Xie Tao originally thought he would never be able to go to another time and space again.
But when Meng Lichun, who had become the director of the Third Space Administration, searched through the warehouse that she now owned, which Xie Tao previously had no access to, she found gold dust belonging to the same lineage as Copper’s.
That should be the bald guy from before who collected it.
Now it’s all become Meng Lichun’s stuff.
Perhaps because she wanted to make up a bit for the harm she had caused to Xie Tao before, Meng Lichun didn’t hesitate to give the bag of gold powder to Xie Tao.
But Xie Tao temporarily didn’t use this bag of gold powder.
Because she is now in the second semester of her senior year, a student who is about to take the college entrance examination.
She originally thought she was nervous enough, but unexpectedly, everyone around her seemed even more nervous than her.
Meng Lichun and Nian Jitang would occasionally come to give her some spiritual chicken soup, saying things to help her calm down.
Xie Lan and Old Xi sometimes saw her studying hard and would take her out to have a big meal.
Wei Yun, on the other hand, seemed calmer than them, but he couldn’t help but urge her like an old scholar when it came to studying.
But it was because of Wei Yun, because of these people who cared about her, that Xie Tao felt that the last period of high school didn’t seem so hard after all.
Xie Tao also asked Old Xi about how Meng Lichun became the director when she went to the tavern.
At that time, Old Xi was holding a cup of wine and chuckled.
Seemingly a bit tipsy, his speech was less steady than usual, a bit more elusive. “It’s been tough on her all these years.”
“Only by making her the one with the greatest power there can others not bully her.”
That was the first time Xie Tao had seen Old Xi being so protective.
She found that Old Xi was not indifferent to Meng Lichun; perhaps his affection for her had reached a point where no one could fathom.
Master Hengyun was an old friend of Old Xi’s. After Meng Lichun disappeared, Old Xi went to the divine realm to investigate the matter and dismissed the former director who abused power.
Making Meng Lichun the director of the Third Time-Space Management Bureau was also Old Xi’s idea.
When Xie Tao told Meng Lichun about this, this usually somewhat hysterical and neurotic woman appeared very calm.
She smiled gently at Xie Tao for a while but didn’t say anything.
It seemed that she wasn’t as persistent about seeing Old Xi as she used to be.
On Saturday at noon, the sunlight streaming in through the floor-to-ceiling windows fell onto the spotlessly clean floor, casting a faint golden glow.
Xie Tao was sitting on a soft cushion on the carpet, leaning over the coffee table to finish a paper. After moving her fingers to relieve some stiffness, she turned her head and saw that Wei Yun, sitting on the sofa, had at some point closed his eyes.
It looked like he had fallen asleep.
Xie Tao tilted her head and observed his sleeping face for a while, getting momentarily distracted.
She then sat down beside him very gently, and as she looked at his flawless and handsome face, she pursed her lips, chuckled softly, and then leaned in close to him, intending to steal a kiss.
Just as she was about to get close to him, he suddenly raised his hand and, without opening his eyes, accurately grasped her chin.
His pale face was momentarily distorted as he pinched her chin.
Her eyes blinked repeatedly, and being held by the chin, she couldn’t utter a single word for a while.
“What are you trying to do?” Wei Yun asked, looking at her with a cold expression.
Xie Tao pursed her lips and said nothing.
Wei Yun, however, chuckled, his hand still holding her chin without any intention of letting go. Instead, he lowered his head, kissed her, and then released her chin.
Xie Tao covered her face, her entire being snuggling closer into his embrace.
Perhaps because of the skills Xie Tao learned from Fu Miaolan in making crispy heart sugar, Wei Yun gradually began to like sweets more than before.
Sometimes, when having tea, he would place the crispy heart sugar she made beside him as a snack.
Holding only a scroll in his hand, he would bring one piece after another to his mouth, and in just a moment, when his hand reached for the porcelain plate again, it would come up empty.
Seeing that he liked it, Xie Tao was even more willing to make him crispy heart sugar in various flavors.
But on this day,
Xie Tao was sitting on the sofa, holding her boyfriend’s handsome face, and she was sure she found a small pimple on his forehead.
