Aloof empress? Then who is the silly and innocent girl in my arms?

"Lantern shadow play?"

Lin Bai had never thought that he could see lantern shadow play in this dynasty.

"Xiaobai, what is lantern shadow play?"

Su Qiyan, who was standing by, looked a little confused after hearing Lin Bai's voice.

"Lantern shadow play is a kind of folk opera art that uses animal skin or cardboard to make silhouettes of people and projects them onto a white curtain through candlelight."

"It is performed with music and singing."

Seeing that Su Qiyan didn't know much, Lin Bai reached out and patted her head.

"You'll know in a while."

While the two were talking, the children nearby had already run to the car frame parked nearby, where an old man and two young men were packing up.

Holding their fingers tightly, Lin Bai and Su Qiyan also approached this side, as the white curtain flashed white light and a light cough came from behind the curtain.

All the children were full of anticipation. Lantern shadow play was not common in normal times and only appeared on special days, which was why they were looking forward to it.

"Hua La La~"

First, a series of passionate music sounded, and Su Qiyan stared at the empty white curtain with his eyes.

"Swish!"

Just then, a shadow of a paper man appeared on the curtain, wearing an evil ghost mask, looking extremely fierce.

"So it's using the shadow of paper cutting to tell stories."

Seeing this scene, Su Qiyan understood in his heart, and Lin Bai, who was standing next to him, nodded gently.

"Yes, I watched this stuff a lot before."

Whether in the previous life or this life, Lin Bai had been exposed to a lot of lantern shadow plays when he was a child.

Before he came to Tianzi Sheng Palace, there was a playwright in the small village where he lived. He would push a cart to the village every now and then to perform lantern shadow plays.

At that time, this was the only thing that could entertain Lin Bai.

"Before?"

Speaking of it, I have never known about his past. I only know that Lin Bai was brought back from outside Tianzi Sheng Palace, and it caused quite a stir at the time.

The ancestor had no children in his life, and he had never accepted any apprentices. He suddenly accepted Lin Bai as his apprentice, and even Su Qiyan was surprised at that time.

If he hadn't mentioned it at this moment, Su Qiyan would never have thought of asking.

"Why, the Empress wants to know about my past?"

There was no response, but Lin Bai saw Su Qiyan's expectant eyes and knew that she wanted to know.

Reaching out and gently stroking the Empress's head, Lin Bai recalled and suddenly felt that there was nothing to say, after all, his past was the past of ordinary people.

His fate was tragic. He lost his mother at the age of three and his father at the age of five. His character was not in line with his age, so he couldn't play with his peers in the small village. He had always been alone.

He told Su Qiyan all his childhood memories, and the latter felt empathy after hearing it. She understood the pain of losing a parent best.

"No wonder I've never heard you mention anything about your parents."

Knowing that they died of illness, Su Qiyan's eyes showed a touch of tenderness, and she reached out to hold Lin Bai's arm.

She had never seen her mother since she was born, and her father, as the leader of Xianmiao Sect, had many affairs all day long. Su Qiyan was basically raised by the ancestor when she was young.

Later, her father was framed and left Xianmiao Sect. The one who took care of her the most was Li Qiuju from Tianjian Peak.

"It's all over."

Lin Bai looked up at the lights and shadows being performed, and the story was told by the person behind the scenes.

"Besides, now, don't you, the Queen, accompany me?"

A smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, and Su Qiyan's face was stunned, staring at his handsome profile.

It would be a lie for Lin Bai to say that he was not sad about the death of his parents in this life. Now more than ten years have passed, and the sadness has gradually faded with time.

There are only a few fragments of his parents in his memory, and they can never be put together again.

"So, this is what you meant by family..."

It was not until now that Su Qiyan understood what Lin Bai meant when he said that she was his only family.

"No."

Lin Bai shook his head, moved his eyes away from the lantern show, and looked down at Su Qiyan's eyes.

"From the beginning to the end, I wanted to form a new family with you, the Empress."

Hearing this, Su Qiyan's cheeks blushed visibly.

To form a new family, doesn't that mean that he will marry me in the future and become his wife?

But now their relationship seems to be a matter of time. Although she was very resistant before, Su Qiyan's heart now has a trace of... expectation for some reason?

"It's not that easy to marry me."

"It depends on your performance in the future."

After calming down for a moment, Su Qiyan tilted her head to the side and stopped looking at Lin Bai's eyes. A soft voice came from her mouth.

AlthoughThere was some noise around, but Lin Bai heard it very clearly. He reached out and hugged her in his arms, tapping her brow lightly.

"I believe that one day, Queen, you will call me husband, not Xiaobai."

Lin Bai said it in a joking tone with a smile.

"Hmph~"

After hearing this, Su Qiyan's cheeks, which were already flushed, became even redder. She reached out and punched his chest twice, and snorted again.

Lin Bai stopped teasing her and focused on watching the lantern play being performed. Su Qiyan poked her head out of his arms and watched quietly.

The general story is about the evil cultivators who are a disaster to the people. A young man who wants to bring peace to the world holds a long sword and embarks on a journey to defeat the evil cultivators.

It was fine until here, until Lin Bai saw the young man met a like-minded young woman who also had the goal of killing the evil cultivators.

Knowing that she had the same idea as him, the young man invited her to go together.

In the process of searching for the demon cultivator, the boy gradually developed feelings for the woman.

Later, he fell in love with her uncontrollably. Just when Lin Bai thought that the boy would take the woman down, kill the demon cultivator, and finally become a couple...

"Fuck, what kind of a lousy plot is this!?"

Lin Bai shouted in his heart, and even the palm on Su Qiyan's shoulder couldn't help but increase a little.

The woman suddenly changed, with two tentacles growing from her head and a blood-red mask on her face. Wasn't she the demon cultivator?

"Hahaha~"

A bohemian laugh, mixed with endless complexity, came from behind the scenes, and seemed to laugh out the boy's mood at the moment.

Raising the long sword in his hand, the boy fought with the demon cultivator for three hundred rounds, and finally won slightly and successfully killed him.

Looking down at his bloody hands and the demon cultivator who had turned into a woman again, the boy half-knelt on the ground.

"I saved this continent, but in the next life, I hope to see everything in this world with her."

Holding the woman's body, he looked up to the sky and howled, and finally committed suicide in front of the woman's body.

Seeing this, Lin Bai was so angry that he wanted to kick the boy away, regardless of whether she was a demon cultivator or not.

Since she was the one he loved deeply, even if he bore the hostility of the world, why not protect her behind him?

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