I loaded the dream game

Irena puffed up her cheeks in dissatisfaction.

From such a high distance, even if it was Ailu who fell down, he would be broken too, right?

She thought to herself, and after a moment's thought, she took out her wand and waved it gently at the sign.

The next moment, as if time had gone back, the broken sign quickly returned to its original state.

Only then did Xia Zhi recognize that it was a welcome and guidance sign.

However, judging from the obvious traces of erasure, it is obviously a reused material, right?

"Ms. Lingxian, long time no see."

On the other side, Kato Megumi and Lingxian greeted each other.

Hearing her familiar gentle voice, Lingxian's tension finally relaxed a little.

"Long time no see, Ms. Kato." A smile appeared on her face.

"Her Royal Highness will be very happy to see you coming."

Kato Megumi blinked

She felt that compared to herself, the princess would probably be happier about the arrival of the summer solstice.

And...last time, she didn't address me as "you", right? She thought to herself.

Before they knew it, a tragically thick barrier had built up between them.

Ah, this is what Xia Zhi said to Xueno last time. Because of their daily quarrels about homework, Xueno rarely added the word "classmate" to her address to him again...The daily bickering between the two of them sometimes involves some areas that she doesn't understand.

"Summer Solstice."

Ai Luke gently pulled the boy's clothes and asked him, "Why does that sister have rabbit ears on her head?"

"Don't you have cat ears on your head too?" Xia Zhi asked, touching her head.

Huh? Really?

Ai Luke fell into deep thought, then quickly reacted

Wait, I didn't!

Uh... probably not, right?

She touched the top of her head and breathed a sigh of relief when she didn't touch the pair of furry cat ears.

"elder brother……"

On the other side, Xia Zhi looked around curiously, then turned her eyes away from the dense bamboo forest and looked at the boy hesitantly and asked,

"This place...seems familiar?"

Of course Xia Zhi knew what she was referring to. After all, they happened to live in a bamboo forest at the time.

only……

"Don't all bamboo forests look the same?" he asked.

"No, brother." Xia Zhi shook her head, looked at him seriously and said, "This is a girl's intuition."

You just said that it was because he looked familiar? Xia Zhi complained in his heart.

However, if you think about it carefully, even if Kaguya moved the bamboo forest here directly, it doesn't seem strange, right?

On the other side, Lingxian, who heard the girl's words, drew her attention back and looked at the people in front of her, feeling a little distressed.

Originally, the job of welcoming guests should not be done by her...

But forget it.

She shook her head and turned her attention back to them.

Although there were many people, most of them had been here before, except for the cute crimson-haired girl next to Master Xiazhi, the gray-haired girl who looked like her twin sister and was helping Irena tidy up her messed-up clothes, and...

　(Good Zhao) ...Huh?

Her eyes fell on the black-haired girl who had just spoken.

She wasn't there when I came last time, but she looked very familiar, as if I had seen her somewhere before.

The same black hair and black eyes as the princess, a delicate face that looks very familiar, and a pair of cute low ponytails...

Lingxian seemed to remember something and opened her eyes slightly.

Wait, she is...?

"Are you the princess's illegitimate daughter?"

A cute girl with short black hair that reaches her neck, pink and white bunny ears lying softly on her hair, short stature and wearing a light pink short-sleeved dress, raised her head and looked at Xia Zhi curiously with her dark red eyes and asked.

"...?"

Xia Zhi tilted her head slightly, and a question mark light slowly appeared above her head.

Lingxian couldn't help but fall into silence

...Emperor! What are you doing!?

.......

Chapter 812: Her Royal Highness the Princess Wants to Prove

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

Lingxian kept bowing and apologizing, while the black-haired, bunny-eared girl next to her looked at Xia Zhi with a curious expression on her face.

"Di! Hurry up and apologize to them!" Seeing that she was still standing there motionless, Lingxian pulled her clothes and urged her.

"Oh." The girl called Di nodded and bowed deeply to Xia Zhi: "I'm sorry."

His attitude seems very sincere, and he looks like a good and well-behaved child...if you ignore what happened before.

"So, are you the guests invited by Her Royal Highness the Princess?" the black-haired girl asked curiously.

"Well..."

Does that count as a guest...?

From the perspective of the fiancé, since he hasn't married her yet, they can't be considered a family in name only, right?

However, if we look at it from the perspective of "parents", it is a completely different situation.

Xia Zhi feels that he is currently in a superposition state of "host/guest", that is, he is the male host in the quantum state.

"Just take it as it is." In the end, Xia Zhi chose to take the initiative to temporarily classify himself as a "fiancé".

Lingxian, who was standing by, opened her mouth and seemed to want to say something, but after looking at the boy and hesitating for a moment, she finally gave up and turned to look at the black-haired bunny-eared girl beside her and asked:

"Emperor, why are you here?"

