Chapter 445

Li Qingluo, dazed and confused: "If we get married, will I become your wife?"

Duan Rongshi: "Are you scared?"

Li Qingluo felt deep down that she liked him.

Just now there were clearly many people in the room, but her gaze landed on him at a glance, and she didn't want to look at anyone else.

So although she was clearly afraid in her heart, she still mustered her courage: "No, no, I'm not afraid!"

"It's just getting married, right? Come on!"

Seeing her so blunt, like a little fool, Duan Rongshi's heart ached fiercely.

How could he bear to deceive her?

"I just want a title."

"Don't worry, I won't scare you."

He never wanted to lose her again; that feeling was more painful than being flayed and having tendons pulled.

Even now, he still felt dazed, as if he were dreaming.

He didn't dare to hug her too tightly.

However, her closeness and trust in him made Duan Rongshi feel relieved.

Until her stomach growled loudly, Li Qingluo blushed and covered her abdomen: "I, my stomach sounds like thunder."

"I didn't mean to either…"

Duan Rongshi laughed and grew happier: "All right. Let's eat."

"But Luo'er, you've been hungry for three months, so today let's just have some simple liquid food, okay?"

Li Qingluo was very obedient.

She obediently nodded, then began to anticipate.

These three months, Li Qingluo survived solely by being fed soup and medicine.

She had never looked in a mirror, so she didn't know she had become nothing but a skeleton.

She was no better off than the equally emaciated Duan Rongshi.

Duan Rongshi merely got up to tell someone at the door to bring in the plain congee, and Li Qingluo suddenly grew nervous.

Seeing he didn't return immediately, she barefoot jumped out of bed and ran to the door, tightly gripping his sleeve.

And Duan Rongshi, seeing this as he lowered his head, felt his tense heart finally gain a hint of reality.

His Luo'er, upon waking, relied on him so completely.

This is real…

This is all real!

Not those foolish dreams of his, day after day.

It is real to the point that reality cannot be any more real.

Unable to bear it any longer, Duan Rongshi turned and pulled her tightly into his embrace.

"Luo'er, do you know how long I've been searching for you?"

"I've been to many places."

"But everywhere was a blank whiteness."

"I searched every place I could reach and still couldn't find you… I'm truly useless!"

"If you don't come back—"

His words trailed off, he paused, then continued: "I seem to have gone to another world where you have completely left. I killed everyone who bullied you!"

Feeling the person in his arms tremble slightly, he then softened his tone.

"Don't be afraid."

"Duan Rongshi will not harm you."

Hearing the voices continually coming from inside the house, the people outside finally snapped out of their great shock at Li Qingluo's awakening.

Although her condition was somewhat off, this added a hint of faint, complex sorrow to the joy, but ultimately she had come back to life.

These three months of gloom and depression had left everyone's hearts tightly wound.

Now at last the rain will cease and the sky will clear—who wouldn't be happy?

Especially Zhui Yu, who covered her eyes and cried harder than anyone.

"Our Highness has had it so rough. Sniff…"

"If the young lady hadn't awakened, our Highness would likely have lost his life as well. Thank goodness she woke up!"

"Now that she's awake, that's good enough; as for the rest… if even a life can be pulled back, what's anything else?"

"In this world, only our Highness is such a lovesick fool; young lady, you must cherish him well. Sniffle…"

Que'er, off to the side, disdainfully tossed a handkerchief over.

"Stop crying already!"

Although she herself also covered her eyes and even wanted to burst into loud sobs.

But when she turned her head and saw Zhui Yu's state, her tears inexplicably retreated.

"We're in MiaoJiang now; you'd better not let these foreign peoples think all DaLiang men are like you, okay?"

"You're always hiding away to wipe your tears every few days; do you know how they talk about you behind your back?"

Zhui Yu's crying stopped.

She turned and asked Que'er: "So you dislike or not?"

Que'er answered as a matter of course: "I dislike it."

Zhui Yu immediately cried even more sadly.

The girl from DaLiang who had been asleep and unresponsive suddenly came back to life.

Everyone on the estate was happy, as if celebrating the New Year.

Songs and dances filled the place, with drinking and merriment.

Li Qingluo, unable to sit still indoors, was dazedly led by Duan Rongshi as they walked around the estate, looking at the people in foreign attire with full curiosity.

"Where are we? Is this our home?"

"Why is what they wear different from ours?"

She touched her own clothing, then looked toward the crowd.

She turned her head again to look at the group of people following them behind.

They all seemed like outsiders here.

Duan Rongshi: "Because this is MiaoJiang."

"Lu'er, we might have to stay here for a while."

"When the time is right, I'll bring you back to our true home, okay?"

Li Qingluo wondered: "Why are we in MiaoJiang?"

Duan Rongshi: "Because you lost some things. Here, we can all think of a way to retrieve them for you."

"Now Lu'er's soul has returned to its place, but the sect leader of Jinniang and the elders of the Wu Yue tribe say that Lu'er's spirit is still not stable."

"Once Lu'er fully recovers, perhaps she can regain her lost memories."

Li Qingluo listened, half-understanding.

