TFDC Chapter 69.1



Chapter 69.1 - Two birds flying together


Lou Qingwu felt a shadow fall beside her as she tilted her head to the side, meeting the phoenix-tail masked man’s expectant peach blossom eyes.


She furrowed her brows and spoke straightforwardly, “Why are you here?”


But after she spoke, she instantly regretted asking.


He’d just appeared at the entrance of the auction, so obviously he was here for the auction.


Her question really was the same as nonsense.


The masked man pitifully leaned closer, “Little fox, you agreed on drinking tea with me after the auction ended.”


“When did I agree?” Little fox? What kind of freaking way of addressing?


Following his eyesight, she felt the fox mask on her face and decided not to say anything, she’d let it go, it was just a way of addressing her.


“Just then, you said, if your master agreed, it’d be fine.”

Lou Qingwu coldly raised a brow, “How can you be so sure that my master would agree?”


The masked man cockily smirked, “Little fox, don’t worry, the person that would reject this gentleman, still hasn’t appeared yet.”


“Oh, really?”


She shrugged, and didn’t bother continuing the conversation.


At this time, a girl appeared on the stage.


She wore a bright red long brocade gown, the outside of the gown was wrapped in a layer of light gauze.


As she walked, it floated and gave off a floating fairy type of beauty.


The girl’s features were also intricately carved, apart from the sharpness in her eyes and eyebrows.


She looked around her as she laughed brilliantly, softening the sharpness in her eyes and adding a few degrees of flirtiness.


“Welcome to the men, women, gentlemen, misses, the annual auction is about to begin. The first piece to be auctioned is a first rate jewelry piece from the number one Jinsi building, called “two birds flying together”. It’s the only one of its type in the world. The rules will be the same as always, the highest bidder wins. Now, we’ll ask the number one Jinsi building’s shopkeeper to reveal “two birds flying together”.”


The girl spoke as another seductive woman with an alluring body walked on stage.


She wore an embroidered golden gauze gown, and was around 35-36 years of stage with an ordinary face.


This was the number one Jinsi building’s shopkeeper Jin.  


Everyone who knew her knew that this shopkeeper Jin was the famous Jianghu’s Jin Sique.


Her pair of nimble hands could turn something rotten to something magical.


It was 10 years ago, that she created “white headed phoenix” and became renowned everywhere.


However, she disappeared afterwards and just as everyone was about to forget her, she reappeared suddenly in the Jianghu three years ago to become the hundred year old number one Jinsi building’s manager.


And this number one Jinsi building was even more mysterious.


It suddenly rose up three years ago, instantly sweeping up the whole Dongyu country and in only three years, had branches nearly everywhere that almost monopolised the jewelry market.


Shopkeeper Jin walked leisurely forward, standing to the girl’s side and clapped her hands.


Immediately, a maid presented a tray which held an intricately and luxurious jewelry box.


Shopkeeper Jin held up the jewelry box for everyone to see before putting it down and opening the golden clasp.


Instantly, all the madams and misses at the marketplace felt their eyes stare fixedly at it.


They’d never seen such a gorgeous yet elaborate and elegant set.


It was a set that contained a head piece, earrings, necklace, bracelet and ring.


The pieces were all set out in neat rows, so beautiful that they couldn’t bear to tear their eyes away.


Nie Zhen’er, of them all, only hated that she couldn’t get even closer to see the pieces even more clearly.


Behind her, Lou Qingwu watched this scene with shining eyes that held an unknown depth.


Her eyes watched the jewelry box as she lifted up her index finger, lightly and slowly picking the golden hairpiece in her hair down.


She bowed her head as her nimble fingers picked at it.


As she picked, the golden hairpiece slowly changed, changing into an unknown totem.


After finishing her work, she placed the golden hairpin back into her hair.


At this time, shopkeeper Jin saw it was about time before smiling, sweeping her eyes through the audience.


Just as she was about speak, her eyes fell on Lou Qingwu and froze.


Lou Qingwu slightly narrowed her eyes and nodded almost imperceptibly.


Shopkeeper Jin saw and nodded before soundlessly, moved her eyes away.


“This is Jinsi building’s newest jewelry set for this year, called “two birds flying together”, the starting price is 1000 silver taels, the auction -- begins now!”


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TL note:


The title’s translated literally but the meaning is more like two hearts beating as one, as if the birds were flying so close that they could be together as one?

Does cannon fodder deserve an entry in the character list?