"Isn't it normal for me to be here?" Di tilted his head slightly and said as a matter of course: "Today's reception work was originally my responsibility, wasn't it? It was you, Lingxian, who stole my job."

"Oh, yes, I'm sorry." Lingxian apologized subconsciously.

"It's okay, I forgive you."

Hearing the girl's answer, Lingxian breathed a sigh of relief, then reacted and was slightly stunned

That's not right. Shouldn't you have been waiting here long ago? Where did you go before?

"Then, guests, please follow me."

The emperor turned around, looked at Xia Zhi and the others, and said with a smile:

"Your Highness, you have been waiting for a long time."

……

What the Emperor meant by welcoming guests was really just a simple welcoming. After bringing a few people into the Eternal Pavilion, he threw the subsequent work to Lingxian, calling it "task handover", but in fact it was no different from getting rid of a burden.

Lingxian didn't complain about anything. It was unclear whether she was used to it or she didn't show it in front of Xiazhi and the others.

She naturally took over the task "handed over" by the emperor, and led a few people into the courtyard house located in the middle of the pavilion.

Although they were nominally here to see the exhibition, the guests had just arrived, so it was impossible to take them straight to the point, right? They were not here to visit the trade show.

So, Lingxian first took Xiazhi and the others to the resting place, and assigned them resting rooms one by one, and then asked some rabbits to help entertain and serve the guests.

Xia Zhi actually wanted to say that they were just coming over to play for a day and there was no need to prepare a room specially... After all, he only took one day off.

Besides, if I want to rest, one room would be enough, right?

But Lingxian said that this was a task assigned by Her Royal Highness the Princess, and it was also the etiquette they should follow.

Seeing that she was so persistent, Xia Zhi thought about it and let her go.

By the way, why haven't we seen Kaguya come out yet? We said we'd wait for them for a long time.

"Is she still sleeping?" he asked doubtfully.

"This..." Lingxian looked around, not knowing how to answer.

She couldn't say for sure about that kind of thing...Her Royal Highness the Princess did go to bed very late last night, but it seemed like she went to bed that late every night, right?

Besides, considering the room she was going to take Lady Xiazhi to, it didn't really matter whether Her Royal Highness the Princess was sleeping in or not, she thought to herself.

After rooms were assigned to Xia Zhi and the others, Lingxian took Xia Zhi around a corner and came to the door of a separate room far away from the previously assigned rooms.

After bringing him here, Lingxian seemed to have completed her mission. She said goodbye and left quickly.

Xia Zhi looked around the room.

Unlike the previous guest rooms which seemed to be well-furnished and one could tell at a glance that many things were newly-placed, many places in this room were full of traces of life, making it feel not like a guest room but rather a bedroom where someone lives... and, it seemed to be a girl's room?

By the way, why do the furnishings in this room look so familiar?

"how do you feel?"

Xia Zhi felt a pair of slender and soft arms gently wrapped around his neck from behind, and a warm body pressed against his back at the same time.

"Is my room tidy this time?"

The girl's light and pleasant voice came from behind.

Xia Zhi turned around and saw a dreamy and delicate face. The black hair fell softly behind the girl as she raised her head slightly. Under the silky bangs like a pearl curtain, the black eyes as bright as stars reflected her face clearly.

"Long time no see, father~" the girl greeted him with a smile, and there seemed to be a hint of sickly sweetness in her words.

...No, it really has a hint of sweetness.

Xia Zhi's gaze fell on the girl's slightly opened pink and tender lips that were close to him. He felt the warm breath coming out as she spoke, and thought so in his heart.

"It shouldn't be long, right?" he asked.

Although it seemed like a long time had passed for me, to the girl, it should have been less than a week, right?

"It feels like a long time since we last met?" The girl tilted her head slightly, and a few strands of hair fell from behind her ears as she moved, gently landing on both sides of her cheeks. The black hair perfectly set off the fairness of her skin.

Considering the girl's abilities, this statement may not be an exaggerated metaphor.

How long did you stay in Xu Yu?

Xia Zhi complained in his heart.

However, even if she stayed in there for a hundred or eighty years

"This short period of time shouldn't be too long for you, right?" He stretched out his hand, gently helped the girl put her hair behind her ears, and asked softly.

"It's different." Kaguya shook her head slightly, staring into his eyes and said

"That was in the past...After I met you, my lord husband, every moment of separation seemed especially long."

After all, compared to that monotonous and boring time...

"Every moment I spend with you is very important." said the girl.

Xia Zhi admitted that he was indeed moved when he heard Kaguya say such words.

It should be said that it is hard not to be moved when being hugged tightly by a beautiful girl like Kaguya, and hearing soft words in her arms that are close to a passionate confession, right?

But...it shouldn't be that exaggerated, right?

"Don't believe it?" Kaguya tilted her head again.

I didn't believe it.