Water Reflects Peach Blossoms

Chapter 149 Peach Blossoms in Three Lives and Three Worlds (3)

I saw Jiang Ruan sitting alone in the water pavilion in a daze.

Cheng Yu Yuanjun, who had just ascended to the thirteenth heaven a few days ago, quietly walked behind Jiang Ruan and patted her shoulder.

Seeing Jiang Ruan's cute frightened expression when he turned around to look at her, she sat leisurely beside Jiang Ruan, spinning the folding fan she had snatched from Lian Song in her hand.

Cheng Yu laughed and said, "I say, little goddess, why are you sitting here in a daze instead of having fun and enjoying yourself during this wonderful time?"

Jiang Ruan saw that this person was also a goddess: "Aren't you the same? If you don't want to have fun, why bother with me?"

"I just found it!" Cheng Yu thought Jiang Ruan was interesting and smiled as she moved closer to her. Her delicate face, as beautiful as a flower, was filled with a charming expression. "I've only been in heaven for a few days and don't know much about the Heavenly Palace yet. I wandered around and ended up here."

"I heard that the Thirteenth Heaven is the territory of Emperor Donghua. If you are daydreaming here, be careful that the petty-minded Emperor will see you and punish you."

Cheng Yu said the latter part of the sentence very quietly, almost whispering it to Jiang Ruan's ear, which was enough to show that she was very afraid of Emperor Donghua.

Jiang Ruan was curious: "Has Emperor Donghua ever punished you?"

"Not really." Cheng Yu rested her folding fan against her chin, and said with lingering fear, "When I first ascended to heaven, I went to pay my respects to the Emperor, and he glanced at me... That icy look almost froze me to death!"

"However, I heard that the Emperor has a woman he loves. Not only did he bring her to the Heavenly Palace when she was still a mortal, but when she ascended to heaven, he was willing to endure the karmic thunder of the Three Lives Stone just to be with her legitimately." At this point, Cheng Yu couldn't help but wonder, "With such deep affection, I wonder what the Emperor would be like in front of this woman?"

"In front of others, he's cold and abstinent, indifferent to the world, yet behind others, he transforms from ice and snow into spring water, hoping only to be seen by one person... If this extreme contrast were in a picture book, it would really sell like crazy!"

Hearing Cheng Yu's laughter, Jiang Ruan's cheeks inexplicably heated up. She thought of the night a few days ago, when Donghua looked down at her with eyes filled with lust that almost devoured her...

"Are you curious?" Cheng Yu suddenly asked Jiang Ruan.

Retracting his thoughts, Jiang Ruan nodded randomly: "Curious."

Seeing the absent-mindedness of the woman beside him, Cheng Yu consoled her: "What's wrong with you? Not only are you dazed but you're also constantly lost in thought. Did you make a mistake and get punished?"

Jiang Ruan shook his head.

"Well, my name is Chengyu." Chengyu's voice was full of quirky cuteness.

Jiang Ruan: "I'm Jiang Ruan."

"Jiang Ruan? What a nice name!" Cheng Yu praised.

No one in the Heavenly Palace dared to tell the name of the woman that Emperor Donghua loved, for fear of being punished by the Emperor after knowing it. Cheng Yu also had a grievance against Lian Song, and Lian Song had no chance to tell her. Therefore, Cheng Yu, who had become friends with everyone in the Heavenly Palace in just a few days, knew about this matter, but did not know the name of the woman Donghua loved.

"Then we can be considered friends." Cheng Yu said, "If you have any difficulties, just tell me."

Jiang Ruan asked Cheng Yu: "Matters of love..."

"Then I totally understand!" Cheng Yu said, "Although I've only experienced one relationship, I can say I've gained a lot of enlightenment."

Jiang Ruan's eyes lit up, and she spoke out her dilemma: "I flirted with a man in my sleep."

"Dreaming?" Cheng Yu became interested. "Tell me the details. How did it happen?"

Jiang Ruan's face flushed with panic. He took a deep breath to calm himself down. "For me, it was just that I accidentally fell asleep next to him and had physical contact with him."

