Chapter 804: To Dorothy

Nothing fresh happened in the Duchess's manor on Friday night, but perhaps because of the kiss with the taste of tears from Lei Qianya, Xia De had a strange dream, and after waking up, he felt that he preferred his own bed to the exaggeratedly large bed in the manor guest room.

On Saturday afternoon, after Xia De and Lei Qianya said goodbye to Miss Jia Lin Na, they took a carriage back to the city. In the afternoon, Xia De went to Dr. Schneider's clinic on time to participate in the group's study meeting.

The Midhillburg incident was making a lot of noise, and the descent of two gods in the Mount Sihu area naturally reached Tobesk. Although on the surface, this matter had nothing to do with the correspondence ring sorcerer group far away in Tobesk, the four spent most of their time discussing the Midhillburg problem this week.

Although Xia De was very sure that nothing would happen to the old priest no matter what happened, the most important thing was still to care about Priest Ao Gu Si's safety. And another thing worth mentioning was that Dr. Schneider happily expressed that Tobesk didn't seem to be the unluckiest city this year:

"Oh, friends, I'm not gloating, I'm also feeling sorry for what happened in the mountain city in the east of the Old Continent. But this at least shows that bad things can happen anytime, anywhere, and the city we live in is just the first unlucky one, not always unlucky."

Dr. Schneider was very optimistic about this, and then the topic turned, asking Xia De to find a way to go to Midhillburg in the near future to check on Priest Ao Gu Si's current situation. After all, only he could conveniently shuttle between the two cities.

The study meeting ended around four o'clock in the afternoon, and Luweiya hurried to the Divination Society. Xia De made an appointment with Dr. Schneider to let the doctor come to his place at ten o'clock tomorrow morning, and then walked with Dorothy to the carriage at the street corner.

The weather in Tobesk was nice today, and people in late autumn also added clothes. The blonde girl was wearing a red scarf, which looked like pure wool.

"Lei Qianya is very strange today."

The two walked side by side on the bustling street in the East District of the city. The metal pipes attached to the buildings standing around were shining in the autumn afternoon sun.

Dorothy whispered to Xia De:

"She suddenly swapped with me this morning, but it only lasted for a few dozen minutes. She left a very strange sentence in my diary..."

Brushing past a fat woman holding a bread bag walking from the opposite side, the writer whispered:

"It said—【Dear Dorothy, you are me, I am you.】"

She added very troubled:

"Very strange, only this sentence, and it was written after repeated smearing, and there were wet traces on the side. I think it might be tears. I'm a bit worried, Xia De, don't you have a channel to contact the Yodel Palace?"

"Speaking of which, I also have something I haven't said yet."

Xia De, with Mia standing on his shoulder, said immediately, slowing down his pace and taking a folded envelope from his pocket and handing it over:

"The letter Lei Qianya's maid sent to me this morning, asking me to hand the letter to you after the study meeting this afternoon."

Mia on his shoulder meowed a few times at a small alley, scaring the wild cat looking for food in the alley to flee into the depths of the alley.

"Letter? What does Lei Qianya need to write a letter for? Isn't it more convenient to write in the diary after swapping? And why do you need to pass it on?"

Dorothy was even more suspicious, and her steps in short boots did not stop.

She first found a few petals in the envelope:

"What does this mean again? However, it is indeed Lei Qianya's handwriting, and the letter paper is also commonly used by Lei Qianya. Xia De, do you know how expensive this kind of letter paper is..."

She saw the content on the letter paper and suddenly froze. Seeing Dorothy stop, Xia De also stopped and stretched his head with Little Mia to look at the content of the letter, which read:

【You and me, like the front and back of a mirror. Although we can never meet, just by leaning on you, I feel complete.】

"Look, it's like a love letter."

Xia De joked, and stopped with the blonde writer lady, waiting for the worker wearing patched clothes carrying heavy objects to cross over. They nodded to Xia De to express their gratitude.

Dorothy's face was not very good:

"She must have encountered something. Lei Qianya wouldn't say such things usually."

