Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress-Chapter 1324 - 1331 Helana’s Trick (5)

Tuoba Liang put a rolled-up pancake into Zhao Yun’s dish and glanced at her, saying, "I must have owed her something in a past life!"

Zhao Yun’s face flushed as she lowered her head, revealing a stretch of neck as white and graceful as jade, starkly different from the color of her face.

However, he had become accustomed to it, no longer feeling the disappointment and shock like the first time he had seen her. Now, he even thought that her looking this way was pretty good—it kept other men from discovering her virtues and coming to compete with him.

The first time he met her was shortly after she had arrived as a Meng slave, one evening after he had dinner. He was about to check on the renovation progress of his shops when he passed by the one she was in and suddenly heard the sound of the zither flowing out from inside.

That zither music was clear and melodious, like the babbling of a brook, serene and profound, its ethereal sounds invoking memories of orchids in a secluded valley, laced with faint sorrow—a quiet elegance, like the lament of a solitary goose flying overhead, or the soft sighs of a maiden...

The enchanting and melodious sound of the zither made him forget who he was and what he wanted to do. He just stood there, dumbfounded, beneath her window, letting the music akin to high mountains and flowing water transport him into one beautiful, wonderland-like mood after another.

When the music ended, the reverberations lingered, making him lose all sense of himself.

That night, he didn’t visit his shops but instead went to see her. Although her looks disappointed him, her composed and elegant conversation, her refined and clear aura, quickly overshadowed her less favorable appearance.

He was shocked to discover that women could also possess such extensive knowledge and be so intelligent and astute.

In the days that followed, he found himself involuntarily paying more attention to her. The more he interacted with her, the more he liked this unremarkable-looking woman. Within two months of knowing her, he had already decided that she must be the one to share the latter half of his life.

As for what others might consider flaws in her appearance, it was probably just a case of love is blind. He didn’t find her ugly at all—in fact, he thought she looked pretty good. Really, except for the birthmark on her face, everything else about her was fine. Her features were exquisitely flawless, her skin white and tender, her figure slim and elegant—every part seemed tailor-made for him, perfectly fitting his aesthetic standards. Especially her personality—he had never met a woman of such a disposition in his life. She was gentle yet firm, prudent yet intelligent, highly knowledgeable, and widely read, with a love for zither, chess, calligraphy and painting—a perfect match for him in taste and spirit.

He undeniably liked her, and why he liked her, he couldn’t say. Perhaps it was just like the joke he had just made; he owed her from a previous life!

Cai Wei looked at Zhao Yun with concern. Although Zhao Yun was zealously on guard, trying to keep her heart from being moved, under the persistent advances of the tender-hearted young prince, her heart would inevitably be conquered.

After dinner, using the excuse of having drunk too much, Cai Wei went back to rest early. When the moon rose high in the sky, she called the white-furred tiger and rode it back to Qingyun Town.

To the white-furred tiger, the distance between Northern Ridge’s Royal City and Qingyun Town wasn’t far. It arrived just before the fourth watch. Once in town, Cai Wei put the tiger into her space and walked into town by herself.

When she returned to her family’s entrances, under the cover of moonlight, she quietly scaled the wall and sneaked into the room, then crawled into her space to sleep.

In the morning, still in her dreams, she was woken up by Aunt Zhou’s yelling through the wall.

"Wei’er, Wei’er——"

Aunt Zhou called out loudly. Cai Wei flashed out from her space, walked to the courtyard while brushing off sleep, and greeted Aunt Zhou on the other side of the wall with warm breath, "Aunt Zhou, good morning!"

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