by La Mi Tu
Wanyan Kang’s shout let those people who were still in daze wake up completely. Everyone looked at each other. They didn’t know what happened.
Seeing that those people has forgotten their state of just now, Murong Qi Qi also pretended to not know.
“What happened? My head is a bit dizzy. Su Mei, do you remember? What happened?”
“I remember entering, then, then, I don’t remember anymore!”
Su Mei scratched her head.
“How come I don’t remember anything?!”
“There’s definitely sorcery here. Let’s leave quickly!”
Murong Qi Qi’s proposal was recognized by everyone. Everyone stood up and left this strange place. On the seventh floor, Murong Qing Lian found out her pearl necklace disappeared.
“Who stole my necklace?! Who stole my pearl necklace?!”
Murong Qing Lian’s shout got Wanyan Kang’s contempt.
“Humph! Aren’t they just broken pearls? Losing them, then let them be lost! Besides, you said you wore a necklace, then is it that you truly wore a necklace? Could it be that you want to extort a necklace from someone?!”
“You……”
Being talked like that by Wanyan Kang, Murong Qing Lian was very angry. After seeing the two palm prints on Wanyan Kang’s face, Murong Qing Lian sneered.
“Wearing two palm prints, you still have the face to teach people?!”
“Presumptuous! If you continue to talk to this highness like this, do you believe that this highness will punish you?! Don’t forget, you’re now stepping on Bei Zhou and not your Xi Qi!”
Wanyan Kang raised his head. The two red palm prints on his face are now more eye catching. Su Mei laughed and went forward to give Wanyan Kang a box of medicine.
“Your highness, it’s better that you apply some medicine to avoid later ‘not having a face to see people’.”
Being made fun off by Su Mei, Wanyan Kang immediately hid his original baring fangs and brandishing claws character and changed to all smiles. Wanyan Kang put his face in front of Su Mei.
“Good Mei er, help me apply it! I can’t see and also don’t know where the place is. I know you’re the best and also the most soft-hearted. Help me apply!”
“Humph!”
Su Mei turned and let Wanyan face her back.
“Go find Ruyi! Men and women shouldn’t get intimate with each other. I won’t apply for you, you player!”
“Ruyi can’t! Ruyi’s hands are rough. This master is soft skinned and tender fleshed. He can’t ruin my face.”
Wanyan Kang once again got to Su Mei’s front side. His whole face looked very pitiful.
“Look, this master cares the most about this face! If this face is ruined, in the future no one will like me. By then if I can’t marry a wangfei5, then I’ll stay at your home and not leave!”
Su Mei already experienced Wanyan Kang’s ‘shamelessness’, so she wouldn’t easily agree. Seeing that he couldn’t move Su Mei, Wanyan Kang walked pitifully to Murong Qi Qi.
“Cousin in law, since small pepper refuse to help others, I can only trouble cousin in law!”
Looking at Wanyan Kang’s naughty smile, Murong Qi Qi suddenly thought of those words Wanyan Kang said just now. So, the thing this person wished for the most is motherly love. However, consort De’s image in his heart is so bad, resulting in him crying while angrily saying: “You’re not my consort mother.”
It turned out that those smiles and playfulness were all a disguise. This prince isn’t like what you see on the surface.
“Alright!”
Just as Murong Qi Qi was about to apply medicine for Wanyan Kang, Su Mei angrily came over.
“Miss, let me! Such a person like him is not worthy for miss to serve!”
Seeing Su Mei like that and seeing the proud smile in Wanyan Kang’s eyes, Murong Qi Qi smiled. It seemed there will be something, yo!
“Then, troubling Mei er!”
Not waiting for Murong Qi Qi to say something, Wanyan Kang stuffed the medicine in Su Mei’s hands.
“Quickly, here, here, really hurts! Later this master won’t have face to see people!”
“I know! Don’t talk! So noisy!”
While the two were bickering, Su Mei carefully applied medicine on Wanyan Kang’s face.
“So fragrant, ah!”
Wanyan Kang closed his eyes with a look full of enjoyment.
“Mei er, what kind of sachet are you wearing? When you have time also sew one for me, good? This fragrance is quite good. I like it!”
“Come on, fifth highness……”
After applying, Su Mei handed the cream to Wanyan Kang.
