Liu Yu was the first to come to his senses, telling the maid, “Go now, invite the best and liveliest theater troupe from Suzhou City.”
“Yes.” The maid curtsied and quickly retreated.
Liu Yu still looked bewildered at me. I spoke directly, “I don’t want to continue being cold with you.”
The blue jade crown’s silk threads hung on the pure white shoulder, his mouth gradually lifting into a happy smile, pulling me tightly into his embrace as if afraid I would vanish into thin air, murmuring, “Jiao Long, my Jiao Long…”
After a long time, he finally released me, tucking my hair behind my ear, smiling gently, “Your hair has finally become ‘ordinary’, I have always hoped you would be just an ordinary girl.”
“Mm.” I nodded somewhat gu
iltily, after Ruo Han left, I no longer feared drinking the bitter medicine that turned blue hair black, only wanting to leave here one day without fear of being caught because of my conspicuous blue hair.
“I’ll have the maid arrange your hair.”
“No, I don’t like having my hair bound, it feels like being imprisoned.” I blurted out, taking a blue ribbon and casually draping it in my hair.
“Jiao Long…” His eyes dimmed, I smiled apologetically, “I always speak without thinking and hurt you again.”
He smiled and shook his head, “Perhaps I imprison you now, but you… have long imprisoned me.”
I trembled, not daring to imagine how he would become after I left.
Liuyu and Ruohan both wished I would just be an ordinary girl. Does blue hair have some special meaning?
“Grandpa, what does blue hair represent in Dajing?”
The boatman was stunned at first, then burst into laughter.
“That’s a prophecy that has been passed down through the ages in Dajing. It is said that a man with blue hair will change dynasties, and a woman… will bewitch the world.”
I trembled deeply. Suddenly, the silver mask flashed in my mind. Was Ye Suo also blue-haired? Is he really not dead? After a long moment, coming back to my senses and seeing the boatman’s simple, carefree smiling face, I also smiled in relief, leaning back on the boat, carefully pondering those four words:
Bewitching the World!
