Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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The phone screen lit up for a few seconds before going black.
In the few seconds that the phone lit up, the curtain that had been missing for fourteen days suddenly reappeared before Lu Huan’s eyes, who was in the Chengzhou government office, without any warning.
His eyelashes twitched, his pupils contracted sharply, and his breathing suddenly became rapid. Without waiting for the officials to come and reply, he rushed towards the curtain without hesitation, just like he had done that day.
Last time, he went to the Ministry of War’s official residence, only to find it empty.
This time, a flash of white light appeared before Lu Huan’s eyes, and in an instant, the scene before him suddenly changed.
He held his breath and looked around. The scene around him was very familiar: a Kumamon bed, the glass window, it was the starting screen he always opened when he opened the curtain— Su Xi’s house.
Wasn’t this a dream?
Lu Huan tentatively squatted down, touched the floor, and then touched the unfinished test paper on Su Xi’s desk.
When his fingers touched the tangible reality, he finally believed it… It wasn’t a dream. After two hundred points, he had actually come to her world!
Lu Huan’s heart pounded wildly, and his eyes gradually reddened with joy.
For the next fourteen days, with the thought that he had no other choice but to try, he rode his horse to Chengzhou. Before the floodwaters breached the dam, he first found out several corrupt officials in Chengzhou who had repaired the dam that day, and ordered the Chengzhou authorities to take precautions in advance to minimize the damage from the impending flood.
While doing this, he had no confidence at all, because after he finished, the curtain still did not appear as before.
Lu Huan realized that something must have really happened to Su Xi, otherwise she would never have gone fourteen days without contacting him.
His sense of urgency grew, and he began to supervise the work with even greater urgency.
….
When the officials in Chengzhou discover that he was missing, they would surely panic and search for him. But at this moment, Lu Huan couldn’t care about that. His heart was pounding, and he just wanted to see her immediately.
Lu Huan stood in Su Xi’s room for a while. Dressed in a bright yellow prince’s robe, he looked out of place in the room. He dared not make any rash moves, for fear of being mistaken for a thief.
But there was no sound at Su Xi’s house at this moment, so no one must be home. Her parents must have wone to work during the day.
Lu Huan hesitated for a moment before walking to the door and opening it.
He was already very familiar with the living room.
After their initial elation, Lu Huan soon realized with embarrassment that he had no idea where she had gone.
If I stay here and wait, and her parents come home first in the evening, I don’t think I’ll be able to explain why I suddenly appeared in her house.
He scratched his head and walked to the refrigerator. He knew her family very well and knew that they would put a memo on the refrigerator whenever something happened in her family.
Lu Huan noticed immediately that Xi Xi went to the hospital for a check-up on Monday.
Why go to see a doctor?
Lu Huan’s heart tightened. He immediately assumed that her disappearance along with the curtain was due to some kind of illness. His eyelids twitched, and he forced himself not to overthink it. He then opened the door and rushed out.
Lu Huan walked to the elevator and stared at the metal box for a long time. Although he had studied it before, this was the first time he had used it and he was still very unfamiliar with it.
A little while later, two elderly neighbors walked up to the elevator, also heading to the first floor. They gave him a strange look, scrutinized his clothes, and asked, “Young man, are you filming a movie? We don’t have a film studio around here. Which production crew are you from?”
Lu Huan glanced at the two of them warily, then pursed his lips and remained silent.
But after following closely behind the two old men, he successfully reached the first floor and breathed a sigh of relief.
Next—
Lu Huan strode towards the entrance of the residential area.
As he walked, he attracted the attention of the aunties and grandmas coming and going in the neighborhood.
Two middle-aged women who loved watching TV dramas were utterly astonished. They exclaimed to each other, “Look! Isn’t that an actor? That costume he’s wearing? Is he playing a prince?! That costume is so realistic! These young actors are so handsome these days! I think he’s so dashing! Could he live here?!”
Lu Huan was anxious and ignored what he was hearing, running to the bus stop at the entrance of the residential area.
He carefully studied how to get on the vehicle, but he soon discovered a very troublesome problem: he didn’t have the currency of this world. He touched his pocket and found that he only had a few silver notes.
To keep things simple, he didn’t even have any money on him. And since the incident happened so suddenly, he hadn’t had time to prepare.
After hesitating for a moment, he boarded the bus with the people in front of him when it stopped, handed the banknote to the driver, and politely asked, “Can I use this to pay the difference?”
The entire carload of people stared at him in amazement, and an uproar erupted: “An actor?”
The driver glanced at the banknote handed to him, looking a bit bewildered. He wondered if there were any hidden cameras nearby. After scanning the area and finding no hidden cameras, he waved him off, saying, “Didn’t bring any money for filming? Trying to pay with props? What a ridiculous idea! Don’t hold me up while I’m driving.”