"What about him?" Cheng Yu asked excitedly, "Did he do anything to you?"

Jiang Ruan: "Keep your eyes open all night long."

Cheng Yu: "..."

Cheng Yu couldn't believe it and grumbled quietly, "Can you be more tolerant than that bastard Lian Song?"

Jiang Ruan didn't hear clearly: "What did you say?"

Cheng Yu smiled and said, "Nothing. So you are just worried about this?"

Jiang Ruan nodded and sighed: "After all, I was the one who flirted with him."

"Then do you want to take responsibility?" Cheng Yu asked.

This question stumped Jiang Ruan. She looked at the calm lake outside the pavilion and fell silent.

Seeing this, Cheng Yu asked, "Do you hate him?"

Jiang Ruan: "I don't hate it."

"Like it?"

"I do not know either."

"I understand." Cheng Yu clapped her hands. "I don't dislike you, but I haven't reached that level of affection yet, so I'm in a state of entanglement."

In fact, it is just being moved without knowing it.

Cheng Yu moved closer to Jiang Ruan and asked quietly, "Do you have anyone else you like?"

"He is dead, and what happened between him and me has become the past." When talking about Cen Sheng, Jiang Ruan was very calm, as if he was talking to an old friend of many years with a calm and slight regret.

With a rhythmic "Oh", Cheng Yu decided to give Jiang Ruan a push.

"If you don't like it, then just reject it clearly."

Raising her hand to stop Jiang Ruan from saying anything, Cheng Yu continued, "Love is not a big deal in the heavens. It's normal for anyone to have scandals with anyone. Besides, there are so many good men in the world. If you look around, you might find someone better than him!"

Jiang Ruan shook his head: "If you say that, I'm dead."

If she said such words in front of Donghua, she would definitely die miserably.

Cheng Yu: "..."

Cheng Yu tilted her head: "Is there no one better than him?"

"If you have to compare, they are the same." Jiang Ruan thought of the pink color of the bright peach blossoms.

"How about we go to Banjinbaliang's place to take shelter?" Cheng Yu wanted to push Jiang Ruan again.

Jiang Ruan thought about the ten years she and Zheyan had spent together in the mortal world. Zheyan was not as close to her as Donghua was to her, and Zheyan was able to compete with Donghua. She used the excuse that she had lived in Taichen Palace for so long and it was Zheyan's turn to transfer her cultivation to move to the Ten-Mile Peach Forest for temporary shelter.

After Jiang Ruan left, Lian Song walked into the waterside pavilion and took the folding fan from Cheng Yu's hand.

He unfolded his folding fan, looked at Jiang Ruan's back, and said to Cheng Yu, who was looking at him with dissatisfaction, "Do you know who that is?"

"Who is it?" Cheng Yu was curious.

Lian Song, the Third Prince of the Heavenly Palace, asked this question, so that person must be of great importance.

Lian Song said, "She is the one that Emperor Donghua loves."

Cheng Yu: "..."

Cheng Yu opened her mouth in surprise: "Oh no!"

"What's bad?"

"I just wanted to give her a little push. If that person really likes her, he'll find a way to express his true feelings to her and keep her. But if it's the Emperor, I'm afraid Jiang Ruan won't be able to return for a long time..."

Lian Song smiled and said, "It's worth it that you, the driving force behind the scenes, finally helped the lovers get what they wanted."

Cheng Yu glared at Lian Song, "Are you doing this on purpose? You've been hiding in the shadows just to get me to help Emperor Donghua chase him?!"

As she said this, she stepped hard on Lian Song and left angrily.

……

Jiang Ruan had a plan and a rhetoric in mind, but she underestimated Donghua's tyranny.

She returned to her own bedroom in Taichen Palace. Just as her hand touched the door, she was suddenly grabbed by a big hand from inside the door. The whole person was pressed against the door by a tall figure and could not move!

Just as she was about to speak, someone held her face forcefully and kissed her lips!