CH 125

Song Huaiqing was standing right behind Ming Zhu, and could see half of her face, her eyes were beautiful, her eyebrows were also beautiful, she looked exquisite as a painting. Her gauze dress was floating with the wind, her tranquil demeanor made her somewhat look like a goddess.

Song Huaiqing moved his eyes away from her, but after a short time, his gaze still went back, silently falling on the side of her face.

It was indeed the face of a beauty that would bring disasters.

The few pleasure boats were very close to one another.

The fireworks on the shore, erupted in the sky with a heavy ringing sound, as gorgeous lights fell on everyone’s face.

Chapter 125

(45.4)

Ming Zhu tilted her neck with great effort to look into the sky, in awe and lost in a trance before the extreme beauty of the fireworks.

It was really too beautiful.

The fireworks were very soon finished.

A silver bell-like laughter came from the pleasure boat on the opposite side.

“Miss, the fireworks tonight are so beautiful.”

“They are ah.”

Zhao Zhi frowned. He originally wanted to hold Ming Zhu’s hand tightly to take her back, but she had already run to the other side, waiting with her eyes wide opened for the next fireworks.

The pleasure boat on the opposite side collided into theirs by accident. All the people on the boat were swayed, on the verge of falling.

Zhao Zhi raised his eyes. He froze as his gaze looked towards the opposite side.

The young girl, wearing a light pink dress, was sitting on the side of the boat with a smile on her face. The warm light of the lantern was quietly illuminating her face, she leaned half of her body and reached out her hand to touch the water in the lake. Smiling, she said to the maid behind her, “The water is so cold ah.”

Zhao Zhi seemed to have seen Ming Zhu, smiling brightly at himself. Her smiling so lively, without any guard, without being afraid of him, he had never seen such a smile again.

“Gongzi, I am so sorry, my servant does not know how to direct the boat, that’s why we accidentally bumped into you.”

As Zhao Zhi came back to his senses, he was thinking in a trance, that she and Ming Zhu were very alike.

It wasn’t that their appearances were alike, but rather the demeanor.

He remembered deep in his heart, the Ming Zhu who forever was revealing a dazzling smile under the sun.

(46.1)

The moon was illuminating the depth of the river at night. The surface of the lake was brimming with light. On the boat’s pillars, silver wind-bells were hanging. As the night breeze brushed by, their glazed surface collided against one another, emitting a clear and penetrating sound.

Gu Shuyi, with the help of her maid, slowly walked up to their boat. Her complexion looked fair under the moonlight. She wore jade earrings on her delicate and white earlobes. Her smile was light, she looked just right on every aspect, her body was slender, her voice was soft and her tone gentle, she seemed to be exuding, from the inside out, some kind of noble air, without making others feel uncomfortable.

She did not know the man in front of her, but out of courtesy, she felt she ought to apologize.

After Gu Shuyi got closer, she discovered that he was unexpectedly such a good-looking man, like a piece of flawless jade, noble and beautiful, it was difficult for her to restrain herself.

The man’s body emitted a faint smell of alcohol and there seemed to be a faint drunkenness on his face.

After a long time, Gu Shuyi heard him say, “There was no harm done.”

Gu Shuyi froze, even the man’s voice sounded pleasant and beautiful.

It was a good thing that the lighting on the boat was dim, so no one could notice her gradually reddening face.

She bent her knees and bowed to the man in front of her, “Many thanks.”

Gu Shuyi was a bit reluctant to leave, she wanted to ask the man’s name, but the young girl’s shyness made her unable to open her mouth.

Her maidservant couldn’t help but urge her, “Miss, it’s time to go back.”

Gu Shuyi’s feet were as if they were rooted in place, she could not take a step forward, she squeezed the handkerchief in her hand as her eyes wandered on him on many occasions.

He was wearing a black zhizhui made of brocade satin, along with a belt made of embroidered clouds. Around his waist, a piece of white crescent jade of a high quality was hanging.

Looking at the way he was dressed, he was definitely not an ordinary person.

Gu Shuyi could not hold back and, before the man could leave, asked with a red face, “May I dare to ask gongzi‘s name?”

(TL’s note: as a reminder, gongzi is a polite way of addressing men)

Zhao Zhi stopped and turned around. His dark pupils calmly looked at her.

Gu Shuyi’s cheeks heated up from this gaze, she discarded her shyness aside and smiled openly at him, “Strangers meeting each other by chance is also fate, if gongzi doesn’t want to tell, I won’t put gongzi in a difficult position.”

Zhao Zhi pursed his lips, without saying anything. Seeing her smile, his mind began to wander. In deep thought for a long while, he had yet to speak.

On the other side of the boat, a young lady suddenly shouted, “Quick, someone come! A person has fallen into the water!”

Zhao Zhi’s intuition told him something was wrong, and he turned towards the direction of the commotion. He only saw a familiar skirt, swaying and falling down, a skirt light like a thin and clear mist. It was gone in a flick of time.

Zhao Zhi’s complexion immediately changed, his pupils shrunk, and without even thinking about it, his legs started running towards that side.

He only heard the sound of water. Before Zhao Zhi, someone had already jumped into the water to save the person.

Ming Zhu had fallen into the water because she was careless, but to be precise, it wasn’t an accident. Rather, someone had taken advantage of the time when most of her body was leaning towards the water in order to look at the shore, to push her in the back.

She moved up and down in the water a few times, the lake water entered her throat, almost choking her to death.

Moreover, the lake was bone-chillingly cold. Her entire face went white.

When Ming Zhu was beginning to think that she was going to drown in this lake, an extra pair of hands appeared on her waist.