Leave a comment and follow for some auction fighting xx



25 comments:

  1. uhhh if she's gonna be eliminated soon why bother lol

    Shopkeeper Jin: Mistress!
    LQW: Ssssh not so loud, I'm here on an errand!
    Shopkeeper Jin: ... Understood. Don't worry, this servant will handle everything here.
    LQW: Why are you still talking to me...

    Looking forward to Feng Yege eating vinegar. Heheheheh. Thanks for the update <3

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    1. She's here for about 5 chapters. I guess if you guys remember that she's just cannon fodder, it's fine 🀷🏻‍♀️

      HAHAHHA, that's pretty much how I imagined LQW and Shopkeeper Jin to converse as well.

      Feng Yege's jealousy isn't too obvious or good popcorn material πŸ˜ͺ

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    2. The ones that aren't obvious are the scariest imo. D:

      I just imagine Feng Yege just locking her up one day and taking out a list asking her one by one about all her interactions with the other mls.

      Plausibly with everyone she knows nearby just turning their heads and trying to escape her gaze. xD

      Okay, I doubt he's that mean, but the quiet ones usually have their own ways of getting back at you. :P

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    3. Now I'm getting a bit scared of Feng Yege even though I know he's not like that (probably).

      He's never mean to LQW, just his other love rivals πŸ˜πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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    4. Ha, but that means he's mean to someone, i'm sure if LQW flips the right Yandere switches she can get that result. >_>;

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    5. LQW flipping the yandere switch would mean a mass killing and no one wants that ☠️

      Feng Yege just bullies people into not liking LQW any more πŸ˜‚

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  2. renowned everyone. -> should be everywhere I think :P

    Ha, I'm getting a lot of vibes that this is the same situation as Demon Wang's Favourite Fei where Protagonist has a whooolllleeeeee bunch of other identities the reader doesn't know about for a while. Hope this one gets more use though, that setting was really interesting but basically discarded as soon as it happened in that novel.

    Agreeing with the above comment, why bother if she doesn't stick around? ... Unless she's going to have some use like 20 chapters down. :P

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    1. Good eye! I'm getting a bit lazy with proofreading and my proofreader gave up oops.

      Protagonist as in LQW? It's kind of briefly implied that she has a few shops when we went through the first arc with the Jade Rouge store and with the face slapping and the jewellery box in the early chapters. LQW doesn't have that many identities, I don't think (off the top of my head).

      It's not bad enough that Nie Zhen'er's gonna get bullied in the novel, she gets bullied outside of the novel for being too cannon fodder to even warrant an entry in the character list πŸ˜‚πŸ˜°

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    2. We're not bullying her, we're just.. showing her her place in life. ... It's called "tough love" it builds character! ... well it would if she wasn't awol.

      Yeah, meant LQW. From what I can tell, the novel hints at but hasn't really stated what else she has her hands in. Though I think this one isn't that surprising since as you said, this store was mentioned before.

      Mainly just hoping it gets some use further down the road, I like the idea of having some extra identities to make things easier, just most novels are too busy making things difficult for their main identity and forget about their extra identities. :P

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    3. Does public humiliation count as tough love? πŸ€”πŸ€”πŸ€”

      Hmmm, there is one arc that comes to mind where LQW uses a fake identity as well as a fake face because she needs a new identity in another country? πŸ™ˆ

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    4. Works for me.

      ... and uh.. We're not publicly humiliating her. ... We're discussing her place in (the novel's) society, albeit in a vocal manner. >_> <_<

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    5. Very roundabout way and she's still going to be angry at the end 😣🀷

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  3. Thanks for the chapter πŸ’– I wonder how Qingwu is related to the shopkeeper, I'm guessing she's the boss behind the scenes lol.

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    1. Yupp, it's implied in one of the early chapters when LQW gets framed for stealing LLX's bracelet. That pretty jewellery box was from Jinsi building and shopkeeper Jin actually made an appearance really early on! (I found out just then too 😰😰)

      Thanks for reading πŸ’—πŸ’—

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  4. Thank you! She probably the big boss.

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  5. Thanks for the chapter😊

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  6. Omg they're in cahoots xD. Thanks for the chapter!

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    1. Gotta use those connections πŸ€—πŸ€—

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    1. Thanks for reading πŸ’žπŸ’žπŸ’ž

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  8. Hahaha too funny thank you so much for the chapters <3 <3

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    1. Thanks for reading πŸ’—πŸ’—πŸ’—

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  9. Oh so she owns that business

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