Transmigrated as the Treacherous Official's Childhood Sweetheart-Chapter 387 - 386: Draped in Silver and White
Ten days before New Year’s Eve, snow began to fall from the sky.
Getting up in the early morning, the snow, like clusters of goose feathers, covered the trees and houses, weaving a white net; from a short distance away, nothing could be seen.
This year’s snow in the Capital City came the latest in many years. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎
In previous years, the wind would howl and snow would dance as early as November or early December.
Ye Zhi usually stayed in bed, and getting up early in the freezing morning was rare.
When Ah Tao entered her room with a copper basin of hot water, her mistress had already finished washing, applying flower patterns to her face with yellow makeup, and smoothing ointment on her cheeks. She was greatly shocked: What was wrong with the young lady?
The door inside the room was opened, and the wind and snow, mixed with cold air, blew in, only to be shut quickly.
Ignoring her astonished expression, Ye Zhi said softly as she applied the ointment while watching the mirror, "You’re here, come in to warm up. I’ve lit a charcoal brazier. I woke up early and didn’t want to disturb you, so I fetched water myself to wash."
Ah Tao placed the basin down, looking distressed, and said, "Miss, on such a cold day, the Madam didn’t even urge you to get up. Why wake up so early?"
When it’s warmer, the young lady couldn’t get up, yet with everything outside blanketed in silver, she’s up so early now.
Ye Zhi finished fussing over her fair and tender face and said, "I’m going to find Xiao Chen to have a snowball fight. It didn’t snow where he was at Dragon Tiger Mountain, and this year he finally came back, so I’m going to play with him." After putting on a full-length warm jacket and adding a lotus-green patterned crane cloak, she went out.
The delicate girl, draped in lotus-green patterned cloak embroidered with cranes, stepped out of the courtyard, leaving a trail of dainty footprints on the ground.
These footprints proved that someone had walked through.
After the young lady left, Ah Tao couldn’t believe her eyes and said, "How strange this is."
The snow had originally stopped, but on Ye Zhi’s way to Tingling Garden, it started again. She hurriedly pulled up the snow hat lined with fox fur on her cloak to block out the snowflakes.
Each pristine snowflake, like a light plum blossom, swirled and danced with the wind, gently falling to the ground.
Soon, Ye Zhi arrived at the gate of Tingling Garden.
The two vermilion red gates were tightly closed.
She shouted towards the garden, "Xiao Chen, are you up? It’s snowing, hurry out for a snowball fight, wake up..."
After shouting, she counted from one to ten, but no one replied.
Standing in front of the vermilion red gates, Ye Zhi felt anxious, took a few steps back, used her qinggong, tapped her toes, and elegantly leaped over the high wall, landing inside the garden.
Shen Chen had developed a habit of reading and playing chess in the early morning, not swayed by the winter’s freezing cold. Suddenly, hearing Ah Zhi’s voice, he opened the door to witness this scene: the snow-white, tender young girl, with a playful countenance, landed steadily inside his garden from the wall.
Their eyes met.
Ye Zhi was the first to explain her behavior, "I thought you weren’t up, so I came in to call you. It’s snowing; let’s have a snowball fight."
Without reason, a young girl sneaking into a gentleman’s garden early in the morning might lead to gossip.
Shen Chen glanced at the delicately falling snowflakes and noted the biting cold in the air. The initial snowfall was much colder than yesterday. A snowball fight? The little girl might not take care, catching a chill wouldn’t be good.
He refused, "It’s too cold. There will be more snow in a few days; you can play then."
Ye Zhi bit her lip, the morning’s fervor drenched in cold disappointment.
