White Fence Dream

Chapter 171 Thank you
No one is allowed to approach the highest point on the ship these days, and there are people guarding it openly and secretly.

Shangguan Yue returned to the ship, and before she went upstairs, a guard came up to her and whispered to her.

"Sir, there is movement in the room."

While speaking, the guard had a strange look on his face. He still remembered that on the night of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the young master suddenly came back from the palace banquet, entered the house holding a lotus root, and then ordered them to guard closely but not to get close.

Although I don't understand why the young master has to guard a lotus root so strictly, I have to obey his orders.

Everything was fine a few days ago, but just now, they suddenly heard some noise in the house.

It's impossible for anyone to get in. They really guarded the place strictly and never left for a moment.

What's in that room?
Because the young master ordered no one to get close or enter the house, there was no way to check. Fortunately, the young master came back.

"Is it a rat? It has been staying ashore for too long recently..." the guard guessed, but before he could finish his words, Shangguan Yue pushed him away and watched him walk up the stairs.

"Don't come near." Shangguan Yue did not forget to turn around and remind him, then ran up in two or three steps.

The people in the corridor retreated and there was silence.

Shangguan Yue looked at the door in front of her, took a deep breath, tiptoed over, and listened against the door.

It's quiet inside.

He could only hear his own heartbeat.

Are these guards hallucinating? He wondered, but just as the thought flashed through his mind, he heard a rustling sound by his ears. It was someone walking around in the room.

He straightened up in an instant.

The movement stopped again.

Just when Shangguan Yue suspected that she was hallucinating, she heard the sound of water, as if someone reached into the water...

“….Is this water for me to drink?”

A female voice came softly.

Hearing this, Shangguan Yue stretched out her hand to open the door and said hastily: "No, don't drink——"

As he opened the door, sunlight poured in, and the room, which had been dark with doors and windows closed and thick curtains drawn, suddenly became bright.

In the bright room, there was a person kneeling in front of a celadon basin. She was petite, with dark hair that reached the ground, and was wearing a thin shirt and dress.

The sudden brightness made her let out a low cry and raised her hands to cover her face.

Shangguan Yue came to her senses and slammed the door shut.

The light disappeared, the vision became dim, and the person I saw earlier seemed to have disappeared.

"Are you hurt?" he asked hastily.

A female voice said with a smile: "No, no, it's just that it was too bright all of a sudden."

It did not disappear. It was not an auditory hallucination or an illusion. Shangguan Yue's vision returned to normal and she saw the person sitting in front of the blue and white porcelain basin.

"You, you." He wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say for a moment.

Did she recognize him? And did he recognize her?
"I'm awake." She took over the conversation and bowed, "Thank you, Shangguan Yue."

Shangguan Yue, she recognized him. Shangguan Yue put her hand on her chest and exhaled: "I, I closed all the doors and windows. I don't know whether to avoid the light or water them. I haven't opened them in the past few days."

He stuttered and spoke incoherently, as if he had a lot to say, but in fact there was nothing to say.

Finally, he looked at the celadon basin beside her and thought of something.

"I can't drink this, but I can drink this. I originally wanted to..."

Wondering whether I should water the lotus roots.

After saying that, Shangguan Yue turned around again.

"I'll get you some tea."

As soon as I opened the door, a voice behind me said, "I'd like to trouble you to give me a bathtub and hot water, and lend me a set of clothes."

Shangguan Yue thought about the moment he saw her wearing a thin undergarment. Was it made from lotus root skin? He nodded as he was thinking about it: "Okay."

Soon, hot water in the bathtub, clothes, a fumigation cage, and a dressing table were delivered.

Shangguan Yue didn't let anyone get close to her. She put the things outside the door and moved them in one by one. Then she closed the door and listened to the sound of water coming from inside.

He leaned against the door quietly, feeling that he had a lot of thoughts but was at peace.

