Volume 2: Case within a case, the granary of the world Chapter 29: Half-dreaming and half-awake in a bewildering interval

  I... am not being very nice... but... I really don't want to admit my own mistake.

  My head started aching again, and in annoyance I crumpled the two maps on the table into a ball. When I saw the two tattered pieces of cloth mixed together in a lump, I hesitated, maybe...

  Right!

  He hastily spread the map on the table, then spread the silk cloth over the map. The nearly transparent silk reflected the map below, and those seven red dots became conspicuous markers for seven locations! I was somewhat surprised.

  Although I don't know if this method is correct, I first drew a circle around those places according to the positions of these seven red dots. In addition to the three Xian Mountains outside the city, there are strange civilian houses, temples, and shops, and what surprised me even more were the Huguo Mansion and the Imperial Palace!

  It seems like Sanxianshan, Huguo Temple and the Imperial Palace are more reliable.

  Staring at those seven locations on the table, my eyes are about to turn into phoenix eyes. What do other places represent? Are there people far away from dust? Why should they be scattered?

  How strange...

  My head is getting heavier and heavier, in the blurry vision, there are swaying candle lights, it seems... really late... I actually dozed off...

  In the daze, someone took away the map under my arm. I frowned and turned around. In the blurry vision, it was a familiar white dragon robe. I closed my eyes and fell asleep again.

  "This is..."

  "Map..." I struggled to open my eyes, drowsiness rendering me completely powerless, and the voice that escaped from my lips was faint and hollow. Slumped over the desk, all I could see in my half-opened field of vision was the map hanging down before my face.

  "Floating..." Someone stroked my hair, gently and softly, with a subtle touch that was reminiscent of my mother's gentle pats when I was a child. It pushed me deeper into my brain, where I saw a hazy yellow sunlight. The sunlight was dazzling. I wanted to open my eyes, but couldn't no matter how hard I tried.

  A dark figure blocked the dim sunlight, he stood in front of me, I wanted to see his face clearly, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make it out. However, I knew I recognized him. Because his scent was very familiar.

  He slowly leaned down, and I still wanted to try my best to see his appearance. A kiss came just like that. Lightly, like a feather, and also like snowflakes, it fell on my cheek. I stopped trying to open my eyes, but stood there stupidly, feeling the kiss that had landed on my icy cheek.

  Kiss, very hot, but that scorching heat also brought a special tenderness. This tender warmth slowly unfolded on my cheek, half of my face began to feel the heat. Very interesting, one side cold, one side hot, so hot that it ignored the existence of that kiss, as it bloomed half of my face, it also disappeared in that fiery passion.

  I stroked my own scorching hot cheek, and smiled. Who gave me this half-face rouge?

  The night wind is refreshing. It blows away my worries and wakes me up from my drowsiness. I slowly open my eyes, and the dim yellow sunlight turns into a flickering candlelight. In my gradually clearing vision, there are strands of black hair.

  That strand of green silk occupied my entire field of vision, like a piece of purple-tinged gauze covering my eyes, and the tip of my nose was filled with that familiar fragrance, like the scent of Milan rice in a secluded valley.

  Xuanyuan Yifei

  What's on your cheek is leaving, where was it dyed by the night wind, and a hint of coolness came out?

  His face gradually emerged from the edge of my vision, slowly, slowly falling down, like a solar eclipse, until it completely occupied my line of sight, and we were face to face, close at hand.

  "Awake?" he asked. His voice was so soft, yet why did it shake my heart? I gazed at his amber eyes, which were as gentle as water.

  "From now on, don't wait for me when you're tired." He stroked my cheek again, his gentleness as if he was caressing a beloved painting. With the back of his hand, he lightly and slowly grazed over to the base of my ear, furrowed his brow, "Why no earrings?" He gently pinched my earlobe.

  Heartbeat starts accelerating unknowingly, half asleep and unable to wake up in time, falling into Xuan Yuan's gentle and unintentional touch.

  "No wonder you never wear earrings, they would look great on you." He shifted slightly and I stared blankly as he walked out of my line of sight, my foggy brain slowly coming back to life. Wasn't what just happened a dream?

  Suddenly, that familiar scorching kiss appeared on my earlobe. In an instant, I jumped away from the table and looked up at Xuan Yuan Yifei standing beside me in alarm. His body was slightly bent, his hand still attached to my neck, as if he hadn't expected my evasion.

