Chapter Thirty-Four: Exchanging Brides

  Han Lin tightly closed his eyes, no longer looking at the illusory world. He put down the official seal and let it burrow into Mo Mo's quilt to sleep. When Han Lin opened his eyes again, the sky was already dark, he got up and looked at Mo Mo's sweet sleeping face, and kissed her forehead. Then he turned over and got out of bed.

  "Where are we going?" MoMo has already opened her eyes.

  "This is your bedroom, and I'm just a guard. It's still okay to talk in your room during the day, but now Xuan Yu has fallen asleep. So, you sleep well, I'll be outside." Han Lin tucked in Mo Mo's quilt corner and turned to leave.

  "Chen Yu was outside...” Mo Mo didn't want the two of them to fight, so he half sat up, propping himself up with his hand, a hint of hope in his eyes.

  "Don't worry, I won't bother him about it." Walking back to Momo's bedside, smiling at her, "I'll go back to my room. Goodnight, sleep tight."

  Han Lin walked past the outer room, ignoring Chen Yu's disdainful gaze.

  In the middle of the night, a black shadow flashed outside Han Lin's window. It knocked out two short and one long signal, then flashed out of the courtyard gate, and Han Lin also followed to an open area.

  "Congratulations, Master Han, this is a gift from our master." The newcomer handed over an old red tassel to Han Lin's hands. "Master can't leave me behind, you must continue to work hard, Master Han," the sweet and sticky voice had already drifted away. Han Lin grasped the object in his hand tightly, as if he wanted to squeeze out blood. The thousand-mile transmission said, "Tell Qian Jue Hu, if you want Qian Jue Se, you must let Mo Mo return to the royal court." His narrowed eyes revealed Han Lin's anger at this moment. After carefully putting away the tassel and calming down his emotions, he flew away.

  The next day, Mo Mo woke up to receive an edict from Xuan Jiu Tian: she was allowed to return to the Wang Dynasty to visit her family. The official who came to take her back to the Wang Dynasty told her, "Qian Jue Se has contracted a strange illness. No one else can touch him, his body is running a high fever, and there are strange things happening..."

  After several days and nights of riding hard, Mo Mei and Han Lin arrived at the imperial capital of the Wang Dynasty.

  Li Sixing glanced at Chen Yu, who had been silent all along, and said, "Mo Zhu, I'll head back to Wuming with Ru Yu first and gather people to look for Wu Ye." Li Sixing's words made Mo Zhu pause, feeling a strange pang in his heart. Without looking at his face or Xing Yu's adoring eyes, he let out a barely audible response from his nose before rushing off with Han Lin and Chen Yu towards the General's Manor.

  At that moment, Qian saw an absolute beauty. Mo was almost unable to believe his own eyes. The person on the bed seemed like a reflection in a mirror, ethereal and elusive. The high temperature around made it impossible for anyone to get close.

  Ink opens the cover of a thousand absolute colors thin quilt. Wanting to take her pulse, the whole person is like ripples in water, intangible.

  "A flower in the mirror, a moon in the water?" Chen Yu's face turned pale in an instant.

  Mo Mo was also startled. She asked Chen Yu "What does it mean?" and withdrew her hand, looking at the turbulent colors of Qian Yue with a furrowed brow.

  "It's just visible, but can't be touched." Chen Yu took out the secret book. Flipped to a page. Pointed it at Mo Mo "After removing emotional threads, if you can't get the key to open up, it will become like flowers in the mirror and moon in the water. Until the key is opened."

  "Yin Zhong Yin?" Mo Mo furrowed his brow and flipped through the entire book. Not a single word or phrase about Yin Zhong Yin was found. He looked up to see Chen Yu's eyes filled with a hint of doubt. "Master, have you forgotten this too?"

  "What's this thing called again?" Mu Mu was also perplexed.

  "Master, what do you remember?" Chen Yu pulled out a book from Mo Mo's hand.

  "I've never experienced it at all!" Mo Mo declared again, saying that from a young age to adulthood, he fundamentally didn't remember anything about Tianji Mountain, nor did he remember having such a servant.

