Chapter 1124: Chapter 1123: The Grand Reunion Ending Chapter 1124: Chapter 1123: The Grand Reunion Ending Many years later.

Beneath the once Daqing Mountain, everywhere green trees cast shades, birds sang, and flowers fragranced the air.

Whenever Daqing Mountain is mentioned, immediately everyone thinks of Daqing Mountain Academy.

This academy, since its foundation, has sent countless talents to the imperial court each year. There are many who excel in both letters and arms.

Yet, what the people nearby discuss most fondly is the academy’s long-standing commitment to developing a system where impoverished students can “work in place of fees”, offering countless students who yearn to read and write a fine destination.

With its development and expansion over the years, the academy’s size has also grown immensely. It went from a small academy occupying just over a dozen acres midway up the hill to now covering hundreds of acres, including the large manor at the foot of Daqing Mountain; all belong to the academy’s estate.

But no matter how the academy evolves, every new generation of students who enter must follow the original stone path, climbing step by step up the stone staircase to reach the peak. There stands a stele with only a few characters inscribed in vigorous brushwork.

“Knowledge changes fate!”

Isn’t it just that knowledge changes fate?

Gently grazing these characters, Liu Sisi’s face revealed a bright smile.

“I couldn’t find you anywhere, so I guessed you would be here,”
A gentle voice came from behind, and a cloak was draped over her shoulders.

Liu Sisi turned around, smiling at Di Yelei who was behind her, “You say that every day.”

Still, she wrapped the cloak around her shoulders more tightly.

So many years had passed, yet his tenderness and thoughtfulness remained unchanged.

“That’s because you come here on this day of every month. You, always insisting on climbing this rugged mountain path, do you know your old leg injury makes it hard for you to walk on this path? Come, let me carry you for a while.”

As he spoke, he crouched down.

Liu Sisi laughed and willingly hopped onto his back, “And you’re the same, every evening holding your head, did it start hurting again?”

Ever since Ye Lei had lost his memory and disappeared under mysterious circumstances years ago, headaches had become his chronic problem that could never be fully cured.

What had happened back then, and how he had ended up being found downstream by Fan Baor, he had no memory of it.

However, during their return trip when Sisi faced danger, he instinctively jumped out to save her and slowly remembered every bit of their time together.

The reason they hadn’t made much fanfare about it was merely the worry that the new Emperor would be reluctant to let them leave the imperial court.

“Nonsense! Don’t talk rubbish,”
He denied it while turning to hug her legs and stood up, taking steady steps forward.

“I’m not talking rubbish. You…”

Liu Sisi pursed her lips, her gaze falling to his temples before suddenly halting her speech.

“What is it? Why have you stopped talking all of a sudden?”

Di Yelei shifted her body upward a bit and continued climbing the stone steps.

Liu Sisi’s eyes dimmed, “It’s nothing, I noticed a white hair at your temple.”

“No way? You must be seeing things!”

He vehemently denied.

Instead, Liu Sisi laughed, “Right! You are still young, but I have already grown old.”

“Nonsense! Where are you old? In my eyes, you are still the Sisi that I set my heart on at first sight, the person I decided to accompany for a lifetime!” he declared resolutely.

That first glance became a lifetime.

They had faced everything together, hand in hand, come rain or shine.

“How have I not grown old? Look how the children have grown. Especially Niuniu’s eldest son, didn’t we just get news last month that he wiped out an entire enemy troop, even capturing their commander alive?” Liu Sisi argued.

“Yes yes yes, whatever you say is right,”
He agreed loudly, unable to suppress his laughter, “Why don’t you mention how Xiao Xiao is obsessed with sailing? His Majesty is such a good Emperor, yet he abandons a perfectly good official post to wander the seas day in and day out, not coming ashore for a year or two? All in the name of discovering some new continent. And Chou Chou, if he’s not out fighting bandits, he’s off romancing women, leaving hearts strewn about wherever he goes… How in the world will he handle all those girls chasing after him in the future?”

“Pfft! Is it worth all this worrying?”

Liu Sisi suddenly burst out, “The children have grown up. Each has their own fortune and fate, let them be.”

“Easy for you to say, with this new layer of ‘meat’ growing on you, you have even more than I do.”

“So what? You don’t like me anymore if I’m fatter, huh!”

She struggled to get down and reached directly for his ear.

