural disaster, there was a plague, and the people infected with the plague were treated uniformly. But the people were worried that they would be abandoned by the court, and they were in turmoil and panic. So I went there in person to live with them and eat and drink with them."
“I met her there.”
"She is a young medical girl who specifically volunteered to treat the sick patients."
At that time, she was wearing a white dress and walking towards him in the light. Xuan Jichuan's dream seemed to be shattered, and reality and dream overlapped.
Lu Chaochao was even a little curious. Was that person really so similar to her?
She scratched her head: "Can I meet her?"
Xuan Jichuan smiled and said, "Of course. If it weren't for the fact that we haven't found a way out yet, I would definitely bring her to see you."
Xuan Jichuan had never thought in his life that he would want to get married so badly.
"Chao Chao, are you going to wait until after my wedding before leaving?"
Xuan Jichuan looked at her eagerly.
"Chao Chao, in my heart, you are like a family member. I hope you can attend my wedding..." He has an inexplicable trust in Chao Chao, which no one can compare to.
Lu Chaochao paused and said hesitantly: "The Queen Mother just passed away, you have to observe mourning for three years, why don't you come at the wedding?"
Xuan Jichuan suddenly laughed out loud.
"I am now eighteen years old. The internal fighting within the Dongling royal family has left nothing alive, and the bloodline has been cut off. The court officials are worried that I will never get married in this lifetime, and they even have trouble sleeping at night."
Ever since he brought back a girl from outside the palace, the court officials have been filled with tears of gratitude and have been kneeling in the palace to comfort the heavens and the ancestors of Dongling.
"The court officials have long claimed that the empress dowager was thinking about Dong Ling and her descendants before she died. If one hundred days is equivalent to three years, I only need to observe mourning for one hundred days." They can get married after the new year.
"How about I send someone to take you to the palace tomorrow?"
Xuan Jichuan looked at her expectantly.
Lu Chaochao then nodded and agreed: "Okay."
After Xuan Jichuan left, Lu Chaochao frowned and was quite curious: "Does he really look exactly like me?"
When everyone heard that Xuan Jichuan was about to get married, they were all surprised.
"No wonder the white lanterns in the city were removed recently. It turns out they are preparing for the wedding of the Emperor and Empress."
Ah Man had learned a lot about food from her mother-in-law before. After she came to Dong Ling, she often walked around to study. At this moment, she said, "I heard a rumor a few days ago that His Majesty brought back a girl from outside the palace. I thought it was a rumor."
"Some people spread rumors that the girl was like a fairy from heaven, saying that she was too beautiful to be a mortal and had a kind heart."
At night, Lu Chaochao tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.
Tiandao pursed his lips slightly, stood beside her bed and asked in a somewhat depressed tone: "Chao Chao, are you angry about his marriage?"
Lu Chaochao sat up in confusion: "Ah?"
"Why should I be angry?"
The young man said in a muffled voice: "Then why are you tossing and turning and not sleeping?"
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