TFDC Chapter 26.1

Chapter 26.1 - His probing


Sponsored translation courtesy of Sambau T + one more to come in a few four more hours because I'm still a bit sleepy and have some work to finish off first.  



Lou Lianxin jumped as she hurriedly turned her head around like a shocked rat, and fled away.


Behind her, Xiahhou Liuyun couldn’t help but break into guffaws as he watched her, “Hahaha, second brother, I can’t. Did you see her, I’m going to die of laughter! It’s obvious that she hates us to death but because she’s wary of our status, she can only suck in her anger. Her face was already choked up like a palette, hahaha!


Right now, she’s definitely yelling at us inside, thinking that we’re helping Lou Qingwu because we think she’s pretty. She definitely thinks that her legitimate sister used her face to seduce her … but even with a hundred other reasons, she’d never think that she herself is the reason! Hahaha!”


Could he be any more truthful?


Lou Qingwu silently looked at them, making herself invisible to them.


Xiahou Rui coldly looked at him but didn’t say anything, his dark eyes wandered and fell upon Lou Qingwu before deepening and bring about a hint of probing.


His obsidian like eyes were made even shiny by the glass lights reflected on the Vermillion Bird gate.


Xiahou Liuyun held onto Xiahou Rui’s shoulder for support as he nearly fell down laughing.


But because the other two people didn’t pay him any mind, he found it dull but didn’t mind.


He rubbed his nose and happily moved towards Lou Qingwu’s side.


His peach blossom eyes blinked bewitchingly, as he roguishly laughed, naturally charming, “Hey, this prince helped you, how do you plan on thanking this prince?”


“How do you want to be thanked?” Lou Qingwu’s eyes flashed with a light that no one couldn’t understand.


Xiahou Liuyun looked at this extremely pretty girl in front of him, his eyes curious


He wanted to know how this girl would react to receiving the deep appreciation of two princes.


Would she be overwhelmed with joy or would she be like a little startled deer, or would she be like all the other girls and fall over herself fawing over them?


Xiahou Liuyun’s mind was beginning to wander and come up with nonsense but the girl in front of him was still expressionless, as if the people standing in front of her were just ordinary citizens.


After half a beat, her bright red lips parted and slowly spoke, “Then thank you to the two princes.”


She bowed as she finished speaking, then walked straight past them … .


“Ah?” Xiahou Liuyun froze and didn’t react until Lou Qingwu had walked about ten or so steps away.


That was it?


Where was the overwhelming gratitude, overwhelming joy, the little startled deer that he wanted?


She just said “thank you”, those two words and that was it?


This … this, wasn’t she taking this magnificent seventh prince’s assistance too lightly?


He resentfully looked at Lou Qingwu’s pretty backside as she walked away.


Xiahou Liuyun made little noises as he chewed on a piece of fabric from Xiahou Rui’s shoulder, “Second brother, she, she, there’s something wrong with her eyes.”


Who didn’t fawn over them and flatter them?


That woman was definitely a block of wood!


That dead type of wood!


Xiahou Rui swept an eye at his clothes, disdainfully stretched out a finger and poked Xiahou Liuyun’s forehead and pushed him away.


He apathetically brushed away at some imaginary dust on his clothes, calmly speaking, “You’ve already finished watching the play, so we can enter the palace now.”


Following that girl’s personality, saying even thank you was hard for her.


He believed that even if seventh little brother didn’t step in to help, that girl would definitely be able to slip away from danger easily.


It was as if she had already planned everything and faced danger calmly.


This was a feeling that he got from watching the scene at the Lou residence.


“Second brother, you don’t care about me at all!” He didn’t even finish watching all that drama, he definitely wasn’t satisfied!


Xiahou Liuyun rubbed the back of his head as he unhappily shouted.


Xiahou Rui didn’t bother with him and headed forward.


But he only took two steps before he stopped.


His eyes chased Lou Qingwu’s silhouette as his eyes darkened, some type of emotion began to form in the depth of his eyes before slowly disappearing back to normal.


Lou Qingwu walked from the Vermillion Bird gate to enter the palace.


The palace was filled with glazed tiles, walled with them as the palace towered over her.


She looked at this familiar yet unfamiliar palace hall, her eyes becoming increasingly cold.

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TL note


When Xiahou Liuyun makes little noises as he chews on Xiahou Rui’s shirt, in Chinese it’s “嘤嘤嘤嘤” (ying) which is directly translated to what birds would call out. So just read it as ‘ying ying ying ying’ or some other little noise because he’s trying to be cute.

Picture him being a small birb

And the title means probing as in investigating but he's kind of just trying to get a feel of who LQW is as a person. She feels too mature to be a barely 15 year old which is fair because her spirit is that of like a 40 year old.


Leave a comment and follow to see who’s going to pop up behind LQW xx

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I do normally have a bunch of chapters in queue but it's been a busy week and I was hoping to catch up tomorrow. Hopefully will have my things in order sooon!!



18 comments:

  1. The seventh prince is hilarious omg! Tho LQW is a badass for just being like 'thanks 😐' and walking past them without looking back lmao! Thank you for the chapter 💖💖💖

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  2. Thanks for the chapter

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  3. Xiahou Rui swept an eye at his clothes, disdainfully stretched out a finger and poked Xiahou Rui’s forehead and pushed him away.

    should be liuyun's forehead

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    1. Oops, thanks for picking that up 😙😔😙

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  4. Ah, so that's what the bird was for xD. Thanks for the chapter!

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  5. thanks!
    ayeee she treates them normally, heh heh, so cute!

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  6. The MC was 22 when she died and reborned at 12, so she is like 25 old now ^^

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    1. I didn't bother to do the maths 🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

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  7. Of course her eyes look dead. The eyes are a reflection of the heart, and her heart was brutally killed a lifetime ago.

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  8. Ahh, seventh prince is really quite cute hahaha, "acting cute"

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