It seemed to be the local dialect. Lu Huan was a little confused and didn’t quite understand, but just to be on the safe side, he took a few steps back and got off the bus.
The bus sped away, and everyone on board turned around to look at him excitedly, some even taking out their phones to take pictures of him.
Lu Huan mentally assessed the route to the hospital, and then… started running.
….
While Su Xi was still queuing to get her results, she had no idea that the street outside the hospital was already in an uproar, with the news spreading all the way to the hospital entrance that a young actor dressed as a prince in a dragon robe was so handsome that he was outrageously handsome and was running a marathon on the street (just kidding…).
A crowd gathered on the road to take pictures, and some people cheered him on.
Suppressing his displeasure, Lu Huan rushed into the hospital.
Su Xi woke up from her drowsy state just as she heard the commotion and noise in the corridor. She heard a nurse calling her name, rubbed her face, and prepared to get up to get her results.
Although the nurse’s call was neither loud nor soft, it caused an uproar throughout the corridor, but Lu Huan still heard it.
The two characters were “Su Xi”.
Lu Huan paused for a second, then abruptly stopped his search. His heart pounded, he held his breath, and slowly looked in that direction.
He saw Su Xi walk through the crowd, yawn, and head towards the window.
It was her.
In an instant, Lu Huan’s heart was about to leap out of his throat. He couldn’t hear anything around him. Everything was silent. His blood rushed to his head, his eyes and brows turned red, and he was filled with ecstasy.
It felt like a dream, but Lu Huan knew clearly that it wasn’t.
He composed himself, pushed through the crowd, and strode toward Su Xi.
He walked faster and faster.
….
Su Xi took the report from the window, walked to the side, and glanced at it listlessly. She found that her white blood cell count was indeed slightly elevated, which must be due to the flu. No wonder she had been feeling weak and listless lately, even though she didn’t have a fever.
She decided to go to the clinic to get some medicine, and she should be fine after sleeping under the covers for a few days.
Thinking this, Su Xi heard a young woman behind her exclaim something, but she didn’t pay much attention and walked back with the report in her hand.
But suddenly she felt as if the crowd in front of her had dispersed considerably, and then her forehead was suddenly pressed against a chest.
Su Xi was about to apologize when the corner of her robe caught her eye. It was a bright gold-threaded robe with gold ornaments and red tassels at the waist. The black boots were also very familiar, and the lifelike dragon on the robe exuded an air of supreme nobility…
Su Xi’s breathing became more and more rapid: …
The boy above her had run over, his breathing slightly heavy. Su Xi caught a faint, pleasant, frosty scent emanating from him.
etc.
Su Xi felt her heart choke, and she abruptly raised her head in disbelief.
Then, a face with cold eyebrows, bright eyes, and fair skin came into view.
The person who appeared here made her wonder if she was dreaming.
The next second, Lu Huan embraced her in front of everyone, his eyes reddening, and whispered, “It’s me, I came to see you.”
“I don’t know why you didn’t come that day. I waited for fourteen days and couldn’t help but come to find you… I’m sorry… I shouldn’t have…”
Lu Huan wanted to say that he shouldn’t have made Su Xi feel embarrassed at the time, but after opening his mouth, he felt that this was not the time to say that.
….
Su Xi’s mind completely shut down, going completely blank.
A collective gasp rippled through the crowd.
Huo Jingchuan and Gu Qin were shocked to see a boy in theatrical costume suddenly appear and hug Su Xi tightly. They immediately stood up and ran over to try to pull him away: “Holy crap! Who are you?”
Lu Huan’s eyes reddened even more, as if he had finally found his beloved treasure and was unwilling to let go of it.
Su Xi immediately told her two friends, “Don’t pull!”
The stunned expression on her face slowly returned, quickly turning into excitement and ecstasy— was she dreaming? No, it didn’t seem like a dream. Good heavens, how could her baby be standing in front of her! Wasn’t her phone broken?! Even if it wasn’t broken, it was impossible…
Su Xi’s mind was buzzing, not processing things quickly enough, and about to crash, so she decided to stop thinking about it for now.
Seeing her two friends still trying to pull the baby away, almost tearing Lu Huan’s prince robe, she felt a pang of heartache. She hugged him back like a mother hen protecting her chicks and said to the stunned Gu Qin and Huo Jingchuan, “Don’t touch him!”
Gu Qin & Huo Jingchuan: …?
The author has something to say:
Lu Huan: I suspect I’m dreaming (Never mind, I’ll just cling to her and hug her tightly).
Su Xi: I also suspect I’m dreaming (Never mind, I’ll hug you for a while first)
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