Xie Tao watched as many people gradually surrounded Wei Yun. Reacting swiftly, she didn’t have time to think and ran over, squeezing into the crowd to grab Wei Yun’s sleeve.
The sight made many girls around them gasp in surprise, then they started taking photos of Wei Yun with their phones, and many curious glances lingered on Xie Tao, as if guessing the nature of their relationship.
Upon seeing Xie Tao suddenly appearing in front of him, Wei Yun finally managed to calm his mind.
“Let’s go, Wei Yun.”
Xie Tao released his sleeve and took his hand instead. Feeling the many eyes on them and seeing the phones in their hands, she gripped his hand tighter and pulled him through the crowd to escape.
Wei Yun was passively pulled along, running a distance with her.
Then, Xie Tao let go of his hand, bent over with her hands on her knees, and caught her breath for a while before turning back to him, “Why did you come without changing your clothes?”
Hearing this, Wei Yun glanced down at his robe, feeling completely confused.
Today was unlike any other day. He hadn’t seen the portal of time and space; he just closed his eyes, and upon reopening them, he found himself here.
But why did he appear at the entrance of Xie Tao’s school?
Wei Yun furrowed his brows.
After pondering for a moment, as if he had thought of something, he straightened his expression.
Xie Tao saw Wei Yun suddenly close his eyes.
Just as she was about to say something, the Wei Yun standing in front of her suddenly vanished into thin air.
???
Xie Tao widened her eyes in shock.
At that moment, the surrounding surveillance experienced a sudden fluctuation, losing some of its footage.
When Wei Yun opened his eyes again, he was already standing in the living room of a villa.
As expected.
Wei Yun’s tightly knitted brows relaxed slightly.
Just now, when he came from another space-time, he had been distracted thinking about Xie Tao finishing school, naturally visualizing the school entrance. And this time, when he closed his eyes, he thought of this place.
Xie Tao stood dumbfounded next to a tree on the sidewalk, scratching the back of her head.
The vibration of her phone in the pocket of her school jacket startled her, and she hurriedly took it out. Seeing that it was Wei Yun calling, Xie Tao immediately slid the answer button.
“Hello? Wei Yun, why did you suddenly disappear? Where are you?” Xie Tao had never seen him vanish without reason before; wasn’t there always a door appearing, following a process?
“Wait there for me.” Wei Yun didn’t offer any further explanation, merely stating briefly.
After the call ended, Xie Tao looked around, then decided to sit and wait at the bus stop a few steps ahead.
While sitting there, she started to memorize English words by heart.
Occasionally, when she couldn’t remember one, she would take out her notebook to check, then continue memorizing.
Until she saw that familiar black Maybach.
The car window rolled down, and when Xie Tao walked over, she saw Wei Yun’s cold, pale face.
She noticed that by this time, Wei Yun had changed into a shirt and trousers, his long hair also let down.
“Get in.”
Xie Tao quickly opened the car door, sat in the passenger seat, fastened her seatbelt, and then, holding her backpack, couldn’t help but ask curiously, “What’s going on exactly?”
Wei Yun started the car, his hands always gripping the steering wheel, his gaze fixed ahead. Upon hearing Xie Tao’s voice, he replied, “It seems that now… I can rely on consciousness to instantly move to any place.”
Whether it’s traversing between two dimensions or within one dimension, from one place to another.
And that gateway of dimension, as if disappeared from then on.
It seemed as if it would never be needed again. In the blink of an eye, he could appear anywhere effortlessly.
“You can do that too??”
Xie Tao, upon hearing this, almost couldn’t believe it.
The fact that he could shuttle between two dimensions was already incredibly unbelievable, so how could he now unlock a skill like teleportation?!
When Xie Tao and Wei Yun arrived at the designated restaurant, Xie Lan and Old Xi were already there.
In the private room, Xie Lan had just ordered dishes and handed the menu to Xie Tao. “Quickly order some more, Tao Tao! Old Xi is treating us today!”