One hand held Xia De, pressing all her weight on him, and then closed her eyes. After opening them again, the cat on Xia De's shoulder didn't make a sound to remind him. It was still Dorothy:

"Lei Qianya refused my swap!"

Dorothy's face was very ugly, and her speaking speed became faster:

"She has never refused me before. I have forgotten how many times we have swapped identities. She came to experience the ordinary day of a common girl, I went to experience the troubles of a princess, and finally recorded each other's experiences in the diary, complaining and enjoying each other's lives. And now, she actually refused me..."

Her right hand grabbed Xia De's arm tightly:

"Did something happen to Lei Qianya?"

Xia De frowned, and walked forward with Dorothy. He also showed a worried expression:

"Maybe it's other things... Hurry up, let's go to the Mary Jane Flower Shop on Silver Cross Avenue now, where we can contact the Yodel Palace."

Dorothy was really a bit worried, and Xia De also walked in a hurry. The two took a carriage from the East City of Tobesk all the way to the city center.

After pushing open the wooden door of the "Mary Jane Flower Shop", Dorothy was shocked. The whole flower shop was piled up with bouquets of red, pink, white, yellow, and blue flowers. Those bouquets almost occupied every corner of the flower shop, and even the hanging baskets in the air had flowers.

"Is someone going to hold a wedding in the flower shop?"

Xia De asked in surprise, but still didn't forget to walk quickly to the counter. Dorothy followed behind and looked at those flowers, while Xia De went to talk to the maid of Princess Angelina in the flower shop.

Before long, Xia De walked back with a worried look:

"The maid in the flower shop can't pass the news to me. Last night, Angelina told the maids in the flower shop that if I came today, I could only hear one question: What is the sister's favorite flower?"

Dorothy almost immediately said:

"Her favorite is white lily. I still remember that after we knew each other well, she insisted that I change the plants in the flower pot on the windowsill to lilies. For this, we argued for several days, and finally she promised to help me write a manuscript, so I agreed..."

Dorothy said this, showing a nostalgic expression:

"She really... Let's look for white lilies here."

The servants in the flower shop received news in advance and couldn't help the two find them. So, Xia De and Dorothy could only look for them themselves in this "flourishing flower field". Although there were many flowers, there was only one bunch of white lilies, in which there was a note:

【Golden-haired girl, do you still remember our first meeting.】"

"What does this mean?"

Xia De was very confused and left the flower shop with Dorothy.

"This is... our first swap."

Dorothy stood on the side of the road, looking at the Yodel Palace across the bustling crowd wearing autumn clothes on Silver Cross Avenue:

"I was very panicked at that time, thinking I was out of control and fell into a hallucination, or was accidentally affected by the characteristics of some relic. I ran out of the Yodel Palace using Lei Qianya's body that night, and looked at the Silver Cross Avenue in the dark night with my scalp numb while holding the lamppost on the side of the road... Even after a long time, Lei Qianya still laughs at my ridiculous appearance at that time. Later, in order to apologize to me, she wrote a letter behind the advertisement paper of that lamppost, letting me use my own body to take it."

Dorothy's expression softened a lot:

"That was our very rare real-world connection."

"What was written in the letter?"

Xia De asked with great interest, Dorothy shook her head:

"Xia De, that is the secret of the girls."

"Alright then, lamppost? Which one is it?"

Dorothy clearly remembered that lamppost, right across from the Yodel Palace.

But there were quite a few things stuck on the lamppost. When Xia De was looking for it among auction house advertisements, steam company advertisements, and municipal hall wanted notices, Dorothy stood by and waited with pursed lips.

Suddenly, a group of teenagers ran over laughing, half of them wearing patched clothes, and the other half wearing very new clothes. They held hands together, singing nursery rhymes, and passed by Dorothy while playing. The blonde girl watched them go away, feeling a lot of emotions for a while.

"Ha, found it!"

