Jiang Yu was completely caught off guard, only knowing that she was being held tightly in the arms of the man in front of her.
The man called her Ayu.
He said he missed her very much.
"Ayu?" Jiang Yu murmured slowly. Perhaps it was an instinctive reaction, but Jiang Yu did not push Gu Lin away.
The next second, she felt a wet sensation on her lips as Gu Lin went straight for them.
"Hmm..."
Jiang Yu's hands pressed weakly against Gu Lin's chest, and she could feel Gu Lin's strong heartbeat.
The kiss moved from her lips to her ear. "You are Empress Dowager Jiang Yu of Dayu, my wife. After four whole years, I have finally found you."
Hearing Gu Lin's words, Jiang Yu's eyes welled up with tears.
Jiang Yu......
She really is Jiang Yu...
Footsteps came from outside, and Gu Lin quickly distanced himself from Jiang Yu. Jiang Yu also lowered her head to hide the strangeness on her face.
"Master, please have some tea first, and then we'll go to the courtyard to practice martial arts."
Jiang Yu reached out and subtly touched the corner of her eye. The tingling sensation on her lips still lingered. Just now, this man... had actually bitten her lip at the last moment.
It wasn't until Gu Lin was drinking tea that Jiang Yu's mind finally came to a complete sense of what was happening.
If this man says she is his wife, then this man must be... Emperor Zhaoyuan!
Jiang Yu suddenly stood up. Seeing that Gu Lin and Xia Zhi's gazes had shifted over, Jiang Yu forced a smile and said, "I'll wait in the yard first."
Did Emperor Zhaoyuan come to Luoming in person just to find her?
Is it true or false?
On this day, when Gu Lin was teaching Jiang Yu martial arts, he would intentionally or unintentionally make contact with her, and even his breath would slap against her body.
"Master is indeed exceptionally skilled." Jiang Yu stopped what she was doing, her forehead already beaded with sweat from the exertion.
Looking at the wary Jiang Yu in front of him, Gu Lin couldn't help but smile. He was afraid that A Yu was beginning to doubt his identity.
"The head of the family instructed me to come every three days. That's all for today, Miss. See you in three days."
Gu Lin quickly stuffed the item under Jiang Yu's sleeve, then clasped his hands in a fist salute and left Minghua Water Pavilion.
On the path, Gu Lin reached out and touched his lips, grinning from ear to ear.
He was already looking forward to three days from now.
However, he had other things to prepare during these three days.
......
Tea Flower Pavilion.
"Summer Solstice, the pastries I ate at my great-aunt's yard a few days ago were really delicious. Go and ask her where she bought them."
Jiang Yu used Yunwei as a raft, and Xia Zhi immediately accepted the order and left.
When Jiang Yu was the only one left in the tea pavilion, she slowly took out the letter that was hidden under her sleeve and was already soaked with sweat.
The letter was folded several times, and Jiang Yu's hands were trembling when she opened it.
"Ah Yu, greetings from your letter."
"Four years ago, you fell off a cliff while fighting against the Great Wei, and there has been no news of you since."
The handwriting on the letter felt incredibly familiar to Jiang Yu, and she couldn't wait to read on.
"For the past four years, I have been searching for you near the cliff. Ayan, our child, has become the new emperor of Dayu. He has managed Dayu very well. Not long ago, he celebrated his sixteenth birthday."
Ah Yan...
Jiang Yu's breath hitched, and a dense, throbbing pain rose in her chest.
"By the way, the Jiang family has another little girl. Jiang He named her Jiang Yao. She looks almost exactly like you and is four years old this year."
Gu Lin wrote down in detail everything that had happened over the past four years in the letter, trying to convince Jiang Yu of his identity.
"Last month, we accidentally discovered traces of the aristocratic family at the foot of the cliff. Later, when Ayan was celebrating his birthday, Yunmo stared blankly at Yaoyao's face, and we suspected that you might be in the Yun family. By the way, Yunmo really likes Yaoyao."
"Ayu, the Minghua Water Pavilion is full of traps, so please be careful. I will take you home as soon as possible."
Jiang Yu placed the letter on the candle flame and watched it turn to ashes before she finally let her mind wander and drift into a daze.
I see......
No wonder Yunmo kept staring at her face and even praised her for being cute.
The sugar cubes Yunmo gave her that day were taken out by Jiang Yu, and she seemed to know whose sugar cubes they were.
"Jiang Yao..."
Jiang Yu murmured softly, "Yaoyao, what a beautiful name."
Why can't she remember everything?
Jiang Yu sat by the lake until the summer solstice. The sugar cube had melted a little, but Jiang Yu couldn't bear to eat it.
"Hey, Miss, what's that on the ground?"
Jiang Yu sat up and looked at the jade pendant in Xia Zhi's hand, which still had cracks and chips.
"It must have been dropped by Master Wu just now."
Xia Zhi noticed that the jade pendant was not intact and did not think it was anything of great value, so she did not pay much attention to it.
"Let me see it."
Jiang Yu spoke softly. The moment she received the jade pendant, countless memories rushed towards her. With all her might, she handed the pendant to Xia Zhi, saying, "Keep it. Remember to give it to the teacher next time he comes."
Then, she staggered and lay down on the recliner, enduring for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn before finally fainting, covered in sweat.
She couldn't... she couldn't let people think that she fainted because of that jade pendant.
The Minghua Water Pavilion immediately became lively.
"What happened?"
The Yun family head rushed over anxiously. Xia Zhi, who was standing to the side, was already kneeling on the ground trembling with fright. "Reporting to the family head, nothing else really happened. Miss Biao was lying on the recliner when she suddenly fell into a deep sleep."
Upon hearing this, the head of the Yun family could only turn to the doctor beside him and ask, "How is Miss Biao?"
"Judging from the pulse, she has only fallen into a deep sleep, which must be due to her weak constitution."
Hearing this, the head of the Yun family breathed a sigh of relief. "Alright, take good care of Miss Biao, and take out some tonics from the storeroom."
For some reason, when he stepped out of the Tea Flower Pavilion, the Yun family patriarch felt a strange sense of panic.
A bad feeling crept over me.
Inside the house, Jiang Yu was trapped in a dreamlike place, where all the memories that had been sealed away for four years resurfaced before her eyes.
"Mother, am I really your child? Am I your biological child?"
A little boy with incredibly bright eyes rushed straight into her arms; this was her child.
“Ayan is my child.”
That broken jade pendant... Gu Lin, she remembered everything between her and Gu Lin.
There's also the older brother and Ah Qian, who turned out to have a lovely little girl.
Two lines of tears slid down Jiang Yu's cheeks as she remembered everything from the past.
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