Just a small one, a bit red.
Xie Tao immediately became nervous, “Wei Yun, you’ve got a pimple?”
Wei Yun did not lift his gaze, taking a piece of chocolate-flavored crispy heart sugar from the plate on the coffee table, about to put it into his mouth, but Xie Tao grabbed his hand and bit the piece of sugar herself.
Wei Yun frowned slightly and was about to speak when he heard her mumble with the sugar in her mouth, “You need to cut back on sugar!”
Cut back on sugar?
Wei Yun was not pleased.
“No,” he flatly refused.
Wei Yun thought Xie Tao was just speaking casually, but from that day on, she really refused to make him any more crispy heart sugar.
Whenever he asked her, Xie Tao would hold her pen tightly and say very seriously, “I need to study hard, don’t disturb me.”
“…”
Wei Yun had not expected her to be so diligent.
It wasn’t until the pimple on Wei Yun’s forehead disappeared that Xie Tao, seeing him a bit gloomy while drinking tea, softened her heart and made him a box of crispy heart sugar.
In the school classroom, a calendar hung on the wall beside the blackboard, counting down the days until the college entrance examination.
The kind where one page is torn off each day.
As the days drew closer, Xie Tao became even more diligent.
Whether during class or after, the senior year classroom was always quiet enough, with everyone making their final push.
In the senior year of high school, evening self-study sessions were mandatory, and Xie Tao would usually get home around nine o’clock every day.
Pushing herself too hard, one evening Xie Tao was sitting at her desk in her room working on papers, and because she couldn’t solve a difficult math problem, she couldn’t help but wipe away tears.
Wei Yun opened the door at that moment, just in time to see her rubbing her eyes with the back of her hand.
When Xie Tao heard the door opening, she reflexively turned her head.
“Why are you crying?”
Wei Yun came over and gently ruffled her hair.
“I can’t solve this problem… It’s too difficult for me.”
Xie Tao mumbled after hesitating for a while.
Her eyes were a bit red from rubbing them with the back of her hand, and when she looked at him, she appeared pitiful.
“Which one?” Wei Yun leaned over to look at the paper on the desk that she was pointing to.
Xie Tao pointed to a blank spot on the paper.
Wei Yun followed her finger to look at the spot.
He seemed to ponder for a moment with his eyelids lowered, then took the pen from Xie Tao’s hand and began to work out the problem on her draft paper.
When Wei Yun pushed the draft paper in front of Xie Tao, she seemed stunned for a while, then couldn’t help but start crying again.
“Why are you crying again?” Wei Yun’s brows twitched.
“I’ve been in high school for nearly three years and still can’t solve this problem. How long have you been studying it? Why did you solve it so quickly?”
“Wuwuwu, I’m so frustrated…”
Xie Tao cried and tried to bite the back of Wei Yun’s hand in frustration.
But she didn’t really bite down hard, as she still couldn’t bear to do it.
“You are really amazing,” she couldn’t help but praise him.
Wei Yun couldn’t help but chuckle upon hearing her words.
Finally, he shook his head, his eyebrows smiling, and gently ruffled her hair, sighing somewhat helplessly, “You’ve been pushing yourself too hard lately.”
Xie Tao simply threw herself into his arms, “I’m afraid of doing poorly on the exam…”
This is a fear and anxiety that all students facing their college entrance exams inevitably feel during the final period.
Of course, for someone with exceptional talents like Wei Yun, perhaps these worries would not exist.
“Don’t think too much.”
Wei Yun gently patted her back, his expression always as gentle as water, as if all his patience was reserved for her at this moment, “What you put in, you will get back.”
“Even if you don’t get in,”
Wei Yun said, pausing for a moment, his lips curving slightly, “it doesn’t matter.”
“You’re the one who won’t get in…”
Xie Tao lifted her head from his arms, her eyes, still misty with a light layer of water, glaring at him, “Take that back right now!”
Wei Yun was still smiling.
He pinched her cheek, indulging her stubbornness at the moment, “Okay, I take it back.”
It was but a jest.
How could she not get in?
