Imperial Treasure

Chapter 1394 - 805: Who Says I’m Interested in Zhang Wuji

Ten minutes later.

In the large living room of the courtyard, seated on the sofa, standing by the floor-to-ceiling window.

Gong Jiu, Flower Demon, Lin Ling, Su Zimu, Yhan Qingwu, Ye Changan, Pu Qinghan, and so on.

The number of people wasn’t extremely large, but they were all women.

The room was full of beauty, fragrant and pleasant, not exactly draped in jewels, but it felt like... a dinner party, walking down the Oscar red carpet?

Sui Yi was momentarily stunned.

Wang Qing was also taken aback upon entering, and then quirkily glanced at Sui Yi.

This glance made Gong Jiu and Flower Demon exchange looks in a split second.

Also catching the drifting gaze from Lin Yun and the indifferent demeanor of Su Zimu.

She’s here!

The legendary beauty that Sui Yi brought back.

Indeed, exquisitely beautiful.

Among the glances exchanged by the women, they all sensed a slight... well... atmosphere.

Tension?

The calm before the storm?

The chill of being overshadowed by beauty?

"Sui Yi?"

Ye Xiuling was the elder, the only one not caught in the instinctual competitive beauty contest among the women, she stepped forward and gave Sui Yi a light hug.

Ah, the atmosphere finally felt somewhat normal, sinking into the joy of a long-awaited reunion.

But a minute later, Aunt Ye Xiuling helplessly looked at the people exchanging glances.

Wang Qing sat down on a chair, receiving a glass of warm water.

Opposite, Gong Jiu and others were also sipping various drinks..

Gong Jiu was drinking yogurt, Flower Demon was drinking red wine too.

Standard configuration!

So what’s next?

Sui Yi first introduced the names of Gong Jiu and others to Wang Qing.

Then before Sui Yi could introduce Wang Qing, Flower Demon, the woman most skilled in diplomacy, charmingly flicked her hair, "One glance and you can tell this girl is extraordinary, truly beautiful... so you’ve been living in the Foreign Lands with Sui Yi all these years, um, I mean... your hometown, alternate universe?"

Wang Qing sharply noticed the traps in several sentences of this exchange.

Living together? Living alone?

"I met her by chance, and as for where we met, it wasn’t my hometown."

Uh, this woman’s aura is something else.

Feels even harder to handle than Dongfang Bubai, at least Dongfang’s dissolute nature can chat with you, but this person...

"Oh, so you two really are fated, was the journey back smooth?"

"We didn’t walk, we were swept over by the chaotic currents of time."

"Oh~~ that’s really cool~~ what do you like to eat?"

Damn, this conversation can’t continue, but why does it feel challenging, making her itch to try?

Yhan Qingwu and others couldn’t stand it anymore.

It felt like if this drags on, Flower Demon might even pry into the other’s measurements.

Yhan Qingwu wasn’t as targeted as Gong Jiu’s duo, insisting on probing this exotic beauty.

They were more interested in what Sui Yi had gone through.

Though they didn’t get to ask yet.

Gong Jiu twisted Flower Demon’s thigh at a thirty-degree angle, and as Flower Demon winced and quickly tried to mask it by drinking wine, the heroic and beautiful Gong the Rich Magnate, her eyes electric, asked somewhat deeply, "So miss, your name is..."

Direct enough, forceful enough!

Su Zimu and others used the drinks in their hands to simulate their current actions..

And then...

Sui Yi: "Wang Qing"

Wang Qing: "Zhou Zhiruo"

Whoosh!

Gong Jiu and Flower Demon simultaneously spat out yogurt and red wine!

The yogurt and red wine met midair, mixed, heading toward Wang Qing’s indifferent, cold face...

Wang Qing cast a glance.

Swish,

The yogurt and red wine returned, falling back into their respective cups.

The room fell silent.

Sui Yi turned her head, smiling.

Just about to explain the peculiarity of the time space she experienced.

Flower Demon elegantly wiped her mouth, smiling slightly, "Zhou Zhiruo? That’s a really nice name, sounds familiar."

Gong Jiu: "It is nice, there’s also one called that in Smile Proud Jianghu..."

Flower Demon: "It’s from The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber"

Gong Jiu: "Right right, it’s from Heaven there, where there’s also a beauty Zhou Zhiruo who fell in love with Zhang Wuji, I think your parents must be fans of Gao Yuanyuan~~"

Quite a few people present also laughed.

These beauty’s parents indeed are amusing.

Zhou Zhiruo?

Hehe.

"The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber?" Wang Qing frowned, her expression aloof.

Modulated yet ethereal and haunting.

"Besides, who said I fell in love with Zhang Wuji?"

Others had actually sensed something odd, it’s me, not Zhou Zhiruo?

Is it dark humor, or....

Su Zimu instinctively looked at Sui Yi.

Only to see her brow tightly knit.

Gong Jiu alone continued in her own curve of reasoning: "If Zhou Zhiruo doesn’t love Zhang Wuji, then does she love Zhao Min?"

Wang Qing didn’t speak, just took a sip of water.

"Hmm"

Hmm!

She said hmm! (I won’t tell you every time I saw Gao Yuanyuan and Jia Jingwen together with a baby in their arms, my mind soared to the skies!)

The room became quiet, silent, deathly still.

Sui Yi instinctively clasped her hands together, touching her palms.

Sighing inwardly.

Gong Jiu tugged at the corners of her mouth to smile, head tilted mechanically looking at Sui Yi.

"Hey, Sui Yi..."

