He rotated the dragonfly’s tail, playing the stored photos. As he scrolled through them, the images gradually overlapped with his memories, blurring the line between real memories and imagined fantasies.
He kept looking at these photos over and over, gradually understanding the context of what had happened before. But even if he understood, what difference would it make?
At this moment, she was still only fourteen years old, and as an ancient person, she would probably find it difficult to comprehend the changes caused by crossing time and space to alter history. He and she could no longer intersect.
This jade dragonfly only recognized Yu Yi’s fingerprints, so he would leave it for her as a toy. Meng Qing imported all the audio and image data from the jade dragonfly into the terminal, then rushed to the Hou mansion. He originally wanted to leave the jade dragonfly in her room and depart, but unexpectedly, an orange-yellow light shone through her room’s window – she had already returned.
He stood quietly outside the window, thinking he would wait until she fell asleep to place the jade dragonfly on her table. But the room was brightly lit, perhaps due to the excitement from today’s banquet, making her unable to sleep for a while. She was chatting with her maid about the interesting encounters at the feast.
Chun Yan and Yue Tao were Yu Yi’s personal maids, knowing she was kind to her servants and thus spoke to her without much restraint. Yue Tao laughingly asked, “Miss, who was that gentleman you met in the garden today? It seemed like you already knew him?”
Yu Yi shook her head, “He mistook me for someone else, thinking I was his wife.”
Yue Tao giggled, “How could there be such a fool who would mistake his own wife?”
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For some reason, when Yu Yi heard Yue Tao speak about Meng Qing this way, she felt displeased and defended him, “He’s not a fool. It’s because I look too much like his wife. He is extremely devoted to his wife and mistook me due to missing her too much.”
Yue Tao teased her, “Miss, are you so eager to defend that gentleman because you’ve fallen for him?”
