Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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The college entrance examination venue was on their own campus. The teaching building was cordoned off with yellow lines. There was still half an hour before the first exam started, and all the students in the class were waiting outside the yellow lines.
Because they had to arrive at the exam room 15 minutes early, time was very tight. The homeroom teacher had already asked Huo Jingchuan to call Su Xi and ask why she and Lu Huan hadn’t arrived yet.
When Lu Huan rushed into the apartment from Daming Palace, there were only twenty-seven minutes left.
Su Xi had already prepared exam document bags for the two of them, and while keeping track of the time, she waited anxiously for him in the apartment.
“Xiao Xi, sorry to keep you waiting.” As soon as Lu Huan came over, Su Xi quickly grabbed him and ran towards the door: “Ahhh, we’ll miss the exam if we wait!”
After running downstairs, Lu Huan suddenly picked up Su Xi and carried her on his back, moving faster than Su Xi could run.
He carried Su Xi on his back and hurried towards the school. Because of the urgency, he didn’t even have time to change his robes. Along the way, his bright yellow dragon robe made him the most dazzling sight in the entire school. Wherever he went, teachers and students from every class would gasp in astonishment. Su Xi buried her face in his back, her mind in turmoil. She couldn’t help but cover her face completely, pretending that she was just a prop.
Fortunately, when she arrived at her class, there were still 23 minutes before the exam started, which was plenty of time, and Su Xi breathed a sigh of relief.
The homeroom teacher, who was earnestly advising the class to carefully check their work after finishing, was caught off guard when his gaze fell on Lu Huan. He almost choked on his breath and glared at him angrily: “Lu! It’s the college entrance exam, and you’re still doing cosplay?! How come this smart and handsome young man can’t get rid of this habit?!”
Lu Huan: “…”
Su Xi: “…”
Su Xi clutched the file bag, laughing until her stomach hurt. Lu Huan turned around and looked at her helplessly.
Fortunately, although the college entrance examination had strict clothing checks, it only prohibited the use of cheat sheets. The invigilators did not have the authority to control what people wore. So, on the morning of that day, when Lu Huan took the Chinese exam, he brazenly went in wearing a dragon robe to take the exam.
Su Xi and Huo Jingchuan were not in the same examination room as him, so they didn’t experience what it felt like for the entire examination room to stare at Lu Huan during the exam.
However, after finishing this exam, the group of them went to the cafeteria together for a meal, once again becoming the most eye-catching sight on campus.
Because of his fair and delicate features, he had been stared at since childhood. In addition, after spending a whole year with Lu Huan, his face always amazed people wherever he went. Therefore, Su Xi had long been used to such small scenes.
However, Huo Jingchuan and Gu Qin were very uncomfortable with this, wishing they could stick a note on their faces to show that they did not recognize this person in the dragon robe.
It’s one thing to wear a dragon robe to school, but the real problem is that their faces make everyone around them look like imperial concubines, eunuchs, and maids, which is really annoying.
Fortunately, after finishing the first exam, Su Xi and Lu Huan were able to go back to their apartment to change out of their robes and into short-sleeved shirts.
The scorching summer heat was unbearable. Lu Huan took off his robe and took a shower, while Su Xi, barefoot on the cool floor, went to the refrigerator to get an ice cream. The icy, refreshing sensation lingered on her lips and teeth, finally dispelling the summer heat.
Lu Huan came out drying his hair and sat down behind her. Su Xi handed him a bite, and Lu Huan asked, “Is this strawberry flavored?”
Su Xi nodded and said in a boastful tone, “I don’t think the Yan Kingdom has this.”
“No, not at all.” Lu Huan smiled and leaned closer, taking another bite from her hand, and mumbled, “But we do have those popsicles.”
He said, “Xiao Xi, don’t look down on our Yan Kingdom. Yan Kingdom also has many fun and delicious things. After we complete the 300-point task, I will take you there to play.”
Su Xi immediately calculated in her mind the tasks Lu Huan still needed to complete. Ascension to the throne was the twentieth task issued by the system, and also rated as the most difficult. The reward points were thirty. When Lu Huan stepped onto the Golden Palace yesterday, it showed that this task was already completed, but now, the total points were only 263. To reach three hundred points, he still needed to complete the tax collection task with the longest time span and the task of establishing schools to enlighten the people.
These two tasks were not particularly difficult, but they were a long process of changing the Yan Kingdom, like water dripping on a stone, which could not be accomplished in a day.
“How long do you think it will take to complete these two measures?” Su Xi asked.
Lu Huan dried his hair, pondered for a moment, and said, “Yan is not a wealthy country at this time. It will take at least three years to complete these two tasks.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Xi immediately thought to herself that in three years, she would be exactly twenty years old. If she could get married by then, she could go to Yan State for a trip, which would be a unique honeymoon that no one else in the world could do. But then she thought, no, Lu Huan’s household registration book did not show that he was twenty-two years old yet.