It seemed like a long time had passed, yet it didn't seem like long at all, when a sound was heard from inside the door.

"Master Shangguan, I'm done packing, please come in."

Shangguan Yue stood up, took a deep breath, put a smile on her face, and then opened the door.

The curtain hanging by the window in the room was pulled open, and the window was half opened. The cool winter wind blew away the heat in the room after the bath.

A woman in an apricot-yellow dress sat in front of the dressing table, smoked her hair, and looked at him with her head slightly tilted.

She has fair skin, a face like a full moon, and is pretty and bright.

Shangguan Yue looked at it in shock.

Then I saw her smile with her eyes and eyebrows curved.

"What? Don't you recognize me?" she asked.

Shangguan Yue had seen her true appearance in a dream, but when they met in daily life, he could not see her true appearance unless she deliberately showed it.

She also changed as she pleased in front of him.

but now……

She looked at the mirror beside her.

I don’t know if it’s because of the thought of dismantling Shen Qingzhi and peeling herself off over and over again, but what she is showing now is her true appearance. Just now, when I tried to recall the appearance of Zhuang Li, it never appeared again.

She looked at Shangguan Yue and sat up straight.

"Then let me reintroduce myself."

"I am Bai Li, the daughter of the criminal Bai Xun and the sister of the imperial concubine Bai Ying."

……

……

White fence.

Daughter of Bai Xun and sister of Bai Fei.

How could he not recognize her? She had pinched his face in a dream, saved his life when he was dying, and she possessed the body of the young wife of the Marquis of Dongyang to meet him.

He had never even seen clearly what the young wife of Marquis Dongyang looked like.

All he saw from beginning to end was Bai Li.

But before, whether it was in a dream, when I was near death, or under some strange spell, I always felt hazy, as if there was a veil between us.

At this moment, the sunlight was bright, and she was sitting in front of him, smiling, with a clear and lively expression.

It's not that he didn't recognize her, it's that he didn't dare to recognize her for a moment.

Looking at the woman's serious expression, Shangguan Yue couldn't help but laugh.

“I almost didn’t recognize it.” He said, “It looks better now than before.”

Bai Li smiled and raised his eyebrows: "Is it because you were a ghost before and are now a living person?"

Ghost, living person, Shangguan Yue's expression was a little complicated. Can a ghost possess a lotus root and become a living person?
So is she a lotus root or a human?

Although many things had seemed strange before, things had reached this point and were still beyond imagination.

Looking at Shangguan Yue's expression, Bai Li hurriedly said, "Okay, I won't lie to you anymore. I have always been a human."

Because of her, Shangguan Yue experienced too many strange things. A normal person could easily become distracted and unable to distinguish between reality and illusion.

We can't let him get confused anymore.

"You know, I'm a fugitive, so I pretended to be the young lady of the Marquis of Dongyang." Bai Li explained to him, "I also deliberately concealed my true appearance on a daily basis. After all, I look a lot like my sister, and Zhang Ze has been chasing me."

Shangguan Yue was surprised. It turned out that she was not a ghost. She was the Young Lady of Dongyang Marquis. Was it true?

"Then, does Prince Zhou know..." he asked blurt out.

Bai Li nodded: "He knows I am Bai Li."

When Zhou Jingyun was mentioned, Bai Li's eyebrows darkened. He wondered how he was doing now...

This time it's all thanks to him.

If it weren't for him, she would be sleeping like a dead person and would be buried.

However, that's not necessarily the case. Bai Li pursed his lips, his mouth corners curved. Even if she was in deep sleep, he would not bury her, would not believe that she was dead, would find a way to save her...
Shangguan Yue saw a smile on her face, but her eyes were a little disappointed, and couldn't help asking: "What about this time..."

What happened this time?

The young lady of the Dongyang Marquis's mansion died, and Zhou Jingyun buried his wife. Who was buried there? Was it lotus root?

Shangguan Yue looked at the woman in front of her.

