Your majesty, Empress Xianyu doesn't want to leave the cold palace

Chapter 860 Osmanthus Cake

Qi Ranran held her chin up and looked at the sea, feeling a little bored.

She has been living on an island since she woke up. She traveled around the entire island and found it really boring.

Everyone here is very nice to her.

Si Baiyu is very nice and always gives her fun toys every time he comes back.

Although Jiang Li is not talkative, he is very caring towards her.

But I don’t know why, I always feel empty inside.

As night fell, Qi Ranran felt that she had just spent another boring day.

I lay back in bed and was about to fall asleep when I saw a light outside the window.

She immediately got up from the bed, put on her clothes and opened the window to look.

When he saw the next scene in the night sky outside the window, his pupils suddenly dilated with shock.

The lanterns released into the night sky slowly rose up and flew into the air, dotted like stars, and under the sky full of lights, someone was releasing lanterns.

Qi Ranran ran out of the room happily. At this time, the people in the courtyard looked back at her under the dim lights.

"Si Baiyu!" Qi Ranran ran towards him after seeing his face clearly, and asked in surprise, "Didn't you go outside the island? I asked Jiang Li, and Jiang Li said it would take some time for you to come back."

"I came back after I had dealt with everything," Si Baiyu said as another lantern rose up. He lowered his eyes slightly and looked at the person beside him, and asked, "Didn't you say you wanted to see the lanterns? Now that you see them, are you happy?"

"Of course!" Qi Ranran answered without hesitation. What she saw in front of her was more than just one lantern. The courtyard was filled with various lanterns of fresh colors. It was brightly lit and very lively. With a glance, she inadvertently saw the tiger lantern on the table.

Qi Ranran fixed her eyes and picked up the lamp as if possessed.

This lantern is very beautifully painted.

Even the whiskers on the lamp are extremely detailed.

Qi Ranran couldn't help but reach out and touch it. Suddenly, a shadow flashed through her mind, and it was gone in an instant. She was so startled that she immediately withdrew her hand.

"What's wrong?" Si Baiyu noticed her abnormality and asked.

Qi Ranran was silent for a moment, then turned around in a daze.

Just now... a blurry image flashed through her mind.

She seemed to be in a place full of lanterns, with a tiger lantern in front of her. It seemed that someone had handed the lantern to her, but... she couldn't see the person's appearance clearly...

The image in her mind flashed by so quickly that she began to doubt whether it was an illusion.

Qi Ranran pursed her lips, and when she saw Si Baiyu under the light, she smiled again.

She held the tiger lantern and approached Si Baiyu and asked, "Have we watched lanterns together before?"

She has been living on the island since she woke up, and she doesn't remember anything about her past.

Jiang Li said that she lost her memory because of a serious illness.

But sometimes, some images would flash through her mind from time to time, and she thought, maybe they were memories from the past?

Si Baiyu met her eager eyes and asked gently, "Why do you want to ask this question?"

Qi Ranran shrugged with a slight feeling of loss, and said regretfully: "I always feel like I watched the lanterns with someone, maybe it's an illusion, um... forget it, I don't remember it anyway..."

Si Baiyu's smile faded slightly when he heard that, but when he saw her sparkling eyes, a smile appeared in them again, and he only asked, "Are you happy?"

"Happy, of course I'm happy!" Qi Ranran answered without hesitation.

"As long as you are happy," Si Baiyu replied with a smile, taking the lantern from her hand and handing her a lantern in the shape of a blooming lotus, saying, "As long as you are happy now, it doesn't matter if you forget about the past."

Qi Ranran nodded in agreement.

When she first woke up, she was always upset because she couldn't remember the past.

The more she couldn't remember the past, the more headache she had. The more headache she had, the more she wanted to know what happened in her past. It was a vicious cycle over and over again. It was only when Si Baiyu prepared a medicine to stabilize her mind that she no longer had a headache and got through that muddled time.

Si Baiyu said that she lost her previous memories because of a serious illness.

Si Baiyu also comforted her by saying that she shouldn't think about things she couldn't remember.