  "For a moment, I didn't know where to focus my gaze, only feeling that the left side of my cheek and ear root were scorching hot, so hot that it was maddening. The blood on the side of my neck..."

  The pulse also began to burn under that palm which was not hot at all.

  In the quiet air, he slowly straightened his body, but that palm never left, as if to say: I don't want to leave.

  He didn't say anything, was he waiting for me to speak up? But what should I say then?

  "Yi Fei... I..."

  "What did you call me?" He cut in urgently, and flustered, I didn't dare to look up at his expression: "Yes, yes, sorry, Your Majesty."

  "Not is, it's Yi Fei."

  He was delighted, and surprisingly, he was thrilled about this nickname. His heart was racing faster and faster, and there were some things he didn't dare to think about. The chaotic brain had become a tangled mess.

  "Your heart is beating very fast, why?"

  He sensed my heartbeat, and his hand was on my neck, but he pretended not to notice. I felt a bit annoyed, took a deep breath, and tried to calm down. I pushed his hand away and smoothed out the hair by my ear: "I've decided, I'm willing to be your official." I slowly turned my face towards Xuan Yuan Yi Fei, our eyes met, but he suddenly leaned in close.

  His face suddenly appeared in front of me, causing me to subconsciously hold my breath. He looked at my eyes carefully and seriously, with a look of anxiety that he had never shown before on his face. The amber pupils rolled up a whirlwind, which absorbed my line of sight, making it impossible for me to escape.

  "It's too late." His words turned into hot air that brushed against my lips, the tip of his nose touching mine, making it impossible for me to ignore the intense pressure emanating from him. "Now, I won't let you go again."

  "Huh?" As I blurted out this word in surprise, a kiss came suddenly and blocked my lips, also blocking my words, blocking my thoughts, and blocking everything that I hadn't had time to think about. Those chaotic, scattered thoughts in my brain were all blocked by the kiss in that narrow space, making me dizzy and as if I had returned to that hazy state of being half asleep and half awake.

  Gentle kisses, like gentle waves, caress every inch of your lips. But in an instant, they turn into a fierce tornado, sweeping you into its body with force, leaving you helpless and off the ground. You can only let it bully you, let it ravage you until it takes away your breath, sucks out all your air. Only then does it slowly dissipate, transforming once again into a gentle sea breeze under the sunlight, teasing your heart bit by bit.

  I don't know when, I was already curled up in the chair, panting and watching Xuan Yuan Yifei slowly leave my lips, giving me enough air. He gently kissed my cheeks, my forehead, and the tip of my nose. The gentle kiss was like a mischievous dragonfly, sometimes stopping here and there.

  "Floating." Finally, he pressed me into his body, heavily pressing on the back of my head, making me listen to his rapid and powerful heartbeat.

  The world is so quiet, quietly only I am hugging my legs and curling up, quietly only I am gradually recovering my calm breathing, quietly only that "thump thump thump" heartbeat is jumping for me.

  "Stay here, be my queen," he said. But the words were covered by his heartbeat like a drumbeat, making them light and powerless, what was this beating heart saying?

  "Is it because I'm special?" I asked.

  "Yes, you're special," he replied.

  "Hmph." I sneered, relaxing my grip on my power for an instant. He grasped my shoulders and lifted my chin, looking at me in puzzlement: "What are you smiling about?"

  "You're all the same, all the same..." I turned away, slowly got up from the chair and left dejectedly. They're all the same, just because I'm special, yeah, how special I am, able to reincarnate, haha, how special, even national treasures aren't as special as me!

  "Whoa!" He suddenly grabbed my arm, "What are you talking about? What do you mean 'you're all the same'?"

  I looked back, and in the blurred vision, Nan Gong Qiuyue gradually appeared: "You are all the same, just because of my specialness, wanting to own me, control me, just because of my specialness..." Endless melancholy surged from the bottom of my heart, who wouldn't want to be worshipped by the stars and the moon? But I don't want to be seen as special, only to have them overlook the real me, in the end they love the word "special", not me!

  "Rubbish, what are you talking about!" Xuan Yuan Yi Fei pulled me back into his arms with some anxiety. "Sorry, I scared you, previously, I had been restraining myself because you're very strong-willed, you're not like other women, you want respect and equality. But when I saw you stayed up all night to solve the map puzzle for me, I...I...sigh...no woman has ever treated me like this before, I knew clearly that you didn't like it, but I still couldn't help myself, sorry..."

  Quietly standing in his arms, Xuan Yuan Yifei, who had always been stingy with words, said a lot tonight...