Deja Vu Moments
Feng Jiu likes gatherings but this is the only gathering in the nine heaven's that she's not looking forward on attending. She chose to wear red today, although she doesn't like it but, she'll made an exception for it today. Red is too standoffish and that's what she's going to do, to stand off.
Today, she'll make sure that all the leaders will be paying attention on her. She brought Ye Qingti with her to the nine heavens since aside from being invited by the Tian Jun, it's Ye Qingti's washing off immortal dusts and assigning rank ceremony. This, Feng Jiu is looking forward too.
Feng Jiu knew she's thirty minutes late but she really intended to do just that. So when a guard announced her arrival, she entered with the confidence of an unruffled queen that she is. All attention is on her and especially that she wore a bright red color for this meeting. For Feng Jiu, wearing red means that it gives the confidence to walk out, the freedom to live and the power to conquer. She's not easily to intimidate now unlike before and surely, she'll not cower in this large court hall full of egoistic men. This is her first public appearance after her aunt Qian-Qian's wedding 5,000 years ago and the first meeting with the realm leaders too as the Queen of Qingqiu.
She bowed and gave her respects to Tian Jun in which Tian Jun nodded and smiled. It seems like the grandfather of uncle in-law has a soft spot for young women... Like me. Feng Jiu snickered on her wayward thoughts and then she heard the Tian Jun said,
"We are glad that you came your highness. You can go ahead and sit and we can start on discussing the events that is happening in Qingqiu. "
Feng Jiu bowed again and smiled but deep in her, she wanted to frown. Ha! I'll know you'll try to gang up on me but just try and you'll see what will happen. Feng Jiu thought. She sat on the left side corner of Tian Jun and she smiled at the other leaders when she passed by them in which the other leaders acknowledged her presence and gave a bow. Qingti on the other hand stood at the back of her highness and he is exhilarated for the opportunity given to him to be present in court with the realm leaders. Then Tian Jun spoke again,
"Since Dong Hua Dijun isn't present, we have someone here to represent him and I believe it's Star Lord Siming."
Siming stood and bowed paying respects to the realm leaders. Siming turned his head towards her highness Feng Jiu and he saw Feng Jiu gave him a nod and a little smile. Siming is happy that the little princess he knew back then is a regal queen now that acknowledged his presence and he was at loss of words a while ago when she came in. Her aura spoke of respect and intimidation and she meant business in being present at court today. Siming knew this will be an interesting meeting. The meeting although lack of players and sadly his majesty has an important task at hand so he isn't at court at the moment.
Both Feng Jiu and Ye Qingti are disappointed when the immortal they wanted to see is not presently at court. What a waste. Feng Jiu thought. She had never seen Dong Hua Dijun when she was in the nine heavens attending her aunt's wedding for she heard, that the reclusive god is somewhere attending some important business in another realm. She sighed. The fates doesn't want us to meet. I just want to see and quench my thirst of curiosity as to what he looks like okay? There are no portraits of him anywhere nowadays and the only picture of him I see is in the old phoenix hut. Is that picture of him even the real him? Feng Jiu is again on her internal monologue and she didn't realized that the Demon clan leader is already speaking and addressing her. Qingti's eyes wanted to roll in annoyance realizing that her majesty is not paying attention, so he took the initiative to softly kick Feng Jiu's back to get her thoughts back to the present situation in which he successfully did.
Feng Jiu felt the light kick of Ye Qingti and then Qingti cleared his throat. A clear message that she needs to focus and stop her wayward thoughts. Feng Jiu sighed. She really doesn't want to be here but she has no other choice since Qingti's ceremony will be held in the afternoon.
"I don't know what you are thinking when you pass this law of yours but are you getting ready for going into war?"
Feng Jiu stopped herself before she could raise her brows in annoyance. With a controlled voice and an empty look, then she smiled and slowly stood then replied,
"Oh please. Don't be so overly dramatic your highness. My only thoughts when I passed this law is to make the citizens of Qingqiu more productive. You see, immortal lives are long and a time will come that they will get bored with the mundane things they do in their daily lives."
While speaking, Feng Jiu looked at the realm leaders one by one to really make them understand the meaning behind the law she passed then she continued.
"After passing that law, there were big changes that happened to Qingqiu and to it's citizens. They are less spending time gossiping and lazying their days, now that their everyday lives has more meaning to it. That's the secret of making Qingqiu prosperous your highness. You know that Qingqiu doesn't want to meddle in things that doesn't concern us especially not on war. It's not our forte and besides, it'll be a waste of Qingqiu's resources if we want to start a war."