Su Xi was immediately surprised that she had such an urgent thought in her mind, and that Lu Huan had actually thought of the same thing as her. He looked away, his fingers fidgeting with the towel, his handsome face inexplicably flushed: “I heard that you have a saying here, it seems that after newlyweds get their marriage certificate, they go to a place to travel…”
Before Lu Huan could speak, Su Xi immediately jumped up: “Focus on preparing for your exam this afternoon, and stop thinking about other things!”
Her face flushed slightly, and she thought to herself, “Who promised to marry you? Why are they saying that so early?”
But the boy had a clear and bright look in his eyes. He sat there cross-legged, looking up at her with a good temper, and she was shamefully moved for the 101st time.
Other students taking the college entrance exam were suffering under the scorching sun, but fortunately, they had an apartment across from the school, and the round trip only took a few minutes.
At noon, Su Xi lay on the bed, while Lu Huan rested on the sofa for a while.
Just before the afternoon exam was about to start, Lu Huan went in and woke up the drowsy Su Xi. He took a towel soaked in ice water and placed it on Su Xi’s eyelids to cool her down a bit. Then he massaged Su Xi’s temples, and Su Xi finally woke up completely.
Thus, the two-and-a-half-day college entrance examination finally came to a complete end.
After the college entrance exam, all the students celebrated wildly in the classroom, throwing textbooks around, and some even said their reluctant goodbyes. Su Xi and Lu Huan also went to the classroom to pack up their things and say goodbye to some classmates.
Su Xi had initially thought that on the last day of her senior year, she would be particularly sad because of the separation, but to her surprise, when the day actually arrived, her mindset was full of positivity. Perhaps it was because she had Lu Huan by her side throughout the most difficult year of her senior year, and now she and Lu Huan had plenty of time to savor each other. With her favorite person always by her side, she felt reassured and didn’t find the separation from others as painful as it had been.
With Lu Huan around, Su Xi didn’t need to pack anything; she could just go back to the apartment with him empty-handed.
Many classmates also came to say goodbye to Lu Huan. After a year of studying together, Lu Huan could remember their names and a smile appeared on his lips as he spoke to them.
Lu Huan placed some textbooks in the living room and asked Su Xi, “Xiao Xi, what should we do with these?”
Su Xi was sweltering in the heat, so she went to the kitchen and grabbed two more ice creams, handing one to Lu Huan: “I reckon the next year’s students will be asking us for our notes in a few days. Keep them; they won’t fetch much money selling, so it’s better to give them to the younger students. By the way, do you have any plans for our upcoming trip?”
The results hadn’t come out yet, but the college entrance exam was over, and it was vacation time. It would be a shame not to go out and have some fun, especially since there were many modern cities that Lu Huan hadn’t been to.
“The Yan Kingdom is in dire need of reconstruction and there are many things that need to be dealt with. I’m afraid I won’t be able to get away for the next half month. After that, we’ll go on a trip together.” Lu Huan said, “Don’t go with Brother Huo and the others yet. Stay with me for half a month.”
Su Xi asked, amused, “Are you begging me? What are you going to offer as a bribe?”
Lu Huan walked to her side and suddenly picked her up. This wasn’t the first time Su Xi had felt Lu Huan’s strength, but she always gasped in surprise whenever he easily carried her on his back or in his arms. He supported her waist with both hands and let her sit on his arms.
The boy, with eyes like stars, looked up at her and said, “How about I hold you all day as a reward?”
“No way, isn’t that taking advantage of me?!” Su Xi almost dropped the ice cream in her hand, extremely dissatisfied.
“Three years from now, you will become empress, and you will be the only empress in the Yan Kingdom,” Lu Huan said softly, as if making a request full of expectation.
Su Xi looked down at him. Over the past year, he had matured a bit more, his face handsome, with a feeling that was somewhere between youthful exuberance and mature masculinity. Su Xi felt his body temperature, and her heart was actually overjoyed, but she kept her expression unchanged and smiled at him: “No.”
Lu Huan was clearly surprised by her refusal and became a little anxious, tightening his grip on her waist. Just as he was about to ask why, he suddenly heard Su Xi say, “Unless you propose then. Haven’t you heard that we have a custom of proposing in addition to the honeymoon here?”
Lu Huan was momentarily overwhelmed by happiness, and after a moment of dizziness, he couldn’t control the increasingly upturned corners of his mouth: “Of course, of course.”
Like a young boy who had just received his most beloved treasure and was at a loss for what to do, he stared blankly at Su Xi and repeated “naturally” several times.
The author has something to say:
Su Xi: Yan Kingdom has no ice cream, no washing machine, no refrigerator… nothing at all. I don’t want to go there.
Lu Huan: … (Poor thing, squatting in the corner.jpg)
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