He said that everything that was forgotten was unimportant, and that it was better to live in peace and joy in the present rather than to embarrass oneself by dwelling on the past. She felt that what Si Baiyu said made sense, and after not dwelling on what happened in the past, she did not have any more headaches.

but……

Looking back and around, Qi Ranran shrugged regretfully. She thought that it would be more fun and lively if there were more people.

Looking around now, the courtyard was full of various lanterns, sugar figures, masks, cakes, candied haws, and many other novel gadgets. It was indeed fun, but with only her and Si Baiyu there, it seemed a bit deserted.

Qi Ranran looked at him and said, "It must be very troublesome to prepare so many lanterns."

Si Baiyu smiled: "As long as you are happy, everything is worth it."

Qi Ranran answered without hesitation: "Of course I am happy, how could I not like it."

Qi Ranran held the lamp and asked, "Where's Jiang Li? Isn't she coming?"

Si Baiyu: "She doesn't like lanterns."

"Oh."

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Qi Ranran nodded, and after hearing what he said, she didn't ask any more questions.

In her memory, Jiang Li had been taking care of her since she woke up.

In her impression, Jiang Li was cold, spoke very little, never laughed, never cried, and had no other expressions. She was like a crystal clear person, with all her joy, anger, sorrow and happiness stripped away from her.

Although she has been with Jiang Li for quite some time, she has never seen Jiang Li express his likes or dislikes. Since Si Baiyu said that Jiang Li doesn't like lanterns, it is obvious that Jiang Li really hates them.

Thinking of this, Qi Ranran gave up the idea of ​​bringing the lantern back to Jiang Li.

After looking at the lanterns all over the sky, it was already very late when Qi Ranran returned to the room. She lay on the bed for a while, then got up and walked to the next room.

Soon there was a short but gentle knock on the door. Before Qi Ranran could speak, the door was opened from the inside. Jiang Li asked expressionlessly, "What's the matter?"

Qi Ranran asked in surprise: "How did you know it was me?"

Jiang Li said nothing, his gaze lingering on Qi Ranran without any expression.

The night is silent, peaceful and serene, and any movement is exceptionally clear.

Jiang Li's face was calm. She was thinking, others knocked on the door only twice, but Qi Ranran was the only one who knocked on the door in short and frequent steps. How could she not know? Moreover, Qi Ranran ran over without covering her steps at all, so how could she not hear it?
Jiang Li asked again: "What's the matter?"

Qi Ranran smiled mysteriously and presented the things she brought with both hands: "Here, this is for you."

"..." Jiang Li stopped looking, "What?"

"Osmanthus cake, very sweet," Qi Ranran said as she opened it, "I just saw it, it tasted good so I thought I'd bring it to you to try."

Si Baiyu not only prepared lanterns, but also a variety of snacks. When she saw the osmanthus cake, she brought it to Jiang Li.

Jiang Li looked at the osmanthus cake in front of him without moving.

Seeing that she didn't move, Qi Ranran stared at her with burning eyes and asked, "I saw you eating some osmanthus cake the other day, and I thought you liked it, didn't you?"

Jiang Lijing was reminded by her and then she remembered that some time ago Qi Ranran was eating snacks in the corridor after noon, and she happened to be with them. Qi Ranran kept begging her to try it, and she couldn't refuse, so she took the osmanthus cake.

It was approaching winter and it was no longer the season for osmanthus flowers to bloom. However, just because Qi Ranran casually mentioned that she wanted to eat osmanthus cake, that person had an osmanthus tree transplanted and asked a gardener to take good care of it so that the osmanthus flowers would always bloom. He spent a lot of money and went through so much trouble just because of Qi Ranran's casual words.

At that time, what she was thinking in her heart was, what kind of feeling does it feel like to be liked by Qi Ranran?

Jiang Li felt heavy-hearted. Even though the osmanthus cake was sweet, she couldn't like it at all.

"Would you like a taste?"

Jiang Li took it and took a bite.

"How is it? Delicious, right?" Seeing Jiang Li finally take a bite, Qi Ranran spoke excitedly.

Jiang Li: "It tastes great."

Qi Ranran was complacent: "I knew you would like it, all of this is for you."

Jiang Li: "Thank you."

In fact, it doesn’t matter whether pastries are good or bad to her. Pastries are just for filling her stomach and it has nothing to do with her likes or dislikes.