Xia De pointed to the small advertisement of "Retired Delarion Royal Army old military doctor, specializing in all kinds of difficult and miscellaneous diseases" in front of the lamppost:

"Dorothy, what are you looking at? Hurry up, it must be this. The City Hall will clean up the advertisements on the lampposts every day and will not allow such advertisements to appear on Silver Cross Avenue."

Saying that, he tore it off, and the back was indeed written with a new sentence in familiar floral letters. Xia De and Dorothy looked at it together, and it read:

【In this late autumn, looking at the fallen leaves, I want to kiss your cheek.】

"Lei Qianya wants to kiss you?"

Xia De was stunned, and then looked at the blonde girl in surprise:

"You, me, you, I thought, I, is it..."

He was a bit incoherent, Dorothy gave him a reproachful look:

"Don't worry, both Lei Qianya and I only like m... men. Although we are hand-in-hand friends, we are not crazy women of the Witch Council. Having kissed you so many times, you still doubt this point?"

"Then what does this sentence mean?"

Xia De pointed to the back of the "Retired Delarion Royal Army old military doctor" flyer, Dorothy fell into memory, and then bit her lip lightly:

"Probably understood, this was three weeks ago. You went to Midhillburg frequently at that time. I asked Lei Qianya in the diary what you were doing recently, and then we talked about kissing you..."

Her face flushed, and she walked west along Silver Cross Avenue with Xia De:

"Lei Qianya joked in the diary at that time that although we are both willing to kiss you, we probably can never kiss you at the same time. When I returned to my body, I saw that she left a leaf in the diary, and there was a red lipstick mark on the leaf. She said..."

Xia De looked at him curiously. He really didn't know this part, but the blonde girl suddenly turned and walked toward the street corner:

"Detective, don't pry into the privacy of girls. I know, you still miss reading our diaries."

Xia De of course missed this matter. Their diaries were definitely more interesting than most popular novels of this era.

"Go to my apartment, that leaf, I made it into a specimen and hung it on the wall. If I didn't guess wrong, Lei Qianya left information behind the specimen when she used my body this morning... What exactly did she encounter to need to pass information so cautiously?"

The writer lady was worried, but Mia was not anxious at all. The cat could see that Xia De didn't have any anxious or worried emotions at all. The cat just wanted to know what time dinner would start tonight.

The two and one cat took a carriage on Silver Cross Avenue again and went to Feather Pen Street in the University District. Dorothy rented the third floor of Building B, No. 211 Feather Pen Street.

The blonde girl took out the key to open the door downstairs, and ran into the landlady wearing a hairnet walking down from upstairs. The landlady frowned at Xia De's arrival again, and then said to Dorothy:

"Luisa, the things you ordered have all arrived. Is your hand very loose recently? Oh, young girls should save some money, otherwise they can only become the sad appearance of relying on men in the future. I have seen too many such things."

Xia De thought she was probably warning himself.

"The things I ordered?"

Dorothy frowned slightly and went to the third floor with Xia De. Opening the door, she saw the brass-colored metal floor hanger in the center of the living room at a glance, and the red dress on the hanger.

Not only the dress itself, but also the corset, long stockings, black small leather shoes, hair accessories, and cosmetics were all available. Even if attending the most formal occasion, wearing this set was more than enough:

"What exactly does Lei Qianya want to do?"

If it was worry at first, now it was a bit angry.

The blonde girl entered the bedroom, stood on tiptoe, and took down the leaf specimen hanging on the wall on the side of the desk. After turning it over, she didn't see a letter or note, but after opening the back cover of the photo frame, a thin strip of paper slid out. As expected, it was still Lei Qianya's floral letter handwriting.

Dorothy turned around and wanted to look with Xia De, but saw Xia De looking at the photo frame standing on the desk with Mia who was poking her head:

"Really rude."

Dorothy reached out and pressed the photo frame on the table with a slap, but that didn't prevent Xia De from identifying that it was Lei Qianya's black and white photo, cut from the newspaper.

The new note was also inexplicable words:

【At the Hailos banquet in midsummer, not being able to dance together is a permanent regret.】 ===== CHAPTER 805 =====