“You’re so noble and full of splendor. The ingredients of the fragrance you use, I haven’t even seen them (she mean she’s too poor to see those ingredients). My fragrance is just made from sweet scented osmanthus. How could it enter your eyes?! Don’t amuse me just to pass time!”
“Osmanthus? Good, I want that! Deal, you will make a sachet for me. Otherwise, I’ll pester you every day!”
Not letting Su Mei object, Wanyan Kang turned and went to the seventh floor.
“Miss, look at him. He bullies people!”
Su Mei seeing Wanyan Kang like that, stomped and went to complain at Murong Qi Qi’s.
“Ah……”
Murong Qi Qi saw the shyness in Su Mei’s eyes. Her mood was very good.
“Su Mei, last night I was bored and calculated your divinatory diagram. Do you want to know the result of the divinatory diagram?”
“Divinatory diagram? Miss, you also know that? How come I didn’t know, ah?! Then what was the result?”
All girls are interested in divining. Su Mei is no exception. The moment she heard Murong Qi Qi talk about that, she got interested. Even Wanyan Kang’s pace became a lot slower. His ears also became sharp.
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Wang/wangye: prince of first rank
Er: terms of endearment
Zhen: I, used by the emperor
Chenqie: your subject wife, used by the females of imperial family when talking to someone of higher rank
Wangfei: main consort of the prince of first rank
Chapter 95: The Seventh Test (1)
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“The red mystical star moved and got married.”
When Su Mei saw the smile on Murong Qi Qi’s face, she understood the joke in Murong Qi Qi’s words.
“Miss, you teased me!”
Su Mei blushed.
“Miss, you’re really bad!”
After Wanyan Kang heard Murong Qi Qi’s words, he got happy. He looked at Murong Qi Qi again and saw her affirmation towards him, his mood turned even better.
He took a fancy on Su Mei. It’s just he doesn’t know what Su Mei will think of it. Besides, Su Mei is Murong Qi Qi’s personal guard. Murong Qi Qi also needs to nod before this matter can turn into something. Now, cousin in law’s words seem to favour him, making him reveal a big smile. He turned back and gave Murong Qi Qi a big bow: “Cousin in law calculated the divination very well. Don’t know if cousin in law can calculate for me. This little brother is searching for a marriage partner!”
Hearing Wanyan Kang say that, Su Mei’s face turned redder. She humphed once and looked elsewhere.
“Alright! When we go out of this pagoda, come to Meixiang yuan1. I will calculate for you!”
“Good! Then this little brother will wait!”
Finally, they arrived on the seventh floor. A burst of cold wind came towards them. When they entered, they found out that this seventh floor is the top of the pagoda. There were open spaces everwhere. So, the wind blew in with the snow, making the ground somewhat wet.
“Everyone, be careful! Look if there are traps!”
Longze Jing Tian was very tense. After experiencing all those perverted tests, this last test let everyone be more cool about the test. They need to be careful, must be careful, so not to fail at the last moment.
Longze Jing Tian’s reminder let the oth
ers got more nervous. Everyone looked carefully at this floor in fear of any change and in fear that maybe somewhere dangerous things were hiding and waiting for them.
“There’s no one here?”
After checking, Li Yun Qing was somewhat surprised.
“This seventh floor doesn’t have anyone? Then what is the test of this level?”
“There are ropes!”
Bai Yi Yue pointed at the ropes at a corner. Next the ropes, there was a wooden box. Bai Yi Yue wanted to open it, but has been stopped by Li Yun Qing.
“Be careful of traps!”
The word ‘traps’ made everyone become alert. When Wanyan Kang and Li Yun Qing exchanged a glance, the others scattered. The two opened the box at the same them with their swords.
“There’s a piece of paper!”
After waiting for a while and seeing that there were no movements, Wanyan Kang took out the paper from the box.
“Hey! You didn’t even check if there was poison on the paper and directly picked it up with your hands?!”
Su Mei saw Wanyan Kang like that, she quickly reminded him, scaring Wanyan Kang. He quickly threw the paper on the ground.
Seeing Su Mei like this, Murong Qi Qi smiled. Chaos caused by concern. Su Mei was in Moyu for so many years, how could she not know what has or doesn’t have poison?