"The time space I went to..."

Sui Yi briefly explained the peculiarity of that time space, leaving everyone in various states of uppercase shock and awkwardness.

Gong Jiu had already played dead.

Wang Qing sat there, as quietly as ever, but there was an indescribable silence about her.

This kind of silence had a flavor, a flavor called bitterness.

The silence was eventually broken by Ye Xiuling in the kitchen.

"Dinner’s ready!"

"Sui Yi, what would you like to eat?"

Among those present, very few knew how to cook.

Su Zimu was an exception, and although Lin Ling was from a village, she studied abroad from a young age and was later swept away by Sui Yi into the corporate world, so now she didn’t even know how to hold a knife. As for Yhan Qingwu, she knew a little, but only small dishes, nothing big.

So it was Su Zimu who got up to help.

At that moment, the doorbell rang.

As the door opened.

Yue Beiqing, Ming Lanyuan, and the siblings Cao Yu and Cao Ling stood outside, each carrying gifts.

Obviously, Sui Yi’s return wasn’t a secret to these four.

Flower Demon turned her head and said, "Four people have come to mooch a meal, hmmph, and one of them is a man."

Cao Yu: You must really hate men.

Cao Ling and Flower Demon, along with Gong Jiu, never got along: "Speaking as if you two kitchen assassins made all the food, and also, where’s the food? The table is empty."

Gong Jiu: "Coming to mooch a meal when the food isn’t even cooked yet, shameless."

Cao Ling didn’t even bother to greet Sui Yi, immediately starting a fight with Gong Jiu.

Meanwhile, Cao Yu, maintaining a good gentlemanly demeanor, brought the gifts inside and mentioned he had something to attend to and would leave for now...

Because with so many women in this house, it wouldn’t be proper for him to join in from a gentleman’s standpoint.

Besides, Ming Lanyuan was here.

Well then, so many people.

Could Su Zimu and Ye Xiuling possibly handle it all?

Now comes the question, who else can cook?

Gong Jiu: "I can cook instant noodles in all sorts of ways: boil, fry, steam, braise, roast...."

Impressive!

Flower Demon: "I just like eating sashimi... do you guys want some?"

Ming Lanyuan smiled, "You really wouldn’t want a forensic doctor to cook."

Yue Beiqing: "I’m just here to mooch a meal."

Cao Ling: "I could video call my family chef, he could guide me..."

PASS~

Sui Yi was just about to stand up.

Wang Qing had already stood up.

"Hey, you..."

Wang Qing glanced back at Sui Yi, "I can only make vegetarian dishes."

In fact, Yhan Qingwu, Su Zimu, and Ye Xiuling always preferred vegetarian food.

Yhan Qingwu: "If Miss Zhou is willing, at least I’ll be a big fan of it.."

In the kitchen, Su Zimu peered out, smiling, "Count me in, too."

From Su Zimu and Yhan Qingwu’s genuine smiles, Zhou Zhiruo’s eyebrows twitched slightly.

In the world she used to know, she seldom encountered anything pleasant.

Her fellow sisters either envied her talent and favor or were overly reverent; she never truly had a friend.

So she never quite understood why so many in this room got along well with Sui Yi from the start...

However, this also proves on the other hand, she indeed wasn’t a good person.

Thus, Wang Qing restrained her emotions and walked into the kitchen.

Ming Lanyuan watched her back and smiled at Sui Yi: "Enhancing the basic national aesthetics really depends on you..

Just one person?"

Sui Yi: "...."

She is not a human trafficker.

Shi Feixuan, Wanwan, Yan Jingan, Dongfang Bubai, Snow Qianxun, and others.

She really didn’t bring them.

The fusion of ancient and modern, East and West, meat and vegetables, this meal was bound to be delightful.

What’s more, it was a joyful reunion after a long time apart.

A lively, joyful gathering ensued.

After the food and wine, Gong Jiu and the others indulged in their own home’s karaoke dance hall...

Sui Yi leaned against the door, watching the chaos inside dance and sing...

Then turned her head to look at Zhou Zhiruo, who was sitting opposite.

"They said your vegetarian dishes were delicious."

"Hmm?... It’s nothing."

"Actually, you don’t have to use your real name, that might make you more comfortable."

"I’m not uncomfortable; I’m fond of her, so there’s really no need to hide it."

Zhou Zhiruo pressed her lips together and turned to look at the night outside.

"This matter, the only one who can’t be told is just her."

To be fond of someone is something that can be spoken to everyone under the heavens, but not to her.

Sui Yi didn’t say much.

Besides Zhou Zhiruo’s emotions subsided very quickly; perhaps it was the tempering of time, except for Zhao Min, no one really made her uneasy.

"What does The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber mean?"

"Do you want a slightly more bookish explanation or a straightforward one?"

There’s a distinction?

"Straightforward."

Sui Yi went straight in; after a while she came back out with a laptop.

With a few quick taps, she brought up a TV series.

Then clicked it open.

The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber!

It’s here!

Zhou Zhiruo watched the screen intently....

She was always calm, and this TV series was pretty well made; along with the novelty, she could watch it.

Moreover, she heard Sui Yi mention that this computer is an essential modern tool, so watching is good.

Midway, Sui Yi received a phone call and went aside...

After a while.

She suddenly heard some... rather off sounds.

"Yamete..."

And the person on the other side of the phone also fell silent.

What on earth?

Just then, the singing in the dance hall stopped, and Gong Jiu just pushed the door open and came out...

At that moment, Sui Yi saw an unspeakable scene on the screen.