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Taking advantage of the night, Luo Lingwei peeked out of the window. Under the silver moonlight, she could only vaguely see the corner of Ji Wu Ye's cloak flashing past.

Luo Lingwei raised her head to ask Yen Lianhe, "Will he still be following us?"

Would he also go to the Golden Night Banquet?

Ye Lianhe didn't have the slightest understanding of his father and Ji Wu Ye's past. At that time, he was only twelve years old, and the Emperor was afraid of him.

His father had died suddenly. If Ye Qing hadn't been assigned to him before his death, the position of Regent would probably have to be taken by someone else.

"I don't know, but don't worry. As long as I am alive, I will protect you perfectly." Ye Lianhe rubbed Luo Lingwei's small head.

Luo Lingwei had never heard of anyone protecting her in her life, nor had she ever heard anyone swear to protect her in her life. She could not help but feel her heart turn red.

As long as I am still in this world, I will walk together with you. She whispered a promise from the nape of Nightingale's neck.

I have never been a dodder, nor will I grow up to be a peony in wealth.

Ye Lianhe chuckled, "Looks like this night's Golden Flowing Light Feast will be very interesting."

Whitey pushed open the door and saw the two of them looking at each other affectionately. It blushed and quickly left to knock on the door. "Cough cough, Your Highness. Do you want to set up a meal now?"

"Eat, I'm starving."

Luo Lingwei's face turned completely red, as if she was a little married woman caught in an adultery. She frantically pushed Ye Lianhe aside, grabbed the teacup king and poured some tea into her mouth. Ye Lianhe happily poured cups after cups for her.

"Don't drink so much, crazy girl. Otherwise, you won't have a stomach to drink fish soup anymore."

Luo Lingwei drank half a mouthful before calming down. She thought to herself, "Why would I, a legitimate consort, be so guilty as to act like a lover?" He might as well do one thing and one thing at a time, hold on to Ye Lianhe and not let go.

"From now on, you'll be under Little Sis's protection. You can freely use the chain store under your hand."

Although Ye Lianhe was usually used casually, he was at most a small shareholder.

Luo Lingwei nodded her head in satisfaction. No wonder so many people liked being a tyrant in modern times. Being a big brother felt so good.

Ye Lianhe couldn't bear to break the little princess' fantasy and let her embrace him. "Yes, yes, yes. In the future, I still need you to take care of me."

Little White quietly arranged the food with the maidservants. Then, he turned around and saw Ye Lianhe's expression disappearing in a flash.

She hadn't expected that the wangfei would behave like this in private. "Two masters, you're too good to be bothered by others."

Ye Lianhe affectionately helped Luo Lingwei fill the bowl with fish soup. "You're not hungry?"

Linjiang is rich in fresh fish, fat meat and few thorns, the entire Xuan Dynasty is famous. The master of Yuzhou City, who was in the presence of Yan Gang, had already arranged for a first-rate chef to fish up high-grade fishes from the river. He only wanted to wait for the couple to taste them.

The cook was skilled at cooking, and the fish soup had been stewed since nightfall. The broth was now white as jade, and fragrant. Broken pieces of fish and bones were mixed in the broth.

Luo Lingwei took a sip, her eyes shining.

Nightingale's amber eyes filled with her shadow. "As long as you like it."

On the same day of the Golden Dinner at night, when the sun had just risen, the mayor of Yuzhou City sent an attendant to invite him.

Yuzhou City was situated on the riverside. Every late spring, they would encounter a few drizzling rain. It was still early in the morning, and the hawkers had not yet come out of the street to call for a sale. The brook bridge inside the city was quiet and contented, without the hubbub of the day.

Luo Lingwei sat in a sedan chair as she moved through the drizzling rain. When she lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, she saw a river full of flickering lanterns. The lanterns were all small, tender lotuses. The delicate and timid flowers were like a ball of water that swayed along with the flowing water.

From the corner of the tower came the ethereal sound of a singing girl's lute.

"When does the moon come near, the sound of falling swallows."

Luo Lingwei thought it was interesting. Obviously, it was the end of spring, but why did it start to sing an autumn song?

"Who is the singer?" Luo Lingwei was curious.

At this moment, with his eyes closed and his mind resting, Ye Lianhe heard Luo Lingwei's question and replied, "Vermillion Bird Bridge's Swallow Tower."

"Is there a story?"

Luo Lingwei became even more curious.

"Shh!" Ye Lianhe whispered into Luo Lingwei's ear.

"The one playing is not the singer, but the puppet."

Puppet? Luo Lingwei was so scared that goosebumps appeared on her back. Was the Xuan dynasty that mysterious? Why are there puppets?

"Those who trespass into the territory of Xu An, the biggest master of cicadas, will die. Those lotus flower lamps were her warning to the participants of the Golden Dinner of the Night. The puppet that played the lute was the finished product of her lower grade. The pipa strings are the best weapon. "

Luo Lingwei nodded. The golden feast of the night was a celebration for the entire city. On that night, all the doors were free to enter and leave. Players were free to ask their attendants to do anything they wanted.

It was similar to the King's Games of the modern era.

If not for the fact that the system had confirmed that there were no additional transcenders, she would have suspected that the former emperor of the dynasty who invented the game was a powerful woman from the modern era.

The big boss of Swallow Phoenix Brothel definitely didn't want to participate in the game, so he let out the river lantern warning ahead of time. But...

"Why is Xu Anguo's teacher, Su Yeyue, living in Xuanguo?"

"I don't know." Ye Lianhe shook his head. No one knew about her true origins from the Swallow Tower. She came from Xuanguo, so it was just a piece of news she released herself.

It was hard to tell if it was real or fake.

Luo Lingwei originally wanted to see what a puppet in a novel was like, but her curiosity caused the cat to not want to die in a foreign land just because of her little life, so she gave up.

The young maid's eyes darted around, and she smiled as she approached Luo Lingwei to put on a show, "Princess, you must be curious about what kind of puppet this is, since it's your first time here."

Luo Lingwei's expression turned dark as she coldly looked at her: "What do you mean?"

The young maid didn't seem discouraged at all as she took out a wooden rabbit the size of a thumb from her sleeve. The little rabbit was very exquisite in her work, the joints of her eyes were all made into moving parts. The small eyes followed his movements and moved nimbly.

Ye Lianhe stared at the young maid calmly.

"Hmm?" Luo Lingwei gathered her energy and sized up the young maid.

It was probably because they hadn't covered up their tracks along the way that they had all come running towards Nightingale. This time, the little girl didn't know who it belonged to.

"The Swallow Tower's OP refuses to participate in the Golden Dinner of the Night. However, towards the guests that have travelled here from afar, he still wishes to show his hospitality as a guest. This rabbit is the first to give the wangfei sincerity, are you satisfied with it? "

Luo Lingwei understood and feared that the Swallow School Mistress had long predicted that they would pass through here today, so she had arranged for people to intercept them. Whether it was the singing or the river lamps, she had revealed them on purpose.

"Don't you think your intentions are too obvious?"

The young maid held the rabbit and did not speak any further.

With an indifferent expression, Ye Lianhe said, "If Yanzi wants to invite you, then it would seem that I am not being sincere."