Murong Qi Qi went forward and picked up the paper. She softly read it: “Congratulations on your success. It’s just the door at the bottom of the pagoda has already been sealed. Asking you all to go down with the ropes. This is also the seventh test, yo!”
After hearing that there was no other test, Murong Qing Lian jumped from happiness. She finally passed. Finally, there aren’t those frightening tests anymore!
“We passed! We passed!”
Murong Qing Lian leaned on the stone pagoda’s railing and shouted to the people beneath the pagoda: “We passed! We passed all tests!”
Hearing the sound from the tower, Jia Lan raised his head and saw Murong Qing Lian.
“Jinyu, who is that person?”
“Answering sir Jia Lan, that is Xi Qi’s contestant Murong Qing Lian.”
“Murong Qing Lian?”
Jia Lan frowned and looked at that person who was dancing from happiness in the pagoda. So, she’s the first one to arrive at the top of the pagoda? It’s just, are you that person sir Misha is looking for?
“Jinyu, I want all information about Murong Qing Lian from birth till now, everything!”
“Yes!”
That there were contestants who appeared at the top of the pagoda also made Feng Cang very excited. When everyone stood at the top of the pagoda, Feng Cang finally saw Murong Qi Qi.
“Miss! Miss!”
When Su Yue who has been waiting for the results saw Murong Qi Qi and Su Mei, she jumped from happiness.
“Wangye2, look, miss, it’s miss! Miss passed! Miss passed the knockout competition!”
Ji Xiang was also very happy seeing her little brother Ruyi. She only didn’t show it so obvious like Su Yue.
“Wangye, fifth highness and Ruyi also passed the knockout competition!”
“Mm!”
Across the snow, Feng Cang saw Murong Qi Qi’s small hand which was waving at him. He couldn’t help himself from also raising his hand and waved at her.
Feng Cang’s tense face finally relaxed and revealed a smile. Jin Mo congratulated Feng Cang: “Congratulations, wangye! Congratulations, wangye! Now wangye can finally be at ease!”
Being teased by Jin Mo, Feng Cang didn’t get angry. His face was filled with joy and pride.
“Jin Mo, you can be envious, jealous and hate me! I won’t care!”
“Envious, jealous and hate?”
This is the first time Jin Mo heard of this sentence. He found it new and odd.
“Learned from our family’s Qing Qing!”
Seeing that Jin Mo didn’t understand, Feng Cang had a face full of happiness and pride.
“Jin Mo, you are truly very sorrowful! Without the moisture of love, your mind has already been degraded to the era of apes!”
“Era of apes? You also learned this from princess? Wangye indeed has a more poisonous tongue now! I’m afraid it won’t take long before my title of the poisonous tongue will be passed to wangye!”
Jin Mo finally understood. It seemed that Murong Qi Qi has a big influence of Feng Cang.
The people beneath the pagoda were happy. At the pagoda, Wanyan Kang softly leaned against the wall.
“F***, f***, f***! No way!”
Just now, Wanyan Kang looked over the edge of the wall. Beneath was a vast expanse of white, making him dizzy.
“No way! So tall? Go down with the help of the rope? I’m afraid of height, ah! When I look, my head will get dizzy, my legs will go soft. What should I do, ah?!”
“What to do? Just admit defeat then!”
Su Mei pulled the rope and tied it to the pillar in the middle. She fiercely pulled twice.
“Miss, we can go!”
Jia Lan left four ropes for them. After tying the four ropes, Su Mei looked at Wanyan Kang: “Let’s go, fifth highness!”
“No!”
Wanyan Kang backed to a side.
“No! Going down from such a high place, if something goes wrong, then we will be torn bodies and crushed bones. I’m still young. I don’t want to die!”
“What dying?! How can it be so dangerous?!”
Su Mei had a face full of disdain towards Wanyan Kang’s words.
“You don’t want to go, then we’ll go! By then we’ll go participate at the finals, then you can watch with craving at a side!”
The finals are indeed a good temptation. However, looking down and seeing that they were so high, Wanyan Kang’s legs truly went soft. In the present time’s words, it’s fear heights. Seven floors, fifty to sixty metres high, what should he do when he fell?
“No, I won’t go! I forfeit!”
