the Ye family 。"You, you are the bane of the Ye family!" A single word, "bane," laced with disgust, as if she, his granddaughter, was a stinking fish, just sitting here polluting this fine General's...The Northern Qi imperial palace had a grand total of ninety-nine artificial lakes. This did not include any natural lakes that were not man-made.

All water can generate wealth, so the founding ancestor of Bei Qi brought in many water sources when building the palace to pray for the prosperity and flourishing of the nation.

Ye Wen's eyes looked at the lake in front of him. It was relatively large, and because it was too big, it didn't freeze solid.

Even if it's not completely true, the ice needs to be at least two feet thick. It's not something you can just break open with a shovel!

Ye Wenyan followed the thumping sound and saw a woman in red robes wielding a hoe, rhythmically chipping away at the ice. She was very focused on her task.

The hoe was massive, and the woman in red was very thin. Every swing of the hoe gave the impression that she could be sent flying herself.

On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, the weather was bitterly cold, yet the woman dressed very lightly. She was still wearing a winter robe, but it was just a long dress made of sheer material. Although she was wrapped up quite warmly, it was clearly not the kind of fabric one should wear in winter, and looked far too thin.

Ye Wen felt that he might have encountered a fool. How could anyone be so foolish as to stay awake during the cold winter months, wear summer clothes, and come here to drill ice on the lake

Taking another look around, there didn't seem to be any palace guards around making any noise to come and check. It seemed that the girl had been gone for a while, and the guards had probably gotten used to it.

Is this the princess left behind by the late emperor Or is she the daughter of an older prince

Only royalty would dare to play like this in the palace, right

She pondered for a moment, then decisively jumped down from the tree. Seeing that there were indeed no people around, she stopped hiding her form and boldly revealed herself, striding straight towards the girl in red.

The girl chiseling the ice was particularly diligent, striking with each blow without giving up. She didn't notice the arrival of Ye Wen, only muttering to herself, "The winter in Beqi is indeed colder than returning to the moon. The lake water freezes so solidly that even after I've chiseled over a hundred times, I still can't see any water."

Ye Wen couldn't stand it anymore. He patted her shoulder with one hand and took the hoe from her hand with the other. With a surge of spiritual energy, he gently pushed the hoe forward—there was a "bang," followed by a "splash."

The ice cracked and crumbled, finally giving way as the pickaxe smashed out a large hole in the frozen lake.

The woman in red was stunned. She turned her head, her face filled with surprise and admiration as she looked at Ye Wenyan. After a while, she suddenly reached out and cupped her face, then kissed her cheek with a " smack."

Ye Wen was stunned, his first reaction was to look around frantically, to see if Shi Lifen had followed him.

That feeling is just like having an affair and being afraid of getting caught by your boyfriend. You feel so guilty.

When he saw that there was no fluctuation of spiritual energy around him, he let out a sigh of relief. Then he turned back to look at the woman in red... Well, the woman didn't know where she got a fishing rod from. At this moment, she was sitting cross-legged on the ice and fishing through the ice hole.

She was simply in awe.

"Lady of the Guiyue Manor" She walked forward and crouched beside the woman in red. "Oh no, listening to what you just muttered to yourself, you're Lady Guiyue, aren't you Me, ice fishing in the middle of winter, and here I am, in the Northern Qi Imperial Palace... my brain must be broken!"

"You're not sick!" The woman in red turned to look at her, giving her a breathtakingly beautiful smile.

Ye Wen's heart skipped a beat. This girl was truly beautiful, with delicate features that looked like they were painted in a picture. Coupled with her scarlet dress, the fiery red color accentuated her complexion, giving it a healthy glow. Her smile was even more captivating.

Once, she only thought she looked good. Then she met Shi Liyuan and realized that she had been surpassed by a man. Tonight, she discovered that she had been surpassed by a princess from another country.

Ye Wen's heart raced a thousand times, and at the same time, she began to deeply question her own appearance. She even had a slight suspicion about her own preferences. Otherwise, why was she flustered when this red-clothed girl looked at her with a smile Was she completely powerless against people who wore red

The young woman in red, naturally unaware of her own thoughts, simply continued along the lines of the previous conversation: “I definitely don't have any illness! Where there's water, there are fish. Where there are fish, people will fish for them. It doesn't matter whose palace it is, I just want to fish.”

She sounded quite entitled. After finishing, she asked Ye Wenyan, "Who are you I'm the county princess of Guiyue Kingdom, a guest here, so they should at least give me some face. Things like this ice fishing competition, the esteemed Northern Qi Kingdom shouldn't even bother to argue with me over it. But how come you were wandering around in the palace in the middle of the night without anyone noticing"

Ye Wenyan blinked. "Maybe they didn't see me!"

"Can you turn invisible" the woman in red asked her seriously, "Are you able to Otherwise, with guards everywhere in the palace, how could they not have seen you"

"If I could really turn invisible, would you believe me"

"You dare, I dare to believe!"