Xie Tao nodded, glanced at the menu, ordered two dishes, then passed the menu to Wei Yun, “What do you want to eat?”
Holding a cup of tea, Wei Yun didn’t even glance at the menu, simply stating, “Whatever you order is fine.”
Left with no choice, Xie Tao handed the menu back to Xie Lan.
When all the dishes were served, Old Xi brought out his treasured wine, looking at Wei Yun, “Want a drink?”
Wei Yun nodded, “Sure.”
“I want to drink too!” Xie Lan picked up a piece of braised pork with his chopsticks. The moment Old Xi opened the jar, he smelled the rich and refreshing aroma of the wine and blurted out.
“I don’t want to be carrying you back later,” Old Xi glanced at him, saying indifferently.
Xie Lan snorted, pointing at Wei Yun sitting across him, “He’ll carry.”
Hearing Xie Lan’s words, Wei Yun looked up at the youth sitting opposite him, whose hair seemed tousled by his own hand, and slightly curled his lips, “In your dreams.”
“Isn’t that a bit much, brother-in-law?” Xie Lan clicked his tongue, the nickname slipping out quite naturally.
Xie Tao was eating when she heard the term “brother-in-law,” she abruptly looked up at Xie Lan.
“What are you looking at? Eat your food.” Xie Lan picked another piece of braised pork and threw it into Xie Tao’s bowl.
It really wasn’t easy for him to be willing to give up the meat to Xie Tao.
When Wei Yun saw the extra piece of braised pork in Xie Tao’s bowl, his eyebrows seemed to furrow, then he naturally picked up his chopsticks and moved the piece of meat back to Xie Lan’s bowl.
Then, in front of Xie Lan, he filled Xie Tao’s small bowl with chopstick after chopstick of food, almost piling it into a small mountain.
Xie Lan couldn’t stand to watch, irritably picking up the piece of meat in his bowl and biting into it.
Xie Tao kept saying “That’s enough, that’s enough” while burying her head to eat diligently.
During the meal, Wei Yun brought up the matter of teleporting twice today. Xie Lan was so shocked he dropped his chopsticks, but Old Xi remained calm, as if there was nothing in this world that could make him lose his composure.
“Having such ability is within reason,” Old Xi took a sip of wine and remarked.
After all, Wei Yun was a person affected by the magnetic fields of two different time-spaces, capable of traversing them. Gaining the ability to teleport wasn’t impossible.
Wei Yun was the only space-time traveler; there had been no precedent before him.
Thus, Old Xi couldn’t be sure what kind of changes, different from ordinary people, the two different magnetic fields would cause in Wei Yun. It was something he couldn’t clearly explain.
After the meal, Wei Yun first took Xie Tao to her evening self-study at school.
It was then, upon returning to school, that Xie Tao discovered she had made it onto the hot search of Green River in just the duration of a meal.
Not for anything else, but because when she was leaving the school gate holding Wei Yun, many who saw them took photos and even small videos.
They uploaded these online, and in no time, she was on the lower ranks of the hot search.
Many netizens discovered that the young man suspected of wearing a round-necked bright red brocade robe, with his hair in a bun and a golden crown on his head, was the long-haired man with a fairy-like appearance who had appeared on the hot search once or twice before.
Thus, every time Xie Tao finished class, many girls from other classes or grades gathered outside, craning their necks to see her.
Fortunately, many people in the classroom were busy studying and didn’t spend much time surfing the internet; otherwise, Xie Tao felt she might be stared to death.
Finally, after evening self-study, as Xie Tao walked out of the classroom, she was chased by a bunch of girls wanting to talk.
No matter how awkward the conversation or who initiated it, the ultimate goal was the same: to find out who the man who appeared on the hot search with her was.
Xie Tao had no intention of telling them.
Once she left the school gate, Xie Tao saw the car under the dim streetlight parked by the roadside.
She ran directly towards it, opened the door, and got in, all in one smooth motion.
“Why are you running so hastily?” Wei Yun saw her panting and reached out to pull down the strap of her backpack, placed the backpack behind her, and then leaned over to buckle her seat belt.