Then Feng Jiu sat while still eyeing the tongue tied King of the demon clan. Of course any realm leader knew that there is no rebuttal to that. Tian Jun also nodded in agreement. Qingqiu doesn't really meddle in any affairs and that is proven, back when Qing Cang started a rebellion against the Sky Kingdom thousands of years ago.
The Demon King cleared his throat and just sat embarassingly. As to clear the tension in the air Tian Jun said,
"Thank you for making it clear to every realm leader that is here today your highness."
Feng Jiu smiled in victory and raised her head in pride. She'll not let anyone bully her because she's the youngest immortal amongst them all.
"Oh no worries. My grandfather wants to come too but I told him I can handle it. " the other realm leaders flinched when she mentioned her grandfather Bai Zhi Dijun, ofcourse they know how quick tempered her grandfather is. They'll just be stupid to offend the Emperor of the 8 lands.
The meeting continued until midday til it adjourned. When most of the world leaders exited and left, Feng Jiu and Ye Qingti then stood and went out. When they're sure that there is no one around, Feng Jiu stretched her arms and loudly groaned.
"Good thing it ended already! Now we'll go and prepare for your ceremony."
Feng Jiu looked at Qingti who smiled back at her and nudged her left shoulder. Feng Jiu smiled back and replied by nudging Qingti on his arm. Before Qingti could say anything Feng Jiu said,
"Before you'll be assigned a rank later, I want you to know that... You're tag! " Feng Jiu laughed and ran. Qingti shook his head at the childishness of her highness then sighed. He'll ofcourse indulge her. As long as she'll be happy and carefree, he's going to indulge her childishness and silliness.
Feng Jiu changed on to her fox form. She jumped on tiled roofs fluidly and felt very free at the moment. She missed playing like this and good thing that there are not so much immortals roaming around in this part of the Sky Kingdom. She decided to stay in one of the largest palaces and decided to hide until Qingti will find her.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsR5HuFkByr
Feng Jiu chose a spot infront of a lotus pond and changed herself back to her humanoid form. She also decided to change her clothes as to not grab attention. She sat inside the pavilion and waited for Qingti. Five minutes had passed and she started to get bored. She sighed. She's contemplating as to whether end the game now and look for Qingti or wait for another five minutes? 446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLefjkT36Fq
But before she could decide, she heard someone spoke from her back.
"What are you doing here? "
Feng Jiu froze and closed her eyes. What to do, what to do? She thought while panicking. Then she heard the person spoke again and this time, there was coldness laced in the person's voice.
"Didn't you hear what I said? Who are you and what are you doing in Taichen Goong?"
Feng Jiu's eyes opened and she gasped then forgetting her panicking state, she turned and faced the person who said she's in Taichen Goong. She discovered that the person who was talking to her is a very tall male wearing a white garb and definitely the most handsome man she had ever seen in her immortal life. She sighed and her face releaxed still staring at the face that could make women lose their sanity. Feng Jiu noted the white hair. He looks familiar. She thought. And it feels this has happened before. Deja Vu. She thought again.
"Are you done checking me out? "
Still on a daze Feng Jiu nodded in which earned a small smile from the person. Then she didn't realized that she asked him a question,
"Who are you? It feels like... I've known you for a very long time. "
The person just stared at her and then sat opposite of where she is sitting. Then, he looked at her.
"I'm in charge of the kitchen. Did you sneak in here because of Dong Hua Dijun? "
That broke Feng Jiu's daze and she blinked her eyes. She collected her thoughts and cleared her throat. She eyed the handsome man and then said,
"Is Dong Hua Dijun inside? Okay fine. I did sneak in but I apologize okay? I just... got lost. I didn't realize that this is Taichen Goong already. "
Feng Jiu replied while her voice is getting soft and she looked down on her knotted fingers. She didn't know why but this person infront of her is making her feel... more like herself and she's getting embarassed. Feng Jiu never gets embarrassed especially when there are men around. She's more cautious though but this stranger of a man is totally different. She's reacting the opposite way of what she's used to be doing the past 5,000 years and she is wondering why.