Wanyan Kang looked beneath the pagoda once more. Those people beneath only looked like the size of a bean. He really couldn’t think about what will happen when he fell from here. A cold breeze passed. Wanyan Kang shrunk his neck. He was even more unwilling to look down.
“Won’t go. Even if you beat me to death, I won’t go!”
“Then what about beating you not to death?”
Su Mei with her hands on her hips stood in front of Wanyan Kang.
“Either, go down by yourselves. Everyone will follow you. Or, I’ll let you faint and threw you down. You choose.”
“No!”
Seeing Su Mei glaring at him, Wanyan Kang clutched his head. His head had a burst of dizziness.
“Cousin in law, save me! I don’t want to die!”
Murong Qi Qi has realized that Wanyan Kang has fear of height. It’s just, this matter couldn’t be solved in a short time. It seems that she could only use other methods.
“Ah Kang, eat this pill and you’ll be fine!”
Murong Qi Qi took out a pill which will make people sleep and handed it over to Wanyan Kang.
“Sleep for a while. When you open your eyes, we’ll be on the ground.”
Now, Wanyan Kang believes everything Murong Qi Qi says. He immediately swallowed the pill. Not long after, he fell asleep.
“Wangye, ah, Kang fears height. We three will escort him down. Can I trouble you to wait for the next opportunity?”
“No problem!”
“Wangye!”
Seeing Longze Jing Tian agree on Murong Qi Qi’s ‘unreasonable’ request, Murong Qing Lian was very unhappy.
“Wangye, if they go down first, then won’t they be the winner? How can that happen?! The world won’t know that they won because of wangye’s modesty. They will only say that their Bei Zhou’s contestants are very powerful! This can’t happen!”
Murong Qing Lian’s pestering made Murong Qi Qi completely speechless. Li Yun Qing and Bai Yi Yue looked at Murong Qing Lian once. They felt very shameful for having such a teammate.
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bsp; Before, if it wasn’t because Murong Qi Qi came up with a way, they would still be trapped down there. How would they be able to reach the top so smoothly?! Now, what’s the problem with letting them go down first? This woman obviously has the same father as Murong Qi Qi, why is her personality so different?
“Wangye already put out the words. What qualification do you have to go against it, ah?!”
Su Mei couldn’t look anymore at Murong Qing Lian intervening with everything.
“Very strange! My family’s miss is so polite and amiable towards others, why does she has such an annoying little sister? Does the problem lie in the genetics?!”
Murong Qing Lian doesn’t know what ‘genetics’ is, but she is clear that Su Mei wouldn’t say good things.
Although Murong Qing Lian wanted very much to go forward and give Su Mei a slap in the face, but now she can’t offend Murong Qi Qi. Besides, she needed to leave a good impression on Longze Jing Tian. She couldn’t let him feel that she is narrow minded. So, Murong Qi Qi swallowed anger down.
“Ruyi, be careful! I and miss will guard at your side. We’ll go down together!”
Su Mei threw the rope at Ruyi.
“Fighting!”
In the book, it was add oil. However, I thought it’s a bit strange in English, so I choose the Korean version ‘fighting’. Chinese/Koreans say add oil/fighting when they want to cheer someone.
“Mm! Fighting!”
Ruyi pulled the rope a bit.
“Wangfei3, Su Mei, let’s go!”
The four fell down from the sky. Su Mei was at the left. In the middle was Ruyi with Wanyan Kang. On the right was Murong Qi Qi.
“They’re here! Miss!”
Su Yue excitedly came to the pagoda and wanted to receive Murong Qi Qi.
At the top, Murong Qing Lian was very upset. Her eyes have been fixed on Murong Qi Qi. Suddenly a dagger appeared in her hand.
“What do you want to do?!”
When Murong Qing Lian came to the ropes and was about to cut Murong Qi Qi’s rope, Bai Yi Yue sensed that something was wrong. She went forward and grabbed Murong Qing Lian’s hand.
“Murong Qing Lian, why are you so shameless?!”
Longze Jing Tian and Li Yun Qing were also surprised and very angry when they saw Murong Qing Lian wanted to cut the rope. Longze Jing Tian hit Murong Qing Lian’s hand which was holding the dagger. Murong Qing Lian felt pain. The dagger fell on the ground.