He had seen all her efforts during this period.
“Solve this problem again.”
Finally, Wei Yun pointed to the question on the paper.
Xie Tao obediently let go of him, took the pen, and started to solve the problem seriously.
Wei Yun watched from the side, occasionally offering her a few tips.
The night passed, and before dawn broke, Wei Yun had already returned to the Imperial Advisor’s Mansion.
Wei Bo brought the crimson gauze robe required for the court session.
After changing into it, Wei Yun fastened the complicated jade-studded belt around his waist, combed his hair into a bun as usual, straightened his golden crown, arranged the hair tie matching his robe, and then left the house to attend the morning court session in the Forbidden Palace.
While Wei Yun was at court, Xie Tao was still asleep.
By the time she got up, stood in the bathroom staring at her disheveled reflection in the mirror for a while, yawned, and slowly began to wash up.
After she finished washing up and went downstairs, standing by the sofa organizing her school bag, she suddenly saw an additional wooden food box on the coffee table in front of her.
Xie Tao opened it layer by layer to find light porridge, two side dishes, and several buns inside, still steaming.
This was prepared by Wei Bo after Wei Yun returned from the court session at the Imperial Advisor’s Mansion.
There was also a note inside, which read:
“Eat before you go to school.”
It was in Wei Yun’s handwriting.
Previously, the phoenix tail scales in Xie Tao’s phone could never transport items directly to her like the bronze amulet could without some medium.
Thanks to Meng Lichun’s addition of some smart settings.
Xie Tao used to receive things Wei Yun sent her in the express locker because the phoenix tail scales automatically recognized the delivery address in her phone and intelligently selected that locker.
But now, after being repaired with the latest technology by Nian Jitang, the phoenix tail scales could transport items over the same distance as the bronze amulet.
Xie Tao still couldn’t forget the day Nian Jitang was weighing the bronze amulet and her phone on a small balance, and then hitting her phone with many tools.
Xie Tao carefully kept the note written by Wei Yun, then took the food box to the dining table, arranged everything, and began eating breakfast.
Due to the new emperor’s accession and the recent battle with Yidan country, the court affairs were numerous.
Shortly after returning from the morning court session to the Imperial Advisor’s Mansion, Wei Yun once again entered the palace to discuss state affairs with Zhao Shuwei, the new emperor.
When he returned to the mansion again and changed into casual clothes, he intended to go see Xie Tao immediately.
But this time, the portal of space and time did not appear.
Instead, as he closed his eyes and concentrated for a moment, merely thinking that Xie Tao should have finished school by now.
Because of Xie Tao, Wei Yun had learned to drive and even obtained a driver’s license in that world.
This way, there was no need to bother Nian Jitang.
Since Xie Lan and others had invited them for a meal, Wei Yun planned to pick her up.
After eating, he planned to send her back to school for evening self-study.
But in that moment of distraction, when Wei Yun opened his eyes again, he found himself already on the sidewalk of another space-time, surrounded by the flow of cars and various noisy sounds.
Dressed in a crimson brocade robe, adorned with a gold crown and a jade belt, he stood under the shade of a tree. His eyes, wide with astonishment, gazed at the bustling school gate in front of him, momentarily at a loss for words.
What on earth was happening?
The surrounding surveillance cameras flickered the moment he inexplicably appeared, losing a few seconds of footage.
Many people’s gazes were involuntarily drawn to the young man standing under the tree, dressed in a brocade robe and possessing a uniquely attractive appearance.
Some girls, mesmerized by his looks, even bumped into people walking in front of them.
Such a stunning beauty, dressed in such attire, was truly a spectacle that captured everyone’s attention.
Xie Tao, upon exiting the school gate, immediately spotted Wei Yun standing under the tree.
Around her, numerous female classmates were exclaiming excitedly.
“So handsome!”
“My goodness, what kind of celestial beauty is this?! Ah, I’m dead!”
“Is he wearing Hanfu? Oh my, isn’t he just too handsome?!”
Xie Tao had no interest in listening to what others were saying anymore.
She gripped the strap of her backpack, her eyes wide with shock.
She was completely dumbfounded.
