L'hibiscus comme peinture

Chapitre 131

Both of them looked at Jinxuan with guilty expressions. Sure enough, Jinxuan's already confused face turned even more puzzled as he looked at Aoxue, his brows furrowing as he pondered: Why couldn't he understand what Junjun and Yuqing were saying? What language was that? He'd never heard of it before. An eighteen-year-old Empress Dowager? In Longxuan's history, this was unprecedented. Could it be that Junjun really wasn't from the Longxuan Dynasty? But what about Yuqing? Yuqing was Prime Minister Xiao's only daughter. Why was she referred to as a member of the Ling family? Jun always called Yuqing Xue. What was going on?

"Ahem... Don't shift the blame to me, we're talking about you." Ao Jun quickly steered the conversation back on track. But with Jin Xuan's intelligence, he's probably already suspicious!

"Ugh! Putting on this queen-like act all day is exhausting! I really don't want to do it anymore, I quit..." Ao Xue dramatically climbed onto Ao Jun, wailing like a banshee. Seriously, she's such a chatterbox! Hopefully, this will distract Jin Xuan.

Whether those words would distract Jinxuan was uncertain, but they certainly made him furious.

"You really don't want to do it, Qing'er..." Just as Ao Xue was having a great time acting, a voice clenched its teeth and said.

"Ah!" Ao Xue turned around abruptly as if she had been electrocuted. Zheng Xuan walked in with a dark face, his eyes burning with what looked like two flames, which was quite terrifying.

Ao Xue fearfully moved behind Ao Jun, repeatedly trying to wink at him: Help me!

Upon receiving Aoxue's signal, Aojun very "loyally" pulled Aoxue out from behind her, and then pushed her towards Zhengxuan, giving him a look: You made this mess, deal with it yourself.

"Hehe... Little... Little Xuanzi, you're here." Aoxue moved to Zhengxuan's side with a fawning expression, her heart burning with anger at Aojun: Damn Ling Aojun, disloyal, heartless, she's got me killed this time.

"I just clearly heard someone say it's irrelevant. Is it really irrelevant? Hmm..." Zhengxuan grabbed Aoxue's waist and said with an evil smile. With a forceful movement, their faces were only a few centimeters apart, and his breath was all on Aoxue's face.

Ao Xue glanced at the two people who were secretly laughing, her face flushed, and she stammered, "No, no, it's none of my business, just my imagination... Xiao Xuanzi, you must have been imagining things just now. I absolutely did not say I didn't want to be the Empress, ah! No, no..." Ao Xue really wanted to bite her tongue. Wasn't this just admitting guilt? What was wrong with her today? She was usually so clever, but today she kept saying the wrong thing. Had she offended some deity? She really should have checked the almanac before going out.

Ao Xue's disheveled appearance made Ao Jun burst into uncontrollable laughter, laughing so hard he almost rolled on the ground. Clutching his stomach with one hand and pointing at Ao Xue with the other, he laughed rudely, saying, "Haha... Xue, you've finally met your match! Hahaha... Looks like your brother-in-law really is your nemesis! Haha... Cough cough..." He laughed so hard he caught a sore throat and coughed incessantly, his face turning bright red, a stark reminder to the world: never gloat over someone's misfortune.

"Jun, are you alright?" Jin Xuan anxiously supported Ao Jun, gently patting her back, and asked in a trembling voice. Every cough tore at his heart.

“Jun…” Ao Xue’s expression also changed. She opened Zheng Xuan’s eyes, ran to Ao Jun’s side, and asked anxiously.

"No... Phew, it's nothing, don't make a fuss, I just choked!" With Jin Xuan's gentle touch, Ao Jun quickly recovered. Seeing the serious expressions on Jin Xuan and the others' faces, she gave a slight smile. But a bitter feeling welled up inside her: she felt like a terminally ill patient, every little movement causing Jin Xuan and the others to panic. Heh... what difference was there between her and a terminally ill patient now?

"It's all Xiao Xuan's fault. He knew they were joking, but he took it seriously. He's so petty, like an old woman." Ao Xue glared at Zheng Xuan and scolded him, putting all the blame on him.

The fleeting bitterness in your eyes pierced their hearts deeply.

"Do I look like an old woman?" Zhengxuan pointed to his own nose, his anger flaring up again. He narrowed his eyes, a dangerous glint in them.

“A real man shouldn’t be so petty, especially since you’re the ruler of a country.” Ao Xue rolled her eyes at Zheng Xuan and continued to push him to his limits.

"You..." Zhengxuan pointed at Aoxue angrily, but didn't know what to say.

"Alright, Xue, you don't need to upset your brother-in-law anymore. Although the bnothen-in-law like toeataot-helledtuntle, uenycute..." Ao Jun timely came to Zheng Xuan's rescue, but she cleverly said the words that Zheng Xuan couldn't hear in English.

"Hehe...that's it!" Ao Xue smiled and nodded in reply. That's one of the advantages of time travel—speaking English, nobody understands.

"Your Majesty, you speak the language of the Vast Kingdom?" Zheng Xuan asked Ao Jun with slight surprise. Although he didn't know what they were saying, it sounded very much like the language of the Vast Kingdom. He had heard them speak it when the Vast Kingdom sent envoys to the Longxuan Dynasty last time, and luckily Yu Qing was there and could understand their language, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable.

"The Vast Kingdom?" Ao Jun frowned slightly, puzzled. What kind of country is that? When did English become the language of the Vast Kingdom? Would her brother-in-law understand it?