And nodded, half-understanding.

After seeing the foreign scenery on the estate, she then shouted that she was tired.

She lay down and immediately fell into a deep sleep again.

After she fell asleep, everyone cautiously gathered around her bed.

"Really, just asleep?"

"She won't fall back into an unresponsive sleep, will she?"

"Pah! Who snores lightly while unconscious?"

"Hey, looks like she's really tired. Shhh——"

Everyone reluctantly left the room.

Only Duan Rongshi stayed behind.

Pei Lao Furen stood outside the door with a dark face: "They aren't even married yet, and he's already turned into his little treasure?"

"Hmph, then there will be no place for this old woman by Lu'er's side in the future."

"He is simply outrageous!"

Pei Lao Furen, unable to contain her anger, wanted to go back in and argue a couple more sentences.

Zheng Mama and Luo Fan together quickly grabbed her.

"Xiuzhen, from now on they will spend their lives together, so you shouldn't be jealous anymore, okay?"

"Prince Su is indeed rare, able to abandon his kingdom and bring Lu'er to MiaoJiang just to retrieve her."

"A suspicious and prudent prince, yet he easily believes the Wu Yue tribe's sorcery, entrusting his life to them, searching high and low for Lu'er."

"There is no one else in the world who loves Lu'er this sincerely and devotedly."

"Does he still not deserve to guard Lu'er?"

"I think he just wants to look at Lu'er a few more times, unwilling to leave."

"From now on, it's their own lives as young people; let them be."

"Moreover, can you still not trust the character of Prince Su, Your Highness?"

Pei Lao Furen felt wronged.

"Lu'er woke up and hasn't even said a proper word to me, her grandmother, and he's monopolized it all!"

"That's also my dear one."

"I can't even voice a complaint?"

Luo Fan smiled, eyes crinkling: "Fine, of course!"

"I'm listening; you can complain about anything."

"But let's not disturb Lu'er, okay?"

Although Li Qingluo's souls have all returned to their places, the three souls and seven spirits that left remain faintly unstable.

Thus she exhibits symptoms such as easy fatigue, drowsiness, temporary dullness, and even amnesia.

Everyone carefully protected her.

Even on the wedding day, they were unwilling to let her tire at all.

Li Qingluo curled up in the chair, eyes closed, swaying back and forth.

A Lan and A Duo kept moving around, applying makeup to her.

Cui Er carefully supported her body.

When she yawned and woke up again, seeing herself in the mirror also startled her.

"Wow......"

"Is she a fairy?"

"So beautiful......"

Li Qingluo's innocent, childlike words caused everyone indoors to burst out laughing haha.

"Yes, that fairy in the mirror is you, miss."

Que'er came over and blinked at Li Qingluo in the mirror and at herself.

Li Qingluo looked at Que'er, then pulled at her own eyelids and nose in the mirror.

She laughed in surprise: "So I'm this fairy? But I'm not the bride today?"

A Lan came over and placed the MiaoJiang people's most precious headdress on Li Qingluo's head.

"Yes, Princess of Yaoguang."

"Today you are both the bride and the little fairy. Look, how beautiful you are!"

Li Qingluo also put on the MiaoJiang ethnic attire today.

The red and black colors made her look as beautiful as a figure in a painting.

Every frown and smile of hers made all the ladies present in the room lose themselves.

The magpies outside the window chirped chitter-chatter.

A pair of large geese flew slowly across the sky……

The flower drum and suona sounded faintly from outside the manor.

The sound of firecrackers began to ring from several li away.

Li Qingluo was helped out of the house and saw a frail young lord leaning on a cane, waiting outside the door.

Seeing her come out, that young lord immediately straightened his body.

She couldn't help but stare at him curiously.

The young lord smiled slightly: "Luo'er, congratulations on your wedding."

"Alas… my body is useless; I cannot personally carry Luo'er to the bridal sedan."

Li Qingluo had never seen him before.

She then asked curiously: "Who are you?"

A Lan: "Princess, he is Young Master Jingchuan, your own older brother!"

Li Qingluo: "My older brother?"

Li Qingluo looked around curiously, and only after everyone nodded did she give Li Jingchuan a kind smile.

"It's fine, older brother!"

"I can walk by myself——"

However, before she could fully step out with one foot, Duan Rongshi rushed in and shouted: "Luo'er, don't move!"

He flashed forward like wind and lightning, and stood before Li Qingluo.

"Luo'er, I have come to marry you."

For a moment, they each gazed at the other, slightly lost in thought.

In that instant, it seemed as if only each other existed in heaven and earth.

The black-red wedding attire made both of their features look intensely vivid and gorgeous.

Today, as they wed, they were originally the most dazzling pair of the MiaoJiang people; standing together now, they even made the red throughout the courtyard lose its color.

Duan Rongshi smiled slightly: "Let me carry you."

A Lan and A Duo exchanged a glance, both looking embarrassed: "But this isn't proper..."

Duan Rongshi: "No problem."

"Luo'er and I are not originally of your MiaoJiang people, so we need not fully observe your MiaoJiang rites."

Having said that, Duan Rongshi resolutely turned and squatted down.