“Ouch! That hurts hurts hurts…”

Di Yelei pretended to be in agonizing pain while dodging.

Suddenly, with a swift motion, he pulled her into his arms with a chuckle, “Sisi, no matter how much more ‘meat’ you gain, I’ll still like you. Even if you became as fat as an old sow, with graying temples and wobbly teeth, you’ll always be my Liu Sisi, just like back then!”

“Nice! You actually compare me to an old sow? I’ll show you…”

Liu Sisi twisted around to hit him, only to be pulled into Di Yelei’s embrace by a quick tug.

Looking into each other’s eyes, both could see the signs of age in the other.

They suddenly couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

Liu Sisi pinched his waist with force, laughing, “Look at this silly face of yours!”

“Yes, I’m silly! But I’ve been silly enough to like only you, silly enough to like you for a lifetime!”

“Isn’t it just? Silly enough! Haha…”

As they chatted and laughed, the two walked onto the wide boulevard in the center of the playground.

Liu Sisi raised her head, just like her younger self.

Looking up through the overlapping treetops at the fourth floor of that building, she could vaguely see that window from back then.

She felt as if she had returned to those days.

Time intertwined, and she was back to the wonderful college days…

“Life really is like a dream…”

Liu Sisi squinted her eyes and leaned on Di Yelei’s shoulder, her eyes full of little stars.

“Isn’t it like a dream? Look up quickly and see who’s in front of you,” he shook her.

Di Yelei gently shook her.

Liu Sisi slowly opened her eyes, suddenly astonished by the scene in front of her!

“Chou Chou, Xiao Xiao, Di Cheng, Di Qiu, Niuniu, Thirteen, Di Xuan, YingEr… you all…”

Almost everyone was there!

Liu Sisi looked at everyone who had suddenly appeared in front of her, pinched herself to make sure she wasn’t dreaming, wincing in pain, completely unable to react.

Everyone gathered around, each with a smile on their face.

Niuniu, who was also a mother now, said, “Mom, today is your 50th birthday. We’ve come from afar to celebrate your longevity, wishing you a life as endless as the heavens!”

“How, how could this be…?”

Liu Sisi still couldn’t believe it.

It was possible for others to come back, but Niuniu, she…
As if she knew what her mother was thinking, Niuniu said, “Mom, just two months ago, I abdicated the throne in favor of my granddaughter Huanhuan. With her bravery and meticulousness, Huanhuan will surely lead Great Xia to new heights. As for me…”

She glanced at the Young Master Wuxin who was closely following her: “I want to travel far across the ocean with Wuxin, accompanying Chou Chou, to see the splendid scenery of the sea.”

“What? You want to go out with Chou Chou? That’s not good, not good,” Liu Sisi immediately objected.

Chou Chou and Xiao Xiao are still single till now!

She and Di Yelei had not pressured them, naturally hoping they would find their own satisfying partners to spend a lifetime with.

“Sisi, didn’t you say before that children and grandchildren have their own fortunes? Let them go. It’s rare that we’re all back together, enjoying a family reunion, isn’t it?”

Di Yelei interrupted her endless talk from beside her.

Their springtime hasn’t arrived yet!

Liu Sisi slapped her forehead in annoyance: “Look at me, really getting old and nagging. Let’s all be happy and play, we rarely have the whole family together, so we should enjoy it!”

“Not old at all, mom looks so young, not a bit old.”

Xiao Xiao suddenly came forward with a cool smile, “Mom, haven’t seen you for so long, did you miss me?”

Seeing Xiao Xiao again, Liu Sisi felt as though she was in a dream.

She always thought that Xiao Xiao, like her, had traveled through time, but she never had any proof.

“You child, all of you are mom’s good children. Mom misses you, misses…”

Liu Sisi looked at one and then another, surrounded by pure happiness.

Xiao Xiao, beside her, teased: “Today is a day of family joy, and we all need to ask for a red envelope from mom, big red envelopes, to wish mom good health and all the best.”

“Good health and all the best! Hand out the big red envelopes!”

Everyone crowded around, with Liu Sisi and Di Yelei at the center, their laughter filling the campus.

“And us!”

Suddenly a loud voice rang out from the periphery, and everyone looked up to see the school’s faculty and students, not knowing where they had come from, approaching with flowers in hand.

The cheering was deafening!

“We wish the Princess health and all the best! We also want big red envelopes! Big red envelopes, grab the red envelopes!”

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