“People are chasing me from behind, I…”
Xie Tao hadn’t finished speaking when Wei Yun, while fastening her seat belt, kissed her suddenly.
He seemed to become increasingly adept at doing such unexpected things, even though his ears still bore a blush of warmth, but he had already managed to not show it on his face.
It was as if, compared to the shy psychology, he was more eager to be close to her.
Xie Tao was stunned.
She even forgot what she was going to say.
“Why are they chasing you?” Wei Yun asked her calmly, as if nothing had happened, after fastening the seat belt and sitting upright.
“It’s all because of you…”
Xie Tao covered her mouth, stuttering after a long while.
On the way home, Xie Tao told Wei Yun about what happened during the evening self-study at school today.
“No need to bother.”
In the end, Wei Yun only said one sentence.
The next day was Saturday. Wei Yun lit the gold dust incense given by Meng Lichun in the study of the Imperial advisor’s Mansion and had Xie Tao come over.
Having not been here for a long time, Xie Tao excitedly ran around in the yard.
Wei Bo was overjoyed to see her.
He originally thought he would never see Xie Tao again, but upon seeing her this time, he immediately had the kitchen prepare a lot of delicious food for Xie Tao, setting a full table for her.
He also took out all the fun little gadgets he had collected on the streets these days for her.
Shao Liyin was also very happy to see Xie Tao.
Although she often had no expression, since Xie Tao’s arrival, she had been following Xie Tao around.
Almost wherever Xie Tao was, she was there.
Certainly, except when Wei Yun and Xie Tao were alone.
“How come I haven’t seen Wei Jing?” Xie Tao sat at the table doing her homework, munching on warm pastries, and asked Wei Yun, who was reading a book beside her.
“The hunting season appointed by His Majesty is approaching, and I ordered him to inspect the hunting grounds,” Wei Yun’s gaze remained on the page of the book in his hands.
Xie Tao knew that the “His Majesty” he referred to was no longer the one before.
Not only that, but it was also a female emperor.
“Speaking of which, she’s really amazing…” Xie Tao couldn’t help but sigh, her chin resting on the back of her hand.
In such a male-dominated feudal society, for a woman to become emperor was an incredibly difficult feat.
Xie Tao remembered the time when Zhao Shuwei was still a princess and they met in the plum garden.
She was both talented and beautiful.
“Sir!”
Wei Jing’s voice suddenly came from outside the wide-open door.
When Xie Tao turned her head, she saw Wei Jing had already appeared at the door.
Upon seeing Xie Tao, Wei Jing couldn’t help but scratch his head and smiled a little surprisedly, “The young madam is here.”
“Is there anything amiss with the hunting grounds?”
Wei Yun looked up at him.
“I have inspected everything and found nothing amiss,” Wei Jing immediately became serious and respectful again, bowing his hands in greeting upon hearing Wei Yun’s voice.
“Anything else?” Seeing him standing there hesitating to leave, Wei Yun glanced at him.
After a moment of hesitation, upon catching Xie Tao’s gaze, Wei Jing lowered his head and said, “Today, while inspecting the hunting grounds, I found a small white bear,”
He paused, then continued, “I, I thought since the young madam was coming, I took the liberty of bringing the white bear back for the young madam to keep and play with…”
“White bear?” Xie Tao tilted her head, not understanding what that was for a moment.
Seeing that Wei Yun did not say anything, Wei Jing boldly turned his head and called out, “Shiyi!”
Wei Shiyi immediately ran over with a fluffy little thing in his arms, “Here I am! Brother Jing, this thing keeps scratching me…”
However, upon seeing the fluffy creature with dark circles around its eyes in Wei Shiyi’s arms, Xie Tao was so shocked that she even dropped the pen in her hand.
Her eyes widened, and upon seeing the fluffy bundle waving its paws at Wei Shiyi’s jacket, her eyes were filled with stars from the cuteness.
Ahhhhh, a panda!