  Chen Yu looked at Mo Mo for a while, "Master, are you really going to save Qian Jue Se?"

  "Nonsense!" Mo Mo looked at the person with a high fever on the bed with guilt and turned to ask Chen Yu "How can we find Yinzong?"

  She was answered by Chen Yu, who picked up the dagger he carried with him and grabbed Mo Mo's hand, making a small cut on her finger. A drop of blood landed on Qian Jue Se's eyebrow. In an instant, Mo Mo was blinded by the light emanating from his forehead. Closing her eyes, she stretched out her hand to block the light peeking through her fingers, and gradually, the light dimmed. Mo Mo blinked her almost blind eyes, adapting for a moment before hastily checking on Qian Jue Se.

  "Hmm..." It's fine now, it has become a normal state. The only regret is that there are three red marks on Qian Jue Se's brow.

  Mo Mo was just about to ask why his own blood could save people when the emperor of the Wang Dynasty, Xing Chen, arrived at the Mo Manor to summon Mo Mo into the palace. After instructing the servants, he left the General's Manor without seeing Qian Jue Hu's Mo Mo from start to finish. He rode in a soft sedan chair and arrived at the imperial palace, where he saw Su Manran waiting at the palace gate, occasionally looking around.

  "Mother!" Mo Mo jumped down from the sedan chair and rushed over. Thinking that she would never see Su Manran again in this life, tears welled up in her eyes.

  Patting her back, Sumen led Mo Mo's hand into the same soft sedan chair, entering the imperial palace and arriving at the rear garden. There, she heard a shocking piece of news: Xuan Yu had called off the wedding!

  Su Manran was furious and dragged Mo Mo into the grand hall, fortunately there were only Xing Chen and Loulan's envoys.

  "What's the big idea?" Su Man was also a lioness. "What did my daughter do to him? On the contrary, it's your good-for-nothing prince who can't even control himself and yet dares to bully my daughter?! What kind of logic is this?!"

  Xing Yu Chen did not care about Su Man Ran's angry stare and scolded, while Lou Lan's envoy watched with a cold sweat on his expressionless face.

  "The respected queen" made the minister bow deeply, "It's not that your country's Princess Mo Ran is not good, it's just that our country's Crown Prince Xuan Ye has fallen in love with your country's General Qian Jue Se, and they have already become husband and wife. I hope your country can bless their union..." The minister wanted to move her with emotions, but was interrupted by Su Man Ran, "What? Qian Jue Se? He is the general of my kingdom! He...is a man, ah..., and there's a husband-and-wife relationship? How can two men...?" Su Man Ran hadn't finished speaking when Xing Yun Chen spoke up, "Empress, let me handle this matter."

  "Chen, they want to cancel the engagement! Our Mo Mo didn't do anything wrong, yet we encountered this... What kind of education did the King of Loulan give his children? What is his queen for? Just a decoration?" Su Man was already on the verge of losing control.

  "Hmm... The empress of Loulan was once a general of Baiyu. " Xing Chen picked up his teacup and took a sip, but Su Manran's words made him regret drinking tea, "Doesn't Baiyu have any men? Letting women lead the army to fight!"

  "Cough...cough... General Su Sheng Yi of the White Feather Nation." Lord Zhou had already handed over a handkerchief for Xing Chen to cover his mouth.

  "Is that the Sacred Robe of War? He's a guy, isn't he?!" Su Man was clearly shocked, staring at Xing Chen with wide eyes in disbelief. She pulled Mu Mu along and climbed onto the dragon throne, reaching out to pat his back.

  "Our king... is a man." The envoy also felt embarrassed and turned around to secretly wipe his sweat.

  "Let me go first, I'll announce your name another day." Xing Chen waved his hand. "Come back, you can tell your master that we will not agree to the annulment of the marriage! Nor will we foolishly marry the marshal of our dynasty!" Su Manran's words were overheard by Loulan's deputy envoy waiting outside, who sent a flying letter to inform Xuan Yu, who had just woken up.

  Never expecting Wang Chao to accept his proposal, Xuan Yu had already mobilized his troops and was preparing for war with Wang Chao.