What he picked up at that time was indeed a person. It turned out that at that time, lotus root was replaced by her.

That's right, that's normal.

That’s not right. That’s not normal either. Why didn’t others notice it?

"Well, although I'm not a ghost," Bai Li explained again, "I do have some tricks. I can make people dream without them realizing it. You know, dreams are bizarre and anything can happen. When you're dreaming, no matter how strange the things are, you won't find them strange."

Dreaming? He almost never dreamed. However, Bai Li had said before that she would come to see him in her dreams. His dreams were helpful to her, and she had always told him about her dreams.

It turns out that dreams can be concealed from the world in her hands, Shangguan Yue nodded.

Bai Li continued to explain.

"I have to solve two things this time. One is my own trouble. I won't mention it for now. It can't be explained in a few words. The other is that Zhang Ze is about to find out my identity. Therefore, I can't stay in Dongyang Marquis Mansion any longer."

Shangguan Yue said "oh" and thought of something: "Mr. Ding'an!"

Zhang Ze is investigating Ding'an Bo, so in fact, anything that happens to Ding'an Bo will implicate Bai Li.

Bai Li smiled and nodded: "Yes, you told me this, it really helped a lot."

Shangguan Yue smiled: "I just said one sentence." Then he said thoughtfully, "So Prince Zhou pretended to die with you to let you get away with it, and also let the Dongyang Marquis' Mansion get away with it."

Moreover, it can be held at a banquet in the imperial palace, in full view of everyone, with the emperor himself as witness.

Shangguan Yue thought of the strange dream at the palace banquet. He couldn't fall asleep these days. He would wake up as soon as he fell asleep. He always wanted to see if there were two moons in the sky, and whether the fruits in the room would suddenly turn into people...
"You are so awesome." He looked at Bai Li seriously and said.

He was not afraid of her, but thought she was powerful. Bai Li smiled again, then shook his head and said, "Not that powerful."

I almost failed and I really couldn't wake up.

Thanks to Zhou Jingyun.

She had originally told him to stay where the emperor was for safety reasons, but when the unexpected millet beads trapped her, Zhou Jingyun unexpectedly showed up.

And without telling him how to solve the problem, he threw her downstairs.

When the body loses support, the person who is deep in dream will be startled and wake up. This is human instinct and will not trigger the action.

She woke up smoothly, and the pearl and the dream disappeared.

When Bai Li thought about the moment he opened his eyes and saw Zhou Jingyun, he felt indescribable feelings in his heart: surprise, grievance, and gratitude.

She also saw his anxious worry, and his surprise to see her wake up, and he smiled.

Unfortunately, she didn't have time to smile at him, nor could she say another word to him, so she just let him let go.

These were the last words she left for him, and then she would weave a dream for him in which he killed his wife with his own hands.

With the help of Shen Qing, the Emperor Bell fell to the ground and lost its effect. The Three Purities Bell was also thrown down by Bai Ying in panic. The millet beads retreated. She was finally free from all constraints. With the help of the lotus root, the moment she said she would let go, she weaved a big dream that enveloped the entire imperial city.

The lotus root fell in her place in the dream.

Under the cover of dreams, she walked down the Jie Lin Building, found the lotus root, and exchanged the lotus root with herself.

Although it was a dream she had woven, when she believed that she had turned into a lotus root, she also lost consciousness and could not see what was happening, nor could she control the direction of the dream.

It all depends on the firm belief of the people involved.

If one person had hesitated at that time, the dream might have collapsed.

Now it seems to be going smoothly. She left the imperial city and woke up as expected.

At this point, the plan I made after waking up from the bathtub that morning was finally completed without any major problems.

But now I don’t have the chance to thank Zhou Jingyun.

Bai Li sighed in his heart and bowed solemnly to Shangguan Yue.

"Thank you for bringing me out here," she said, looking at him. "I will repay you."

A new chapter is underway.