"You don't know?" Zheng Xuan couldn't help but wonder. How could Jun, who could speak the language of the Vast Kingdom, not even know about the Vast Kingdom?

Ao Xue was about to remind Ao Jun, but Ao Jun was faster. As soon as Zheng Xuan finished speaking, Ao Jun shook his head and said directly, "I don't know." Then he looked at Ao Xue strangely and made faces at her.

"Qing'er, are you and Jun hiding something from us?" Zheng Xuan frowned, and seeing Ao Xue winking at him, his doubts deepened. He asked Ao Xue earnestly. He had always felt that Qing'er was hiding something from him, especially after Jun's appearance. This feeling had intensified: Jun's background was too mysterious; his origins were impossible to trace. Her behavior was too similar to Qing'er's, almost as if they had grown up together. But Qing'er was Prime Minister Xiao's daughter and had never left the capital, while Jun had never been to the capital before. How did they meet?

"Uh? That... this..." Ao Xue lowered her head, stammering, her eyes darting around. How should she put it? Although she had wanted to tell Xiao Xuanzi the truth for a long time, she didn't know if it would scare them to death, since it was too unbelievable for them.

“Jun, I don’t know what you and Yuqing are hiding from us, but if you don’t want to tell us, I won’t force you. Come, you must be tired after standing for so long, sit down first!” Jin Xuan gently stroked the two strands of white hair on Ao Jun’s forehead, helping her to sit down as he spoke softly. Although he really wanted to know, he wanted to know every little detail about Jun’s childhood that he hadn’t been involved in, he wanted to know everything about Jun. Jun was too mysterious, and he felt that she was too ethereal, but since Jun didn’t want to talk about it, he wouldn’t force her.

"Jinxuan, actually I'm not from the Longxuan Dynasty, no, you could say I'm not from this continent." Ao Jun sat down, pulling Jinxuan to sit beside her. Her magnetic eyes gazed deeply into Jinxuan's deep, gentle eyes as she smiled faintly. Since Jinxuan was the one she had chosen, he had the right to know the real her.

"Not from this continent?" Jin Xuan frowned slightly, muttering as if he didn't understand the question.

Zhengxuan looked at Jun with a puzzled expression, pondering the meaning of those words.

Ao Jun and Ao Xue exchanged a glance. Seeing Ao Xue nod with a smile, Ao Jun smiled back and said with a faint smile, "I come from 21st-century China, which is not in the same time and space as this continent. I came here by chance, and Xue is the same as me."

"Qing'er is just like you. Qing'er is Prime Minister Xiao's daughter, how could that be?" Zheng Xuan looked at Ao Xue in shock and asked in confusion. Just like her? Then Qing'er isn't a member of the Longxuan Dynasty anymore? But how could that be?

"Because I am not the real Xiao Yuqing. My original name is Ling Aoxue, and I am Jun's cousin." Ao Jun's words were startling and she didn't stop there.

Unsurprisingly, Zhengxuan was stunned by those words and after a long while, he finally found his voice and said, "You're not Qing'er?"

“No, I am your Qing’er, but I am not Xiao Yuqing. Back when Xiao Yuqing was just a Zhaorong, we switched identities. From then on, I was Xiao Yuqing, and Xiao Yuqing was Ling Aoxue.” Ling Aoxue gently took Zhengxuan’s hand and said with a smile.

"No wonder you are so different from the Xiao Yuqing I know. So that's why..." Zheng Xuan stared at Ao Xue quietly for a long time, his solemn expression slowly turning into a smile. He grasped Ao Xue's hand in return, realizing the truth. Qing'er really wasn't the real Xiao Yuqing after all, but what did it matter? Just as she said, although she wasn't Xiao Yuqing, she was his Qing'er, the one he loved and the one he would marry.

"Time travel? 21st-century China?" After a moment of silence, Jin Xuan still couldn't understand Ao Jun and Ao Xue's words, looking at Ao Jun with a bewildered expression. Was Jun from a different time and space in China? Was Yu Qing not Yu Qing, but Ling Ao Xue, Jun's cousin? Such an unbelievable thing was truly beyond his comprehension.

“Well, perhaps you could say we’re from the future. In the 21st century, I was just a college freshman. Because of my mother—oh, my mother’s connection—my colleague was also the leader of the Xuanlong Society. On my way home, I was ambushed and killed by my mother’s enemy… That’s how I ended up here. I thought I’d never see Xue again in this life, but unexpectedly, I ended up in the Longxuan Dynasty.” Ao Jun thought for a moment and explained in a way that would be easier for them to understand. But it was inherently difficult to understand, and even if she explained it clearly, Jin Xuan and Zheng Xuan still looked at them blankly.

"Oh dear, they won't understand if you say it like that. Let me explain! Cough cough... So, I, Ling Aoxue, am the little princess of the Ling Clan Empire, the sole heir. Back then, I was just a high school student, but I was a popular figure throughout the school. One day, after refusing a bunch of 'bees'..." Aoxue rolled her eyes at Aojun, coughed lightly, and began to recount her time-travel story. From the moment she started, the Ouyang brothers stared at them with their mouths agape, dumbfounded as if they were looking at aliens. At this rate, she probably wouldn't even get to Aojun's time-travel story by tomorrow.

"airplane?"

"It's a flying vehicle. It takes only a few hours to get back to Beijing from here."

...

What is television?

"Television is..."

"Electric light?"

"kindness……"

"A car? What's the difference between it and a horse-drawn carriage?"

"..."