"If you got lost, then how did you come inside Taichen Goong without being seen or even noticed? "
Feng Jiu smiled and then replied proudly,
"I transformed to my animal form. "446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm1A7GiYYye
The strange man infront of her put his chin on his hand and just look at her. Like he's trying to decipher something about what she said but to Feng Jiu, this action made her heart skip a beat in which, it surprised her. To distract herself especially her heart from that strange staccato, she said,
"Since you said you've been working in the kitchen here in Taichen Goong, have you seen Dong Hua Dijun? "
Feng Jiu asked in a whisper.
"A couple of times. Why? " He replied.
"Is it true that he looks like this? I just want to confirm since, I've never saw him and I just want to satisfy my curiosity. Atleast, I will know what he looks like so that, in the future, I'll not embarrass myself infront of him."
The person infront of her nodded in agreement as to what she said. She's really excited that atlast, someone will help and confirm Dong Hua Dijun's identity for her. Feng Jiu conjured a decent looking but old scroll which she unrolled and showed it to the person in front of her. Feng Jiu saw that the person infront of her is frowning for a minute then to her surprise, he laughed out loud next. Feng Jiu looked at the person infront of her then back to the old looking scroll. She didn't think that there is something funny with the picture she showed him.
To make the person stop from laughing, she slapped his arm in a not to hard and nor too soft in which surprised the person infront of her but then, he laughed again. Feng Jiu started to get annoyed now,
"This... Is... Not... Funny mister. "
The person infront of her smiled back at her then replied,
"That looks like an ancient scroll. Where did you get that? "
Feng Jiu started rolling back the scroll and replied while the annoyance is still visible on her voice.
"Do you know Zhe Yan? "
"The medicine god? "
Feng Jiu nodded and after she magicked the scroll to disappear, she faced the person in front of her and replied.
"Yes the medicine god Zhe Yan. But I'll say, he's the peach-wine god. He's good at making it. "
"How are you related to the medicine god? "
"He's close to my fourth uncle. So I'm like his niece too. But fourth uncle and the old phoenix are more like cats and dogs these days. Always fighting. And yes, the scroll I showed you is owned by the old phoenix. Maybe he already knows that I took the scroll already."
Then the person infront of her nodded as if he knew whom she's talking about. She's not going to spill the beans of her identity infront of him but she'll get her answer about Dong Hua Dijun's identity.
"Nah, is that how Dong Hua Dijun looks like? From the scroll I mean? " she asked and waited for his reply.
Dong Hua on the other hand is having the funniest and entertaining exchange of his life. The girl infront of him is really funny and... Beautiful but her animated movements and expressions overpowered her enchanting beauty more and that's what interests him.
After he was fishing, he passed by in the pavilion infront of the pundarika pond then he discovered is doing in his palace. He asked questions to which she replied animatedly. He can see the admiration in her face when she saw him and he's immune to it. But what got his attention is that, the young beauty sneaked in his palace just to know how he looks like. That's a first for the past thousands of years for him. He didn't expected that there is still someone who doesn't know how he looks like. What also surprised him is that the young beauty personally know Zhe Yan and called him Old Phoenix. There are few and only close to Zhe Yan who are allowed to call him like that. He started to guess who she is but before he could say anything, he heard Zhong Lin spoke which earned a quite sigh from him. Play time is over young one. He wanted to say but instead, he changed back to his bored look again, he stood and said,
"What is it? " Dong Hua saw that the girl panicked when she saw Zhong Lin appeared suddenly out of nowhere and he smiled back at her to reassure her that it's okay. Zhong Lin bowed and paid his respects to him then said,
"Your majesty, your midday meal is already prepared. Do you want to seat here or inside? Do you want us to prepare a meal for your guest too? "
"Your... Your majesty? " there is uncertainty in her voice now. Zhong Lin's brow furrowed and still replied,
"Yes. His Majesty Dong Hua Dijun. " Feng Jiu gasped and her eyes widened. She couldn't believe that the whole time she's been having a conversation with the Emperor of the realms himself. Feng Jiu slowly looked at Dijun and her heart dropped when she saw the silly smile on his face. Her heart thundered in her chest and the sudden impulse to flee seeped in. Without saying anything, she changed to her fox form and fled the scene.
When the fox jumped over the tiled wall, Dong Hua released a quiet laugh which earned a surprise look from Zhong Lin. His majesty never laughs. He thought. This is a first for Zhong Lin and a first for Dong Hua.
"What a pleasant and fine day. " Dong Hua said and smiled, then left.
Zhong Lin on the other hand stared at the retreating back of his majesty with surprise and shock written all over his face. He wondered who was the woman that his majesty was talking too and it brought the almighty and cold Dong Hua Dijun to a good mood.
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