A few days later, Qingping suddenly received a letter and smiled, “Ling’er, I’m returning to the Cloud Moon Country tomorrow. Can we talk tonight?” I scratched my face, “Oh. But you…” Before I could finish, Qinglin interrupted: “You don’t need to worry about me or try to keep me. We’ll have a chance to meet again.”
T^T, Miss, which ear heard me wanting to worry about or keep you? I was thinking, after you leave, who’s going to feed me?
While lost in thought, I was carried by Qingping to the pond’s edge. “Sister, how are you so strong? This is called kidnapping, or in a harsher sense, abducting a minor!” Qingping remained silent, just smiling at me.
After a moment, she looked into the distance and then turned to me, “Ling’er, will you marry Bao Xi?” I wanted to say that the matchmaker’s red thread was already tied, how could I not marry? But I had no time to speak, as Qinglin continued: “Do you like Bao Xi?”
I replied, “I like him, what’s wrong?” “Do you love him?” Qingping asked in a low voice.
“I can’t say I love him. After all, in Bao Xi’s eyes, I’m just a replacement for someone named Luo Yan.”
If not for my appearance that resembles Luo Yan, perhaps I would be nothing in his eyes.” I was startled by my own words.
Qing Ping shook his head and sighed, then looked at me. “Luo Yan is already in the past. Bao Xi truly likes you now. Even if you didn’t look like Luo Yan, he would still love you and give everything for you. Before, he was never proactive in court affairs, merely carried to court each morning. But since meeting you, he has changed.”
I wondered what this had to do with me.
“That day, he brought you to my palace, saying he wanted to leave. I, known for my severity, proposed that he must meet my political requirements upon returning, and he agreed without hesitation. This shows how important you are to him.” Qing Ping continued to stare at me, his gaze unwavering.