"That's it," he said. "I can't turn invisible, but maybe I'm just lucky and haven't been seen. So, you, a traveler from afar, do you want to drive me away or expose me"

“None of that.” The woman in red laughed again, “You’re so handsome, why would I chase you away My lord fishes at night and has a beautiful companion by his side. Such snowy moonlight and flowery winds are naturally meant to be enjoyed, who would chase you away They must be insane!”

"Yeah, you're right. Though you didn't put it very nicely, admitting that I'm good-looking is still pretty insightful of you. And you're not bad yourself. You're the second most handsome person I've ever seen, after our master,"

"Who is the master" The woman in red was more interested. "Your man"

“He’s a man of the future, after all! He’s not even married yet!”

"You're so lucky, you're beautiful and your husband is handsome too. Just like my old friend, both of you are very fortunate."

"What friends"

The woman in red didn't go down, she just shook her head, "It was a long time ago, I don't remember very clearly either, let's not talk about that. Look, we're practically strangers who met by chance, I have a question for you."

"Um, yeah. You."

The woman in red moved closer to her, her voice hushed. “In your Beiqi palace, is there a kind of fish with four colors Or perhaps a lake with four colors Oh, I can’t quite remember if it was four-colored fish or a four-colored lake, but it was definitely four colors. Have you ever heard of such a thing”

Yè Wēn yán thought for a moment, shaking his head. "Never heard of it. I don't come to the imperial palace often, so I truly don't know if there's such a strange lake and fish inside. However, besides this Northern Qi Imperial Palace, I haven't heard of any four-colored lakes or four-colored fish anywhere else either"

She still felt that this girl might have a screw loose. Thinking about it, Ye Wenyan had lived two lives, and in her previous life, she had even been the head of a hidden aristocratic family, having read countless ancient books, yet she had never heard of fish coming in four colors.

Lake of Four Colors might exist, but it's just an optical illusion.

This girl is strange, she doesn't seem like a normal person at all. It's a shame to waste such a pretty face.

She overthought it, realizing that a girl who wasn't mentally sound shouldn't marry Quan Qingcheng. Even an emperor with no power couldn't marry a fool, otherwise, when he ascended to the throne, wouldn't he become the laughingstock of the court

Another tilt of his head, well, the fool had hooked a fish! The fishing rod jerked suddenly, and the fool quickly reeled it in.

Unfortunately, it was a skinny, black carp.

The fool let the fish go, his face filled with regret. "Northern Qi is much larger than the country of Gui Yue, and I've always heard that Northern Qi is rich in resources and has many things that Gui Yue doesn't. I thought to myself, what if there are those four-colored fish or lakes in Northern Qi That's why I came here. Unexpectedly, finding them in Northern Qi is so difficult. Along the way, I've fished an unknown number of fish and passed by an unknown number of lakes, but unfortunately, I haven't found what I was looking for."

"Are you here because of this"

The woman in red countered, "What else could it be"

"Not for family, right"

"What the hell!" the beauty exclaimed, "I'd rather die than marry that little brat who hasn't even grown any hair!"

The beauty might have been truly exasperated, directly spewing obscenities and unleashing a torrent of insults.

Ye Wen listened and felt it was very magical. Having a girl with such a stunning appearance who could curse with such colorful language was rare, at least she had never seen it before.

But there was one thing she didn't quite understand: "Since you're already here, whether or not you get along with your family isn't something you can decide on your own, is it"

“Why should I be forced into this” The woman in red patted her thigh. “My own affairs are my own, why shouldn’t I get to decide That little brat from Bei Qi wants to marry me He needs to know his place and see if he can even beat me. Anyway, I don't like him, so why should I marry him Earth Grandmaster likes whoever he wants!”

Ye Wen felt that her words were a bit bold, but she also thought it made sense. She asked again: "Then who do you like"

“I like…” The girl in red finally became serious, thinking hard for a moment as if she were making a great effort to recall something. Unfortunately, after half a thought, she couldn't remember anything. She had to shake her head, “I don't know who I like, but I definitely have someone I like, this I am very sure of. And that kind of liking is unforgettable, it's as if it were a karmic connection from a past life. Although we reincarnate in this life, it seems like we haven’t forgotten.”

"What does that even mean" she said, bewildered. "How can you not know who you like but be sure there's someone you do"

The woman in red told her: "Because I remember that man always wore a white robe, and he was always fanning himself with a folding fan, like a fairy who walked out of a painting. He didn't belong to the human world at all. And the scent of sandalwood on him, I remembered it clearly. It was the same incense burned when offering incense to Buddha. It appeared on him, faint and pleasant. But I couldn't see his face because every time he turned around, I would wake up..."erfectly normal! Ye Fei Zhou didn't want to argue with him, so he just said: "Isn't there also a new concubine" 。Then he silently left the room, neither agreeing nor disagreeing. 。He was only thinki...